Decorating and garnishing apple crates

by | Jun 25, 2020 | Decorating Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized

Wooden slats, nails and a little imagination are enough to ensure an incredible decoration that can bring out the colours of these more elaborate and expensive pieces of furniture and creations.

If you are a decorating enthusiast and a little bit do-it-yourselfer, we can make authentic works of art for the exterior and interior of your house or apartment or for one of the rooms of your company.

Apple crates, as the name suggests, have always been used to hold and transport vegetables and fruit of all kinds.

Currently, most fruit boxes are made of plastic and even wood, but mainly of low quality or very thin wood, most of them even for single use.

The apple crates that interest us and are more valuable for use in our homes are those made of consistent wood, with a color and appearance that indicates that it is an object that we could classify as Vintage or rustic, even in these , the nails show areas of rust and the stamps of the original marks stained in the wood have lost some of their color and make it difficult to read, yes, these are the ones, we want these apple crates!

If we enter into the decoration of our living room or dining room, perhaps using wooden apple crates for a dining table or chairs, even for the sofa would be too risky and would affect both the durability of the furniture and the effectiveness of our “Invention”, but … Why don’t we make an occasional piece of furniture like a chest of drawers or a chest of drawers (without drawers) or a television cabinet with these boxes?

They allow us to get an extra space inside each apple box to place books, decorations, paintings, personal objects … and also if we place them well hung on the wall, we will get a rigid and stable vertical surface where to place the TV, music, houseplants and a long etcetera.

We can even use wooden apple boxes to literally “wallpaper” an entire wall from top to bottom, with this we will obtain a totally personalized style since you decide how to place the boxes leaving the appropriate spaces between them as you wish to place your decoration and to make the space even more personalized by leaving wall areas visible, we will be able to give our house a very pleasant rustic style.

The apple crate can be a perfect auxiliary board or a center if you join several, they wheels a place it at the bottom to allow you to move the board easily and even a glass at the top, in a simple way to get a very low expense table.these crates also allow you to place them on the walls to get improvised shelves of very good taste, you can also join several or place them randomly.

In the bedroom they can also be used as a bedside table or as an occasional piece of furniture, it is a question of giving imagination.

Terraces, gardens, balconies or porches can be an excellent place to enjoy our decoration with apple crates, we will get beautiful planters and shelves to hang the most original plants, but we must not forget that for outdoor spaces, we must Be careful, special outdoor lacquers or prepared paints can be the perfect ally to enjoy for years to come our personalized decoration with wooden apple crates .

We also have many more models , with ink, with wheels or simply as an original wooden box in different sizes so you can use it as you wish, you can see them all on the following link .

If you want your cash register to be always different, you can give it a personalized touch with the many paints and lacquers you can find in specialized stores.

Let your imagination run wild and decorate your style with less than you think.

And if you decide, don’t hesitate to send us pictures of your creations, we love to share your art with our followers.

Let’s go over a few ideas that you might like, make a note of them:

5 ideas for creating shelves with wooden boxes

by | Jun 25, 2020 | Decorative inspiration

Making shelves out of wooden boxes is a classic in the DIY world. And that’s because few objects have given more of themselves and with such good results. Shelves made from boxes, whether recycled or new, have such charm that they can revitalize a boring corner in an instant. And if you don’t believe me, take a look at one of the 5 ideas we have for you today.

The fact is that you already have your boxes ready, ready to decorate and turn them into shelves with wooden boxes hanging on the wall.

All you have to do is decide what use you are going to give it and in which room of the house you are going to install it. If you need ideas for inspiration, we show you 5 ways to use wooden boxes to make shelves.

Shelves with wooden crates as kitchen furniture

This idea seemed very original to me and, moreover, it is surprising how easy it is to realize. The idea is to replace the kitchen’s high units with a few wooden boxes of different shapes and sizes painted in white and light blue to match the rest of the kitchen furniture.

In this case, new wooden boxes were used, conveniently painted inside and outside with two coats of acrylic paint. In this way, you can give wings to your creativity and vary the effects or even create new ones. Paint the boxes only on the outside and leave the wooden interiors, for example, or change the colours that suit you best.

When hanging them on the wall, you can place the boxes horizontally or vertically, interspersed but occupying a strip of the wall, with no protrusions too far on either side.

Interspersed and arranged in a tower

This is a very original way to compose shelves with wooden boxes. This may be because the shape of the boxes differs greatly from one another (some are even shaped like a house), or because they are painted in different colours inside or outside.

Either way, the resulting library will look great in any space. What’s more, since it’s a matter of assembling boxes and holding them with screws, you can compose the shelf according to the space you need to cover, the desired height and the shape you prefer.

With old boxes

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A great way to recycle wooden boxes, whether they come from old fruit boxes or anything else, is to form these beautiful displays as wall shelves with them. In this case, they have been set up in the dining room to show off the porcelain .

Between the rustic beauty of the wood of the boxes and the muted shine of the white and blue porcelain, the whole could not be more decorative.

A tip: if you have several old wooden boxes and each one has a different colour, you can apply a coat of walnut or wood stain. This will give them a very nice dark tint and unify the tone of all the boxes.

In the children’s room

Do you want an idea to decorate the walls of your children’s room? Put small shelves with wooden boxes on the wall and you can kill two birds with a stone: bet on order and liven up the wall.

They don’t have to be very big; that way, you’ll prevent them from putting in too much stuff and ending up deleting it.

Here’s an idea: paint the boxes as you like and line the background with bits of wallpaper you have at home. Adhesive vinyls can also help. Nice, don’t you think?

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