I do love a vintage wooden crate. It has to be the genuine article mind, no pastiche versions for me. But once you track them down, old drinks ones like above, wooden wine boxes or apple crates, there are a myriad different uses for them.
They look great in an industrial style kitchen sitting on open shelves. Or in a sitting room for magazines and dvds. Or in the hall as a repository for shoes and hats. In a modern bathroom they would bring a touch of rustic glamour filled with rolled up towels or holding spare bottles of shampoo.
The shelves above were made by Hopper and Space from old fruit crates and still have the original labels on the side. And this is a different set that have been styled.
If you’re feeling a little more enterprising (and your boxes are a little less decorative than these) then why not build some shelves out of them?
You can hunt them down on ebay too or what about these?
One day when I have an office (rather than working at the kitchen table) I shall fill the wall with crates like these to create my storage.
As the days get shorter and the nights get darker I find I’m increasingly turning to thoughts of home improvement. It’s a nesting instinct. If we’re going to be indoors for a while, we might as well make it look good and function well.
thanks so much