Laundry Room Project #1: Key Holder

I have always been a fan of creative key holders. Maybe it comes from the J key holder that has always been in my parents' house. Maybe it's because I am REALLY good at losing my keys if I don't have a specific place to put them.  If I have to have something to help me keep up with my keys it might as well be cute, right?

Hang 'em here!

When I moved out on my own I found a super cute key shaped key holder that I used, which I still think is super cute, but with our laundry room makeover I decided it was time to get creative and make something new. Plus 4 key hooks were just not enough for us. Ridiculous? Yes, but apparently we have a lot of keys!

For whatever reason, I had visions of a brightly painted chevron key holder that would really pop against our dark bluish gray walls. I had a cheap wooden picture frame that I bought in the Michael's dollar bin years ago. It's a large frame but only holds a 3.5" square picture which makes it hardly worth using to frame a picture.

I scoured Pinterest for chevron painting tutorials, and came across this one. It's for walls, but I figured I could just pare it down a bit so that it would work on my frame. I opulled out my ruler and pencil and got to work. Once I had the lines drawn I started painting my chevrons. It took several coats and my lines are far from perfect, (I am not the best line drawer or painter by any means.) but I was very pleased with the result.

I have quite a few bottles of craft paint from other projects and ended up recycling the green from an old project.  The yellow came from Wally World...a whopping 65 cents.  When I finished painting I decided it needed something in the teeny tine picture hole.  I toyed with the idea of hanging a "C" in it, because I loves me a monogram, but when I was at Michael's I could not find a C that I liked. I came across the key charm in the jewelry section for $3 and decided that I had to have it.

My orginal idea...I found a sketch app for my ipad and have fallen in love it! It's turned me into a doodling fool!

If I had purchased all of my supplies new I MIGHT have spent $10, and that's only because I would have had to purchase an entire picture hanging kit and a paint brush. Since I had those things, I only spent $3.65.

I called in the expert when it came to putting the hooks, and picture hanger thingys on the back, but then again isn't that what husbands are for? He was happy to help, and we had it done pretty quickly! The only mess up we had was only putting one picture hanger on the first time. It looked great but when we hung the keys it tilted to the side, so he took that one out and it 2 on the back the second time.

Not sure why the wall looks green, it's more blue in real life.

So there's my latest DIY project.  I have several more up my sleeve that will hopefully involve chalkboard paint and giant safety pins!  Have I mentioned how much I like to decorate?!