Rustic Wooden DIY Egg Holder

Whip up a rustic wooden egg holder tray for you counter with this cheap and easy DIY.

Use it to display faux eggs for Easter or to hold your eggs when cooking. Form and function for your cottage style or farmhouse kitchen and beautiful either way.



A million years ago, long before the dawn of the internet and blogs and Pinterest, like many of you, I used to read magazines. A LOT.

I remember approaching the mailbox with great anticipation, excited to see what was inside and then I'd spend my evenings leafing through the pages for design inspiration to feather my tiny newlywed nest.

I never turned down a page, since I didn't want to mar the photos, instead I used Post-it notes to mark the pages I liked.

Depending on the magazine and the time of year, bookmarks could be found on almost every page. I was deep into design and had piles and piles of periodicals with piles of Post-its tucked neatly inside. 

However, once the kids popped into the picture, the magazines started to go.

First, my quiet moments dried up and stacks of them went untouched for weeks at a time. And second, we lived in a two bedroom beach cottage and storage space was almost nonexistent.

I could either hold on to the toys or the magazines. But definitely not both.

Guess which ones we kept?

Of course, I couldn't just toss all my beloved inspiration into the trash. That just wouldn't be right.

It actually felt like a little bit of my heart was on some of those pages. So instead, I spent my evenings revisiting my Post-it marked pages and tore out everything I thought I might really use in the future.

Like the page with the atrium styled breakfast nook...which I showed the architect when we moved into the new house.

Or the English cottage garden room with the floral sofa and green walls...which I carried in my purse as I shopped for the den.


And then there was the lodge style living room with the giant stone fireplace and beams on the ceiling...which I drooled over often, but never thought I'd ever actually get to decorate.

Great photos and clearly worth holding onto since they helped make so many of my design dreams come true.

Unfortunately, there was one Post-it page idea that kept escaping me.

Ironically it was the easiest, cheapest and smallest one to attain. 

And yet.

Years passed and the page tore and just when I'd given up all hope, last weekend my sweet husband said, Hey. You want to me make you that egg thing today?

Um. It's only been twenty years since I first asked you, but sure.

Better late than never.

That egg thing he was referring to was a simple wooden egg holder. A slab of wood, six holes and some feet.

Adorable.

Growing up in the middle of suburbia, I'd never seen anything like it before and as soon as I spotted it in a magazine years all those years ago, I was smitten. 

At the time, Etsy didn't exist and I had no idea of where to buy one, so it was project for the DIY pile.

Of course now they're everywhere.
You can get one here if you like---> Wooden Egg Holder
Or here---> Rustic Wooden Egg Tray

But, like I said, since the only power tools I ever used were a glue gun and sewing machine - don't laugh - I needed that guy to make it.

Clearly not at the top of his list. 

Although it was much easier than some of his other wooden building projects:

• Curved Wood Bench
• Wooden Countertop
• Trimming A Window Sill

But last weekend, in between installing the battery on his own DIY electric bicycle and draining the leaves off the pool cover, he made me an egg holder. 

For all the waiting and dreaming and thinking and planning, the thing took about 15 minutes to construct.

How To Make A DIY Egg Holder Tray

It was really a very easy process. All you need are the right tools.

Here are our simple wooden egg holder plans.

Supplies We Used For The DIY:

• Wooden Board
• Wooden Candle Cups
• Spade Drill Bit
• Saw
  
• Sander
• Wood Glue
• Butcher Block Oil

Step 1: Cut The Wood

He started by cutting the wooden plank into a small rectangle.

It measured about 8.5 x 5.5 inches and it was 3/4 of an inch thick.

Step 2: Cut The Holes

Once he cut it, he used a 1 1/2 inch spade drill bit to make six evenly spaced holes in the wood.

He said that the trick to getting good clean holes, is to use steady, even pressure and have another piece of wood underneath your pretty board.

Use a scrap, something you don't mind drilling into, because when the drill gets close to drilling all the way through the wood, it could chip the back end and make it look messy.

The extra board steadies the drill.

Step 3: Sand The Edges

Then he softly rounded the corners and sharp edges with a sander and glued on a few feet.

He used the same wooden candle cups that I recently used on my wooden charcuterie board.

You can grab them here if you like --> Wooden Candle Cups

Step 4: Seal It 

When he was done, he handed it over to me and I got to work sealing it.

I was going to stain it with my tried and true cheating method, but then I decided that if I wanted to really use it for cooking, that I should treat the wood with something food safe.

The natural finish is nice contrast to the dark wood tables I have in the room.

It looks fabulous holding my decoupaged eggs. I bet it would also look very festive holding a few tiny sticker eggs.

However, I think it will look best of all holding my eggs while I drop a few into my blueberry muffin batter on Sunday morning.

So worth the wait...

Thanks to my handy guy.

And all those Post-its.

Were you a magazine junkie, too?

Happy Crafting!