Beautiful, stylish furniture- an integral part of modern interior. However, it doesn't have to be overly expensive. Moreover, many interior styles involve the use unusual materials to create original furniture. It can be pipes, pallets and even the simplest boxes. They are easy to use and do not require a lot of money and time. 
Do-it-yourself rack from boxes
Perhaps the most ideal material for creating an original do-it-yourself rack is simple wooden boxes. Unlike classic version they have a number of advantages. Firstly, they are quite cheap, so everyone can try to implement such an idea. Secondly, it is an environmentally friendly material that can be used in any room and even in a children's room. But still, it must be cleaned of dust and clues. In addition, drawers allow you to create a fairly large structure, which is ideal for storing things.
As for the style, such furniture looks best in an interior with country, loft or rustic elements. After all, it is for them that simplicity and use are most characteristic. natural materials. So the tree in this case is perfect option to create shelving and other furniture.
Shelving from wooden boxes quite often used as a partition. Due to this, you can make the zoning of the room and visually place accents.
To make such a design with your own hands, we will prepare the following materials:
- wooden boxes;
- sandpaper or grinder;
- dye white color(optional);
- brush;
- screws;
- screwdriver;
- rag or napkin.
First of all, you need to clean all the boxes from dust and dirt. If necessary, use a damp cloth or paper towel. Only after that we proceed to surface treatment sandpaper or grinder. This is necessary in order to remove all the bumps, roughness and hooks. Therefore, in no case do not skip this step.
If desired, paint the entire surface of the boxes with white paint and leave to dry completely.
We connect the structural elements to each other using a screwdriver. Please note that the boxes can be directed in different directions. Due to this, the rack is even more original and functional. In addition, it can be used on each side of the room.
By the way, designers often leave boxes unpainted. In their opinion, the disadvantages of wood, obvious to many in the form of scratches and bumps, are actually advantages. After all, they give the furniture a special charm.
Such racks are very convenient to use, so they are placed in the most different rooms. Most often, of course, such wooden structures can be seen in the living room. Since they are open, decor elements, plants or books look great in them. In general, all the little things that help create a cozy atmosphere. 
Wooden shelving is also used in the bathroom. This great option for storing towels and various accessories for body and face care.
In the kitchen, shelving is a little less common. Often this is due to the fact that everything in this room should be as functional as possible. But if the dimensions of the kitchen allow, then we still recommend trying to make such a design from boxes. It is ideal for various glasses, dishes and decorative items.
Shelving can be installed if desired. small size in the hallway. It will look no less stylish than the usual shoe rack or closet. 
Ottoman and shoe box
IN small apartments the hallway needs to be organized as functionally as possible. Therefore, we propose to make unusual design. That is, to connect the pouffe and the shoe stand. This will save a lot of space and allow you to properly organize it.
To work you will need the following:
- wooden box;
- a piece of dense fabric;
- sandpaper;
- filler;
- plywood sheet;
- wheels - 4 pcs. (if desired);
- screwdriver;
- bolts;
- acrylic paint;
- brush;
- construction stapler.
We cut the plywood of the required size. On both sides we attach a piece of fabric with construction stapler. We fill the space with filler, evenly distributing it. We fix the fabric on the remaining sides. This will be the seat for the future ottoman.
Be sure to process the wooden box with sandpaper. This will help to get rid of various irregularities on the surface and hooks. Only after that we paint the box with paint of a suitable color. It is not necessary to do this at all. If you like natural wood, then simply treat the surface with varnish.
After the surface has completely dried, we attach the wheels to one of the sides of the box. We use screws and a screwdriver for this. 
We attach a soft blank to the surface of the box and, if desired, decorate it with buttons. A beautiful, unusual ottoman with a shelf for shoes is ready.
Drawer for small items or toys
Of course, drawers are great for creating furniture. Nevertheless, they can be used for their intended purpose. To make them more original, we suggest supplementing them with unusual elements and decorating them.
Let's prepare the following:
- boxes;
- wheels;
- sandpaper;
- white paint;
- brush;
- glue for wood;
- bolts;
- screwdriver;
- chalk board.
First, we process the entire surface of the boxes with sandpaper. Only after that we apply the paint and leave them to dry completely.
We attach the wheels to the bottom of the boxes with a screwdriver and bolts. Turn the structure over and glue it on the side chalk board. The result is a simple, but at the same time original box for toys and various small things.
Furniture from boxes in the interior
Simple wooden boxes are the perfect base for creating amazing interior items and functional furniture. Experiment, get inspired and create unique designs that will decorate your home.
IN last years the so-called "life hacks" have become fashionable. From improvised means, through simple manipulations, they construct something useful for the home. Wooden boxes are also used, from which it is easy to assemble original, multifunctional furniture. Mostly they use containers from under the products: canned food, fruits and vegetables. In bachelor apartments, military boxes, in which weapons and cartridges were previously stored, will look good. Stylish, "masculine" decor is not specially stained to maintain the markings and natural shabby look. Of course, such a non-standard decoration is not combined in interior design with all styles. Strict classics, uncompromising modern, laconic hi-tech are difficult to combine with wooden containers. 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 with decoration, then such decoration can be organically entered into the design composition of the loft and minimalism. Let's talk about ways to use wooden boxes in the interior and how to make furniture elements from them with your own hands.
