Make a Dog Bed Out of Pallet Wood. Dog beds can get pretty expensive and more and more owners are coming up with creative ways to make their own. While there are plenty of good ideas, one of the most common DIY dog beds is made from pallets! Check Out this DIY pallet dog bed. Don’t forget to Pin It!

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Making a shed seems like hard work and no alternative purpose for building one. This changes with the Pallet Shed! Now, instead of throwing away wood pallets, you could repurpose them into something useful, like a shed. A storage space always handy in one’s yard, the shed you raise from a bunch of pallets will not only do good to the environment – with less trees cut down – but will also last for years to come. Not to mention starting with a DIY project like this could improve your building skills. Read the instructions from the link below and follow them as you repurpose pallets in a useful way. Check the photos provided from time to time to see if you’re on the right track. If you’re satisfied with the resulting shed, don’t forget to spread the knowledge to your friends and the DIY community alike. Good luck!

Making a piece of vertical herb garden from an ordinary pallet seems like a complex artistic job when seen at TV or in the magazines. But actually, if you are familiar with the DIY world (and if not, luckily for you there is this website to be your guide), you could easily shape-up a pallet, screw in some pieces of wood and you will have a great piece of garden furniture in no time.

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It’s not necessary to have a brand new pallet, you can reuse an old pallet for this cute DIY project. More details and instructions in the link below..

Pinkwhen – How to Make an Herb Garden from a Pallet

Making your living area really live up to its potential need you to think ingenious and outside the box. Even though pallets are becoming a common used material for a while now, it is still considered a creative approach to make a piece of furniture out of pallets. The DIY coffee table we’re about to show you is one such example, perfect for improving the interior design of your living. Here is what materials you will need to grab in order to successfully make a coffee table like this one:

• a piece of pallet;
• stain;
• a piece of plywood;
• nails;
• drill and screws;
• (optional) 4 wheels, preferably red castor wheels;

Check out the full project on Olga’s blog — Mango & Tomato: DIY: Make Your Own Pallet Coffee Table.

(Images: Olga/Mango & Tomato)

Pallets, over and over again! We’re sure you think you’ve heard everything there is to hear about using pallets in your redecorating projects. But keep an open mind when it comes to the DIY world. Today, we will show you a very creative and entertaining project to implement in your own home: the pallet movie theater. This wonderful idea was inspired from the luxurious residences which have a room furbished and designed just for watching movies with friends and family. Watch how great a pallet improved interior design looks like and feel encouraged to implement in your home. Here is what you need:

• pallets;
• sander;
• drill and screws;
• white paint;
• a lot of cushions and fabric covered mattresses;

Start with lightly sanding and then painting the pallets in white. Make the `screen1 part of your movie theater by placing two of the pallets on the wall. Put the rest of the pallets on top of each other in the following pattern: 6 in the first layer, 4 on the second, and 2 on the last upper layer. You want to place them in a (half) stepped pyramid shape. Screw each piece to the rest in order to make a big and secure piece of furniture. Place the cushions and mattresses, attach the flat screen on the pallets from the wall, and enjoy your movie!

Your porch needs a makeover for this summer? Well, consider yourself lucky then as there are a lot of great ideas for this on the internet and since you live in a time when pallet are cool and trendy, you can use these for your porch. Pallets are very resistant, so in case you are afraid that they won’t be able to handle all your guests in case of a porch party, don’t worry about this. Besides the floor of your porch you can also make some nice furniture out of pallets, such as couches and desks. All you need is a bit of patience as you will first need to smoothen their surface, but after that you can create pretty much anything put of them. Your new porch will look beautiful and you will save a lot of money this way. A porch is an essential part of your house as in the summer it is a great gathering place and you can spend a lot of unforgettable moments there. That’s why it is really important for this space to be constantly upgraded to make you feel as comfortable as possible.

source and more details: redoredux-faywray.blogspot.ca

A lot of homes builders pretend their final products are environmentally friendly, but a residence made entirely out of wooden pallets is exactly what you might end up with if you’re truly committed to having a low carbon footprint on the environment. Be warned though, pallets should be treated before acting like walls. But they do a fine job as building structures nonetheless. I-Beam Architecture and Design shows you just how prototypes from the early 2000s have blended a complex design with an appealing aspect to form a beautiful home. The pallets are being used to make the porch, the door, the walls and even the roof. There are a few designs that work well with this type of building creatively and with consideration toward the surrounding environment. And if you’re already using pallets as furniture (bed, table etc.) what best medium to place them than a house made entirely out of pallets? So, if you are about to build your own home, or are planning to do so in the next few years, take this option into consideration. Have a closer look over this award winning homes made out of pallets and decide whether you are going to take the bold step into this direction.

The Palette House is an inexpensive, efficient and easily realizable solution to the problem of housing people displaced by natural disaster, plagues, famine, political and economic strife or war.