How to recycle a fruit box: 5 small ideas

Recycling old objects and giving them new shape can be an interesting way to furnish your home in an original and economical way. A wooden fruit box can be transformed, for example, into anything you want. Discover with us how to recycle a fruit box: 5 small ideas await you.

Fruit boxes are excellent allies in organizing a barbecue and help you start a fire, that’s true, but a thousand other opportunities await you with healthy DIY. How about putting yourself to the test and seizing some opportunities, thus transforming these boxes into practical and functional design objects?

If you’ve kept a lot of them and are thinking about the right way to use them, you are in the right place at the right time. We at Home and Garden have selected some easy easy projects for you to insert your fruit crates, room after room: ideal for adding a rustic touch to your decor. Do you want to start? Let’s start with the first idea: we take a seat in the kitchen.

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1. In the kitchen

The most common use that can be made of it is that, we could say, traditional is that is to continue to welcome fruit and vegetables inside but under a new guise. How about making a makeover to some old fruit crate? Gloves, sandpaper and colors in hand we give life to our project.

After cleaning the surface, glue two or more cassettes together or stack them to create more easily usable shelves, give a coat of color or simply protect the surface with a primer, add a label and wheels: et voilà the first project is ready.

A second idea is to house a few bottles of wine in a fruit box. The ideal position to make them age at their best, you know, is the one that sees them placed horizontally: our easy easy project therefore provides that the box is placed vertically and inside it – thanks to some pieces of wood screwed to the side profile – create supports on which to lay them. Let’s move to the bathroom.

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2. In the bathroom

Transform your fruit box, in wood or plastic, in a useful bathroom cabinet in which to store towels or stock up on toilet paper and soaps. Choose whether to use one or more of them by screwing them together and you prefer a free installation with wheels to allow easier movement or give life to real modules to install on the wall and give a country touch to your bathroom.

Choose the ideal height and the perfect color for your bathroom style! Let’s move on to the next idea and let’s sit in the bedroom.

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3. In the children’s room

Practical and functional containers to be used in any room of the house, transform your fruit crates into a play basket in the smallest room and you won’t be able to do without it anymore. We describe the right way to proceed and customize some of them below.

After cleaning your fruit crate properly, give it a coat of colored paint – your kids’ favorite color – add wheels and practical handles to move them easily from room to room and fill them with stuffed animals, constructions or books. Your fruit crates will turn into perfect allies of the order: to be emptied and refilled as needed.

4. Planters for your garden or balcony

The most colorful and fun idea is the one that sees some fruit boxes transformed into planters ready to welcome the most beautiful plants and flowers: give color to your balcony! With the arrival of summer we can’t wait, in fact, to design our outdoor spaces and recycling fruit crates will help us redefine our outdoor spaces, make them original and welcoming without spending large sums.

If you are a real green thumb, how about creating a small vegetable garden with them on the balcony or in the garden? Place all the accessories and tools useful for gardening in one of the boxes available. Let’s move on to the last idea.

5. In the garage

If you love to do chores often and immerse yourself pleasantly in DIY projects, you will surely have a space of your own dedicated to your favorite hobby. But how to keep it perfectly tidy and optimize every space?

With our fruit boxes – clean and colorful – that they transform, if necessary, in practical toolboxes in which to store measuring tape, hammers, screws, nails and bits of all kinds.

How to recycle a fruit crate: photos and images

These that we have proposed to you are just some ways of how to recycle a fruit box but many others and all very creative are possible. From dog kennels to dolls’ houses, from bookstores to much more. Get inspired by some other ideas we have included for you in the image gallery below.