Wooden Crate Decorating Ideas for Your Home

Do you need a homeschool desk or a desk for working from home? Build this simple desk from wooden crates! This DIY desk is cheap to build and has storage for school supplies and books.

Build a DIY coffee table with wooden crate storage underneath! This farmhouse style wood coffee table is gorgeous.

This wood crate decorating idea requires no skills! Even if you're a beginning crafter, you can set up this organization in a small area of your home.

Use Mod Podge stencils and sand to decorate a wood crate – perfect for holding books, craft supplies or anything else you need to store.

This is one of my favorite wooden crate decorating ideas, because it's a piece of furniture for under $50! Tara used coupons at Michaels to get four wooden crates and then turned them into a coffee table. Bonus - it's on wheels.

Here’s a fun way to store and display Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars – a DIY wooden crate parking garage! It's easy to make this storage unit with a wood crate and some mailing tubes.

Carrie found a discarded, dusty old wooden crate at an antique mall, and her mind immediately turned it into a side table! It's a great idea for a vintage find, but you could use a new crate as well.

Monica describes her project perfectly: "get the high-end look of built-ins without building a thing! It takes quite a few wooden crates for this decorating DIY, but the results are impressive.

Utilize the very bottom of your pantry by painting and decorating some wooden crates! Add wheels for movable storage you can use to hold a variety of loose food items.

It never occured to me to build wood lockers out of crates, but this is a perfect DIY decorating idea when you can't find exactly what you're looking for! This project uses basic tools and materials.

If you have a small pup or a cat, a wood crate is the perfect size for making a unique pet bed. It's easier than you think.

Where are you going to store toys? Learn how to turn your crate into a box that looks great with industrial decor. I love the stars!

I never thought of using crates for hanging storage, but it's a genius idea that looks great too! Perfect for a variety of crate sizes.

The nice thing about this crate decorating idea is that it's meant to look distressed - so you don't need to be perfect in your paint or Mod Podge application! It's very easy to do and you can use it to store anything.

With only a few minutes and a few supplies, you can make your own wood crate rolling cart. The whole project took Gina 20 minutes, and she was lucky enough to find her crates at a local produce market (great idea!).

Fun and functional are two words that describe this DIY hanging shelf! It's easy to customize with any size crate and any color paint.

Want to add more seating to your outdoor space? You can do that with a farmhouse bench that has an option for additional storage. You'll use wooden crates underneath!

Right now my iron sits on a wire shelf in the laundry room and dumps over all the time! I love this solution from Linda - give the ironing supplies their own cubby with a wood crate.

What did Christina do when challenged to use wood crates in a project? She came up with this bench decorating idea for her porch! You could use it in a covered area outside or anywhere inside (like a kids' room).

If you're a plant lady or dude, you're going to love this plant holder made from a wooden crate. I love the usage of gold leaf . . . and it holds a lot more beyond just plants.

I don’t know about you, but I am always on the hunt for more storage baskets - there's never enough organization options around the house. Sara and Melissa took an unfinished wood crate and modernized it a bit for any room of the house.

While there are no instructions for these wood crate light shades, it looks like the insides are painted . . . and a hole is drilled on top. I think these would look great in a farmhouse kitchen!

This is a perfect home decor piece for an office or home schooling area, made with both large and small wooden crates as well as some pine boards. Jaime gives you the complete tutorial to make one of your own.

This is the easiest DIY you'll ever do! You can simply stack wooden crates to make a bookshelf, or if it'll be in a kids' room you can anchor it to the wall. Either way - it's simple!

If you're lucky enough to find a wood crate for free, clean it up, stencil it, and add some key hooks - then you have a unique shelf for holding your items when you walk in the front door.

Amber's DIY picnic basket is genius! She turned the base into a "basket," and a crate lid into a table with foldable legs. When not in use, it doubles as decor.

This wooden crate decorating idea is for your outdoor area! Use two crates to hold both plants as well as your gardening supplies.

Sometimes you just need to put your feet up! Learn how to make an ottoman out of a crate and then give it a vintage feel. You can also put it on wheels!

If you like inexpensive DIY wooden crate ideas, you're going to love this nightstand made from three wine crates! Jacquelyn got them for $1 each and all she did was add some stain.

While there are no instructions for this wall storage, Aimee screwed the crates directly into the wall and then added baskets from Michaels. It's really easy and I love the results!

Sometimes it's nice to have a rolling display for your heavier plants! This is perfect to use for keeping your plants in a certain area and rolling around when needed.

Painted argyle is my love language! And it looks fantastic painted on the sides of this decorative wood crate. This is one of those project ideas that is perfect for your fall decor or a centerpiece.