Thousands of wood pallets are discarded everyday. Some savvy recyclers are collecting are either reselling or recycling them for money. Back in 2008 I wrote a post on 31 Ways to Reuse Pallets and couldn’t believe the response on the amount of people that wanted to either give, buy or sell their wood pallets.
I Just Gotta Eco Ya
- Pallets are usually free, check out Craigslist.
- 150 Million Pallets will end up in Landfills every year. That is alot of wood.
- 4-5 Billion Feet of Lumber go into making Pallets, That is alot of tree killing.
1.) A company called Pallet Furniture takes wood pallets and re-makes them into really cool furniture. Their blog lets you share your pallet creations, which is very cool and a great inspiration for us budding reusers! They also show you how to break apart the pallets.
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3.) Funky Interiors How they built the pallet sofa
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5.) Black sofa designed by French Studio-aparte is made from discarded wooden pallets Read more: Slick Minimal Black Sofa Built From Recycled Wooden Pallets | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
6.) Office Decor made from shipping pallets and cardboard from Liam Hopkins of Lazarium. Named Pupa.
7.) Love this Pallet Bed Swing
8.) Pallet Chaise Lounge
9.) Love this Pallet Sofa, which can be used in or outdoors, chair or bed
10.) The Pallet Desk and other wood. Materials and DIY
11.) A vertical Garden out of pallet wood – I am so going to do this! Check out the link for the How To’s
12.) Coffee Tables ecobound for old pallets
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14.) We all know how expensive wood flooring is, especially reclaimed wood flooring. Check out the pallet wood floors
15.) If you don’t want to DIY it, check out Viridian FSC certified wood, reclaimed pallet wood flooring.
16.) Ran across this from Bower Power Blog who gave step by step directions on how he/she made this pallet wood wall
17.) Another look at a pallet wood wall in a bathroom
18.) Love this shelf from an old pallet from la dee da creations.
19.) Another pallet wood shelf look- the possibilities are endless.. (sorry, no image credit)
20.) Relic Interiors Pallet Wood Shelf
21.) This one, I would love to make, perfect for outdoors, From SawMill Creek
22.) This would be pretty easy- Make a Bike Rack From Recycle Art
Carol Besenfelder says
Where can I get any of this type of wood? I live in Naples and I want to use it for my art I am wiling to drive as far as the Sarasota/ Tampa area. Please email me some information regarding this
Thank You
Carol
lynn morris says
Exceptional great ideas… I can’t wait to try some of them… ill let you know if I’m successful.?