Photo: podarokvtochku.ru With a key holder in the hallway, you will forever forget about the keys lost somewhere in the apartment. You will no longer have to urgently search for them in all the nooks and crannies 15 minutes before leaving. And your beloved pet will definitely not drive them under the refrigerator or behind the sofa. Finally, order will reign on the table with small change, cards and wallets. Moreover, you can make a beautiful wall-mounted key holder with your own hands!
Plywood key holder
From a sheet of plywood with a thickness of 0.5 cm you can make almost any wall-mounted key holder. You only need a stencil to cut out the desired shape, and a tool for this. By the way, the back wall of old chipboard furniture is perfect.
While you are cutting, the plywood may crack and the edges may break off, but all this can be fixed with a special wood putty. After this, be sure to prime the base so that the paint adheres better, and you can decorate it at your discretion.
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What types of key holders are there?
It is clear that there is no strict classification of key holders. But based on where they are located, there are two main types: pocket and wall-mounted.
A pocket key holder is a bag-cover that can be made from different materials, for example, leather, fabric. Inside the case, loops are sewn (glued), which can be made of metal or a piece of cord. These loops act as hooks.
Such simple key holders are designed to protect your pocket from physical damage from keys. In addition, this way all the keys are stored in only one place.
Obviously, wall key holders are more common than pocket key holders. They are of open or closed type. The simplest open key holder is a simple board with attached hooks, which can be nails and screws, wire and wood knots. In general, here you can use everything that the key fits on.
If you have not done carpentry before and decided to make a wall-mounted key holder for your home yourself, then it is better to start with something simple.
The first step is to choose the place where the product will be placed. Knowing the location will allow you to immediately determine the type, shape and size of your key holder.
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Slab key holder
Slabs, or simply cuts, are now very popular in all eco-interiors, Scandinavian style and lofts. To make an effective wall-mounted key holder, you will need a saw cut, a hard metal sponge, sandpaper, tinting or stain, acrylic varnish, as well as several hangers for fastening and the hooks for the keys themselves.
Work the slab along the grain first with a hard sponge and then with sandpaper so that the texture of the wood appears even better. Using a regular wide synthetic brush, apply alcohol or water stain in several passes. After drying, you can transfer the drawing from the printout onto the wood using the decoupage technique.
Cover everything with acrylic varnish on top to secure the result. The key holder will fit more tightly to the wall if you make several fastenings. Do not screw too many hooks onto one saw, otherwise you will constantly catch other ties while removing the one you need.
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Key house
Cute key holders in Provence style can be made in the form of a wall cabinet. If you have the tools and minimal skills, you can make it even without male help. To do this, we will need four narrow boards for the walls of the cabinet (the same size if we want to make it square, or two pairs of shorter ones and two pairs of longer ones for a rectangular one) and two wide boards for the back wall and door. For fastenings you will need self-tapping screws and hinged hinges.
After all the parts are cut to the required size, the boards need to be sanded first with coarse sandpaper and then with fine sandpaper until smooth. After this, we proceed to decorative processing of the wood. If we want to leave the natural structure of the wood, then we can cover the boards with stain, which will give the wood a noble shade, or burn the boards with a gas burner - this will reveal the texture of the wood, making it brighter. Final processing consists of covering all parts with several layers of varnish.
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When all the parts are ready, we begin assembly. On the reverse side, through the back wall, we attach the side walls with long self-tapping screws. Using small self-tapping screws, we attach the hinges to the cabinet door. We screw several hooks inside the “house”.
If we want to decorate a shelf using the decoupage technique, we can find interesting options by looking at similar photos of hand-made key holders. These key holders look very cute and feminine. Depending on the chosen theme, the key holder can be decorated in a gentle shabby chic style, or in the noble style of old England or romantic French Provence. If you use newspaper clippings or photographs of the city, you will get an interesting accessory in the industrial style. And if you already have some experience in the decoupage technique, you can print out a family photo and decorate it with a “house for keys.”
