How to hang shelves on a flower wall with your own hands

Wooden shelf for flowers on the wall

Shelves for flowers on the wall with your own hands - an excellent device for placing flowerpots and pots. Such designs should be compact, comfortable and roomy at the same time, which requires special attention and strength in their manufacture. What are the shelves on the wall for flowers, and how to make them, the article will tell.

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Features and types of shelves
How to make a simple shelf for flowers

Features and types of shelves

The type and size of the shelves on the wall for flowers, is selected depending on:

The number of plants placed on them.
Type of room.
The appearance of the room.
Kind of flowers themselves.
Individual preferences of the owner.

The number of places for flowerpots determines its type.

Shelf for flowers on the wall can be:

Single. It contains only one flowerpot. Such a shelf can be installed indoors or outdoors - at the front door. It is especially good to use them for climbing plants with a large number of leaves and flowers. In addition to placing on the wall, the shelf can be installed on the floor, and put on it a flowerpot with a plant that looks like a tree.
Double. Such designs are suitable for installing plants of the same type that feel good under the same conditions, for example, in the sun or in the shade.
Multi-seat. It can occupy the entire wall or a certain part of it. Such shelves can be:

wall-mounted, usually made in small sizes to withstand a certain weight of soil in flowerpots;
floor, perfectly contain many flowerpots with flowers.

Shelves for flowers on the wall can be angled. They accommodate up to seven flowerpots. You can mount them directly to the ceiling, and put pots with climbing plants.

Materials for the manufacture of shelves can be:

Tree (see Wooden shelves on the wall: which ones to choose) These are the most popular, but not very practical products. Wood does not tolerate moisture, and flowers require frequent watering and spraying.

Tip: Before making such a shelf with your own hands, you should carefully process the wooden parts, otherwise the product will lose its appearance in a year, or maybe earlier.

Plastic. Such shelves are not manufactured on their own, they are purchased in specialized stores. The advantages of this type of shelves:

practicality;
variety of shapes and colors;
ease of use;
ease of care.

Metal. Their difference from other materials:

sufficient stability;
heavy weight;
susceptibility to corrosion.

Tip: All metal parts must be carefully treated with anti-corrosive solutions.

Decoration for metal shelves can be the use of forged parts that will look beautiful and elegant in any interior.

Glass. These products have a special sophistication, they make the room more light and airy. When constructing shelves, certain skills are required to work with glass. There are options for decorating shelves with mosaics, stained glass or special printing on glass. Such products require careful care, which makes them impractical.
Combined materials. In this case, the use of several materials in their manufacture is implied. For instance:

wooden shelves are decorated with forged parts;
metal pipes can be added to glass surfaces to make a shelf frame.

How to make a simple shelf for flowers

The model shown in the photo is easy to manufacture, it has a low price, and it is enough to have a sheet of plywood, and the cost of constructing the structure is minimal.

The dimensions and thickness of the plywood sheet determine the size of the shelves for flowers, which means their capacity. With an increase in the thickness of plywood, it is possible to make a shelf of large sizes.

Simple flower shelf

To build such a shelf, you will need materials:

Plywood sheet.
Two nickel-plated or galvanized pipes.
Finishing materials for surface treatment. It can be:

varnish;
paint.

From the tools you need to purchase:

Jigsaw.
Electric drill.
Nozzles for a drill.
Roulette.
Sandpaper.

Tip: In the manufacture of shelves should be guided by the size of the place where it will be located, determine the size of the shelves and their capacity.

Work procedure:

A drawing is being developed with all sizes, taking into account the free space in the room.
On the plywood sheet, the contours of the shelf are drawn.
The parts are cut along these lines. At the same time, shelves can have a standard square or rectangle appearance, or a non-standard design with curved or elliptical cutouts, which depends on the manufacturer’s imagination and the interior of the room.
Marking is done for the installation of pipes.
Drills holes of the required diameter for pipe installation with an electric drill.
Wooden parts are processed with sandpaper or a grinding machine.
Plywood parts are coated with special materials, which increases their resistance to moisture and antiseptics, which prevent the formation of mold or mildew on the shelves.
The shelf is painted or varnished.
The structure is fixed to the wall surface. To do this, metal staples are attached to the bottom of the shelf and special holes are drilled to fix it to the wall with screws.

Tip: In the manufacture and fastening of the shelves, it is necessary to monitor the strength and reliability of the design, these factors ensure the safety of people who are near the shelves for flowers.

How to make a shelf for flowers on a windowsill

Shelves for flowers can be entered in any windows of any size.

This will require:

Two wooden slats.
A certain number of glasses, which depends on the size of the window and the desire of the owners.

Tip: When purchasing glass, preference should be given to tempered, at least 0.5 centimeters thick. This is due to the severity of flowerpots, which significantly affects the strength of the structure.

Shelf for flowers on the windows

In the manufacture of vertical rails, wooden elements are used, the thickness of which depends on the thickness of the groove for installing glass. The advantage of this model is the ability to transmit light, which allows all plants to receive it in full.

The combination of wood and glass gives the shelf not only practicality, but also beauty. In addition, to ease the load on the shelf, its lower part is best made of wood. Depending on the size, the design is able to accommodate up to 10 flower pots of medium size.

How to make a flower shelf made of wood and metal

In the composition of products:

Welded racks from a round profile, with a diameter of 10 millimeters.
Wooden partitions for arranging flowers.

For example, when constructing a structure with dimensions:

The length of the side contours is 0.9 meters.
Width - 20 centimeters.

In this embodiment, it is meant the device of four shelves with a step between them of 30 centimeters. On the shelves will be installed flowers of small sizes, and high on the top shelf.

Wherein:

The racks are connected by welding the crossbeams to each other.
A wooden structure is installed on the frame that holds the flowers.
The number of parts for tying should be selected sufficient for the device of four tiers of the product.
After manufacturing, the welded structure is coated with an anti-corrosion solution and painted.
Prepared wooden parts with a length of 0.6 meters.
Planks are laid on the frame and fixed with bars, 20 centimeters long.
The design is fixed on the wall with self-tapping screws.