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1. Children’s toy box. At Home in Love suggests attaching four wheels and creating a cushioned top for the crate and turning it into a toy box! Lift the lid and put the toys inside, then push it out of the way or use it as a seat to read a book.

2. Crate desk

Are your crates very large? Try stacking two on each side for desk legs and then laying a steady board across the top for a table top! Make sure that the openings of the crates face outwards so you can use them as shelves for books or office supplies. Check out the full instructions on Desire to Inpsire.

3. Pillow and blanket storage

Does your home get a little colder than you always expect in the evening, but you don’t want to leave pillows and blankets thrown haphazardly across the couch all the time? Use one of your old wooden crates as blanket storage beside the couch instead! We love how this idea from Home Depot adds a slight rustic touch to the room.

4. Hanging wall shelf

Brit + Co. suggests painting the top edge of the crate a bright colour, turning it on its side, and hanging it from some rope and a strong hook to make a wall leaning decor shelf! Place a small house plant, some books, or some figurines there.

5. Stacked night stand

Have you been looking for a small beside table that suits your rustic decor but doesn’t cost you a lot of money for something that looks intentionally weathers? Well, crates give you the opportunity to just make yourself a table that’s actually weathered for real! Check out how this cute nightstand was made on Jacquelyn Clarke.

6. Square coffee table

If your crates are large, grab four of them and create this visually fantastic coffee table full of useful storage cubbies! Turn the crates on their side and line them up so the end of each one rests against the back of another. Upcycle That walks you through the process of positioning and attaching them.

7. Stacked crate book shelf

The more crates you have access to, the better! This stacked crate shelving design is pretty much only limited but how much space is available in the room you’d like to build the shelf for. We love the idea for storing books or towels in a rustic or shabby chic space. Check out how the shelves are attached firmly on Mom Prepares.

8. Mud room organizers

Have you been looking for a way to clean up and declutter your “mud room” or back entry way so that it’s a little less full of shoes and coats? Those old crates will save the day here too! We love the way A Beautiful Mess organized these crates to give some extra storage for things like boots and gardening tools.

9. Rustic planter

What could possibly look cuter on your porch holding your latest mini crop or your favourite flowers than a rustically weathered crate-turned-planter? We think this is the perfect use for crates that are just slightly too worn or old to support heavy things like you might put on a crate shelf or desk. Check out how nice this crate planter from Apartment Therapy looks!

10. Cushion topped bench

Did you like the idea of putting a cushion top on the crate toy box suggestion, but you don’t have kids who need to store their toys? Make a cushion topped crate bench instead! This works especially well if the crate you have to repurpose is very large. We love how this bench design from Pinterest looks in this front hallway. Sit there to take your shoes on and off!

11. Dessert showcase

Have you found two smaller creates right before you’re about to host a party or throw your own wedding reception? Well, put those little crates to work! Flip them on their sides and use them to display cupcakes or cake pops on the dessert table or little appetizers at the buffet! We love how Style Me Pretty used these ones.

12. Crate kitchen island

Bob Vila suggests using three big crates and a steady, flat piece of wood to create a reclaimed, shabby chic kitchen island in a big kitchen. Sure, this particular picture shows the island out on the porch, which you might also find useful, but imagine how great the extra “counter” space will be when you’re cooking dinner inside!

13. Bicycle basket

If you happen to have found the kind of wooden crate that doesn’t have strips or holes in the sides, then you’re in extra luck! These crates make for great travel baskets on the back of your bicycle and nothing will fall out the spaces between the slats like they would with other styles of wooden crate! Check out how Fieldguided attached this one firmly and safely to the back of the bike!

14. Crate mini bar

Apartment Therapy has the perfect solution for very little apartments that don’t have space for a real bar area: a miniature mini bar made from a wooden crate! Find a corner on a counter or an unused side table where the crate will fit on its side and keep all of your bottles and drink service supplies organized there.