Wall shelves
Most often, slatted boxes are used, but plywood "models" are also found. Both options are useful for decorating a room. wall system Storage is a must in every home. With the help of hanging shelves, you can save space in a cramped bathroom, living room, kitchen, and even in the closet or on the loggia. Wooden fruit or vegetable crates make an excellent organizer that will help keep things and household items in a strict order. After pre-treatment of the container, the modules are fastened together by screwing self-tapping screws into their side walls. If you need "single" shelves with gaps between them, then the scale of work is reduced. They are painted in the desired color, decorated and attached with the bottom cover to the wall vertically or horizontally. The sides will serve as shelves. In another version, the boxes are arranged "naturally", that is, one of the sides leans against the surface. Such shelves will turn out to be more capacious, but are used more often in pantries, since the contents will not be on display. original solution will become the manufacture wooden frame, in which the decorated boxes will be placed as pull-out containers. By the way, in the same way you can organize hanging shelves from baskets. To make the storage system look more beautiful, it is decorated with forged support from below. Metal goes well with wood. Unusual design decision will be the design of the wall in the hallway with the help of different-sized drawers. The center of the composition will be a mirror in wooden frame. Boxes are placed around it. different sizes: some are used as key holders, hats and gloves are placed on others, and on others - houseplants and small decor. They complete the design by fixing the slats with hooks for bags.
Wooden boxes can be decorated with original shelves for storing wine bottles. Inside, they are divided into sections with the help of crossbars, and then varnished, decorated with twine, pieces of burlap, fixed on the wall and laid on a bed of hay. Themed shelf for storing wine is ready. In another version, an open cabinet is made from a box. It is placed vertically top cover reinforce with a decorative tabletop made of boards. Inside, crossbars-shelves are installed for horizontal placement of bottles, as in wine cellars.
Shelving
Wooden crates make great shelving. They can be strictly rectangular or have asymmetrical edges, which will give a special flavor to the room. This storage system is ideal for a home workshop, office or living room. The boxes are fixed together with self-tapping screws or screws, painted and attached to the wall. You can store everything your heart desires on such racks: books, things, jewelry, food, towels and pillows, household chemicals, small decor. Designs look original, on the shelves of which “necessary” things are placed, alternating with flower pots. Rectangular shelving can be assembled from identical boxes, which are arranged in a strict order or vertically and horizontally, but in such a way that a storage system of the correct form is formed.
Drawers mounted on special legs with gaps between the modules will be an excellent addition to the kitchen in rustic style. They store vegetables (potatoes, onions, carrots), jars of pickles or canned food. It is important that each drawer is fixed in a natural position, that is, bottom down. Thus, the strength of the locker will increase, because the container was originally designed for heavy loads.
The footwear stand
The cabinet for shoes is assembled according to the same principle as the rack of boxes. The only thing to consider: different heights of sneakers, shoes, ankle boots and winter boots. For the first two, shelves from boxes located horizontally are suitable, and they are placed vertically under high shoes. If you make a home-made cabinet from an old container, which is unevenly painted, then such an element will complement the Provence-style hallway.
Bedside tables and tables
From drawers you can make cabinets, coffee tables and storage boxes instead of plastic or wicker baskets. In the latter case, choose a container with high sides. It is simply sanded, varnished or painted and equipped with paired handles on the sides for ease of movement. Bedside tables assembled from two boxes connected to each other. They store photos, watches, phones, magazines and books, and use the top cover as a shelf for lamps or indoor plants. For creating coffee table will need:
- Four drawers;
- Plywood sheet;
- self-tapping screws;
- Wheels (optional).
A square-shaped pallet is cut out of plywood. The width of its faces should correspond to the sum of the length of one box and the height of the other. If desired, you can add small indents of a couple of centimeters. First, the wheels are attached to the pallet, and then the boxes in a spiral, that is, the sidewall of the next rests against back wall the previous one. Decorate the empty middle 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 sunbeds assembled from pallets or pouffes from old tires decorated with a rope.
From miniature boxes you can make decorative boxes for jewelry or boxes for flowers on the festive table.
Ottoman for the hallway
To make an ottoman for the hallway or living room, you will need:
- Box;
- A sheet of durable wood for the top cover;
- Foam rubber;
- upholstery material;
- Construction stapler;
- Wheels.
