These naturally rustic wood floating shelves are all cut down to length from aged, weathered and seasoned reclaimed timber. Some boards may be be naturally lighter and some may be darker in character depending on age or variation in timber species/origin. However, each shelf board will have acquired a natural patina from former usage, including [potentially] bumps, scrapes, cracks, saw/cut marks or other such similar blemishes, alongside weathering effects that only real exposure to the natural elements sun, wind and rain delivers over time.

Each board is cut to your selected length and then carefully sanded in a three-stage process in order to to retain their industrial blemishes and weathered nature leaving a fine, smooth-to-touch surface. Both freshly cut end-grain sections are sanded to high polished-like surface and the sharp cut edges gently rounded over before the final stage of higher-grade, all-around brush-sanding. The boards are then completed with an oil/beeswax finish* which not only protects the timber from day-to-day use, but also subtly enhances the grain patterns and naturally aged character of the timber.

*Please Note:
We do not stain these boards to make them look ‘rustic’ and we specifically do not offer a range of different wax/stain finishes that you may find offered elsewhere. We only deal with genuinely aged, weathered or reclaimed timber where natural processes and time have already created a wide variation of character, patina and matured wood colouration affects that, otherwise, heavily pigmented stain finishes are attempting to mimic. These types of stains are formulated for and usually applied to newly cut commercial white/pale softwood timber … we only use naturally aged, weathered, reclaimed timber boards to make these floating shelves.

SHELF BOARD DIMENSIONS
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Your selected length of shelf board in inches

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10.5cm-12cm Board Width — 4 to 4.25inches

x

3.5cm Board Thickness

As with all timber measurements width and thickness are nominal dimensions so may vary slightly from board to board. Variation in width and thicknesses across a selections of boards is an inherent nature of formerly sawn/dimension-ed timber that has subsequently undergone natural weathering, ageing and seasoning affects.

KEYHOLE MOUNTING BRACKETS
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Each shelf comes with two hidden keyhole mounting brackets installed along the back edge of the board as well as a pair of wall mounting screws and matching set of universal masonry/plasterboard/stone wall plugs.

These fixings and keyhole brackets included should safely support up to 5kg’s each (up to 10kg’s per pair of keyhole brackets) when installed and fixed correctly to a correspondingly strong/solid building structure** — we would recommend extra caution mounting any wall fixings in thin 9.5mm single layer plasterboard. Ensuring at least one of the wall screw mountings for each shelf fixes directly into solid timber studding would be most prudent when dealing with plasterboard wall constructions.

**Please Note: — Ensuring competent installation of these shelf boards and supplied fixings or assessing suitability thereof is entirely the buyers own responsibility.

NATURALLY AGED RECLAIMED WOOD
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Each shelf board is made from weathered reclaimed wood so each piece may contain knots, small cracks and colour variation from sun, wind and rain exposure along with naturally occurring spalting affects which may have occurred within the timber over time — these features are not defects but the inherent character of naturally aged, weathered, reclaimed timber.