DIY - Cost $$$ Advantages of Floating vs. Free - Standing Shelving $$$

Advantages of wall shelves over shelves that stand on the floor:

1. They use much less material as no wood is required for legs or a base;
1. Hence you do not have this extra cost
2. Floating shelves can also be taken from free-standing shelves since they use more material
2. Free - standing shelves in that sense also lack versatility and flexibility hence more $$$ needs to be written off when they are no longer suited to the area you had before;

The raw grain can be 'finished off' by staining the wood, edging it by hand etc ...

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Skills needed; power saw, drill and impact driver!

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This is also true for desks, workbenches etc ... !