Creative Palletes

[begreen]

Who says pallets are just for stacking wood on? Here are some creative ways to use them in the house. The site is all French, but there are lots of pictures that show some cool ideas.

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[bassJAM]

Search on Pinterest for pallets, there's tons of ideas like that. I've seen the outdoor furniture idea before, I might do that someday after my current furniture dies. This one isn't as cool looking, but after building a set of shelves in my basement using 2x4's and plywood, I decided to make 2 more sets out of pallets. On one set I bought 2x4's for the legs, for the other 2 sets I took apart some other pallets and used the stringers as the legs, bringing the cost down to just the screws I used to hold them together.

 

[Jags]

That is some pretty cool stuff. I don't know if I have ever posted it, but I used reclaimed pallet material (custom pallets for specialized stuff for work). Ran them through my planner to make the uprights (columns) in my cabin.


The original beam was wrapped and the uprights (there are two in that room) were all reclaimed pallet material.

 

[begreen]

Very nice. I'll bet you were super careful about pulling nails.

 

[Jags]

Very nice. I'll bet you were super careful about pulling nails.

Yep, but it was pretty easy. They were all uniformly nailed in 3 places, two nails each (total of 6 nails). I even left the rough edges for the "rustic" effect. It is all but indistinguishable from the knotty pine ceiling. Trim pieces were cut from the same reclaimed lumber, as well.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

We have a local steel fab place that gets raw material in on custom size pallets- lots of 2x4x8' hardwood in there- I've torn many of these down and built a lots of shelves, etc. most recently was my arch form.

 

[begreen]

I thought that from might be pallet wood. Well done.