How to build long wood DIY picture ledges in minutes.
These wood picture ledge shelves can be customized to the length and width you need and are a great way to display art and photographs!
If you do a lot of DIYing, you may have enough scrap wood on hand to make these. If not, they can be made affordably with basic pine from the hardware store.
When we moved into this house, I knew immediately I wanted to do something fun on our staircase walls. This project in particular was on the wall under the stairs:
It needed something — and I imagined some simple display shelves with photos along this wall.
First I stuck some painter's tape to the wall to figure out the sizes of each one and get an idea of how it would look.
I built three, four and five foot shelves. I wanted to go down low on the wall as much as possible because it just felt right visually to me.
These shelves only come out about four inches from the wall.
To build these you'll need three pieces of wood — one 1×2 for the front, one 1×3 for the base, and one 1×4 for the back, all cut to the length you want.
You can also make the shelf with a 1×4 on the bottom so it would be a bit deeper. I found the three inch to be fine but if you plan on leaning a bunch of frames I'd go with the four inch.
You can see what I mean here:
