From wooden crates to shabby-chic creations: let yourself be inspired by these simple and enchanting ideas

Shabby chic furniture, with its delicate colors, simple materials combined with vintage details, even precious ones, is a real mood that characterizes the lifestyle and atmosphere that reigns in the home.

It consists of many different elements, and can have a more charming or slightly more rustic character, but it always welcomes recycled objects - those which are given a new life as decorative elements or practical accessories to use. Considering how many ways baskets and containers can be used in each room, wooden crates are once again the perfect material for DIY projects that transform themselves easily into shabby chic style furnishings. Get inspiration from the ideas below:

If you want to dabble in decoupage - even if you are a beginner - wooden boxes are an excellent choice: sticking decorative papers or even fabrics to the wooden boards is easy, given their very regular shape.

They can be used as containers in a thousand ways - the important thing is to always use sturdy boxes in good condition, which are then sanded smooth and treated with various stains and varnishes before decorating them.

Stencils can help create the lettering that gives cassettes a vintage look.

In the living room, larger boxes can be used to hold extra blankets or cushions, but also magazines and books. And if they are equipped with wheels, they will be easy to move, and you could also use them to sort the laundry - perhaps using stencils to decorate them with writing that indicates their function.

After treating the wood so that the paints spread better and there are no dangerous or ugly blemishes to see, you can indulge yourself with the colors you prefer. In the shabby chic furniture style, they will generally be of romantic pastel shades.

If they are in good condition, even fruit boxes from the market can become shabby chic furnishing accessories: just a coat or two of paint, and some decorations such as bows or flowers, even three-dimensional can transform these boxes into something unique and useful.

To tidy up vegetables and fruit in the kitchen, boxes decorated with decoupage are very cute.

You can enrich them with added details, such as handles made of leather straps, or perhaps thick rope.

Adding straw bows to the handles is also a nice idea to easily decorate crates to use as baskets for storage.

With themed decorations, you can even make them into vases!

How would you like to recycle wooden boxes to obtain unique shabby chic creations?