Thinking Outside the Box with Shipping Crate Cabinetry

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Kitchen remodels rank among the most popular home improvement projects. Sure, they can turn an outdated room into something beautiful and efficient, but they’re typically standard when it comes to cabinetry. You’ve got oak, maple, hickory and cherry. Laminate and melamine. But every now and then, along comes something completely unique.

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Designer and builder Rupert Blanchard has come up with the idea of using old tea shipping crates for kitchen cabinets. These wooden crates with their metal framework don’t seem like much to look at in their original form. In fact, they’re almost ugly. A storage warehouse full of the things gives you a picture of the dirty wooden boxes with ink stamps all over them.

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Clean them up and remove the metal frames, however, and you’ve got the makings of some pretty unusual cabinet doors and drawer fronts. The stamps lend a lot of originality and a splash of color to a kitchen. Most people use their countertops, walls and flooring for color accents, but with these old shipping crates, the cabinets become the main focus.

I’m not sure how easy these old shipping crates are to come by, or what the going rate is for them, especially now that they’ll be gaining in popularity, but they’re fun to look at. They give your kitchen a globetrotter feel. Fun and trendy, no doubt, but what’s even better is that no new trees need be sacrificed in order to do this. By using an old product, you can remodel your kitchen with recycled materials. It’s totally green, kind of like the tea these crates haul around the world.

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