D made this dining table entirely from carefully disassembled shipping pallets and finished it with a mixture of coconut oil and locally-harvested beeswax. It’s his masterpiece, and I am as giddy as a kid at Christmas. He’s not new to building: his dad is an accomplished woodworker, and D built the bookshelf and media console in our living room, as well as the standing desk/bookshelf in our bedroom/study – not to mention the two coolest bottle sculptures ever (here and here).

Earlier this summer, we sourced the mostly-oak pallets from a pallet dealer down the road. (No truck garden plants were harmed in the process!) We paid $32 for eight pallets, two of which are still intact, and D used some of the pieces to build the containers for our succulent garden.

I love how D preserved the architecture of the pallets, especially in the bracing and in the legs, but created a beautifully streamlined silhouette.

Update

A few readers have requested a photo of the underside of the table, so here it is:

Another update

When the time came to move our stuff across the country, we knew we wouldn’t have space for our beloved pallet table, but we didn’t want to part with it. D remade it into a desk-sized table that was perfect for our smaller space.