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3 pallet furniture ideas you can easily make at home

Article by Homes to Love

Discover how easy it is to transform the humble pallet into something handy and stylish with these three easy ideas for your home or garden 

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3 pallet furniture ideas you can easily make at home

If you’re eager to have a go at a DIY furniture project but you’re lacking in carpentry skills, an easy place to start is to adapt or repurpose existing pieces. Here are some ideas that use pallets as a starting point to create customised furniture – from a coffee table and bedbase to a pot planter.

DIY coffee table

Making your own pallet coffee table can be as simple as sanding it down to remove splinters, screwing in some castors and finishing off with a piece of custom-cut tempered glass. You could also seal or paint it or top it with a piece of raw or painted plywood instead – or try a distressed paint look!

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Industrial-style bed

You can create a simple bed base by using single or stacked pallets. Depending on the size of your bed, you may have to use a saw to cut down some of your pallets to size. Just make sure the cut ends are facing inwards when you assemble the base.

Finish off with a matching timber bedhead – you could also try painting or staining the pallet base and bedhead to match.

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Vertical pot planter

Perfect for kitchen herbs or to add a bit of colour or greenery to your patio, balcony or deck. You can use small potted plants or alternatively, make a sack for each shelf out of weed matting, fill with soil and cut holes to pop your plants into.

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How to make the perfect pallet

You will need:

Pallet; hammer or crow bar; two lengths of timber the same depth as your pallet, cut to the width of your pallet; scrap timber; chalkboard paint; paintbrush and chalk; potted herbs or flowers.

Step 1: Lay pallet down and remove two or more slats to create two gaps to fit plants into at the centre and base of the pallet – where the cross pieces are.

Step 2: Lean pallet against the wall and slide each length of timber plywood onto the cross pieces to create two shelves for the pots to sit on.

Step 3: Once built, mount it to a concrete or brick wall using Dynabolts or using pieces of scrap timber to make French cleats.

Step 4: Place potted plants into each shelf and make labels for each using the pieces of scrap timber painted with chalkboard paint.

TIP: If the back of your pallet is missing slats, remove them and screw on a cut-to-fit piece of corrugated iron.

Words by: Hanna Jo. Photography by: James Henry, Chris Warnes / bauersyndication.com.au. Pallet bed image via: Pinterest.

This article was originally published on Homestolove.com.au

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