If you like pallet furniture, and you want to start recycling to furnish your home but you still don’t dare, this may be your chance.
This is a rustic idea to make an armchair with only 2 recycled pallets. In this case, the pallets were purchased from a wholesale business in which many pallets are discarded each time new merchandise arrives, and many of them are in very good condition.
Particularly these pallets were not in an optimal state, because they were exposed to the elements for several weeks and were affected by several rains and by the sun, but the final result worked and their assembly was fun.
Of course the model can be improved, and you can find better models on the web, but this is a detailed and effective step by step that will help you a lot if it is the first time you intend to build with pallets.
- Saw
- Hammer
- Nails
- 2 pallets
- Electric planer and/or Sandpaper (optional)
The method is to assemble one pallet with the other. Step by step this simple dynamic will be understood. These are the two pallets, the one on top we will call Pallet 1, and the one on the bottom Pallet 2.
First we will saw the two side boards of Pallet 1, from the middle. The non-sawn part is the upper part of the chair where we will support the back.
This is how the pallet looks with the boards removed:
Then it will be time for pallet 2. What we will do is remove the internal boards from one half, so that the side ones remain:
Here we see Pallet 2 with almost all the internal tables removed. This is going to be the space where Pallet 1 will be assembled.
Now, we return to pallet 1. What we will do is remove the two central boards, so that the blocks of Pallet 1 do not collide with the boards.
Finally we will assemble both pallets, but before this, we will proceed to cut diagonally the lateral central blocks of Pallet 1, so that when they are assembled the blocks do not collide with the boards of Pallet 2.
This is how we cut it:
Once we’ve done this, we’re pretty close to done. Now the next step is to interlock one pallet with another so that they end up like an “X”:
Once you assemble them, you will have your chair. Now only the details are missing.
Now, with an electric sander or planer, you can improve the finish of the wood. You can also do it before you start, but in this case it was done with the finished assembly.
When you sand the piece of furniture already assembled, you must be careful that the nails do not break the sander. For that it is better to use a manual sandpaper in the joints.
In the finished model, a printed fabric (a resistant canvas) was added, so that the garden furniture is more beautiful, more comfortable and lasts longer.
Remember that this is just an example. Build your own model and share it in the Bioguide community!