How to create your own garden furniture from pallets?

Plant Rack

Vertical gardens take up little space, but easily accommodate a variety of flowers or greenery. Such a rack is easy to make with your own hands, spending a minimum of money and time. They can be used to decorate a terrace, porch, fence or garden building.

Tools and Materials

You will need the following:

• one wooden pallet;
• strong garden film;
• burlap;
• sandpaper;
• furniture stapler;
• scissors;
• soil;
• seeds, seedlings or flowers.

Step-by-step instructions

Let’s get started work:

1. Sand the wood using coarse-grained sandpaper. Attach the burlap to the inside of the pallet using a stapler. Wrap the back of the product with garden film, securely fixing it. Leave the top open, forming a kind of “pocket”.

2. Fill with soil to create a dense vertical bed.

3. Make cuts in the burlap and plant seeds or seedlings. At first, you should keep the pallet horizontal so that the plants take root.

The vertical garden for your summer cottage is ready! You can decorate it as you wish.

Shelf

Another simple master class that will show you how to make a roomy shelf from a pallet. You will only need a jigsaw, screws and a screwdriver, as well as paint or stain. When working, use protective gloves to avoid splinters.

Step-by-step instructions

Let’s start creating a shelf for a country house interior:

1. Take a pallet and clean it from dirt.

2. Cut off the side part from it, consisting of three fastened slats. Carefully remove one of the boards from the pallet using a crowbar or pliers and secure it with screws as shown in the photo.

3. Sand the product with sandpaper.

4. Cover the finished shelf with paint or stain, wait for it to dry.

5. We fix the structure to the wall.

Bed

Do you have a mattress but no bed? Making a frame from natural wood is easy: you only need two pallets. This product will fit perfectly into the boho style – just what you need for a modern dacha.

Tools and materials

You will need the following:

• pallets (the quantity depends on their type and the size of the mattress);
• jigsaw (regular or electric);
• sandpaper or sanding machine;
• fasteners: screws or self-tapping screws;
• water-proof compound.

Step-by-step instructions

Let’s get to work:

1. Almost all used pallets have dirty wood and uneven surfaces that can cause injuries. Sanding the top layer will reveal the wood grain and prevent wood from getting into your mattress and bedding.

This is the most important part of the job and requires patience.

2. Cut the pallets to fit your mattress. You may need two to four pallets.

3. Connect the parts together using fasteners so that the frame does not fall apart.

4. The bed can be modified: add slats and saw off the outer corners so as not to touch them with your feet. If you have two more pallets, you can make a nice headboard out of them. And from a couple of pallets and a strong rope it is easy to construct a swing bed for outdoor recreation.

Table

The country coffee table made of pallets, presented in this master class, can easily be turned into a dining table by attaching legs instead of wheels. You will get a stylish piece of furniture with a processed tabletop made of natural wood.

Tools and materials

To create you will need:

• Euro pallet 120×80 cm;
• drill with wood processing attachment;
• pliers;
• hammer;
• wood glue;
• self-tapping screws;
• clamps;
• brushes, primer, stain, paint or varnish.

Step-by-step instructions

Let’s start making:

1. Wash, dry and sand the pallet. You can replace the drill with a wood processing attachment with sandpaper. You need to move along the grain so as not to scratch the soft wood.

2. Disassemble the structure into boards. To do this, you need to remove the nails from the pallet by knocking them out with a hammer.

We help with pliers from the back of the board:

3. We connect the boards with wood glue. First, we fix the crossbars.

4. We continue to assemble the table like a constructor, gradually gluing the parts and holding them under pressure. Additionally, we strengthen the elements with screws or nails.

5. After drying, cover the structure with any suitable composition.

6. We screw on the furniture wheels using self-tapping screws.

The coffee table for the dacha is ready!

Bench

Turn a pallet into a beautiful wooden bench for your dacha. You can paint it in any color you like or leave the wood texture.

Tools and materials

What you will need for manufacturing:

• pallet;
• bars (4 pcs) and boards (2 pcs) for legs and armrests;
• jigsaw;
• screws and screwdriver;
• sandpaper or sanding machine;
• paint and brushes.

Step-by-step instructions

Getting started:

1. We cut the pallet into two equal parts: one will become the seat, the other the back.

2. We prepare 4 boards 56 cm long for the supports and two boards 50 cm long for the armrests. We screw them to the seat with self-tapping screws at a convenient height.

3. The design should look like this:

4. Fix the backrest in the same way.

5. We screw on the armrests.

6. Carefully sand the finished bench.

7. We proceed to the final stage. We wash the product, dry it and paint it.

The garden bench for the dacha is ready.

Patio furniture

Despite the scale of the design, the principle of creating such a corner sofa for the dacha is very simple. You will need the same tools as in the previous master classes, but to implement a similar project you will need several pallets.

Calculate the amount of material based on the size of your recreation area.

Step-by-step instructions

Let’s start making:

1. We cut each pallet as shown in the photo:

2. We select the required height and stack larger parts on top of each other. In our master class, a convenient height is achieved using three pallets. For reliability, secure the elements with wood glue or nails.

3. Remove the unsecured boards from the smaller part of the sawn pallet. We get the back of the future sofa.

4. We fix the wooden backs with long nails.

5. We sand the construction until smooth. We remove wood dust before painting.

6. We paint the sofa in any color, complement it with a table and chairs. For greater comfort, you can sew pillows and soft seats using fabric with water-repellent impregnation.

Armchair

This master class describes in detail how to make a garden chair for a summer house from wooden pallets.

Do-it-yourself furniture items made from pallets carry the energy of the master and make the landscape of the garden plot and the interior of the summer house unique and memorable. Therefore, it is better not to throw away old pallets, but breathe a second life into them and your summer house will sparkle with new colors.