Okay, here we go before it gets too late in the night.
Since moving in, the dimensions of my idea for a ceiling layout have change. I can only get a 12-inch maximum shelf width due to the size of the overhead beam between the Sun Room and the Living Room. I can’t and don’t want portions of the brackets protruding below the beam. So only so only two tracks and no siding (see the AnyRail attachment).
I like these brackets that I found at Home Depot because the mounting hardware is hidden by a white covering case. It looks like I might have to use the 8-inch brackets instead of the 10-inch brackets so that can get 8 inches of clearance from the track to the ceiling to insure that scale size Husky Stacks can fit without any issue. The three horizontal parallel pencil markings on the wall represent the ½-inch blue foam on top of ½-inch MDF .
It's too late to have the ceiling layout up and running for Thanksgiving Dinner in 2 weeks, but it would be nice to have the "under construction" setup being a conversation piece for the 15+ folks in the house for Thanksgiving.
Ah my question. I need help with the corners. I don’t have any machinery at home to cut curves, so it can only be straight lines. The two red lines represent the shelf bracket placements at the end of the straight. However, that is a huge 30-inch wide span that needs to be supported. Any suggestions on how to do that without having to use two of the shelf brackets in the corner that basically come out to meet each other? That will look weird when all of the other brackets are spaced 3 or 4 feet apart.
Jerry, I’m interested in your idea of the brackets forming an “L” and cradling the shelf as opposed to the upside down “L” and pushing the shelf up.
