Yesterday I showed you my crib curbside find that I made into a subway art scripture sign. Then I teased you with the glass knob on it, pulling you in, hoping you’d come back today to see WHAT IS BEHIND DOOR #1!. I decided to make a jewelry organizer with the crib as the door. Yes it is big but it serves two purposes — art and storage. My favorite combination, and I can’t tell you how much I adore it!
So this where I left you yesterday…with the crib side all painted and stenciled with a scripture verse. Next I built the jewelry organizer frame behind it. Here is how I did it.
Supplies:
old crib side
(2) 1 x 4’s
1/4” luan cut to fit the back of your frame
1/2” x 2’s poplar (I used six 3’ pieces)
air brad nailer
air paint sprayer
wood glue
3/4” cup hooks (I used 67 of them)
electric drill
drill bits
primer
paint & supplies (I used Sun Safari by Dutch Boy)
30” continuous hinge (AKA “a piano hinge”)
pencil for marking
magnetic catch
mollies for hanging it in place
knob
1. I measured my crib piece and decided I wanted the frame to be the same size which was 30 1/2” wide by 31” tall. So I cut two 1 x 4’s to 31” and two of them 29”. I made sure the smaller ends were butt up to the longer edges so you couldn’t see the butt (from the side) when hung. I used wood glue to secure the frame in place and then I tacked it with 1 3/4” brad nails.
2. Next I measured the back and had Home Depot cut a piece of 1/4” luan plywood down to 30 1/4” x 30 3/4”. Then I wood glued and tacked that onto the back of the frame with 1” brad nails.
3. Now the next part is going to be based on your jewelry. I started from the bottom and wanted to allow two rows for bracelets. I cut two 1/2” x 2”s the length of the inside of the frame spacing them 4” apart from one another. Then I cut four pieces lengthwise for my necklaces spacing them 3” apart from the other and one 5” apart from the other. Then I predrilled all the holes for the cup hooks varying the distance between them according to my jewelry.
4. Then I primed and spray painted (with my air paint sprayer) all the pieces Sun Safari by Dutch Boy.
I laid all the pieces out to make sure it all fit right.
5. I screwed all the cup hooks back in first then I used Gorilla wood glue and my air brad nailer and tacked the dividers together.
Then I attached the dividers and the bottom bracelet divider onto the sides and top of the frame with 1 1/4” brad nails.
6. I used cup hooks and some metal cable chain (Brand: Blue Moon Medium Cable) to attached three lengths of chain from the inset of the crib door with cup hooks (predrill the holes first). This is where I will hang all of my earrings.
7. Then I laid out the crib door and the frame (predrilled the holes) for the piano hinge and screwed it in place.
8. Next I screwed some mollies into the drywall and attached it to the wall. I definitely needed my husband for this part as it is awkward to hold it open and drill it into the wall at the same time. I used two screws/mollies which are capable of holding 75 lbs.
After it was on the wall I realized I needed a magnetic catch to keep the door shut. So I attached one of those.
Then I had fun hanging all of my jewelry…
and then closed it when I was done…
{Squuuueaaaallll!} I am so proud of this. I stepped out of my comfort zone a little with all the measuring and building. But I did it…such a huge sense of empowerment!
Do you want some other ways to organize jewelry ?
Check out my paint stick jewelry organizer
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LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!
Beckie, you are my hero!
Congratulations on a great job! Well done! What an awesome confidence builder!
Genius! You’re just so creative! Love it!
Wowzers. Love this one! You have a lot of COOL jewelry. 🙂
AWESOME!
Amazing Beckie!! Love it!! 🙂
Looks great Beckie! 🙂
super job!
gail
That’s super impressive. WOW!!
Oh. My. Goodness. I LOVE it!
Love this! What an amazing jewelry holder!! I waaaaant!
This is amazing!!! It’s an organized girl’s dream. I pinned it on Pinterest! 🙂
Amazing! I totally didn’t see that one coming! Great job. I Love it!l
It’s amazing! I’m so impressed and a little envious of your mad skills!
Hot, hot, hot! Love it.
I need to set you up with some Cookie Lee!
Now if I can only get my friend to exchange
the crib I loaned her and have her take the
toddler bed.
FABULOUS Beckie!!
Absolutely gorgeous – So inspiring to take something that would otherwise be trash and to make it into something so beautiful and useful!
I love how this turned out! This has got to be the best jewelry organizer I’ve ever seen!
