Keys should be kept in one place at least in order not to waste time and nerves looking for them at the right time. And the original key holder with your own hands can become a bright accent in the interior, attracting the attention of guests and household members. Making such a little thing yourself is not difficult.
The benefits of creating a key holder
A DIY key organizer should match your decor (style, size and color). Finding one in a store is rare. It is enough just once to think about going in search of the “ideal housekeeper” to be convinced of this from your own experience. You will save time if you do it yourself. In addition, this key organizer will surely become the embodiment of your love for home, individuality.
Having made a little thing on your own, you will be sure that it is made of high-quality and safe materials. You will not only enjoy the creative process, but also surprise your household and guests with an unusual and beautifulthing in the hallway. Well, of course, a key organizer made from improvised materials will cost much less than the one you find in the store.
Simple wood key holder
This version of making a wall key holder in the hallway with your own hands looks very simple and uncomplicated, but if your main desire is to create a truly functional thing, then a plank organizer will do. You need to purchase an ordinary plank with rounded ends and process its surface with sandpaper. If there is a desire to change the shape of the base, you need to cut off the excess and cut out the desired silhouette.
A do-it-yourself wall key holder can be made in the form of a simple rectangle with rounded or sharp corners, or you can cut out some shape. It looks interesting on the wall organizer in the form of a key, a heart or the inscription Home.
You can leave the current color of the plank if it suits you and fits organically into the interior of the hallway. In this case, it is enough to varnish the surface to increase the wear resistance of the finished product. If you don’t like the color, you can paint or sheathe the future wall key holder with your own hands with any fabric you like. It is better to apply black acrylic paint to the contours of the figure. So the key holder made of wood with your own hands will stand out brightly against the background of wallpaper or painted walls. So you can quickly find the right key.
Next, make the required number of holes at the base of the wall key holder with your own hands. They need as many as will hangon such an organizer of keys. It is advisable, just in case, to make two or three more holes than exactly necessary. In the holes you need to fix metal or any other hooks you like. They can be purchased at hardware and hardware stores or shops with sewing accessories.
Additionally, you can decorate the key holder with figurines made of plywood or paper, another material that can be glued to the base. A lot of all kinds of small jewelry can be found in the same stores with sewing accessories. You can decorate a rectangular key holder with your own hands with the inscriptions his and hers (“his and her”), mr and mrs (“Mr. and Mrs.”), keys (“keys”), home, sweet home (“home, sweet home”), welcome (“welcome”), live, laugh, love (“live, laugh, love”) in a contrasting color.
Eco-style branch organizer
For this original do-it-yourself wooden key holder, you need to find a strong tree branch. This will be the base of the organizer. You will also need a stain, a jigsaw and a drill, hangers and acrylic paints to decorate the housekeeper with your own hands. A master class for creating such an eco-style thing is presented below:
- Wash and dry the branch you like, cut off all unnecessary parts. Next, you need to decide whether to save the bark. You can remove it by sanding the surface, or you can leave it by removing only the damaged areas.
- Using a jigsaw, make a saw cut from the side where the hooks will be located. Drill holes for self-tapping screws.
- With a wide brush, cover the housekeeper with stain, which will shade the tree and act asantiseptic. After this procedure, the branch should be left to dry for about an hour.
- If you decide to remove the bark, then just cover the branch with acrylic varnish. Is the bark left? Then soak the branch with varnish, which must first be diluted with water in equal parts, and after drying, cover it undiluted.
- The surface can be dry-brushed with acrylic paint of the color you like. The result needs to be varnished again.
- It remains only to fix the hangers in the right places. The key holder in the hallway with your own hands is ready!
The beauty of this product is that no two branches are the same, which means that your key holder will definitely be special.
Knot hooks for keys
There is another option for making a wooden eco-style key organizer. For such a housekeeper you will need several short branches with knots. They need to be treated with stain and varnish in the same way as described in the master class above. Then you should fix the branches on a wooden base perpendicularly, in a vertical position. Knots will serve as hooks for keys. Across them (horizontally), you can glue another branch, for example, with the inscription Welcome, painted in a contrasting color.
Pine saw cut organizer
A stylized do-it-yourself housekeeper can be obtained from an ordinary saw cut of a tree. For manufacturing, you need a saw cut, water or alcohol stain, medium grit sandpaper, acrylic varnish, a wide synthetic brush, suspensions, hooks, a drill, a crossscrewdriver. A saw cut can be used from any type of wood, but pine is best.
Both sides of the cut need to be sanded. Use medium-grain paper first, then fine-grain paper. It must be processed strictly along the wood fibers. As soon as the procedure is completed, the surface of the tree must be moistened with water so that the fibers rise, and leave to dry completely. After that, you need to re-treat the surface with sandpaper.
