DIY Wine Crate Shelves
If you need a little bit more storage in any room of your home, today’s tutorial is for you! Jessica is showing you how she made this great wine crate shelf:
Wooden crates are such a great find and they are great for storing just about anything. Check out some other ways to use crates:
Wine Crate Bathroom Shelving | Rachel Denbow featured on Remodelaholic
Wine Crate Wall Shelf | via Retropolitan (featured here)
Colorful Wooden Crate Bookshelf | The Pleated Poppy
Wheeled Wine Crate | Antique Chase featured on Remodelaholic
And here’s Jessica to show you her wine crate (and tobacco stick) shelf! Such a great looking and easy DIY!
DIY Wine Crate Shelf
by Jessica of Mom 4 Real
Hey there Remodelaholic peeps! I’m Jessica from Mom 4 Real, and I am so happy to be over here sharing one of my thrifty projects. I live in a smallish house full of thrifty finds, and absolutely love finding old things and turning them into new fabulous things. Some thrifty makeovers I have done recently in my home are my Breakfast Nook Makeover With Thrifted Finds and our Thrifty Blue and White Cottage Bedroom Makeover . I just love the character that comes with using old things!
We love our cottage style home, but storage can be tricky, so maximizing our space is a must. On a recent trip to Costco, my husband and I stopped in their wine shop to pick up a bottle of vino. I noticed behind the counter, they had a few wooden wine crates, so I asked if they were selling them. The lady told me that they give them away, and I was welcome to have them if I wanted…whoop…score! I brought them home and sat them in my garage in anticipation of doing something with them. The next weekend, my father in law brought me some tobacco sticks for a different project that I wanted to make, and I knew immediately that I wanted to make a rustic shelf using the crates and tobacco sticks! So, out of these two free finds, my wine crate shelves were born. Here is how I put them together…
I started with my wine crates. They are gorgeous as is, but I wanted mine a little more rustic looking.
I stained them with some walnut stain that I already had, and they were perfect!
Next, I layed them on the floor and separated them so I could see how far apart I wanted them to be. I took one of the tobacco sticks and layed it across them to see how long each of them needed to be.
I used my miter saw to cut them down to 2 feet each.
Next, I screwed each leg onto the bottom edge/corner of each wine crate. I used a brad nailer to attach the very top part of the tobacco stick because they were so thin.
That’s it! The perfect little rustic wine crate shelf for my kitchen!
Now I have the perfect spot to store my cookbooks and a few dishes that were being stored in my garage. I’ll be keeping my eyes open for some more of these crates for sure…they are perfect for storage!
I have so enjoyed hanging with you today! I’d love for you to stop over and visit me some time!
Thanks for sharing, Jessica! The shelf looks great in your kitchen — love those easy DIYs!
If you want to see more from Jessica, I have good news — Jessica is going to be part of our contributor team starting in January! We have such a great bunch of contributors, you guys are just going to love them. We’ll announce more about that soon. In the meantime, you can go visit Jessica at Mom 4 Real and see more of her cute house!
So cute. Love the repurposed factor. Looks like those cookbooks fit perfectly. I’ve never seen tobacco sticks before. Interesting!!
I love the wine crate!!
This is beautiful, Jessica! I love wine crates and as a kitchen shelf, genius!! What a fab way to store cookbooks!
Jess always has such fantastic ideas! Love!
Where would one find tobacco sticks?
Nice! Maybe some wheels would make it a little more functional…