Outdoor Pallet Table

Pallets are very popular right now for creating practically anything you like, from wall covers, furniture and accessories. They work well for a rustic look in furniture or incorporated in a particular design. Pallets may be purchased or if you are as lucky as we were, you may even get them free.  We have had this pallet forever and it has seen it's fair share of paint drips, crayon scribble, dirt and everything else.  It started as a back drop for some of my blog photos, but over time, it just got plain ugly because of lack of care. We have used pallets in the past; when we created our mudroom space, we used half of a pallet to give our seat height by placing under the bench and we also made pallet night stands on here.

I decided it was time to fix our pallet and create something useful with it.  I asked Mr. M to give me the sander and instead he sanded the pallet completely.  It was super smooth and all the marks were pretty much gone. He added legs to it with some extra wood that was in the garage.

The legs are of a different kind of wood, so it was not going to stain the same, that's when I decided to paint it white and to stain the top.

After the paint and stain, I waxed it to give it a nice polish. 

For this project we used:

1 pallet
4 x 4 for legs (left over in garage
electric sander
white paint
wood stain
paint brush
sponge
nails or screws
drill or hammer
wood furniture wax

Got to love free things right?!  For more ideas on using pallets visit my pallet furniture board on Pinterest and follow to get the latest ideas.

We love our table and are enjoying it. View more photos of this table on this link.  Thank you for stopping by and checking out our pallet table.  If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment.

Inspired by Pallet Furniture

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There is so much you can do with pallets, it just amazes me.
Mr. M was inspired to work with pallets after viewing different furniture ideas.
If you remember, he worked with some pallets for this project
and has not stopped since.

He built a desk for me, but I don't have a photo to share at this moment,
but if you visit Funky Junk Interiors, it is exactly like hers.
He followed her tutorial, and now we have a large desk to meet our needs.
   
We were also in need of night tables for our bedroom and Mr. M decided to build

them out of pallets.  I was not sure about it at first, considering that pallets tend to
have rough edges, but when he was finished with the tables, I was smitten with them.
The edges were sanded and clean, without taking away that rustic look. 

Of course it needs to be filled in in many areas, but once filled, sanded and painted,
I'm sure that it will work in our room.  My current dilemma is what color to paint it.
Any suggestions?

This is the headboard that we recently worked on.
The frame is made out of pallets, can you tell?
There is a tiny problem though, due to the overlapping of the wood,
it makes it difficult to add nail heads evenly.  My man was not thinking about nail heads,
so it's going to remain that way, sigh!

I may have to leave them out of this one, unless I place them around
the headboard like the Pottery Barn headboard.
Help me here, I need suggestions, leave them out or put them in?

So once these items are finished, I'll post the final reveal for you to see, wish me luck.
Hope that you enjoy!
For more pallet ideas go here and get yourself inspired!