Now you can stain the saw cut. For beginners, it is better to use a water-based stain, rather than an alcohol one. It dries longer, so you can avoid smudges by blotting the excess with a dry cloth in time. Apply the stain along the grain of the wood with a wide synthetic brush. To achieve uniform and deep staining, you need to wash the tree 2-3 times. After each layer, the cut should dry well.
It remains only to make recesses for fasteners on the back of the organizer so that the product fits well against the wall, and fix the fasteners themselves. Hooks for keys need to be attached to the front side of the saw cut. Do-it-yourself key holder is ready! If desired, you can apply a pattern to the cut using the decoupage technique.
Decoupage technique for decoration
Using this technique, you can transfer any printed pattern you like to the surface of the key holder with your own hands. It is important that the image must be mirrored. Glue is not needed. The printed drawing just needs to be covered with acrylic varnish, put on the surface "face" down andSmooth out thoroughly with pressure rollers. The product should be left to dry for 2-3 hours. After you need to slightly moisten the paper with water and start rolling. A picture will gradually appear on the surface. The paper should be rolled up until the whitishness disappears.
Closed housekeeper
This do-it-yourself housekeeper looks like a house or a birdhouse with doors. This type of product is made of wood or plastic. As practice shows, many people prefer wooden key holders. They look much more stylish, but are not very difficult to make. To make, you will need a piece of plywood, sandpaper, door fasteners, screws and hooks, varnish and paint.
First, you should draw a drawing of the housekeeper, you can see an example in the photo below. Further, according to the scheme, it is necessary to cut out the details from plywood and process them with sandpaper. Each detail should be alternately covered with three layers of varnish. When everything is ready, you can start assembling the house. Remember that the screws should not be visible from the outside. Fasten the doors, install the lock, screw the hooks. It remains only to decorate the house-key holder with your own hands with acrylic paints or using the decoupage technique.
Minimalist key holder
Is your apartment decorated in a minimalist style, or is it your lifestyle, worldview? Then you should think about making the same key holder, comfortable and functional, which fits perfectly into the interior. You will need a board, key laces and some decorative elements (thisthere can be identical large pendants or just wooden balls). In the board at an equal distance, you need to make neat recesses (as in the picture). The key holder is ready, but it remains to make key chains that will allow everyone in the household to use it. For each ring, simply tie a decorative element with a cord. To hang the key, you need to put a decorative element on top of the plank, this will prevent the key from falling.
Fancy magnetic organizer
This is an original version of the DIY key holder, which looks beautiful and will be very convenient to use. To make the base, you will need plywood, cardboard or plastic. From these materials, you need to cut out a suitable shape, and then glue it with a magnet. For decoration, you can use drawings, patterns, ribbons, any details from a sewing accessories store. If you cover the key holder with a phosphor spray, then at a late hour the location of the keys can be recognized even before the lights are turned on.
You can make a magnetic key holder with your own hands from the box. It is enough to take a box of a suitable size (cardboard, but dense, and plastic is also suitable), and stick a thin magnetic board inside. The keys will magnetize to this surface without any problems.
Key holder from the picture frame
Is there an old photo or painting frame lying around somewhere? It shouldn't be thrown away. There is a good way not only to decorate the wall, but also to define a permanent place to store the keys. You will need a frame, a piece of plywood that fits the size, acrylicpaints and a primer, a wide brush with synthetic bristles, sandpaper with fine and medium grit, decoupage glue or stationery PVA, acrylic varnish, key hooks, a Phillips screwdriver, a jigsaw and a drill.
Using a jigsaw, cut a rectangle of the desired size from a piece of plywood (you should be guided by the dimensions of the frame). Now, using a thin drill, you need to drill all the holes. Coat a piece of plywood with acrylic primer, and when dry, go over it with sandpaper, then wipe it with a damp cloth. You can simply paint the plywood or transfer the drawing onto it using the decoupage technique.
It remains only to attach key hooks to the plywood base and fix it in the picture frame. To make it easier to navigate, you can stick signs with inscriptions under each key, for example, “From the basement”, “From the garage”. Hang the key holder on the wall in the hallway using the fastener.
Lego key organizer
Do-it-yourself housekeeper from improvised materials is easiest to make from the Lego constructor. You will need a flat base for the organizer, you can attach several other details to it as a decor. It is necessary to insert small parts of the designer into the key rings in the form of a keychain. Now, when returning home, a key with such an unusual keychain can simply be attached to the base of the constructor.
Leather Pocket Key Holder
To make a leather pocket key holder with your own hands, it will take more time and effort than in the previous case, but the result is worth it. Need a patternthick leather (you can recycle an old bag), lining material, zipper, thick needle, strong threads, awl and buttons, key clip, scissors.
