On the hunt for affordable and nice looking floating shelves? I spent HOURS scouring website after website for floating shelves for our kitchen remodel. We needed 2 shelves that were a minimum of 60″ and I was having such a hard time finding anything under $600 a piece. UltraShelf had my DREAM shelves, but after our kitchen remodel, I was not super thrilled about spending over $2k on shelves, so IKEA to the rescue! I saw their LACK shelves in store a while back, but unfortunately they did not have the lighter color in stock when we were there.

After stalking their website for weeks and setting in-stock alerts, I was finally able to snag ONE shelf and drove to IKEA immediately as I saw it was back in stock (the shipment was very small, so they wouldn’t let me buy online for pickup). I patiently spent a few more weeks stalking and was able to snag shelf number TWO to round out our wall. The shelves were $39.99 A PIECE! So cheap.

Transparently, they are not the best quality (you get what you pay for), BUT they look pretty nice and we haven’t had anything come crashing down (yet, ha!). The bracket that comes with them is a little silly and does not allow you to hit multiple studs. My husband bought drywall screws to help secure the areas without studs. Overall, I am happy with these shelves. This is not our forever home, so would probably invest in nicer quality shelves in the future, but for now they will do just fine for $80!

Link: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/lack-wall-shelf-oak-effect-80111754/#content