If you have the opportunity to purchase pallets or, speaking in Russian, pallets, then do not deny yourself this. There are many ways to use them for the manufacture of all kinds of furniture for the country, in a residential building, a temporary office and even for building environmentally friendly housing.
How to make fashionable furniture from pallets
When selecting material for its idea, it should be noted that the standard pallet, which is used by Russia enterprises for the transportation of various cargo, can be of two sizes: 800 mm*1200 mm and 1000 mm*1200 mm. European wations differ in that their flooring boards are located in the first place, and in domestic ones – the flooring with gaps. There are lightweight pallets. They are standard sizes, but a thinner board is used for their manufacture. The height of the pallet depends on the “checkers”. So called the bar between the upper flooring and the base. The foundations are called “skis”. The euro of the submarine has a “checkers” height 144 mm, and the domestic one has 120 mm. This must be taken into account when developing a design.
Product options
From one pallet you can build a variety of tables and coffee tables. It is enough to attach the legs to it and, if desired, make a countertop made of convenient cover material. By making a coffee table, you can strengthen the pallet on the roller. Such a table is convenient to move. A table will look stylish, well -cleaned and just covered with transparent varnish. If you use two pallets, putting them on each other, a shelf forms below, where it is very convenient to store correspondence. Cutting pallets into parts of different sizes and grouping them among themselves, you can come up with many different shelves and stands for colors, books. A mini-come for small things will look creative and unusual. It is enough to order boxes to the shelves, purchase mechanisms for advance and make a countertop on top.
Soft corner
Cut the pallets along the halves to fix it on each other in the right amount. Of the four halves, you will get a whip of 500 mm in size*1200 mm. Height 480 mm. For fastening, you can use construction, screw or haze nails. Lay a thick foam rubber, sheathed with fabric or dermatin on top.
Sofa for a cottage or in a residential building
For its manufacture, you need to take four pallets, you can two if you are a lover of low furniture. Carefully clean them with sandpaper, paint. Prepare another shield for the back. If the back is stiff, it is more beautiful to cover this element of the design with varnish. Pallets for the base should be fastened. The fasteners will be more reliable. The pallet used for the back is better to fix it vertically. Install the videos from below, and your sofa will become mobile. Want a folding sofa – not a problem. Buy a mechanism for laying out a sofa and legs to support the folding part in the construction product store. You can easily fix them on the “checkers” of the pallet. Take the same four shields, a little effort – and the folding sofa is ready.
Soft part
To decorate the top of the sofa, lay a plywood sheet on the flooring, fasten it with self -tapping screws, and lay a soft mattress or thick foam rubber on top. At least 20 centimeters thick. On the mattress it is necessary to make a removable cover of dense fabric. And then your fantasy: pillows, bedspreads, rollers.
Little tricks
We increase the functionality of our sofa. There is emptiness between the flooring of the pallet and its base. If you fix the plywood to the “ski” of the upper pallet before assembling the sofa, then we will get comfortable small shelves. Having fixed the board to the “skis” of the lower shield, and cutting partially the lowering of the lower and base of the upper pallet, we get a wide shelf. If you also order a drawer for it, you get a place for storing bedding. Using European fillets in two layers by flooring, you can build an excellent summer house.
How to make fashionable furniture from pallets
For the fortress, it is better to first equip the frame. But you can fasten the pallets with each other using sufficiently length screw or hazardous nails.
A little creative idea, a saw, a hammer, nails, sandpaper or a grinding machine, paint, varnish, dexterity of hands and interior updating will not be much difficult and large material costs.
