I’m a long-time admirer of pallets and am regularly delighted by the possibilities they offer for reuse and transformation into other useful objects once their life as a pallet is ended. Likewise, I’m often surprised by the quality of the timber used. I’ve used a red cedar pallet to make a light-weight bike crate, and a couple of years ago used another pallets to bang out an extremely rustic stool. I’ve been pondering some other pallet-based carpentry projects, and have gathered together some inspiration below. It’s especially exciting to see some craftspeople using rough-hewn materials with such elegance. The examples of intelligent reuse are seemingly inexhaustible, so I’ll update this post whenever I have the time and energy!
Chairs
Robust Outdoor Seating from Un Air De Recup
Lovely chair from Upcycle Us (includes basic tutorial)
Armchair from Pierre Vedel
Adirondack Chair from Repurposed Goods (plans available for purchase)
Hanging Seat from Styleitchic
Pallet chairs from Jamison Sellers, with seat and back in pallet timbers, and frame in walnut or pallet
Pallet bench from here
Pallet chair with storage chests/seating from Emotioned.com
Sofas from Styleitchic (includes tutorial)
Armchair from Recyclart
Tables
Beautifully crafted coffee table from Cantilever and Press
Coffee Table from Un Air De Recup
Potting Bench from Better Homes and Gardens
Living, breathing succulent table from Far Out Flora (includes tutorial)
E1221 Table, with stunning pallet timber top, from Jamison Sellers
Coffee Table by Stephane Beauchet
Lo-fi Coffee Table on castors, from Doobi
Shelves and storage
Indoor/outdoor shelving from Un Air De Recup
Kitchen Cabinet from Shabby Love (blog includes tutorial on how to make it)
Kitchen drawers from Shabby Love (blog includes tutorial on how to make it)
Storage chest from the excellent Upcycle Us (includes tutorial)
Shoe rack from Junktion Products
Display
Coat rack from Upcycle Us
Room Dividers from My Friend Staci
Pallet display shelves, from Re and Purposed
Floating pallett shelves from AmandaCarver Designs
Gardening
Vertical Pallet Garden from Life On The Balcony (includes tutorial)
Vertical succulent garden from Design Sponge (includes tutorial)
Vertical succulent garden and screen from Shaynna Blaze (includes tutorial)
Beds
Toddler Bed from Lori Danelle (includes tutorial)
Headboard from Stylizimo
Construction
Flooring from Jetson Green
I can’t decide which one I like best! Great post!
Excellent collection of uses for upcycled pallets! Question: why DON’T we use pallets more often? It is a readily available source of strong wood that gets dumped after only a few uses. I’ve ripped apart a pallet and created floating shelves because I didn’t want to buy wood at the store It was free(for me), easy and the shelves lasted years. I ended up selling them when I didn’t need them anymore! Thanks for sharing! http:dontbuyathing.wordpress.com
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Just love this site. Thank you for sharing.
There’s some inspiring photos there. I’ve only ever used them to make compost bins before, but I love the pallet garden ones best – a very imaginative use of space and resources.
HI
A lot of amazing stuff !
Thanks for sharing my work (I’m stephane beauchet : the table wood palett with mosaic inly. I’ve changed my website so you could follow me on the new one (I will put soon some other projects with wood palett!) : http://dansunetatsecond.blogspot.ca/
and also on facebook : https://www.facebook.com/EtatSecond
Your blog is REALLY interesting !
Thanks everyone!
Steph
Awesome site i have already made a two coffee tables so far now looking at make a sofa and two chairs. After looking on this site also thinking of using them to make a solid wood floor if i get enough pallets.
So many cool ideas!