Archive Dive: Wooden Storage Crates

Photo by Marcia Mihotich

Love repurposing storage but want a modern look? Here are 6 examples of wooden storage crates that prove they can look just as appropriate in modern environments as they do in a rustic scene.

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In the lounge area of the Box Hotel in Hakone, Japan, a pyramid-like configuration of new crates was used to display Japanese wares and bags of Arabica Kyoto coffee.

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The Webb Street Company, a housewares store in Cornwall, England, exemplifies the warm modernism aesthetic. Here, the patina of the vintage apple crates turned shelves pops against the all-white walls.

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For Tokki, a Japanese restaurant in Paris, LSL Architects bought apple crates from an apple delivery company in Orléans, France, for €15 each, then designed the wall-mounted crate shelving to fit perfectly in the space above the sink.

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On the side wall of Maria Förstberg’s plywood kitchen in Sweden, shelves stocked with Ikea Knagglig crates form an orderly open pantry.

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A simple plaster shelf at Mas Maroc, Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen’s farmhouse in the South of France, serves as the dining room sideboard.

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Clarisse Prudent, an interior designer and flea market regular, created display shelves out of stacked vegetable crates for the kitchen of her home in Burgundy.

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A reminder that crates aren’t just of the two-handled variety. A packing crate (found on the street) serves as the perfect coffee table in the tiny plywood-lined beach house of Marcia Mihotich and Durrell Bishop.

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Photograph by Marcia Mihotich and via The Modern House.