If you search the internet for details of garden benches made from pallets you will find far more information than you need. They are even advertised for sale, so if you want to pay £795 for some pallets with cushions on, this is your chance. What is the world coming to?
It will come as no surprise for regular readers to find that I have never spent £795 on a piece of furniture in my life. I came close once – £700 for a Victorian iron bedstead – but it’s an antique so is hopefully an investment rather than just furniture. That was actually advice a dealer once gave me – buy old furniture because it’s already knocked about and you can probably get your money back if you need to sell it.
Anyway – back to pallet benches. The Joe Swift video shows how to make a simple, functional garden bench. He used a single pallet with nine slats, we had to use two pallets because we only had 8 slats, and one of them was broken. However, it worked, and we have a solid garden bench.
We left it with a number of pre-drilled holes and marks so the group could finish it and sand it, which they duly did yesterday. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there to see it, and we can’t use Julia’s photos due to safeguarding restrictions. You will have to put up with photos of Julia instead.
Somehow I missed this post before. This is a great idea! Our local feed store has lots of palettes.
It seems a good way to make cheap garden furniture.
Any likelihood of a magistrate sitting on it?
You never know…
£795 for a piece of furniture ??? That is ridiculous!
My thoughts exactly.
Ditto! Especially when you can get palettes for free!
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As we would say in Maine, a wicked good project!
Thanks. It’s shaping up to be a good bench. We will be making several and hopefully getting better all the time. 🙂
Nice!
Nice to put name to face-lovely lady wielding the drill. Pinterest gives all sorts of “helpful” ideas. Have to admit, it’s one of my first “go to’s.” Bench looks good!
It;s a lot heavier than I thought. Tomorrow the group will be painting it. 🙂
Good stuff. Putting up with Julia is no hardship 🙂
There are several answers I could make but “Absolutely, Derrick.” is probably safest. 🙂
Definitely
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