How Can Wooden Crates Be Reused?

With a little imagination, wooden crates (such as those in which fruits and vegetables are initially stored) can be easily reused. Being made of a durable material, these objects have various interesting alternative uses, which is why we should not throw them away.

If you do not have a wooden crate in the house, but you want to try the ideas that we will present in the following, you can buy this item from the nearest grocery store or market.

So read on to discover 20 unique ways to turn wooden crates into useful decorative objects in your home.

20 ideas for reusing wooden crates

1. Turn them into auxiliary tables

Sand the wooden crates with abrasive paper, paint them any color you want and mount some wheels. At the end, you will get some side tables where you can store books or magazines.

2. Turn them into mirrors and shelves

If you attach a mirror to the bottom of a wooden box, you get an ideal object for your bedroom or any other place in the house. You can add two drawers on the side to have more storage space.

3. Store accessories in them

By painting the wooden crates in a color that matches the walls of the rooms in the house, you will get some nice boxes in which you can store various accessories that you use every day.

4. Turn them into kitchen organizers

With the help of paints and self-adhesive paper, you can turn wooden crates into kitchen organizers, only good for storing plates and utensils.

5. Turn them into benches with shoe racks

This is one of our favorite ideas for reusing wooden crates. Make sure that the wood from which the box is made is strong enough so that you can sit on it.

Spray the paint on the box, line one of its sides with a cotton cloth and use the empty space to store shoes.

6. Turn them into garden furniture

By connecting several wooden crates with nails, you can create some rustic-looking shelves for your garden. Use them to store small plants, pots and other gardening tools.

7. Turn them into a children’s toy closet

Paint a large wooden box in bright colors and add smaller crates inside it to get a toy closet for your children.

8. Turn them into small living room furniture

Add several drawers to a painted wooden box and place it in the living room to have a place to store magazines, books and more.

9. Turn them into magazine racks

Polish the box, paint it or decorate it in any other way to get a perfect little shelf for magazines.

10. Turn them into a crib for your pet

If the wooden box you have is big enough for your pet to fit in, you can use it to make it a simple and inexpensive crib. Simply sand the box with sandpaper and put a fluffy material and a blanket in it.

11. Turn them into coffee tables

Combine several wooden crates of similar size with glue or another adhesive and you will get an ideal coffee table for your terrace.

12. Turn them into multifunctional boxes

Paint the wooden crates and you will be able to use them as multifunctional boxes, in which you can store decorative flowers, newspapers and any other object that you do not know where to place.

13. Turn them into a toy train

If you want to give your children a pleasant surprise, use the wooden crates you have in the house to build a toy train. Paint them in bright colors, mount wheels and encourage your children to play with this new fun toy.

14. Turn them into bookshelves

Attach two or three wooden crates to the wall and use them as bookshelves.

15. Turn them into wheeled organizers

This trick is ideal for those who do not have enough storage space in their home. Decorate the wooden crates, attach wheels and, in order not to clutter your room, put the organizer you built under the bed.

16. Turn them into shelves for the living room

In order not to spend large sums of money on decorative furniture for the living room, attach several painted wooden crates to each other to build a shelf.

17. Turn them into wall organizers

Attach a few painted wooden crates to the wall to get some unique organizers. You can stick labels on each box to better organize your stored items.

18. Turn them into toy shelves

A polished and painted wooden crate can be an ideal shelf for your child’s room. Decorate it the way the little ones want and fill it with toys.

19. Turn them into bathroom furniture

Join two wooden crates, paint them and put them in the bathroom for decorative purposes and to be able to organize your towels and toiletries.

20. Turn them into pots

Your garden will look great if you choose to use old wooden crates as flower pots, as in the picture above.

Isn’t it incredible that we have so many alternative uses for wooden crates? Now that you have learned some of these, do not hesitate to unleash your creativity and try them.