The box is sanded and varnished. Wheels are attached to its bottom, and a lid is fixed at the top. If you need to use the ottoman also as a storage system, then it is put on hinges so that in the future the seat opens. Then foam rubber 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 people get bored in apartments. So that the animal does not spoil the furniture and wallpaper, you can take it in your own miniature cottage, where the cats sleep, play and sharpen their claws. Some boxes are covered with plywood lids with round inlet holes, while others are left with only bottoms that cover soft foam and upholstered with cloth, and on the third they fix claws. Modules are interconnected in random order. Additionally, the "house" is equipped with a ladder system to make it more convenient for the animal to move around the "floors". Instead of a purchased bed for a cat or a dog, cribs are created from a box. The box is carefully sanded. It is better not to cover with varnish, as its smell may not be pleasant. pet. Then, a pair of upper rails are cut off from one of the sidewalls, which will be the front. Inside the box is filled with foam rubber or other soft material and covered with a blanket. Additionally sleeping area decorated with miniature hand-sewn pillows. Of course, the size of the box and the future crib is selected according to the dimensions of the pet. To make a feeder, you need a bowl of of stainless steel, wooden packaging and plywood. The top cover is cut out from the last sheet. Made in the center round hole under the bowl Then the plywood is fixed on the box. It remains only to insert the bowl. You need to choose it with protruding sides, with which the container will hold on to the lid. The bowl is easy to remove to wash or replace with another one. A double feeder is made from a large box using the same technology with paired containers for food and water.
Use of boxes in the garden
The boxes make excellent flower beds. They can simply be placed on a substrate, creating an original composition in front of the house, or combined into vertical flower bed with multiple floors. Boxes in a chaotic mess are stacked on top of each other, connected in parallel with self-tapping screws to obtain a stable structure. In more difficult options four slats are used, fixed in pairs at an angle to each other. Instead of steps on this "step-ladder" there are boxes with flowers or herbs. If there is a free wall of an outbuilding or wooden fence, then the modules are fixed on it, in the manner of shelves in which pots with plants are placed. original version there will be a composition of five boxes, four of which form the sides of the rectangle, and the fifth will become the center, touching the corners with the rest of the modules. If containers of different sizes are available, then a multi-tiered flower bed is made from it. A large box is placed at the bottom, and smaller modules are placed on top so that the tiniest one becomes the top of the pyramid. The “square-rhombus” alternation will look beautiful in this composition. Also, garden flower beds-steam locomotives are made from boxes, where the modules are equipped with decorative wheels and are transformed into trailers, and the front one will become the “head of the train”.
We can safely say what to give " new life» old furniture became very fashionable. And this trend cannot but rejoice, because many elements of decor or furniture only get better with time. Reuse is a worthy use of old things, which helps to reduce the amount of garbage thrown away, saves the cost of acquiring new things and makes it possible to use an old favorite thing in a new quality.
In this article, we will look at a few tips on how to make original wall shelves and even shelving from the drawers of an old dresser, table or cabinet. On such impromptu shelves you can place useful little things which will help to decorate any interior.
❖Make decorative displays out of drawers.
Most often, small boxes are used for such purposes, and inside they place all kinds of candles, vases, photo frames, flowers, decorative plates and everything that can add "zest" to the room.
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❖ Make shelves for small things.
Such shelves are needed not only for decoration, they are also very functional. This shelf, as a rule, performs the function of storing various little things: books or CDs, shoes or jewelry, handicrafts and stationery, garden and home tools. 
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❖Decorate the back wall.
To decorate the bottom of the box, you can use the remnants of wallpaper or fabric, paint (for wood and plywood), music notes or old geographical maps. 
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❖Add interior shelves.
Horizontal partitions, in addition to the functional load, visually significantly decorate the shelf. And beautifully arranged little things help ennoble it. 
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❖Combine multiple boxes into one composition
to make them look more harmonious - they can be fastened to the side shelves, or hung at a short distance from each other. 
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❖ Boxes that are traditionally hung on the wall will look very unusual ( handle forward ). Special attention should be given to fastening, often for such purposes choose brackets used for shelves.
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Reworking old furniture is not only interesting, but also useful. You can "revive" old things and restore their former charm with the help of your creativity, imagination and skillful hands.
Wooden crates for fruits and vegetables, various containers and plywood boxes are well suited for creating furniture. Why? Yes, because the boxes are made of environmentally friendly material, have a natural appearance, make it possible to assemble a cabinet, wall or rack from boxes with your own hands as a designer, and also serve as perfectly organized and voluminous places for storing things.
Cabinets, racks and shelves made of wooden boxes will perfectly fit into the interior with elements of country or rustic styles, which are characterized by simplicity, deliberate rudeness, rustic naivety, the use of natural materials in their raw form. Wood is the main material of these styles.
But if the boxes are painted in bright colors and varnished, then the shelves from them will look organic in more modern interiors.
But, in my opinion, it is more interesting to make a rack from natural unpainted boxes, and those that have already been used before. Obvious shortcomings of wood - scratches, bumps, cracks, traces of time or various damage will only be an advantage and give the furniture a special charm.
How to make a rack of boxes with your own hands
Everything is very simple. Stack the boxes on top of each other. It can be a wall in the form of a rectangle or a ladder, the boxes can be placed horizontally or vertically. Then fasten the boxes together with nails or screws. Another option is to hang each box on the wall separately. Then you can create a whole composition from individual shelves - boxes.
