All known wooden pallets for transportation and storage of various goods have recently become very actively used to create furniture. And the furniture is very strong, functional and decorative. Here are benches from pallets - this is an excellent alternative to garden benches . They perfectly fit into landscape design, especially if they are skillfully zadekorirovat.
Benches for cottages from wooden pallets
Turn conventional pallets, often lying around, in colorful furniture is not difficult. Just need to look at them not as a firewood, but as a material for the implementation of fresh design solutions.
Today, sofas, armchairs, chaise lounges, tables and benches from pallets have become trendy objects for decorating the interior and exterior, as well as creating conditions for comfortable rest.
A huge advantage of such homemade garden furniture is, of course, a cost saving, with a huge, and also the opportunity to decide independently what kind of bench should be, what its dimensions, height, decor will be. And with small time costs you get comfortable and strong furniture, besides environmentally friendly.
Preparation and processing of materials
Before making the benches, you will need to process the pallets, because they use raw, though very good and strong boards.
Processing will consist in sanding, cleaning and priming surfaces. Also, you will need to purchase all the necessary fasteners and accessories, as well as varnish or paint for the final opening of the bench.
Be sure that the time spent will more than pay off by the fact that you will become the owner of unique and unique furniture from pallets, for example, a comfortable garden bench with a backrest or a whole ensemble of several benches and a table.
Painted in a favorite color and supplemented with soft seats and pillows, this bench will become a favorite place for gathering household members and guests on your home plot.
To create a bench from pallets, you, in addition, in fact, pallets and tools, will need metal corners, wooden bars, which will play the role of legs, plywood, hinges, screws.
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All you need to do is to cut the pallets into two parts of different widths. The wider part will become the seat, the narrow part the back. From the bottom of the seat, attach the bar-legs, reinforced with screws and metal corners. To secure the backrest, corners and screws are also used.
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For additional strengthening, it is advisable to make sidewalls using small scraps of wooden bars.
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We grind the future bench with a grinder. It is necessary to remove all the jags and irregularities from the pallet.
It remains from the bottom of the seat to attach the bar-legs, reinforcing them with screws and metal corners.
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