Pallet furniture with own hands

A wooden pallet is a frequent guest in dachas and gardens. It is used as a stand for conservation or when growing seedlings on the balcony. However, inventive craftsmen have found another application for a rigid site. Recently it has been used extensively for making furniture. Using several boxes and a standard set of tools, you can make a solid base for a sofa, a bed, an armchair or a coffee table . Some housewives use the details from the pallet to make kitchen shelves and chairs. How to make furniture from pallets with your own hands and successfully fit it into the interior? About this below.

We make furniture with our own hands

Did you know that the pallets produced excellent garden furniture ? It is quite simple to manufacture, durable and long-serving. Consider the use of wooden containers on the example of a garden sofa.

To make furniture yourself, you need the following materials:

• Sander;
• pallets size 40 to 80;
• a 3 by 4 drill;
• Special glasses for protection of eyes from sawdust;
• Nuts, bolts, screws and washers;
• rollers (will act as legs);
• wrench;
• metal pipes and frantsy (will act as armrests);
• metal corners;
• mattresses by the size of the sofa.

When the listed set of tools is collected, you can start work. The sofa is made step by step:

1. Using a grinder, treat the outer and side edges of the wooden pallet. This is to ensure that during the sitting does not scratch on the sofa legs.
2. Fold the two pallets and mark on each three holes (two on the sides and one in the center). Drill 3 to 4 drill in marked places.
3. In the holes, place the bolts and secure the loose ends with the washer and nut. Well tighten the fastener with a wrench. Now the pallets are connected.
4. At the bottom of the sofa at the location of the proposed legs, attach the rollers. To do this, drill four holes for each roller and connect the rollers with bolts. Secure the ends of the screws with a suitable washer and nut. Tighten the fastening with a wrench. Repeat this procedure at the four corners.
5. The finished base for the sofa is treated with polyurethane. This will protect the tree from soaking and fungus.
6. Now, take care of the armrests. Collect the pipes and the French, attaching them with corners. Arms paint the paint against rust and allow to dry.
7. Put a high mattress on the base. If you want, you can supplement the sofa with soft rollers and a lot of pillows.
8. As you can see, making furniture does not take much time. The availability of finished wooden pallets eliminates the long and tedious processing of boards, which is very nice.

Furniture from pallets for a summer residence and an apartment

Designers very often experiment with ordinary materials at hand, creating them amazing masterpieces. Pallet allows you to create multi-level structures and serves as an excellent basis for upholstered furniture. From it you can make a set of chairs and a table for a summer residence, comfortable beds or benches. In the presence of fantasy, you can build a creative bed that will truly serve until you accumulate on comfortable lamellar bases. To make the bed look more stylish pallets can be painted under the color of the interior, and between the rows to organize a backlight or boxes for storing things.

Thus, the furniture of their pallets has the following advantages:

• can function as temporary furniture;
• this is practically a free building;
• allows to show creativity and imagination;
• for the assembly does not require a large number of tools and experience in working with furniture.