{"id":36640,"date":"2026-04-10T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36640"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:01:41","slug":"seasonal-upcycling-a-lesson-in-how-to-use-your-old-wooden-wine-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/seasonal-upcycling-a-lesson-in-how-to-use-your-old-wooden-wine-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Upcycling – A lesson in how to use your old wooden wine boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know that wooden wine boxes are fantastic for all sorts of uses – just the right width to hold vinyl LPs, wonderful in sheds and greenhouse for storing stuff tidily on shelves, even make pretty good seed boxes and planters (prone to rot, of course). I’ve seen them used as a bed-base, we use them stacked and glued as poser tables for laptops at our tastings – and so on.<\/p>\n

If you knock the sides off, you can use the ends (especially the pretty branded one) to make table tops and all manner of decorative panelling – or use them as boards to pick up piles of leaves or weeds in the garden. The lids and bottoms are a bit flimsy, but make very good material for bird-table roofing:<\/p>\n

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I’m pretty smug about the latest use – a very seasonal one, so get going this weekend. There’s a limit to how many individual wood magnum boxes you can use to store things, but, if you saw them in half on the diagonal, and use the sides of a 12 bottle box to form lids, with a bit of glue and the right drill bit (25mm or 32mm), you have (ta-daaah!):<\/p>\n

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The small hole is perfect for blue tits and coaltits, the larger for great tits and nuthatches.<\/p>\n

Got some other ideas to inspire us? Please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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