Wooden box decor

In recent years, the so-called “life hacks” have become fashionable. From improvised means by simple manipulations construct something useful for the house. Wooden boxes are also used, from which it is easy to assemble original, multifunctional furniture. Mostly used packaging products: canned food, fruits and vegetables. In bachelor apartments, military boxes in which they used to store weapons and ammunition would look good. Stylish, "male" decor is not specially painted to keep the label and natural shabby look. Of course, such non-standard decoration is combined in interior design not with all styles. Strict classic, uncompromising modern, laconic high-tech is difficult to combine with wooden packaging. The boxes will look cute and appropriate in homes where the concept of Provence, Country, Ethnic, Fusion, Scandinavian, Russian, Rustic style is implemented. If you try to decorate, then such a decoration can be organically entered into the design composition of the loft and minimalism. Let's talk about how to use wooden boxes in the interior and how to make from them the elements of furnishing their own hands.

Wall shelves

Rack boxes are most often used, but plywood “models” are also found. For decorating the room will be useful both options. Wall storage system is needed in every home. With the help of hanging shelves, you can save space in a cramped bathroom, living room, kitchen, and even in the pantry or loggia. From fruit or vegetable wooden boxes you get an excellent organizer that will help keep things and household items in a strict order. After pretreatment of the packaging, the modules are fastened together by screwing the screws into their side walls. If you need "single" shelves with gaps between them, the scale of work is reduced. They are painted in the desired color, decorated and attached bottom cover to the wall vertically or horizontally. The sides will serve as shelves. In another embodiment, the boxes are arranged "naturally", that is, one of the sides leans against the surface. These shelves are more spacious, but are used more often in storerooms, since the contents will not be displayed. The original solution will be the manufacture of a wooden frame in which the decorated drawers will be placed as retractable containers. By the way, in the same way you can organize mounted shelves from baskets. To make the storage system look more beautiful, it is decorated with forged support from below. Metal goes well with wood. An unusual design decision will be the design of the wall in the hallway with the help of different-sized boxes. The center of the composition will be a mirror in a wooden frame. Boxes of various sizes are placed around it: some are used as key boxes, others are placed on hats and gloves, and on the third - indoor plants and small decorations. Finishing registration fastening slats with hooks for bags.

Wooden boxes can be decorated under the original shelves for storing wine bottles. Inside they are divided into sections with crossbeams, and then varnished, decorated with twine, pieces of burlap, fixed on the wall and laid the substrate of hay. Themed shelf for storing wine is ready. In another embodiment, an open drawer is made from the drawer. It is placed vertically, the top cover is strengthened with the help of a decorative table top made of boards. Inside set crossbar shelves for horizontal placement of bottles, like in wine cellars.


    

Shelving

From wooden boxes you get excellent racks. They can be strictly rectangular in shape or have asymmetrical edges, which will give a special touch to the room. Ideal storage system for home workshop, office or living room. The boxes are fixed between themselves with the help of screws or screws, painted and stuck to the wall. You can store everything on your shelves: books, things, decorations, food, towels and pillows, household chemicals, small décor. The designs, on the shelves of which the “necessary” things are alternated with flower pots, are originally looked. Rectangular racks can be assembled from identical drawers, which are arranged in a strict order or vertically and horizontally, but in such a way that a regular shape storage system is formed.

Boxes fixed on special legs with spaces between the modules will be an excellent addition to the rustic-style kitchen. They store vegetables (potatoes, onions, carrots), jars of pickles or canned food. It is important that each box is fixed in its natural position, that is, the bottom down. Thus, the strength of the locker will increase, because the packaging was originally designed for heavy loads.


    

The footwear stand

The curbstone for footwear gathers by the same principle, as well as the rack from boxes. The only thing that should be considered: the different height of sneakers, shoes, ankle boots and winter boots. For the first two, shelves from drawers placed horizontally will do, and under high shoes they are placed vertically. If you make a homemade pedestal from the old container, which is unevenly colored, then this element will complement the hall in the style of Provence.


    

Nightstands and tables

From the drawers, you can make cabinets, coffee tables and boxes for storing small items instead of plastic or wicker baskets. In the latter case, choose the container with high sides. It is simply ground, varnished or painted and equipped with paired handles on the sides for easy movement. Bedside tables are assembled from two drawers interconnected. They store photographs, clocks, telephones, magazines and books, and the top cover is used as a shelf for lamps or houseplants. To create a coffee table will need:

  • Four drawers;
  • Plywood sheet;
  • Self-tapping screws;
  • Castors (optional).

