Furniture from pallets, photos with examples of similar designs

Pallets are an inexhaustible source of original design ideas. Very often they are used to equip suburban garden plots, but recently even more often you can find furniture from pallets in city apartments, photos of such interiors fascinate, delight with their beauty, originality, subtle style.

What are pallets and where to get them

Initially, pallets were invented in order to facilitate the process of transporting heavy loads on special trolleys. They are available in several sizes and are able to withstand a load of up to 2 tons of weight, durable, resistant to wear. Most of the international traffic was carried out and continues to be carried out using similar wood products.

However, over time, people have noticed that such products are very beneficial to use as a material for the manufacture of original interior items. Nowadays, the importance of such structures has soared to unprecedented heights. Pallets have gained wildly popularity among fans of decorating a house on their own.

Today, such designs are used for the construction of comfortable furniture. Even upholstered furniture can be made of them. Storage systems, shoes made of pallets are highly functional, practical.

If it was decided to independently make furniture from wooden pallets, then you have to think about where to get them. In fact, the task is not very difficult. Wooden pallets are less durable than their metal or plastic counterparts, so when the first defects appear, freight carriers throw away such structures or sell them at a low price. Also, many pallets are offered to customers in shopping centers with building materials. Therefore, the search for material for the manufacture of original interior items in an ordinary city apartment does not take much effort, time, money. You can also find used pallets on thematic portals on the Internet. Often owners of warehouses, etc. give similar products at a fairly low cost.

Making the furniture yourself using pallets is a snap. They are prefabricated elements of the furniture designer, because they have standard sizes.

What furniture can be made from pallets

Today, the furniture industry does not stand still. Manufacturers delight customers with a huge number of different pieces of furniture with a high level of functionality, a surprisingly beautiful design, compact size. But the finished furniture does not allow a person to show their own individuality and skills of working with hands. In addition, it sometimes costs quite a lot of money. Therefore, many people tend to learn how to make their own items for their home from pallets.

Pallets are similar to ready-made designer elements, serving as an excellent base for creating highly functional, practical, affordable and original-looking interior items. But what pieces of furniture should be created from pallets? This question interests many people. The following photo will demonstrate the options for furniture designs that are born using similar designs.

These may be options such as:

garden chairs and benches for a summer cottage. For the manufacture of a garden bench, it is often enough to have 3-4 pallets, and the chair has a backrest and armrests, so more pallets are needed;
standard configuration sofas, corner models, hanging beds. For the manufacture of a sofa of a standard form with a back and armrests, 6 pallets are required, if you want a corner sofa - 8;
all kinds of shelves for the kitchen, children's room, hallway, country house;
dining, coffee tables, patio tables, side tables and so on. An item of this kind requires only 1-2 pallets;
convenient hangers for clothes and hats. For their manufacture, one pallet is enough, which is mounted on a wall surface, decorated and equipped with hangers. As a result, you can get an attractive and functional piece of furniture for mere pennies;
decorative elements for residential premises: stands, art compositions for demonstrating photos and so on.

To build a full-fledged piece of furniture from such material does not need to have specific skills or expensive equipment. And if you equip it with wheels, then using such a table, a curbstone or a sofa will be even more comfortable.

Decoration Methods

Interior items created by oneself and hands from improvised materials allow their creator to demonstrate their talents and skills to others. This is very important for creative individuals with a developed imagination and sense of style. They can independently choose the style solution, color and shape of the furniture from the pallet, as well as come up with a variety of techniques for its decor.

Furniture from pallets can be decorated in various ways. Let us describe the most popular of them below.

Designer decorative reception	Description
Painted wooden surfaces	If you sand a table from a pallet without staining it, but varnishing it, you can bring the warmth of wood shades to the interior. The varnish is able to reliably protect the surface of the pallet from the effects of negative factors.
Dyeing	Pallets can be painted in your favorite color with acrylic paint. This will allow you to successfully fit the product into the finished decoration of the room. If desired, the furniture can be painted not in one but several colors, covered with interesting drawings, prints.
The use of glass, plastic worktops	To diversify the design of the table, the curbstone, the TV stand made of this material, you can glue a glass, plastic tabletop on the surface of the product.
Decor with ribbons, rhinestones, bows for furniture from pallets	If you want to give a piece of furniture a romantic look, you can use such decorative elements as bows, ribbons, rhinestones, beads. With their help, you can give a very original, cute look even to strict pieces of furniture.
LED backlight	To create a romantic atmosphere, you can use LED backlighting of different colors as a decor for a bed or a sofa made of pallets.

