Pallet picnic tables

Not sure what a pallet is? Or what it has to do with a palate or palette? Well, pallets are often used as shipping crates, and hundreds of them are left at junkyards, on the sidewalk, and in dumpsters. Your palate is your appreciation of taste and flavor, and a palette is a range of colors or the board you mix paints on. In any case, here are 20 projects that are all about repurposing pallets.

All it took was a few warm days to remind me of the picnic table and benches I’d been planning to build. What I had in mind was a simple, straightforward design. Something I could knock out in a few days. Yet it needed to have a solid base and be sturdy enough to last for years. To make the table and benches easy to build, the joinery on each one is identical. Strong mortise and tenon joints keep the bases from racking. And splined miter joints ensure that the tops will stay flat. I used…

Summer is coming and I am ready to entertain friends and family, how about you? There are so many fun ways to entertain at home in the summer.I would love to ha…

Those charming low tables are always popular for casual summer table settings. I have had a ton of questions about how to build a table like this one- and they are so easy to make. If you are like me- you are dreaming of fun gatherings with friends and family this summer. And while those…