A square-shaped pallet is cut out of plywood. The width of its faces must correspond to the sum of the length of one box and the height of the other. If you wish, you can add small indents a couple of centimeters. To the pallet, first attach the wheels, and then the boxes in a spiral, that is, the sidewall of the next rests on the back wall of the previous one. The empty middle is decorated with a flower arrangement, a group of candles or a lamp. This coffee table can decorate the living room or backyard in the summer. It is complemented by sun beds, collected from pallets or poufs from old tires, decorated with a rope.

From miniature boxes you can make decorative jewelry boxes or flower boxes on a festive table.

    

Ottoman for the hallway

To make an ottoman for a hallway or living room, you will need:

  • Box;
  • Leaf strong wood for the top cover;
  • Foam rubber;
  • Upholstery material;
  • Construction stapler;
  • The wheels.

The box is sanded and varnished. The wheels are attached to its bottom, and the cover is fixed at the top. If you need to use an ottoman as well as a storage system, then it is put on hinges so that the seat can be opened later. Then, foam is fixed on the lid and upholstered with cloth using a stapler.

    

Entertainment complex for cats and cats

From boxes and metal pipes create an entertainment complex for cats. As you know, tailed in apartments becomes boring. So that the animal does not spoil the furniture and wallpaper, you can take it with your own miniature cottage where the cats sleep, play and shake their claws. Some of the boxes are covered with plywood covers with round entrance holes, from the others they leave only the bottoms, which are covered with soft foam rubber and upholstered with fabric, and on the third they fix the scraper. The modules are interconnected in any order. In addition, the “house” is equipped with a ladder system to make it easier for the animal to move along the “floors”. Instead of the acquired lounger for a cat or dog from the box create beds. The box is carefully sanded. It is better not to cover it with varnish, because its smell may not please your pet. Then from one of the sides, which will be the front, cut off a pair of upper rails. Inside, the box is filled with foam or other soft material and covered with a blanket on top. Additionally, the bed is decorated with miniature hand-sewn pads. Of course, the size of the box and the future crib fit under the dimensions of a pet. To make the feeder, you will need a stainless steel bowl, wooden packaging and plywood. Cut out the top cover from the last sheet. In the center make a round hole for the bowl. Then the plywood is fixed on the box. It remains only to insert a bowl. Choose it with protruding sides, which the container will hold on to the lid. Bowl is easy to remove to wash or replace with another. A double feeder is made from a large box using the same technology with twin containers for food and under water.


    

Use of boxes in the garden

From the boxes are excellent flower beds. They can be simply put on the substrate, creating an original composition in front of the house, or combined into a vertical flowerbed with several floors. Boxes in a chaotic disorder put on each other, parallel connecting screws to obtain a stable structure. In more complex cases, use four slats, pairwise fixed at an angle to each other. Instead of steps on this "ladder" have boxes with flowers or spicy herbs. If there is a free wall of household construction or a wooden fence, the modules are fixed on it, in the manner of shelves in which pots with plants are placed. The original version will be a composition of five boxes, four of which form the sides of a rectangle, and the fifth will become the center in contact with the other modules. If there is a container of different sizes available, then a multi-tiered flower bed is made of it. A large box is placed at the bottom, and the modules are placed on top in a smaller way so that the tiniest become the top of the pyramid. Beautiful in this composition will look alternating "square-rhombus". Also, garden beds-locomotives are made of boxes, where the modules are equipped with decorative wheels and transformed into cabins, and the front one becomes the “train head”.


    

How to prepare boxes for use

Before you construct something from a wooden container, you need to prepare it. If an old layer of paint remains on the surface of the box, it is removed with a spatula. Irregularities with numerous “splinters” must be carefully sanded to perfect smoothness. Then the box is coated with varnish or primer if staining is planned. In cases when the container will be used on the street or in “wet” rooms (bath, kitchen), it must be further processed with special compositions that clog the micropores in the wood and prevent moisture from entering them.

    

Conclusion

The drawers are made lamps, stands for dishes and containers for seedlings in the spring. Beautifully look dimensional rack on the entire wall in the living room with a fireplace. One part of it is filled with books and decor, and the other is used to store firewood, folded in neat rows on the shelves. You can decorate with the help of drawers any rooms. If the bedroom has a massive wooden bed, then it is easy to equip it with sliding shelves under the mattress to store linen and spare bedding. If there is an attic, but there is no complete furniture for its design, then it is decorated with home-made furniture from pallets and drawers, in which after decorating it will be difficult to recognize the container for fruits and pallets for heavy loads.

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