How To Hang Soda Crates On Wall

Vintage soda and milk crates make wonderful conversation pieces.

How to hang soda crates on wall.

Drill into the wall with an 1 8 1 4 pilot bit through any of the open spaces in the bottom of the crate in two places preferably at a diagonal to one another. Turning the crate on it s side you can use them as shelves. Line your first crate up with the lines. Soda crate washi tape storage happiness is homemade heidi has cleverly used an old soda crate to stylishly store her washi tape.

Then made a mark 4 in from the side. When you are satisfied with the smoothness of your wooden crate s surface you can now start placing your crates on your wall to think of a good layout for your hanging shelves. Match contact paper and paint to your child s room. Since i used only two wooden crates i settle with the typical layout of two hanging shelves being adjacent with one another horizontally.

Hang crates on your wall for easy storage. You can set them on a counter or hang them on the wall. I love how the crates look stacked up. Hanging closet storage crates table and hearth i love this idea of making unique hanging storage in the wardrobe with old wooden crates and rope.

Crates to create a built in but this application is one of the more impressive examples. From the smallest of shelves to wall filling shelving units wooden crates are a great way to decorate on a dime. We hung on drywall so we pre drilled holes using a drill and drill bit the size of our drywall anchors then we hammered in the drywall anchor placed the crate over the anchors making sure we could drill through the wood slats and screwed our drywall screw through the wood and into the prepped hole and anchor in the wall. We used two screws per crate placed about 4 inches down from the top of the crate.

Wooden crate shelf diy from joann. Then thread some washers onto a screw so they will catch the crate hold it up and screw into the anchors pulling the crate to the wall. When designing a feature wall of crates make sure not to stack crates one. I layered two of them on the bottom shelf of a side table in my sunroom.

I repeated the same steps on the right side making sure the hooks would be the same distance in from the edges and 3 from the top edge. Wooden crate shoe rack live from julies house. I recently decorated one as a shelf after doing some succulent diys. You can put together several of these pieces in a single weekend and add functionality to even the smallest of spaces.

Plan how to hang your crates and mark your measurements on the wall i had a nail in the wall already from the mirror so i hung one crate there and held the second one under it so that i could get an idea of how they would look hung up. How to upcycle wooden soda crates hello angie hang on wall as shelving or cupboards with or without doors to hold whatever fits in or use as plant pot holders for floral display.