A shelf that grows with you, that always meets your personal living needs: This is the SelberMachen module shelf. Hanging freely on the wall, it looks like a design object and can be equipped with shelves or boxes again and again.
Achieve a lot with few parts – that is the principle of the modular system- and system designs, that before 40 years ago at Germany's most important design school in Ulm. We applied this principle and the result is a piece of furniture with a system - this modular shelf.
At first glance, that sounds very technical, but good system furniture always has a simple one, but thoughtful core. In this case it is a plate with slots, which is hung on the wall as a support. Into these slots – only limited by the size of the disk – the box modules or the shelves can be hung in as desired using aluminum brackets.
But not only the construction with the seemingly floating modules makes this design interesting, also the almost unlimited expandability. Do you then need one more book shelf or an additional box module, only the supporting wall has to be big enough. And surely you can think of an additional component to this system. About a cupboard, a showcase or a CD folder? So fresh to work: Design your own modules to hook up.
The most important thing is the 2-component adhesive.
When gluing the aluminum brackets to the plastic-coated chipboard, the following must be observed: First, roughen the surface of the chipboard with sandpaper, grit 80, an (picture 11). The sanding dust must then be thoroughly removed. It is best to use a fine hair brush for this, and do not touch the surface (Fettfinger!).
Now the aluminum surface is also freed from any grease with acetone and a cloth. Is the glue applied?, the two parts must remain fixed for around twelve hours at a room temperature of around 20°C. This is the only way for the adhesive to achieve its full strength, and according to the manufacturer it is included 1 kg i qcm. Then you can put something on the shelves.
1 In order to be able to attach the carrier plate stably to the wall later, first, use a 30mm drill bit to insert two wall hangers into the back.
2 Fix the 4 mm thick strips of plywood with glue and small nails on the backing board.
3 Now mount the front panels as a test, to check, if everything fits.
4 When everything fits perfectly, you can put the back panel in front- and finish. The already pre-painted front panels can be replaced with 3×20-mm Spax screws are mounted on it.
5 The countersunk screws are smoothed with body filler and sanded with 120 grit sandpaper.
6 Now the carrier plate gets its paint.
7 The shelves are made from prefabricated boards from the hardware store. Saw off the support brackets from these boards with an electric jigsaw.
8 All cut edges, which will not be glued later, receive a bracket lipping.
9 Attach the support brackets to the bottom of the shelves with wooden dowels and glue.
10 Now the aluminum angles, which will later hold the shelves and boxes on the support wall, sawed off. A cutting aid, which is quickly screwed together from a squared timber and a piece of leftover wood, makes the sawing work much easier.
11 So that the two-component adhesive really sticks securely, the surface of the chipboard in the area of gluing must be sandpapered with the same grit 80 be roughened.
12 The aluminum angles are glued to the shelves with the two-component adhesive. To achieve the required dimensional accuracy, you put a bar in the thickness of the front panel on the edge of the floor (12 mm).
13 The boxes are also made from shelves. They are also dowelled and glued.