Sooner or later, any interior details become boring, the eye gets used to them and stops noticing them. But handmade products always evoke warm emotions, because they are made with love.
Key holders made from cutlery
Very impressive and unusual key holders are made from old forks and knives. In addition to these, you will need fasteners, pliers and, if desired, paint for decoration. You just need to beautifully bend the devices, like hooks, and fix them on the base or directly on the wall. Instead of a base, we offer a wooden kitchen board - a spectacular addition to Provence!
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Technology of weaving from newspaper tubes - tips
Each business has its own subtleties, much depends on what kind of paper you will use to weave the key holder.
Types and thickness of paper used in weaving:
- Newsprint and booklets - density from 35 to 60 g/m2.
- Colored paper (sold in sets) – 40-50 g/m2.
- Glossy (magazines, booklets) – 80-300 g/m2.
- Consumer (gray shade) – 40 g/m2.
- Cash register tape – 50-55 g/m2.
When weaving paper tubes, it is important to know what kind of paper is best to use, that is, the difficulties in working and the type of product itself depend entirely on the density of the paper.
How to choose paper
It is believed that the best paper for working with tubes has a density of 35 to 55 g/m2. For example, the tubes made from office paper are rigid and not easy to work with. Strips for weaving are cut in the direction of the grain! Only in this case will they curl well.
How to find out the direction of the fibers - you need to take a sheet of paper or newspaper and try to tear a long strip from it. If the strip comes off smoothly and not in a zigzag pattern, this will be the correct direction of the fibers.
What tools are needed to work with straws?
Don’t be alarmed, weaving from newspaper tubes is a type of needlework that does not require special tools. It is enough to have a metal knitting needle 1-1.5 mm thick, a stationery knife, several brushes, a sponge, PVA glue or a glue stick (many people use Moment Carpenter Super PVA glue), and something with which to paint and varnish the product. You can do without a varnish coating, but it is needed so that a product such as an owl key holder has a margin of safety. The varnished key holder is not afraid of moisture and has an attractive appearance.
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We recommend that you first try to weave a key holder from newspapers. This is a good opportunity to try your hand at this craft without spending extra money. And, besides, newspapers themselves are soft, pliable, weaving from them is convenient and not difficult. And the tubes themselves are of great length - the product will turn out neat. But there is one drawback - newspaper font, that is, printing ink, greatly stains your hands and the surface on which you are making tubes - lay oilcloth or polyethylene on the table.
So, we cut the newspaper into strips 8-9 cm wide, having previously learned the direction of the fibers. We place the knitting needle on the tip of the newspaper at a slight angle. The length of the tube depends on the angle at which you place the knitting needle. The larger the angle, the shorter the tube.
Next, with your right hand we begin to twist the tube away from you. We work with our right hand, and with our left we help to rotate. The main thing in the work is to twist evenly along the entire length.
We twist, helping ourselves with our fingers.
At the end, drop a drop of glue onto the “tail” of the strip and press this place with your finger to the tube.
That's all. The tube is ready. We take out the knitting needle and leave all the tubes overnight so that the glue dries. And only after that we begin painting.
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How to paint tubes
There are many ways to color tubes. Here is the most popular one. We will need PVA glue and water-based stain. We take the tubes and cover them with a primer (mix ½ cup of PVA glue and ½ cup of water equally), leave to dry overnight. Then we take a water-based stain and cover the tubes with a brush and stain.
We send it to dry. If the color is too pale, repeat the painting. The disadvantage of stain is that the newspaper text is not completely painted over.
If you didn’t buy stain, it doesn’t matter, you can paint with what you have in the house: iodine, hair dye, gouache, car paint, green paint, coffee, food coloring. Don't forget to dry thoroughly after painting. After this, you can safely make key holders from newspapers.
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Key holder from a photo frame
A wide, beautiful photo frame can be turned into an equally impressive key holder with minimal effort. As a backing, use a sheet of plywood, which can be painted, decorated with decoupage, or covered with fabric. Screw spectacular decorative hooks randomly right in the center of the improvised panel.