BECKIE! Yes, I just yelled your name. It is fabulous! You’ve inspired me to be braver and more daring when creating! 🙂 xo
this is amazing!! I want to find a crib to make one!
This is completely awesome, and such a great way to organize a ton of jewelry (which, as you know, I have, thanks to my $1 jewelry scores). I totally need one of these!!
Heather
YOU GO GIRL!! This is fabulous!! Yay for stepping out of our comfort zones into something amazing!
That has to be the most AWESOME idea I have EVER seen! Can’t wait to try this.
Oh. My. WORD! This is so fabulous my mouth is just hanging open. (And let me just assure you that it’s going to drive even more traffic to your blog!) I love it and think it’s great that you stepped out of your comfort zone for the building part–something I haven’t quite mustered the courage to do.
Holy cow, this is so inspiring! You did an amazing job! I can only hope to be able to find the time to make myself one of these!
Get out of here with this!!! AMAZING! I cant tell you how much I love this!!! Let the gates of Pinterest open…and flood the pin boards with this lovely jewelry organizer! 😉
FAntastic idea! I LOVE it!
Fabulous, Beckie!! Perfect use for the crib. You did a great job building the interior of the organizer!
Great job!! This is awesome. My girlfriend has a giant full length mirror that opens up to a jewelry container. I’ve been wanting to make one and love your use of the crib for it.
Good grief Charlie Brown! This is FANTASTIC! I want one!!
Un. freaking. believable. You are AMAZING! This is beyond cool.
YOU ARE MY HERO… I ADORE THIS. Its homey and then {BAM}… GIRLY ORGANIZED FABULOUS. Love the color and scripture verse. WELL DONE. WINKS-JEN
This is absolutely fabulous! And creative! And one-of-a-kind!
I’m now a follower. Can’t wait to see what you do next!
Incidentally, I told my hubby today that I have seen 2 cribs on the curb this week alone. I am a big chicken though and didn’t want to get out and pick them up while I was alone. Rethinking that…
That turned out so cute! I admire your perseverance with some of the projects you’ve made. You have a lot more creativity than I do…or maybe it’s patience…hmmm.
Anyhoo…I’d like to place my order for one about now. 🙂
Whoa! That’s an amazing roadkill rescue! I’m so impressed (and curious where you stored all that jewelry BEFORE you made this awesome storage piece)!
I just took down our crib for the last time and I’m thinking about what I want to do with it now. I know there’s gotta be a great use for it! Maybe a mini couch for the kiddos….
Oh my word – this is UNBELIEVABLE!!!! I LOVE it! I seriously am SO impressed!
UH…MAY…ZING! I absolutely love it!
I am SO impressed You are so creative!!!! Rightly named.
~a
Brilliant! I love that you have jewelry storage that does not require a big clunky box. Wow!! Great work. 🙂
That is a really creative way to reuse that crib! Also I’m jealous of your fab jewelry 🙂 And that you have enough wall space in your bedroom to hang it HAHA!
Brilliant, Beckie, brilliant! I love the color combination and your choice of a verse – is there a more perfect verse to look at EVERY day while you’re picking out jewelry?! Love this!
OH MY GOSH! This was sooooo clever, honey! Wow Wow Wow!!!
OH MY GOSH! This was sooooo clever, honey! Wow Wow Wow!!!
OH MY GOSH! This was sooooo clever, honey! Wow Wow Wow!!!
okay, can I say YOU ARE A GENIUS! and I LOVE THIS! Great job and awesome creativity. Perfect!
Wow!!!! All well organized, fabulous!!!
You always amaze me! What a great project. You look so very organized now. Love you collection of bracelets. So many cute one!
Love it! From the colors to the size to your jewelry inside… perfect!!!
oh my goodness, this is clearly all sorts of awesome!!!
You SHOULD be proud…this is amazing! You did a beautiful job on this…my daughter is always looking for jewelery storage, and I will definitely be showing her this!
Love this! Great job!
I love this! Who woulda thought? You are so creative. Thanks for the idea. Now if I could just find one of these…..
HOLY MOLY! Not only is this the CUTEST thing ever, but I am SOOOOO jealous of your jewelry collection. Awesomeness to the one-hundredth power!!
This is BEYOND AMAZING!!!! I absolutely adore this project. It may even be my most favorite to date!!! 🙂
Wow, the only jewelry I wear are my wedding and promise rings my husband gave me, but seeing your little creation is so inspiring that now I want my own jewelry collection! Absolutely love it! Great job!
You are so talented! This project is a beautiful creation – you SHOULD be proud!!
