On finished walls, mount shelf brackets to the studs behind the wallboard with two-inch wood screws.
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This is no problem for a lightweight hook or shelf bracket, but it can be difficult if you're mounting a heavy fixture.
After deciding where you want the shelves to go, the first step is installing the vertical pilasters that will support the shelf brackets.
A shelf bracket in the bed-sitting room seemed to have been intended for a communication terminal; now it was empty.
Mark on one side wall the position of your first shelf bracket.
Begin by removing everything from the walls, including electrical-outlet covers, shelf brackets, picture hooks and other fasteners.
Another way to mount wall shelves is with vertical tracks, called standards, and shelf brackets.
They were wooden standards, which was par for the course in those days, with wooden shelf brackets to hold the merchandise.
The filer, for example, uses a window with "shelf brackets" and tiny/inverted/underlined text to produce a banner heading for the window.