Best way to build shelves on angled wall

[drpepe]

I would like to put some shelves in a new loft conversion bedroom. See picture below, I have sketched the sort of thing I’m after in the right hand alcove, and the lower sketches show a couple of potential ways I came up with to do this.

Could anyone please help with how to put these together to look half decent, to get the angles of the cuts right & be structurally sound? Or even suggest a totally different approach

To avoid directly attaching to the walls, I was thinking building a frame in the alcove and the shelf pieces are attached to that (or sitting on half dowel battens?)

I have quite a bit of lengths of chunky timber lying about, from the spare wood from the loft conversion. However, I am not averse to buying new stuff for this job. The alcove is approx 46cm deep.

many thanks

 

[mrrusty]

Either is good, but if it was me I would do the LH solution. For something like that laminate MDF is a good material, however it will tend to bend over time with any weight on it, so I would 1) think about putting a back on it to support the rear of the shelves. (which you can finish to match the wall) and 2) put some sort of strengthener across the front. Something I have done many times is to get some nice timber battens and dowel them on to the edge of the laminate MDF. The battens can be a little deeper section for rigidity and will take a profile edge - either just a simple rounding off, or a decorative profile with a router cutter. Dowel and screw the shelves into the RH panel.

I wouldn't use chunky wood for the RH side - will look to heavy IMO - you could use it for the shelves perhaps.

However, lots of different ways to do this....