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Hi Frugal friends! We have another project to tackle at our sons house today. We are making open farmhouse shelves for the bathroom.
At the end of the bathroom counter there is a little nook. It goes from the countertop to the ceiling. It’s the perfect spot to add open shelves.
First, I measure the width and height of the space. I want to evenly space the shelves in the height of the space. So I divide the height by the number of shelve I want which is four. The space is just over 12 inches deep. We decided to use a 1×12 for the shelves.
The first thing I did was to mark the shelf locations on the wall. Then I measured for the width of each shelf at the location I marked. Make sure to do this step, because walls are not always straight all the way up. So if you use the same measurement for each shelf instead of measuring each individually they may not fit.
Once you have your measurements cut the shelf supports to the same width as the 1×12.
Since it is actually only 11 ¼ inches wide cut them that width.
