Distressed Key Holder from Wine Crate

How to make a distressed key holder from a wine crate.

Clearly I like my wine because I have another project that involves a wine crate!

You might recall the time I turned a wine crate into a serving tray.

Anyhoo, it’s not good to waste a precious wine crate so I took the lid from that crate and used it to make this little number.

Let me show you how I made this distressed key holder from a wine create lid.

Here is what you’ll need for this project:

Supplies:

• wine crate, more specifically the lid from a wine crate
• charcoal grey paint (I used Annie Sloan chalk paint in Graphite)
• creamy white paint (I used Annie Sloan Old White)
• 2 foam brushes
• mini screw hooks
• oil-rubbed bronze spray paint (I can’t live without this stuff!)
• foam board or cardboard
• drill or screwdriver

Tutorial:

Here is exhibit A.  I had this wine crate for awhile now.  It held 3 wine bottles if that is helpful to you in trying to find this exact size.

I love the stamped branding on the front of the lid so I knew I wanted to create something with it.

I could only find gold hooks and I wanted oil-rubbed bronze so I screwed them into a piece of foam board and went crazy with the spray paint.

Then I marked out the areas I wanted the hooks and pre-drilled the holes.

Feel free to use pencil marks because you’ll be painting over them.

I painted two coats of paint in the charcoal grey then one good coat of the creamy white paint letting dry in between coats.

Then I distressed it like crazy with a sander using 220 fine grit sandpaper.

Screw the screws into the pre-drilled holes and hang up some keys!

I love it!  Doesn’t the branding look cool with it distressed?

Here it is displayed in my laundry room.

It also looks beautiful in my office.

It’s such a great way to use wood without any cutting!

I think it’s a keeper!

I promise it’s a very easy DIY project, try it!