YOU ARE AMAZING!!!
OMG, this is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!!! I want one! Like seriously, I would pay a lot of money for this. You are so creative!
I love it love it Love it 🙂
You drew me in with the post about “what should I do with the other half of my crib?” I had to find the post of what you did with the first half. That is SUPER creative & I LOVE it. I could use something like that. I had all my jewelry hanging inside my closet door with a neat organizer I found at the discounted store but alas, it was too heavy & finally knocked my sticky hook to the floor. I love the word art on the outside too! I’m huge on quotes & scripture. You are so creative. Thanks for sharing with us. I am told that I am creative but I am the copy what you see creative gal instead of coming up with an entirely new idea. So thanks for lending me so faboo ideas! I greatly appreciate it. 🙂
SUPERB…. if you don’t say it.. nobody’s gonna believe that you transformed those crib pieces into such a useful and beautiful thing. If I had thrown those pieces of crib and saw this post, I would have came running to your house to grab the transformed crib pieces. Yeaaahhh… I am mean when it comes to such wonderful things **wink**
Wonderful job, it’s beautiful. Your dad will be proud of you for your creativity.
I’m proud you stepped up to the plate and allowed all that God has blessed you with to produce something that is useful. Enjoy.
Simply amazing!
This is amazing!!! I love ALL of it! Especially the verse on the outside, well done!
Beth
I absolutely love this!!! That is wayyyy super creative. I don’t know if I ever would have thought of doing something like that. Verrrry neat! 🙂
Beckie, you are quite the finished carpenter! Wowy, zowy! Can you make me one… hehe! Seriously, though, I love it!
Miranda @ Just Drink a Coke.
Really great project! Now I’ll be cruising the curbs for tossed cribs! 🙂
I have been trying to find a jewelry organizer that would work for me and if you have specific things you want, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to find JUST what you want. But this is so close to what I want that I am inspired to try a version that would be exactly the way I want it. Thank you, thank you! I love it!!
Such a clever idea and what a way to make use of the crib!!! Love it!
Thank you Miranda…I am not a carpenter by any stretch of the imagination…I just play one online. {snicker}
this is amazing – great job and you made it look so easy!!!! i never would have picked up crib pieces!!!!! fantastic. i’ve been away and it is taking forever to catch up on my blog reading. so glad i came here tonight!
This is amazing! You are amazing!
REALLY LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FANTASTIC
Wow…….I’m really impressed. So well done. Great job!
I love it, what a great idea for one of our triplet granddaughters..they are 19…I could spend alday looking at all this stuff..
Seriously thinking outside the box. I am jealous of your creative mind! Thanks for sharing
Wow – so awesome!!
That looks sooo useful! And i love that colour
Great job! I love the yellow and gray and the creative use of scripture, also so organizational for your jewelery. Thanks for inspiring!
This is so awesome, and you do have a LOT of jewelery LOL,
Wow, that is fantastic!! Good for you, it is beautiful!! Thanks for sharing. Becki
I have been looking for some ideas for Christmas presents. This is wonderful. I have 2 daughters ages 19 and 31. Of course they have a ton of jewelry. What a great idea. I am going to get the materials together and get my hubby and myself working on them. Thank you so much for this!!!!
I must see it if you try. I absolutely love it!
I am actually builing one for my sister for christmas. Using a cabinet door i found at an Architecutal Salvage store. I’m so excited and the jewelry queen is gonna love it.
Please take lots of pictures I soooooooooooo want to see!
Your jewelry organizer is beautiful in so many ways. Old cribs often do not meet federal safety standards and need to be thrown away rather than handed down. This is a wonderful way to salvage the wood and make something beautiful and useful. I love the message too.
Please erase “Check yourself says”, because he is a troll and God will smite them one day along with the daughter’s of Zion. :))
…uh….wow! this is amazing! thanks!
This upcycle is seriously one of the best ones I’ve seen in a very long time! The color! Its so bright and cheery and that quote is amazing!!! You should totally enter this project in Craftbaby’s ‘Upcycle Challenge’! http://www.craftbaby.com/contests/3/upcycle-it-sweeps
Just saw your project…looks so great! You’ve helped me figure out what to do with all my non-dangling earrings so, thanks! Love the scripture on the front, too.
wow!!! great idea and great job LOVE the color I have two old headboards that are sooo getting used now!!
Found my way here from your paintstick project — Love this verse – and how handy to have your jewelry behind it. Your projects always inspire me! Jena
Thank you Jena!