Wall mounted shelving system

In a wall mounted shelf system providing plural elongate bracket standards having shelf brackets extending outwardly therefrom for supporting shelves, the improvement comprising:

• plural standard covers, each one of said standard covers positioned in contact with opposing outer side surfaces, and an outer face surface of one of the bracket standards;
• each one of said standard covers providing an aperture engaging one of the shelf brackets and limited in size thereto, the aperture open to an upper end edge of the standard cover, enabling installation of the standard-covers over the bracket standards and in engagement with the shelf brackets, when the self brackets are already engaged with the bracket standards.

A method of improving the appearance of a wall mounted shelf system having plural elongate bracket standards secured in vertical attitudes on a wall surface with plural shelf brackets extending outwardly therefrom for supporting at least one shelf, comprising the steps of;

• forming an aperture open to an upper end edge of each of a plurality of standard covers;
• covering the bracket standards with the standard covers, placing the apertures in engagement with the self brackets with the upper end edges of the self brackets proximate top surfaces of the self brackets;
• and extending each of the standard covers between the top surfaces of two adjacent ones of the self brackets at a desired shelf spacing.