You can find free pallets at flooring and furniture stores, lumber and stone yards, etc. Resourceful folks have turned them into cost-effective chairs, tables, beds—even entire houses.

Pallet Furniture: Chairs



Pallet stools at a pop-up restaurant by Joost Bakker for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. The whole building and all the furniture were made from reclaimed materials. byjoost.com



Made with only an old hand saw, a hammer and some used pallets. How-to: cherryblossomkindoflife.blogspot.com



Pallet Chair with a wash of alternating colors. batzolades.wordpress.com & Another chair: remodelista.com



Pallet Benches – DIY. www.designsponge.com

Recycled and Upcycled Pallets on eBay eBay usually has wood pallets for sale (in lots of 10 on up). Also, plenty of folks sell upcycled pallet furniture like the examples in this post.

Pallet Furniture: Sofas



An old alcohol distillery in Barcelona gets warmed up with pallet sofas. www.micasarevista.com



Pallet Sofa. seaseight.blogspot.com





Pallet Sofa. How to: www.theironstonenest.com



Pallet Couch.

Pallet Furniture: Storage



Ingenious – a multi-tiered TV watching platform. Designer: Simone Tasca, www.simonetasca.com.br Via: construirmaispormenos.uol.com.br



More ingenuity: a pallet TV holder. A lot less expensive than the ones sold at big box stores. Simone Tasca, www.simonetasca.com.br



Pallet display case in the Olabisi wine tasting room. Cookie sheets are used as slide out trays. remodelista.com



Pallet Toy Boxes by Ana White, detailed how-to here: ana-white.com

Pallet Furniture in the Kitchen



Kitchen in Lombardy by Katrin Arens, who reuses “materials from derelict country houses, cellars, and carpentry studios.” Note the pallet plate rack. www.katrinarens.it



Pallet kitchen island. www.home-dzine.co.za



Pallet wood kitchen cabinets.

New Moon Cottage Long Beach Island, NJ

Designed by: Richard Bubnowski Design LLC

Photo: Sam Oberter Photography

Pallet Furniture: Beds



Pallet Bed Frame. djacoose.blogspot.com



Pallet Dining Table. From: 100% Pallet: from Freight to Furniture: 20 DIY Designer Projects by Aurélie Drouet.



Pallet bed, side table and end table. Door headboard. www.grahamandco.org



Pallet bed by Sandbox Studios. s3.media.squarespace.com, www.sandboxstudio.com



See Lori’s detailed How-to! loridanelle.blogspot.com



The other sister’s bed. loridanelle.blogspot.com



Pallet Headboard by Amber of Pineplace. homebyheidi.blogspot.com

Pallet Furniture: Tables



Pallet wood table legs and lower shelf, top is old decking, by Ana White, ana-white.com



Pallet Coffee Table with shelf. How-to: www.joyeverafter.com



Pallet coffee table. Larger wheels, no shelf. www.home-dzine.co.za



Pallet wood dining table. Cris and Diana’s Red Hook Rooftop. Via: www.apartmenttherapy.com

Pallet Doors



Missing a door? Replace it with pallet wood. www.blockandchisel.co.za

Pallet Furniture: Desks



Pallet Desk by Donna of Funky Junk Interiors. funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com



Pallet Desk by Donna of Funky Junk Interiors. funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com



Pallet Desks. Offices of advertising agency BrandBase sit in a narrow Dutch canal house. See the pallet stairs as well. Via: www.archdaily.com, www.mostarchitecture.com

Pallet Walls



Pallet wall. jerseyicecreamco.blogspot.com



Pallet wood wall. www.casasugar.com



Pallet wood wall. www.shadesoflight.com

Pallet Ceilings



A pallet wood ceiling. Detailed how-to: www.remodelaholic.com

Pallet Sauna



Pallet wood sauna.

Pallet Art



Tadashi Kawamata à Versailles

Taken on: September 18, 2008

www.artfacts.net, www.flickriver.com

Pallet Houses



The Pallet House prototype was designed by I-Beam Design and was featured in the HRH Prince Charles’ Royal Gardens as part of an exhibition on sustainable design, organized by the Prince’s Charity, Start, along with The Earth Awards, The Financial Times and IBM. www.i-beamdesign.com



The Pallet House was conceived as a transitional shelter for returning Refugees. www.i-beamdesign.com. You tube video: www.youtube.com



Pallet House at the Venice Biennale, www.palettenhaus.com



Pallet House Tube, Johannesburg. Note the straw bales integrated with pallets and glass. www.palettenhaus.com



The Learning Cube at the University of Colorado, Denver, is a simple framed, a public gathering shelter that uses shipping pallets as infill. www.archdaily.com



The Learning Cube at the University of Colorado, Denver. The stone wall is simple rubble rocks held in place with wire mesh. www.archdaily.com



Manifesto House in Chili by James & Mau, for Infiniski. Lots more images: www.archdaily.com



The Palettenpavillion was built in 2005 for the Skiing World Cup and was meant to be a temporary shelter for users and media to congregate, create and be inspired by the unusual, cave-like space. Matthias Loebermann choose pallets because he wanted to reflect the surrounding wooded region, while also constructing a sustainable space. It was constructed out of 1300 shipping pallets, 20 tie rods and 100 tension straps. www.aml-partner.de



Inside the Palettenpavillion.



“Be Paletto” is an temporary pavilion designed and built by 9 architecture students from Denmark. muuuz.com



Pallet installation, as above.



A wooden pallet building prototype by www.stephanemalka.com, lots more interesting images.

Pallets in the Garden



Pallet Planter. How-to: green.thefuntimesguide.com



Pallet planter. batzolades.wordpress.com



Palet Garden lined with coco shells. theinspiredroom.net



Pallet Garden. Detailed how-to here: www.joyeverafter.com

How to Avoid Using Dangerous Chemically-Treated Pallets

Pallets often have an IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) logo stamp. Heat-treated pallets are stamped with “HT”. Chemically-treated pallets have an “MB” stamp. Do not use the MB-stamped pallets. Happily, heat-treated pallets are much more common.

Also check to see if the pallet was pressure-treated, if they were, they will have an odd green tint. Never use pressure treated wood indoors and use with discretion outdoors.

How to Build and Decorate with Pallets

Pallet Bench: www.apartmenttherapy.com

Pallet House How-To: www.tinypallethouse.com

Pallet Dining Table: www.readymade.com/pallet_table.pdf

Outdoor Pallet Sofa: funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com

Pallet Loungers: shoestringpavilion.blogspot.com

Pallet Coffee Table: scraphacker.com

Pallet Sofa: www.apartmenttherapy.com

Pallet Playhouse: www.instructables.com

Pallet Shed How-to: summerville-novascotia.com

Pallet Shed: www.youtube.com

The 3 Best Pallet Furniture Books