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Closed key holder
An old unnecessary box is an almost ready-made closed key holder with a door. If it already has a latch or fastening, then all that remains is to screw small hooks for keys inside and hang it on the wall. Aging the mini-wardrobe by hand, paint it, decorate it with decoupage or paste it with old wallpaper. Painting with a dry synthetic brush shows up interestingly on wood - it looks careless, but stylish, and emphasizes the texture of the material.
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Slots instead of magnets
If you have a wide enough block and a saw, you can make an original key holder that requires no hooks or magnets. Even a school-age child can handle this. And our step-by-step guide to making a key holder with your own hands will help you.
Take a finished wooden block. Imagine that you are going to saw off a piece of wood. But do not go all the way to the end, leaving about 1 cm. Saw the same cut several times to widen it a little.
Using sandpaper, sand the cut until it is smooth and the wood doesn't snag. Several such cuts are needed, depending on the number of keys. In accordance with the strict geometry of the block, it is better to make cuts at the same distance, symmetrically retreating from the edge.
Fasten the finished block to the wall, turning the cuts towards you. All you have to do is make sure that your keys have key fobs on a string. The keychain will remain on top of the block, like on a shelf, and the rope will slip into the cut.
Keychains in the form of small soft toys or fur balls will line up on the shelf when the whole family gathers at home and will look very cute.
Key holder organizer
Using the same principle, you can turn a drawer divider organizer into a spacious key holder with different sections and small shelves. Just choose a material that is dense enough so that it does not deform under the weight of the keys. And all that remains is to attach it to the wall and screw in a few hooks, or simply drive in nails with neat heads.
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Plywood key holder
Obviously, plywood is more convenient to work with. After all, this is already processed material; you just need to cut out the desired shape. Lightly sand the edges of the product, paint and attach the hooks.
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The good thing about plywood is that it allows you to create a wide variety of shapes in a variety of styles.
Key holder made of tree branches
If you love eco-style, we have another option for you - a durable and fairly wide dry branch. Such a key holder will always be unique, because identical branches do not exist even on the same tree. You can save the bark by sanding only the damaged areas.
As with cutting, we recommend covering the branch with stain - it will emphasize the texture and give the tree additional protection. Also, be sure to varnish, even when saving the bark - use sprays for convenience. Screw the hooks in separately or use twigs and twigs instead.
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Why jeans?
Denim fabric is perfect for making a wrench organizer. Why jeans? Because it is in almost every home, because many of us love to wear jeans. The material is also practical and durable, easy to wash, and can withstand any load.
The case can be not only a classic shape, but also in the form of a belt bag.
Magnetic key holder
Don’t want to drill into the walls, but double-sided tape doesn’t hold a heavy key holder with bundles well? There is an alternative option - glue a fairly strong magnet to it. And then you can attach the accessory to metal pieces of furniture. Or maybe you still have a refrigerator in the hallway from old memory? Then a practical magnet is definitely your option!
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Key holder with shelf
To combine useful things with useful things, combine the key holder with a shelf - and you can immediately put your wallet, business card holder or sunglasses on top. You will again need a sheet of plywood or chipboard, self-tapping screws and a screwdriver, the hooks themselves and, optionally, corners for mounting the shelf.
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Lego key holder
An old construction set just as easily turns into a convenient, practical key holder - to the delight of children and all household members. If the parts hold tight enough without glue, make keychains out of them - and you won’t even need to screw in the hooks.
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Key holder for an athlete
You can make a key holder for the hallway with your own hands from any available materials. Anything that you can stick the keys into, hang it on, or magnetize it to is suitable for this. In an apartment where young people who love sports live, an extravagant key holder can be made from a tennis ball, cutting a slot in it into which it is convenient to stick keys. And if you decorate it with eyes, then a funny green “friend” will “settle” in the hallway.
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You don't have to limit yourself to just these ideas! Use your imagination, experiment with materials and get inspired by our selection of photographs!
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