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15 Repurposed, Upcycled, and DIY Storage Ideas

Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold is the Executive Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
updated Feb 21, 2019
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There’s nothing we like better than seeing something creatively repurposed into something else—particularly if that ‘something else’ is storage-related. Here are some great ideas to get your creative juices flowing, including a drum shell turned into an ottoman and an old window shutter upcycled into a mail carrier…

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Vintage Crates Turned Shelves (Image credit: Apartment Therapy)

Shown above the jump:

TOP ROW
1 Vintage Crates Turned Shelves
2 Rafters Used as Book Storage
3 Drum Shells Turned Circular Seating Storage
4 Old Tea Boxes Turned Ribbon Storage
5 Wine Crates Turned Planters

MIDDLE ROW
6 Screen Door Turned Pot Rack
7 Sweater Shelf Turned Craft Paper Storage
8 Milk Crates and Salvaged Boxes turned Coffee Table
9 Books Turned Side Table
10 Window Shutters as Mail Carriers

BOTTOM ROW
11 Egg Crates Turned Ornament Storage Protector
12 Vintage Flour Sacks Turned Laundry Sorters
13 Wine Rack Turned Towel Rack
14 Closet Turned Office Space and Storage
15 Ladder Turned Book Shelf

(Images: 1. Design*Sponge; 2. AT:LA; 3. Ohdeedoh; 4. Re-Nest; 5. Heart of Light; 6. DIY Ideas; 7. DIY Ideas; DIY Ideas; 8. Ohdeedoh; 9. Design*Sponge; 10. DIY Ideas; 11. DIY Ideas; 12. DIY Ideas; 13. Apartment Therapy; 14. Yes and Yes; 15. Poetic Home)

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