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Recycled Wood Pallet Furniture and Craft Ideas
| March 21, 2016, 11:32:36 AM
By: Rick LeBlanc


Recycling wood pallets to make furniture is an excellent way to offer your tributes to Mother Nature. Pallet furniture and recycled wood transformations have already become a trend in the world of interior decorations and you can find them being used in all sorts of applications – right from inspirational home decor concepts and rustic creations to beautiful garden ideas, DIY crafts and chic transformations.

Here are a few ideas on how to recycle wood pallets and create beautiful things.


1. Wooden Street Signs

Add a touch of rustic beauty to your patio by creating a wall art sign using recycled wooden pallets. You can also use these pallets to create name signs or street signs.



2. Pallet Wooden Chairs

Pallet wooden chairs are an ideal way for newbie DIY enthusiasts to start off with. In fact, my first projects involved making various interpretations of Cape Cod chairs from pallet pallet boards You can easily use recycled pallets to create a variety of beautiful looking chairs. Anyone with little craftsmanship can make a wooden chair from recycled pallets and all it needs is a couple of hours of your time.



3. Pallet Media Console and Coffee Tables

Coffee tables, living rooms and media rooms are the entertainment hubs for all your family members. Your guests visiting your home are also likely spend their time in these areas of your home. So why not add a touch of uniqueness to your media room by creating that perfect wooden pallet console or beautiful coffee table.



4. Pallet Decks

If you’re looking for some serious DIY projects, you can always look at creating a pallet deck. This project isn’t just going to transform your home deck into something wondrous; it is also likely to enhance the looks and the charms of your outdoor areas. So if your pallets getting in the way, this could prove to be an ideal project to start off with.



5. Pallet Bookshelves

Pallet bookshelves are the perfect way of storing your books. If you have enough of rectangular shape wood pallets, you can easily construct gorgeous looking bookshelves.



6. Pallet Garden Benches

Garden benches might be a more complicated project and most suitable for pro DIY enthusiasts, but they are definitely worth trying. You can find all sorts of recycled wooden pallet benches in a number of public parks, home lawns and rushed area in your locality. Simply copy one of those ideas or create something entirely on your own.



7. Pallet Wreaths

If your front porch needs a makeover, one of the most cost effective ways to transform the way it looks is to make a wooden wreath from recycled pallets. Not only does it look beautiful, it also transforms the way your porch looks without hurting your wallets.



8. Rustic Cooler Boxes

If you’re into Sunday lunches and love your beer, one of the best things you can do is design a rustic cooler box using wooden pallets. This project is considered to be one of the coolest DIY projects and you can also build your very own bottle opener while making the cooler box.

9. Free Standing Pallet Herb Garden

Free standing pallet herb gardens are an ideal fix for all those who love to grow their own herbs at home. This beautiful looking herb garden ensures a steady supply of herbs in your kitchen and also allows you to move your herbs from one place to the other with relative ease. Just make sure that you use a heat treated, scrubbed, kiln dried and sealed pallet to construct your pallet herb garden.

10. Interior and Exterior Decorations

One of the best ways of using recycled pallets is to create interior and exterior decorations with them. You can allow your imaginations to run wild when it comes to decorative items with wood pallets. One of the best examples of a decorative item is a driftwood candle holder. Once the summer months are over, you can put your collected driftwood to excellent use by creating beautiful and rustic looking candle holders. They can be an excellent addition to your dining tables or your drawing rooms.


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