This list of decorative elements that are relevant for the design of furniture made by hand from pallets is far from complete. You can show imagination using original improvised materials with a decorative purpose.

In any case, decorative elements should complement the chair, sofa, shelf with their beauty, combined with wall decoration, textiles on the windows, flooring. Then the room will gain comfort, filled with comfort.

How to fit into the interior

Furniture from the pallet of the photo examples in the selection is original, attractive, reflects the individuality of its creator. Therefore, it is not so easy to fit such interior items into the decoration of walls, floors, and ceilings. This question requires a special approach and does not endure rush in decision making.

A great way to give a sofa or armchairs from a pallet a higher aesthetics, fit it into the interior, complete the design of the room, are decorative pillows. For laconicism, completeness, integrity, the design of the pillow can be done in the same color scheme as the sofa itself. You can also apply a contrasting color to the pillow, which has already been used in the decoration of window openings or floors. If the pillows will be combined with curtains on the windows or the rug on the floor, then the sofa will successfully fit into the bedroom or living room.

If we talk about the color of the wooden surfaces of objects, then it is worth giving it the shade that the pieces of furniture already present in the room have. For example, the color scheme of the table, for the manufacture of which pallets were used, should be the same as the color scheme of the hanging shelves, baseboards, door frames in the bedroom. Then her interior will look holistically.

Regarding the surface texture, we note the following. If you used a lot of plastic surfaces when decorating the kitchen, paint the pallets with a glossy paint. This technique will allow you to visually connect the kitchen with a table of pallets. And if the children's room was decorated with environmentally friendly materials, there are objects made from natural wood, cover the pallets with varnish. This tool will make the wood pattern more vivid and interesting.

What style is suitable

Interior items made of Euro pallets have a unique aesthetic. They look good in interiors of different stylistic directions, but there are styles that are not suitable for such interior items. Among them: modern high-tech, conservative classics, luxurious barroco and so on.

Armchairs and tables made of pallets are relevant in modern interiors of living rooms, bedrooms, children's rooms, as well as on the veranda or in the garden at the cottage. They successfully fit into country, eco-style, Provence, minimalism. That is, those stylistic directions that imply laconic lines, simplicity of design of all objects present in the room.

In the picture of rural minimalism illustration, it is easy to imagine a bed made of pallets. Due to the naturalness of these designs, they are often used by eco-style lovers. And with proper finishing of the surface of the pallet, such products quite successfully fit into a romantic Provence.

Minimalism involves the use of the most concise, compact, but very functional pieces of furniture. It is these qualities that distinguish shelves, tables, beds, for the production of which pallets were used with their own hands.

The nontriviality, which is so characteristic of pallet designs, successfully distinguishes similar products from the background of familiar models. If you once had the good fortune to use such furniture, you will miss its comfort and practicality. The main thing is not to violate the technology of processing, decorating the subject, then it will become an integral part of the interior.

Care Rules

Furniture from pallets in its operational parameters is similar to structures made of natural wood, so the rules for caring for it are similar to the recommendations for wooden products. If you follow them, the products will last as long as possible, do not lose their external aesthetics, practicality. Of course, if in the manufacture of furniture high-quality pallets without visible defects were used, and the correct technology for their processing and decoration was used.

During the manufacturing process, it is important to properly process the fastening points of one pallet to another so that the metal nails or screws that were used for this purpose do not subsequently rust. It is also important to carefully sand and coat the surface of each pallet with protective varnish. After all, those models that have a varnish coating are more practical in care. It is recommended to wipe the varnish from dust with a soft textile, as hard fleecy fabrics can leave scratches on the varnish surface. Do not drop sharp objects on the varnish, as it may crack from such a mechanical impact, which will lead to loss of integrity and its protective functions.

Do not allow water or any other kind of liquid to pour onto the surface of the pallet, or leave furniture from pallets in the open during rain, as prolonged exposure to water can damage the lacquer coating and spoil the visual appeal of the furniture from the pallet.

Also, do not expose the sofa, chair, table of this kind to prolonged exposure to the sun, so that they do not burn out. If the furniture is at the south window, take care of the presence of blinds or blackout curtains. At the most sunny time of the day, the curtains should be pulled back, preventing wooden products from fading under the influence of ultraviolet radiation. That is, this will avoid problems with the color of the furniture.

If soft pillows were used for the decor of the sofa, their pillowcases should be washed periodically, and the pillows should be ventilated outdoors. Then they will never have an unpleasant smell or unkempt appearance.