All cool ideas but the light boxes..oh those light boxes.

Love these! Where are some good places to get wine crates?

I got a bunch a while back from Costco. :) They had extras in their wine section.

Not a Coscto member, so that one's probably out :)

Megan- just ask at a local liquor store with a GOOD wine selection. Some stores will give them away, others will sell them to you for a few dollars.

I've made leanning ladder bookcases and a night stand/end table with them.

I think that crates must be cheeper over the water than they are in England, the cheepest I can find them over here is about £15 a crate (about $23) with shipping. Maybe I will go hunting in costco!

I've also found about a gazillion old crates at estate sales. To the point that I don't think I'm allowed to ever buy any more crates...

My favorite personal crate use is as planters in the garden/on the porch, but I also have a giant whiskey crate that I've used next to the fireplace to store wood in for my fires so i don't have to run outside every time I want to stoke it.

I wish I could find more of these. We live in the Toronto area and our LCBO has them on lockdown and even if you go to the bigger ones, they're so hard to come by. Costco in Canada doesn't sell alcohol. Darnit.

@Night, Costco in Alberta sells alcohol, though don't recall seeing any wine (and they definitely don't carry booze @ SK Costcos).

Total Wine & More sells wine crates for $4.99 a piece. That's where I got all of mine for a bookcase!
Bookcase
Bookcase 2

Here's another idea in practice, a wine crate bike box
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sectorprivate/6935473649/

melissa82 - thanks for the heads up! I guess we're deprived here in Ontario. Hence the LCBO reign.

I used chalkboard paint on the bottom of two crates and wrote the menu for our wedding on them. We put them on the place card table instead of printing individual menus for each guest. You can see a photo here.

http://woodentable.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-01-25T20:22:00-06:00&max-results=7

I stained one and am using it as a carrier box on the back of my bike. It's oversized and looks great!

Wine crates are getting pretty popular these days, and thus pretty expensive. I wasn't able to find any for less than $10, and that was bc I knew the store owner. She said they usually sell for $20. Also, they're gorgeous, but not terribly sturdy or well-crafted anymore. I used some to hang as cookbook shelves and I had to reinforce the corners with steel brackets. Hanger beware before using for anything heavy.

I managed to find a few lovely crates on the local craigslist: free section.
I still have three left to use, but I turned the smallest one - a one-bottle crate - into jewelry storage in my bedroom. I'm pretty proud of the results!

We originally used ours for moving books to our new house. Typical of those "who have just moved in", we postponed unpacking for a few weeks. When did finally get around to it, we discovered that turning the crates on their sides, and stacking them, made pretty decent bookshelves...they stayed like that for 15 years. :)

Here's a photo of our wine crate bookcase:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/k2yhe/4507140274/in/set-72157623938569198

Love the wine crates, but I cannot find them anywhere. Every store says that they only get their wine in cardboard boxes now.

Absolutely love this - we are trying to work out away to create a tv stand from them, I will be sharing these with my boyfriend later. We have managed to get a few crates from a local wine shop, it is a pretty fancy one though and a friend who works in the wine industry says its pretty uncommon to get them now.

5 & 7 are very creative. may give those a try.

Hello All,

Send me a message if you're in the SoCAL area. I get these wine crates regularly!