DIY Pallet Tables Design Ideas

Do you want to go for a funky DIY pallet table that catches the eye and gets you points as an interior decorator? Experiment with the numerous ideas that you can achieve with the do it yourself pallet tables that can be made at home and are one of the best surfaces or work tops that can be achieved in little time with minimum investment. Design them according to your space need and express your taste to the world.
Built a center table, side table or corner table, pallets are easy and cheap and give a light touch to your furnishing. You can make a work top for your shed or garage and create drawers and secret nooks that only you know of. Design your own unique pallet dining table along with the pallet chairs that you can match with the chairs you have. Construct a desk for your study or your children or make an ironing table that has wheels and you can fold them also. You can make two or three tiered tables that serve double purposes as you can fill them with reading material and decoration crannies
These tables offer a unique planked look that once polished to not require a lot of decorating and look good within them. Enjoy a meal with your family and loved ones around a do it yourself pallet table.
Tables are used for so many things in a home, but it can get very costly once you start to buy tables. There are many ways to make your own and one of the most popular DIY table projects is using wooden pallets. These are versatile and they allow you to make just about any type of table you would need for your home. This also allows you to be more green and recycle old pallets so that they do not end up cluttering landfills throughout the country.
Here's a fun project that my boyfriend did, that I would like to share with you. He really wanted to make a dining table by only using 'leftover' materials. I really liked this idea and decided to document the project and turn it into a DIY for you :)
The table turned out great, and I really love the rustic and handmade look to it, and the process was actually very easy.
Here's how:
1. Collect about 8 single use pallets and strip them. The actual amount of pallets depends on the amount of usable planks. Often they are rotten or broken. You can find them around construction works. Or ask for them at a DIY store. Select the pallets by its planks. They can vary in type of wood, width and length but the thickness should be similar.
1.2 Find an old door and strip it. I took an unused door from our house.
1.3 Choose a design: I decided that I also wanted to use the frames from the window in the door to serve as a border over the length of the table.
2. Saw all planks on the width of the door. (or width of the door minus the width of the frames if you use them)
3. Sand all the planks.
4+5 Lay the door flat on the floor and decide in which order you want to put them. I did it kind of randomly and moved a few here and there to get some nice contrasts in textures.
6+7. Screw the planks on the door from behind. (as you can see on picture 6, I first tried to glue them but that didn't work)
- Use a belt sander to smooth the planks and the sides of the table.
- If you use a border: apply it to the side with small nails.
- Finish the table with a varnish.
Find some old (or new) table legs, apply them under the table, and your pallet door table is finished!