15. Wedding favour display

Have you arranged wedding favours for your guests that are very “grab and go” goodie bag style? This is another perfect way to use old crates, especially ones that look stylishly weathered! Set the crates on a side table on top of a vintage table cloth and fill them with goodie bags that guests can grab on their way out. Check out how well these crates arranged by Dandelion and Grey contribute to the rustic feel of the wedding’s aesthetic!

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Awesome DIY Furniture Projects

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1 Pallet Playhouse. Pallet Playhouse: Want a fun project that won’t cost much? Got kids and a decent amount of time on your hands? Try using shipping pallets and reclaimed wood to build your kids a funky playhouse. Or use it as a shed. Not only was this project fun, I also traveled a lot and met a great many very nice people who were giving perfectly good materials for little or no money. I spent $200 dollars on this project in 2008-2009. Over a hundred dollars went to paint, the rest to any building materials I couldn’t get for free. Take a look at the pictures. Spend a lot of time on your ideas and then start collecting those pallets! (via jkratman)

2 Pallet Sandbox with Cover

Pallet Sandbox with Cover: A guide to building a DIY sandbox with cover. (via The Owner Builder Network)

3 Pallet Vertical Garden

Pallet Vertical Garden: Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more (via Design Sponge)

4 Pallet Wall Art

Pallet Wall Art (via it’s just Laine)

5 Rustic Flower Box

Rustic Flower Box: Our Easter weekend was eventful to say the least. Not only was Drew very sick the whole weekend (the doctor told us yesterday it was a 3-5 day virus) but AJs sister, Meredith, got a new heart! We didn’t anticipate either of those things when we volunteered to host Easter. The floors weren’t washed, the (via Migonis Home)

6 Brandbase Pallet

Brandbase Pallet: the existing space was used as a starting position and painted completely white, to provide a homogeneous base for the pallets. the structure itself slowly changes its character accommodating all areas of the office. (via Design Boom)

7 Pallets Picnic Table

Pallets Picnic Table: Here is a fun and useful way to repurpose pallet into a picnic table for your garden ! (via 1001 Pallets)

8 Pallet Adirondack Chair

Pallet Adirondack Chair: Here’s a fun way to reuse wood. Make this Adirondack chair from shipping pallets or other reclaimed lumber. (via jkratman)

9 Garden Pallet

Garden Pallet (via Camelot Art Creations)

10 Pallet Wall

Pallet Wall (via If I Weren’t So Lazy….)

11 Pallet Bathroom Wall

Pallet Bathroom Wall (via Grand design co)

12 Pallet Headboard

Pallet Headboard (via Home by Heidi)

13 Wooden Pallet Reading Nook

Wooden Pallet Reading Nook (via Kojo Designs)

14 Skid Shack From Reclaimed Wood

Skid Shack From Reclaimed Wood: I made a 12 x 16 chalet all out of used skid and crates. Everything was crafted from used and unusedable wood, even the floor is from the runners of skids (via 1001 Pallets)

15 One Pallet Chair

One Pallet Chair: This Adirondack chair was built from just one pallet! Download the Google Sketch Up model here. Here’s how to make splendid material-efficient pallet furniture: 1. Scavenge: Pallets are everywhere. Some are in great conditions and some have a couple of broken beams. Some are free and some cost a couple of bucks. Look for the cheapest pallet which you can use the most lumber from. Also, see if you can get one that has some (thicker) beams that are strong enough to provide support in the furniture. 2. Dismantle Deconstructing a pallet is tricky. It’ s almost inevitable to break a few beams, so be careful. Here are some tips and tricks on how to do it. 3. Measure Group the beams into similar thicknesses, widths and lengths. Then measure the different beam sizes. 4. Model (CAD) Use the measurements to draw the beams in Google Sketch Up. Move, rotate and … (via casvandegoor)

16 Pallet Adriondack Chair

Pallet Adriondack Chair (via Yahoo Lifestyle)

