To add to the gallery of examples of pallets repurposed for various uses, there’s this:
Stephane Beauchet’s mosaic table — with tile inlaid between the pallet’s wood slats. Nice!
Love pallet projects?
This video shows several dozen uses for pallets and pallet wood — many of which we’ve featured previously on Unconsumption.
The Canadian Wood Pallet and Container Association produced the video to help “encourage people to recycle and reuse wood packaging material.”
If you’re not able to view the embedded video above, click here to watch it on YouTube.
Want to create some big memories for your soon-to-be-married pals? Check out this lovely pallet art tutorial from Katie at Sweet Rose Studio, and make a unique piece of art that the happy couple will cherish for years to come!
Brides and grooms: If your wedding is in a hard to find location, this idea would also be perfect for making large, sturdy signs to guide your guests to the right spot. It would certainly have worked better than the flimsy cardboard that my husband and I used!
(via How-To: Pallet Art Wedding Gift @Craftzine.com blog)
Unconsumption readers know we have an extensive history of covering pallet-creativity. Browse here.
More pallet repurposing …
In this installation, pallets are used as tiered seating in a media room. The pallets’ open sides can be used as shelves for books, magazines, and other items. On the opposite wall, wall-mounted pallets set off a screen.
(via TreeHugger)
Do you remember when I asked — here on Tumblr and on the Unconsumption Facebook page — about your interest in seeing other items made from repurposed pallets? The replies were overwhelmingly positive.
So my Unconsumption colleagues and I continue to be on the lookout for pallet projects we haven’t yet covered, such as this garden installation featured on French architect Patrick Nadeau’s Web site. Interesting use of pallets, isn’t it?
(Spotted on Pinterest here, via friend and landscape designer Susan Cohan.)
Related: Smaller-scale gardening in pallets: see previous posts on turning single pallets into vertical gardens here and here.
More palletecture — pallets repurposed as building material
We’ve come across wooden pallets repurposed for many uses, more furniture than architectural applications — palletecture, as some of us refer to it — though we’ve spotted several examples of the latter.
Now here’s another palletecture project (via eVolo) to add to the list:
A pavilion, designed by Avatar Architettura, at the German Institute of Culture’s Villa Romana in Florence.
(Am I the only person who wishes the structure hadn’t been covered in PVC?!)
Friend of Unconsumption Will Holman, whose furniture and other repurposing projects we’ve highlighted several times (grouped here), used scrap wood to refresh a pair of damaged 35-year-old Steelcase credenzas.
For a project like this, Will says a variety of reclaimed wood, such as pallet wood, or old flooring or molding, could be used.
Check out Will’s photos and tutorial over on Instructables.
![I’ve been overcome lately by a mild case of pallet fatigue. It seems that posts about pallet repurposing are everywhere. [I’ve certainly published and pinned (on Pinterest) my fair share of them.]
That said, last night, while looking at RifUSE.it, the Web site on which I spotted the oil-barrel-turned-bike-rack, the photo above caught my eye. The chair (designed by Stefano Rucci) is different enough from many other chairs made from pallets that I felt compelled to share the photo!
Anyway, when we publish pallet-related posts here on the Unconsumption Tumblr, we tend to get a positive response — an indicator that many of you are, to some extent, enthusiastic about the idea of pallet repurposing.
Tell us: How interested are you in seeing other pallet projects: very interested, somewhat interested?
Photo via RifUSE.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m09y02O8IG1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
I’ve been overcome lately by a mild case of pallet fatigue. It seems that posts about pallet repurposing are everywhere. [I’ve certainly published and pinned (on Pinterest) my fair share of them.]
That said, last night, while looking at RifUSE.it, the Web site on which I spotted the oil-barrel-turned-bike-rack, the photo above caught my eye. The chair (designed by Stefano Rucci) is different enough from many other chairs made from pallets that I felt compelled to share the photo!
Anyway, when we publish pallet-related posts here on the Unconsumption Tumblr, we tend to get a positive response — an indicator that many of you are, to some extent, enthusiastic about the idea of pallet repurposing.
Tell us: How interested are you in seeing other pallet projects: very interested, somewhat interested?
Photo via RifUSE.
Pallet repurposing, continued:
A stylish sofa made from wooden pallets.
“Reused wooden pallets are popping up in designs everywhere nowadays, but there’s debate as to whether they’re “palletable” or not. It’s a tricky subject, but with this clean-looking two-seater, French firm Aparte has a simple solution: paint it black and voilà, recycled chic.”
(via TreeHugger)
Pallet repurposing, continued:
Pallet wood used as wall covering.
How-to / DIY details: Grand Design
Reminds me of Piet Hein Eek’s “scrapwood wallpaper” (mentioned here), which is laid out vertically in a more staggered arrangement. Another reclaimed pallet wood wall application can be seen in the technology building on the Central Washington University campus (our post about it here).
Pallet repurposing, continued:
Two standard wood pallets + lots of screws = this chair.
(via DIY: Studiomama Pallet Chair : Remodelista)
