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!

Published: December 14, 2013Filed Under: Furniture Building Projects and Plans, Guest Bloggers, How To, Tutorials Tagged: Shelves, shelving, Wood

About Jessica

I'm Jessica from Mom 4 Real , a mom on a mission to show other women that you can live well without breaking the bank. I like to share the thrifty, creative ways that I make changes in my home in the hopes that it will spark the creativity in someone else! I love to share DIY projects, crafts, simple recipes and cleaning tips too!