How is this shelf attached?

[daviddoria]

Hello,

I saw these seemingly simple shelves and was curious how they are attached. It looks like it's probably 3/4" ply with a 1.5" or so face frame (would you agree?). But there are:

• no L-brackets in the back
• if I'm right about the material thickness, it's not a "floating shelf" (with those metal "posts" that you'd slide the shelf onto poking out of the back wall)
• no cleats on the side walls

So... magic? haha. If this was a bookcase with wood sides, I suppose it would be tiny little shelf pins, but it looks like drywall. So maybe the question is how do you make something like shelf pins poke out of drywall?

Any insights/guesses are appreciated!

Thanks,

David

[Coop]

I suspect that the side walls are ply and there are flat shelf pins. My brother did something similar (and I considered it ocd) in that he cut a  groove in the ends of his shelves and slid them over the flat pins. Groove hidden by the edge trim. 

[wtnhighlander]

Yep. Coop described exactly how I would do it.

[G Ragatz]

Here's a commercial product that works like what Coop described:

https://www.selbyhardware.com/shelf-magic-hidden-shelf-wire-supports/

 

[daviddoria]

Thanks guys. So it is a bookcase :). Just disguised to look like a nook haha.