What’s up … I decided to get a little hands-on and make a shelf for above the door in my office.  You can’t see it from the main entry way, which is good, and it expands my office storage quite nicely.  Of course, no Ikea or Crate and Barrel would have the shelf that fits precisely above the door between the top door molding and the ceiling, AND also happens to be like 53 1/8 in. long to be exactly flush with the left and right moldings … so I built one.

I’ve been kind of into making things again because the work let up and we got a house, so there’s plenty of stuff to build for real cheap.

Custom Office Shelf

Required materials:

• Common sense — this thing is hanging above the entry way, so it probably makes sense to do stuff like, oh, I don’t know, find where the header ends so that your anchors are in the wood, not just in the drywall.  Stuff like that.
• A few of Lowe’s white project boards with moldings — I used two 8 footers for my project.
• Little stuff — cordless drill, bits, putty, hardware (I used ‘keyholes’ to hang this and corner braces to reinforce), particle board screws, etc.
• A friend with a table saw.  Don’t cut it manually or with a skilsaw.

Mark, cut, put together to fit.  Don’t do what I did and instead overlap the two outsides on top of the two horizontal boards … instead of cutting the two ousides the same length as the other divisors and then having the unfinished butt ends of the long horizontal boards face the world.  Other that that, it was an easy project … and now I have even more room to store full works of the best writer and dramaturg ever … Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.