17 Outdoor Patio Furniture

Outdoor Patio Furniture (via Sassy Sparrow)

18 Pallet Wood Bench and Gabion Table

Pallet Wood Bench and Gabion Table: Make pallet bench table : beautiful reclaimed wood furniture are easy to make! Check out the detailed DIY tutorial! (via A Piece of Rainbow)

19 Simple Pallet Bike Rack

Simple Pallet Bike Rack: I’m a lazy maker. I will live with problems for a long time, waiting until I stumble on the simplest, cheapest solution I can imagine. I find that I often end up with elegant, low-tech fixes that are easy to make as well as easy to live with. A recent problem that waited a good long time for a solution was my bicycle-littered porch. My wife and I agreed that we needed a rack to organize a family stable of bikes that numbers (via maudlin)

20 Pallet Potting Bench

Pallet Potting Bench: Want to know how to build a potting bench? Our potting bench plan will give you a functional, beautiful garden potting bench in no time! (via Better Homes and Gardens)

21 Colorful Coat Rack from a Wood Pallet

Colorful Coat Rack from a Wood Pallet (via marieatousprix)

22 Wooden Pallet Chillout Lounge

Wooden Pallet Chillout Lounge: As spring was here, our garden/outdoor space needed a refresh and I didn’t want to spend a lot of money and just buy new furniture or planter boxes so I thought why not try and build it myself…. (via Freckles and Fluff)

23 Fold-Down Murphy Bar

Fold-Down Murphy Bar: Use cedar lumber and a doweling jig to create an outdoor piece that can handle its share of liquor (via This Old House)

24 Pallet Bar and Table

Pallet Bar and Table (via Stacked Design)

25 Wood Pallet End Table

Wood Pallet End Table: Below are directions for a simple end table made from pallets. (via mtairymd)

26 Pallet Ottoman

Pallet Ottoman: Reusing wooden pallets as furniture is not just for industrial interiors or lofts. When I came across the first picture of the pallet coffee table with the glass top, I was inspired to find more examples of different ways to reuse pallets. My favorite use is the office workspace constructed entirely of pallets. (via Apartment Therapy)

27 Pallet Porch Swing

Pallet Porch Swing: I love to make use of things no one else wants. I’ve wanted a swing for my front porch for a while so I started looking online. I found a wooden swing that I loved and immediately got the idea of using a pallet. I found a pallet that was going to be thrown away and started to work (with hubby’s help (via Sheryl Salisbury Photography)

28 Pallet Top Desk

Pallet Top Desk: Here’s an easy way to repurpose and reuse old pallets. Add a pallet top to a table base for an easy desk project. Make a pallet desk from pallet wood. (via Thistlewood Farms)

29 Pallet Twin Beds

Pallet Twin Beds: Twin beds made from recycled pallet wood. (via 1001 Pallets)

30 Pallet Swing Bed

Pallet Swing Bed: Oh the endless things you can do with pallets! A swing bed has been on my “Mike To-Make List” for some time (oh how long that list is! ). And we’ve had some pallets sitting in the yard just wait… (via The Merry Thought)

31 Pallet Daybed

Pallet Daybed (via Ondawayto Somewhere….)

32 Modular Sectional

Modular Sectional: Hey guys!! I’m back today to share the corner piece plans to the Modular Sectional I built! If you missed the plans for the other pieces you can see them HERE! To print the plans for the corner piece, you can click the image below or HERE. A big thanks to Jay from Jays Custom {…Read More…} (via Shanty 2 Chic)

33 Wood Pallet Patio Chair

Wood Pallet Patio Chair: Part 1 is HERE Welcome to Part 2 / The Build of the pallet wood chair reveal shown yesterday.Guys, this is the easiest build in the world and you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it first!Lets build! Disclaimer: I am a hack styled, self taught builder. I made everything up that you see (via Funky Junk Interiors)

34 Pallet Wood Sofa

Pallet Wood Sofa (via The Ironstone Nest)

