DIY Seashell Jewelry Dish

This DIY seashell jewelry dish is the perfect home decor craft for the shell collectors. Learn how to add coastal decorating for a stylish home.

I’m a shell collector, something I’ve been doing since I was a little girl. There is something fascinating to me about how some shells make it to shore in perfect shape and others get beaten and broken.

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Coastal Home Decorating Tips

There is a fine line between creating a beautifully styled home with your decor rather than taking on a themed retail store look. Decorating with seashells can quickly spiral into a themed look if you aren’t careful.

If a coastal decorated home is your style, think of using shells in small doses. Use the color of seashells as inspiration for your room, as I did here in Ray’s relaxing home office makeover. He loves to fish the coastal marsh so I gathered inspiration from the natural colors found on the banks of Charleston, South Carolina.

Color and texture are where you should start. I took the above photo of the oyster shell so I could pull colors from the shell and the surrounding marsh. We used Sherwin Williams Coastal Plain (perfect name too) in Ray’s office makeover after using this photo for inspiration.

Colors that create a sophisticated coastal decor style would the creams, tans and gold from the shell. Even light pinks and charcoal can be seen and used to give your coastal design style a modern look.

How to make DIY Seashell Jewelry Dish

All you need are shells, a piece of wood, and paint.

I usually have scrap wood around so I found a 1 x 4 piece of pine and cut it to the length I needed. I think it’s about 8 inches. Next I used my Chalky finish paint to give it a faux driftwood look. I started with the color relic, a really dark gray. After it had dried I used the dry brush technique on it with two lighter colors primitive and lace. One is a creamy gray, the other a creamy white.

Dry brush is an easy paint technique you can to do on small craft projects to large furniture makeovers . I used it here on my grain sack inspired bench makeover as well.

After all of the paint was dry I used hot glue to add the shells I had chosen. I made sure to pick shells that had a deep center. I wanted to be able to lay my rings and watch in them when I wash my hands or clean.

It turned out better than I had envisioned.

I placed it in my most used bathroom by our main living spaces. It will be a nice touch for summer decor as well. If you are a shell collector too be sure to grab some with those deep centers to make this project. My Seashell angel ornaments have always been a fun project to make with my sister and kids. You will want to collect different type shells for this one.

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