So flexible: this shelf unit fits perfectly into your life!

So flexible: this shelf unit fits perfectly into your life!

New year – new home feeling! You’d like to decorate your home with the fastest shelf unit ever? With this DIY, we show how wooden plate holders, ordinary shelves and the dc-fix “Concrete white” adhesive foil can be turned into a convertible wall shelf unit! The unit can be flexibly adapted to the items placed in it, meaning that decorating and organizing never gets boring. The DIY wall shelf unit can also easily be expanded to the left and right with additional plate holders and shelves in the trendy light concrete look. Wonderfully simple – and simply wonderful!

Preparation

10 min

Time

15 min

Difficulty

Easy

Cost

Average

You will need:

Preparation

10 min

Time

15 min

Difficulty

Easy

Cost

Average

Before & after effect

‘After’ image
‘Before’ image

Now follow the tutorial step by step: 

Preview Image for Preparation
Preparation

You have everything you need? Then get started!

Hand holds cloth and wipes surface of shelf.
Step 1

Clean the shelf thoroughly so that no dirt or dust sticks to it.

Hand holds pencil and draws line on back paper.
Step 2

Use the yard stick to determine the dimensions of the shelf, including an allowance for wrapping around the edges. Transfer the measurements onto the backing paper of the adhesive foil.

Adhesive foil is cut along a ruler with a utility knife.
Step 3

Cut the piece of foil using the utility knife.

Hand holds smoothing blade and presses down adhesive foil onto shelf.
Step 4

Peel off the backing paper from the piece of adhesive foil, position the foil on the shelf and press it down firmly with the smoothing blade.

Scissors cut the edges of the foil diagonally at the corners.
Step 5

Next, cut the excess foil diagonally at each corner with scissors and wrap it around all the edges of the shelf.

Cordless screwdriver screws a screw into the plate holder bar and into the wall.
Step 6

Attach the two plate holders in the desired position on the wall of your choice.

Two hands hold concrete-look shelves near the wooden rods of the plate holder.
Step 7

Finally, insert the concrete-look shelves at the desired height – done! 

You did it!