Wednesday, September 26, 2012

DIY re-purposed palette coffee table


I saw a tutorial for this on Pinterest and I figured I could tweak it and make it my own. 

All you need is two palettes,sand paper (or a power sander), some nails, a power saw and stain!

step one: remove all the planks off one side of each palette (use crow bar or hammer)
step two: if the planks aren't already touching on the remaining side, remove them and re-nail them so there are no spaces between each plank. (I left one of the palettes how it was because the one on the bottom wont be used as a table surface, so it doesn't matter as much if there are spaces)
step three: use the power saw to cut off the remaining parts of the palette once the planks are positioned to be touching. make sure both palettes are the same size- cut as necessary.
step four: use the wood that was chopped off t make legs. We bolted ours to the bottom palette, but you could use whatever method you choose.
step five: place the table surface palette on top of the other one with legs! (we didn't attach ours. It sits in the living room as just one piece sitting on another. It made it easy for us to move it and there is no real point in attaching the two pieces unless you want to!
Step 6: sand and stain!

I will try to add step by step pictures later

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