Some friends of mine are renovating their home, and asked for a pair of floating shelves for their kitchen, to hold coffee mugs and the like.  Part of their reno work included putting in new hardwood floors, using engineered oak flooring.  It occurred to me that I could use that material for the shelves.

Pulling some white oak from my stack of hardwood, and reading some web blogs as to how to make floating shelves (!), this is what I ended up with.  To test out the design, I hung them first in my garage (fancy!), to make sure they actually held weight. No worries, they’re build like tanks.

Thanks, Caleb & Dani, for the chance to work on this fun project!