Pallet Made From An Old Coffee Table

There's a lot to love about recycled furniture: you can save money, keep things out of landfills and add a personal style. But a person's recycled chair on Pinterest could be another person's disaster.

Pallets - wooden platforms used in warehouses and factories for storing or moving materials - offer a solution. Usually made of unrefined rough wood and measuring 4 feet by 4, the pallets are so ubiquitous that they can usually be obtained free from old warehouses and shipping areas. This means that even when you make a mistake, you will have a lot of material to try again.

You can turn any pallet into a pallet, and their charm comes in part from the fact that you do not have to learn how to work with wood to make something beautiful. However, it is important to know something more about the pallets you use.

Pallets can be exposed to substances such as corrosive chemicals, molds or insects. Therefore it is better to clean them and determine their origin before starting any project. The new pallets require a logo indicating how they have been processed and most of the pallets are reused in specific sectors.

The best and safest pallets come from the haberdashery industries and this is a good place to start. Visit this site to find out how to determine if a pallet can be safely reused.

Once you have your pallets, the sky is the limit. We turned to Instagram to collect 36 innovative examples of pallet furniture - for all parts of your home - to get started.

Coffee table and recycled wood palette - vintage and rustic look

Made of 100% real wood. Each table starts with very rough pallets - the more worn they are, the better! Wood for pallets is usually roughly sawn with different holes for nails, etc. using a combination of hardwoods (mainly oak).

Separate the pallets using the support pieces to make the table frame and the staves for the top and the shelf. The nails are removed and the gnarled pieces are sawed, torn, cut at the waist and pierced. So sand - just enough to remove the chips, but not too much to remove the character of the wood. Thus, you will get a piece of crafted furniture with signs of original saws, knots, grooves and signs that are very interesting and that make each table unique.

I assembled it by re-using recovered spiral nails and traditional furniture manufacturing techniques with hidden pocket screws to create a beautiful, durable and durable table. It is colored with a beautiful dark walnut color and finished with several layers of hand-polished Danish oil.

One of the most active categories in 1001Palettes is undoubtedly the coffee table. We have received and continue to receive many ideas for tables made from recycled wood pallets, from the simplest to the most complex and modular.

If you are a beginner and want to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of recycling pallets, making a table is a great project to start, like a simple coffee table with only one pallet and a few hours of work.