Spent 4 hours leveling a shelf only to find out the wall was crooked

I decided to hang a floating shelf in my living room last Saturday. I used a level, measured everything twice, and drilled anchors into the studs. After 4 hours of adjusting and re-drilling, the shelf still looked tilted. Turns out my wall itself is off by about half a degree from the floor, so the level was lying to me the whole time. I finally just eyeballed it and called it good, but now I'm wondering if any wall is actually straight. Has anyone else dealt with a secretly crooked wall messing up your project?

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the_henry2d ago

Oh man, I used to be all about trusting a level no matter what, but this post completely changed my mind lol. Now I'm paranoid every wall is secretly messing with me.

hugo502d ago

You quoting "every wall is secretly messing with me" is exactly why I gotta push back a little here. Come on, man, is a game level really that deep? It's just some geometry and textures thrown together. If a wall fools you once, that's on the designer for being clever, not some personal vendetta against you. Losing the paranoia and just laughing it off is way more fun than acting like every corner is out to get you. Levels are just puzzles, not traps designed by some evil mastermind.