Shelf Bracket

Shelf brackets, necessarily needed for providing support to shelves, can also be exploited for numerous affordable decorative ideas for the house. Yes, decorative shelf brackets made in steel or wood can easily be employed to get graceful and exclusively imaginative looks. Here are some ideas allowing you to their imaginative use for adding to the décor of your home without spending a fortune.

Use Shelf Brackets to Decorate Doorways

Affordable and impressive home décor ideas not only affect the decorating style but also the architecture of the room. Open doorways, separating a living room from a dining room or an entrance from a family room, can ideally be decorated with shelf brackets. Large decorative shelf brackets should be used for inexpensive home decor idea. Use liquid nails or some other strong adhesive to attach the shelf brackets on the top of the doorway on each side of the door, taking care that the brackets get flushed with the periphery of the doorway.

In case of wider doorways you’ll notice that the brackets cover only a part of the width of the doorway, but if you spend slightly more money on buying shelf brackets and fix them together back to back, they will fill the space. Generally, two or at the most three shelf brackets on each side of the doorway would suffice. You can further cut down on the cost of this inexpensive idea of home décor by attaching one bracket on each side in the middle of the doorway along its width.

Now, paint the pretty shelf brackets inserted in the doorway in a shade of color that matches with the color of the doorway (see the attached picture). This low-priced home decor idea gives the impression as if the entryway had curves in luxurious shapes at the top.

Use Shelf Brackets to Create Art Pedestals

You need not spend a lot of money to improve home décor. You can tastefully display pieces of art on inexpensive pedestals which not only add to the beauty of artistic pieces but also affects the environs of the room positively. You can easily exploit decorative shelf brackets for creating different types of art pedestals.

If you want to have a narrow art pedestal for displaying decorative glass, or a painting or metal ware, fix two shelf brackets back to back so that their flat surface gets aligned with the wall. I used this inexpensive decorative arrangement by using two shelf brackets in wood to get an art pedestal for the model of a sailing ship that you can view here. Likewise, for displaying a mirror encased in wrought iron you can use two brackets in metal, or display an attractive book using small wooden shelf brackets.

You can also make a bigger art pedestal for displaying larger sculptures and the like by installing a pair of hidden shelf brackets on the wall, keeping a distance smaller than the piece of art you may like to display. This idea of inexpensive home décor makes use of the shelf brackets for supporting the item, but as they are close to each other they go to form an attractive pedestal for you to display fine looking items.

Shelf Brackets for Architectural Decorating

If you have a large open passageway you can give it an exciting look by adding larger wooden shelf brackets. You may simply Google “Wooden Shelf Brackets” and view a wide range of eye-catching shelf brackets. You also have the option of visiting the lumber section of a good home improvement store. Fix a wooden shelf bracket on top of the passageway, one each on right and left corner, and on either side. That means you’ll require four brackets for each open passageway. Now, you paint the shelf brackets in the color of your wall. So, you can see how the inclusion of a couple of inexpensive shelf brackets can change the looks of the open passage.

Shelf Brackets to Secure a Heavy Decorative Mirror

Using hooks and a string at its back, you can hang a weighty ornamental kind of a mirror like a painting. As a precautionary measure it will be good to give it extra support under or around it. Shelf bracket solve the purpose very well. You can buy the required number of matching shelf brackets. In case the mirror is positioned on a mantelpiece, keep a pair of shelf brackets above the mantle and hang the mirror so that its weight rests on the shelf brackets and gets extra support. If you like to hang the mirror on a bare wall, encase it using shelf brackets, and press them closely in place so that they work as clasps for the mirror. It will be appropriate to employ wrought iron shelf brackets in case the mirror is enclosed in metal. Else, you may like using wooden shelf brackets, should you like to paint the brackets in the color of the wall.

Shelf Brackets to Form Miniature Shelves

You can attach attractive looking brackets to the wall on their sides, facing each other. This arrangement virtually results to having a small shelf that can best be used for displaying your possessions and add to the décor of the room. Decorative brackets in metal are best suited for this purpose. To provide added safety to the arrangement, it’ll be a smart idea to glue the area where the two meet together and thus have a one piece small shelf.

Shelf Brackets for Wall Displays

Shelf brackets are just perfect for mounting a variety of objects on the wall. Small photos, orchids, candleholders and figurines come to mind immediately. You may like to have a maritime display by mounting models of ships, giving the impression of sailing fleet. You may just suspend two shelf brackets for each item, maintaining some distance between them, as demanded by the size of the item that will occupy them. You get striking results, following this easy technique.