35 East Pallet Patio Day Bed

East Pallet Patio Day Bed (via Lovely Greens)

36 Succulent Pallet Table

Succulent Pallet Table: Can you believe that our latest DIY project was once just a couple of junky pallets and some scrappy table legs? Crazy…if I didn’t have photos, I wouldn’t believe it myself. Not too long ago, w… (via Far Out Flora)

37 Pallet Picnic Table

Pallet Picnic Table: Free plans to help anyone build simple, stylish furniture at large discounts from retail furniture. All woodworking plans are step by step, and include table plans, bed plans, desk plans and bookshelf plans. Thousands of readers are saving by building their own home furnishings. (via Ana White)

38 Wood Pallet Swing Chair

Wood Pallet Swing Chair: We AKA my friend Emma and I Decided were given the task of creating outdoor furniture from a total of 4 wooden pallets. After some many days in the lab and couple brief starbucks runs we decided to do something out of the ordinary and create a pallet swing and designed from the ground up based on a picture we found online. In the next couple of steps we show you a brief step by step run down of how to get to the finished item. Items you will need….. jig saw chop saw nail remover hammer screw gun 4 wooden pallets sufficient amount of screws patience metal chain and u-bolts carriage bolts and nuts and finally!! a bearded lanky gouchy engineering teacher who doesn’t give you enough time!! (JOKESS!! DON’T FAIL ME MR Shultz) but like seriously having this will help get your lazy butt in gear (via millsy2254)

39 Coffee Table

Coffee Table (via Saidos da Concha)

40 Vanity Organizer

Vanity Organizer (via Skinny Meg)

41 Rustic Kitchen

Rustic Kitchen (via Style Files)

42 Pallet Pot Rack

Pallet Pot Rack (via A Greenpoint Kitchen)

43 Pallet Planter

Pallet Planter: DIY Pallet Planter box with drawing plans. Fun, easy and inexpensive project. (via Live Laugh Rowe)

44 Pallet Daybed

Pallet Daybed: Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more (via Design Sponge)

45 Workspace

Workspace: Anima Pictures (via The Office Stylist)

46 Pallet Planter Box

Pallet Planter Box: Rendered image from CAD Drawing (via mtairymd)

47 Pallet Patio Furniture

Pallet Patio Furniture: Come see how we decked out our deck with DIY PALLET FURNITURE – PATIO MAKEOVER! (via Place of My Taste)

48 Pallet Gardening Table

Pallet Gardening Table: Why yes, another pallet project coming your way.I’ve only created 328 pallet projects thus far. well maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration…Anyway, I’ve been busy with creating something new and different using pallets.What did I make? A Pallet Gardening Bench…I’ve never seen this something like this before (maybe it’s on pinterest, but lately it’s been crushing my creative juices so I try to stay clear)Why did I create it? Because I needed a spot of my own to do my gardening and potting. As I’ve said before, gardening isn’t my strong-suit, but when I do enjoy it and hope to get better. Spending hours on the driveway hunched over, is just not happening anymore.And why did I use pallets? BECAUSE THEY’RE FREE. how much better does FREE get… Plus I really like the size & look of pallets. Don’t you?In all, this project cost less than $10 to make and basically the money was spent on hardware.Please Click to Continue Reading… (via Jenna Burger)

49 Pallet Garden Organizer

Pallet Garden Organizer (via Our Little Acre)

50 Pallet Hanging Chair

Pallet Hanging Chair: Very comfortable, very easy to make chair from a pallet and some paracord. I know that there are a lot of different kinds of chair instructables already, but I have never seen a chair like this before. It is so easy to make and it is comfortable because it conforms to your body. I don’t know how I came up with the idea and as I was making it I wasn’t even sure if it would work out. But it did and I am very happy with the results. So here goes- my first instructable. This instructable will show you everything I did to make the chair, but I am sure you will find ways you can customize yours to meet your needs. (via Twotim221)

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