The more keys, the larger the pattern should be. From leather and suede (for lining), you need to cut out all the details according to the pattern, connect the details of the outer part and the lining. The rectangle must be folded with the front sides inward, insert a zipper, insert a carabiner on a leash into one cut, sew the other edge.
Large plywood organizer
A big family needs a big housekeeper. So the keys will always be in a prominent place, parents and children will not confuse bundles or forget them at home. The easiest way to make this with your own hands is from plywood. The plywood board must be carefully processed with sandpaper, and the corners should be rounded as desired. In advance, you need to choose a suitable background for a large key holder, which will need to be transferred to plywood with a pencil or chalk. After drawing the contour, take a jigsaw and carefully cut out the desired shape. This will be the base. Now, in the same way, you need to cut out individual key chains to fix the keys. Then sand the surface again, cover the finished product with varnish or paint and hang it on the wall. The original DIY key organizer is ready.
Key holder and shelf for small items
Do-it-yourself key holder shelf can be different. In any case, you will need plywood or chipboard for the base, woodworking tools, acrylic paint, varnish, self-tapping screws, hooks and fasteners. The easiest option for a wall shelf: cut out two rectangles: one (lowerpart of the shelf) should be slightly wider, the other (the base for the hooks) should be narrower, two identical side parts - of any shape (it can be triangles or rhombuses).
All wooden parts should be varnished, if desired, painted in any color you like with acrylic paint. This can be done later, at the same time to close the nail heads that stand out against the general background. Now you need to fasten two rectangular parts perpendicular to each other, you get a kind of corner. It remains only to attach the side parts, fasteners to hang the organizer shelf on the wall and hooks for keys.
Key keeper with a vase
Such a pretty housekeeper will noticeably transform the interior, filling it with the natural charm of nature, ease and freshness. To make a key holder with a vase for fresh flowers, you need to take wooden boards, stain, acrylic varnish and paint, a thin iron strip for attaching the vase, a glass jar of a suitable size, hooks, fasteners, all the tools necessary for working with wood.
Now you can get to work. From the boards, saw out a rectangular base and a smaller rectangle that will serve as a small shelf for incoming correspondence, glasses or a wallet. Treat the wood with a stain (2-3 coats will be enough), varnish or paint first in the desired color, and only then use the varnish. When all the pieces are dry, you need to attach a smaller rectangle to the base at a 45 or 90 degree angle. The shelf at 45 degrees in this case will bemore convenient. You need to fasten it not in the middle of the base, but slightly shifting to the side. Make sure there is room underneath for the hooks that are about to be attached.
It remains only to arrange an impromptu vase and securely fasten it to the free side of the wooden base. An ordinary glass jar with a volume of 0.5 liters may not look very aesthetically pleasing, so first you need to decorate it somehow. For example, a jar can be painted with acrylic paint, a drawing can be transferred to it, or draped with a bright fabric. With a hot glue gun, you can write something on the jar and wait for it to dry completely. Get a volumetric inscription. The jar should be attached with a thin strip of iron to the base. The original key holder is ready!
Soft Pocket Key Holder
You can make a pocket soft key holder with your own hands from felt or leather. A nice felt key organizer is a more feminine option, while a leather one is more suitable for a man. First, let's look at a master class for creating a female version of the organizer, in the following sections we will move on to describing the process of making a do-it-yourself key holder from leather. Such a product is sewn quite easily and quickly.
To make a key holder with your own hands, you will need felt 2 mm thick, it is better to choose a hard one. You can choose any decorative elements, for example, cut an owl from a material of a different color. For a do-it-yourself owl housekeeper, you will also need a sew-on or punch button, a carabiner, threads (you can take contrasting or in the color of the main material), a needle and scissors. How to make it?
Do-it-yourself key holder pattern is very simple. It is a rectangle with rounded ends. Optimal dimensions: 13 x 8 cm. If the keys are long, then the dimensions can be increased. The key leash is a rectangle 19 x 1.2 cm with a circle at the end with a diameter of 2.7 cm. During the sewing process, you can adjust the length of the leash to the optimal value. According to the pattern, you need to cut out two parts from felt. The pattern can be glued to the material with ordinary adhesive tape, it can be easily peeled off from the felt.
Both parts of the leash need to be folded and sewn along the edge with a buttonhole. Sew a button on the round part of the leash, and insert a carabiner half ring into the opposite part and sew the edge. On the reverse side, the round part of the leash can be decorated with a rhinestone. Now you need to attach the product to one part of the key holder and mark the place for sewing the second part of the button. The part with the carabiner should protrude 1.5-2 cm from above.
Now you can sew a decorative owl on the second rectangular part of the key holder. Then fold both parts of the organizer and sew along the edge, inserting the key leash. The bottom edge should remain open, and do not sew only the area for the leash on top. Now, when pulling the leash, the keys will hide in the key holder.
