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plywood shelves for spare room/office

Derdriu Campbell
2 years ago

HI All


I am looking for some advice with regard to putting up plywood shelves for my home office. I wanted to know what type of plywood would be best for shelves to carry books and folders.

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    Pure Tree Design
    2 years ago

    Hi,
    I would go for 18mm Russian Birch.
    Lovely colour and really strong

    Comments (6)

    • Derdriu Campbell
      Original Author
      2 years ago

      Cheers much appreciated for getting back and for your advice.

    • Wumi
      2 years ago

      2nd birch ply wood, specificially and I would opt for at least B/B grade from a local timber yard. I have 23mm in my living room for book and vinyl finished with a few light coats of pure tung oil. If you don’t want it to amber (as birch naturally does) I would oft for a polyurethane finish or Osmo oil/wax blend


      Derdriu Campbell thanked Wumi
    • Derdriu Campbell
      Original Author
      2 years ago

      Thank you Wumi i will certainly bear that in mind when doing my shelves. Thanks again much appreciated getting back to me.


    • PRO
      Organise Space
      last year
      last modified: last year

      I would use faced birch ply for this.

      there are so many excellent board processing plants in and around London now I would not consider cutting a project like this myself...

      I used https://cworkshop.co.uk/ for these two projects


      White faced birch ply · More Info



      Design studio London · More Info


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    • Derdriu Campbell
      Original Author
      last year
      last modified: last year

      Thanks Organise Space for the advice and pics and link, but i live in Glasgow so need to find somewhere close by that does a similar thing here in Scotland. Thanks for replying.

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