Pallet to DVD shelf

[Helsbells]

My husband and I made this DVD shelf from a pallet,

Before:


After:


I did a tutorial of how I made it on my blog:
http://serendipitychild.blogspot.com/20 ... orial.html

[yvette]

Woo! that is so impressive and professional-looking, I like it very much. Maybe we should begin a '101 things to make with a pallet' thread...?

[Helsbells]

Thats a good idea, actually I saw a magazine artist once about things to make from a pallet. (This was our own idea though!)
Oh, I also used some of the bits we had left to do some paintings on instead of canvas.

[Green Aura]

That's great helsbells!

Squirrel45 made some fab stuff from pallets too.

http://s406.photobucket.com/albums/pp14 ... 963bdd.pbw

I've managed one raised bed thus far, but it's pretty cool - I made it myself with OH taking my usual role of holding bits together while I screwed them

The biggest problem we had was getting the pallets apart in the first place - some of them are extremely well made!

[Keaniebean]

Bespoke furniture. Whoop! Pallets are great, but surprisingly hard to come by round here

I spied Simpsons too

[wulf]

Nice work. Was it good quality wood or did you have to smooth it down? Most of the pallets I've picked up are fine for outside but a bit rough and splintery for indoor use.

Wulf

[bonniethomas06]

Blimey, that is really really good! You would think it was shop bought to look at it.

My project for the weekend is to make a coldframe out of pallets - I already have a nice glazed door frame for the top and a couple of pallets to take apart for the sides.

[Millymollymandy]

Excellent job, I'm very impressed!

[MuddyWitch]

Very impressive!

MW

[Helsbells]

The wood was really smooth because it was MDF. Not a fan of the stuff really but I put a load of paint on it so I am hoping that will keep in the nastiness?!

[frozenthunderbolt]

Hooray for pallets! we build planters out of them all the time - also built our potting bench from them!