What to do with wine crates?

When you invest in fine wines to enhance your wine cellar, your bottles are often delivered in wooden crates labeled with the property, château, or estate of origin.

While some enthusiasts prefer to open their wooden crates to display the bottles on their cellar shelves, some keep the bottles enclosed in their wooden boxes, while others are more imaginative in reusing these containers to create all sorts of different furnishings, furniture, or atmospheres.

Wooden wine crates offer a wealth of opportunities for anyone with a creative streak who wants to give this packaging a second life.

• Here are some original ideas for things you can make from wooden wine crates:

  Make and/or complete the layout of your wine cellar by using wooden crates to create shelves that perfectly fit the wine theme. What could be more stylish and original than designing a wine cellar from crates of fine wines bearing the names and images of renowned estates, Bordeaux châteaux, or Burgundy wineries?
  You don’t need to be a great DIY enthusiast to add depth and meaning to your wine cellar shelves; just a little imagination and a little DIY is all you need for an original creation.

  The wooden crates that hold your fine wines can also be used to create all kinds of furniture.
  Bedside tables, coffee tables, shelves, bookcases… So many possibilities are possible with wooden wine crates. And by varying the containers, whether six- or twelve-bottle crates, you can play with shapes and variations to create custom furniture that will blend uniquely into your interior decor, or to create a unique winter garden or veranda.

  Wine crates as planters? Left in their original state, painted, or covered with various materials, there are a thousand and one ways to transform your unused wine crates into indoor planters. A plastic interior coating to protect the wood from moisture, the addition of feet or casters, and you’re ready to plant your indoor trees and flowers.
  A bar cabinet is certainly one of the possibilities that best matches the theme of your wine crates. You combine the warmth of wood with the originality and relevance of the symbols, images, and names of the châteaux and estates inscribed on the wine boxes. And the possible variations are numerous, with the creation of simple shelves, drawers, racks, or even the insertion of glass holders, compartments to slide your bottles into, or a work surface for serving your wines.

Wooden crate wine racks: a trendy alternative?

The design and presentation features of wine racks, particularly thanks to their usable space, allow you to create a true wine cellar that reflects your tastes, your decorating desires, and whatever the storage capacity you need.

Simply stack your wine racks in various ways and assemble them with screws or wooden dowels to create stylish and scalable storage spaces.

No matter the size of your wine cellar, a wine rack allows you to easily expand your collection or even add greater authenticity to a professional cellar for a restaurant or wine merchant.

The experts at Millésime Wine Racks are available to help you accessorize your custom wine racks.