Elmer Jacobi
Besides being functional and practical, log holders and firewood storage racks can actually be very attractive as well. These DIY firewood racks will give you plenty of ideas and inspirations to make your own, with simple materials such as pallets, plumbing pipes, or 2x4s! This farmhouse entry bench is great for indoor firewood storage in winter. The firewood offers such a warm and welcoming vibe to a space when stacked neatly under a cubby bench. You can also build a simple and great looking firewood storage bench for your porch, deck and patio easily! This firewood holder has a simple wood frame and sits on a few concrete cinder blocks.
Add a roof to the DIY outdoor log holder to protect the firewood from rain and moisture rot damage. The simple outdoor firewood storage shed above is designed to be folded flat once empty. A drain pipe is screwed to one of the firewood rack cover panels at top.
The upside-down A frame wood rack and log holder is so simple and smart! These firewood racks would be perfect for a DIY outdoor wood fired pizza oven, tutorial here! This chic and industrial DIY indoor firewood log rack is made from plumbing pipes.
Make some room on an organizing shelf or in a niche and stack the firewood to look like seasonal decor. These beautiful metal firewood organizers ( from unearthed.net.au, site no longer available ) would look stunning in a fixer upper style modern farmhouse! Steel is not easy to DIY with, but we can find something to re-purpose and recreate the artistic stacked woodpile look!
Galvanized water tank or roofing sheets are easy to transform into wood holders for outdoor and indoor storage. This small DIY firewood rack is compact and great for an outdoor patio or porch. This large DIY outdoor firewood storage rack with a roof protects the wood logs from rain, and looks great in the backyard.
Update: One of our readers made a good point about not putting lots of firewood too close next to houses with wood sidings, because it may attract bugs. A fireplace niche is the perfect place to store firewood logs indoors. Vintage wood crates are great indoor fireplace log holders with a lovely farmhouse charm.
