Spring Time Pallet Gardening Ideas

Spring has sprung! What a better way to celebrate than starting a garden! Even in a small space here are some great ideas using pallets and reclaimed wood to create an oasis of your own!

Vertical Pallet Wall Garden

Reclaimed wood (think old picture frames!) Garden boxes Chevron Pattern

Pallet reclaimed wood Garden Box

Perfect for small spaces, Vertical Pallet Garden

Simone Tasca

Designer Simone Tasca stacked twelve reclaimed wood shipping pallets and created one comfortable looking spot to invite a 
group of friends to lay back and watch a movie.

Reclaimed Pallet Wood Accent Walls

CREATE Great Accent Wall using reclaimed Pallets/Wood

These examples all use a horizontal mounting pattern starting from the bottom up. Sand down or chemically clean the wood prior to staining and/or sealing the wood. Then mount to desired effect.

The feeling created can range from rustic to modern, and eccentric

Great uses creating Shelving, Jewelry box, or Tool Storage Space

Give a cabin-like makeover to your attic or basement. It will add warmth and change the tone of the room especially if it is a large echo-ey space

Paired with a modern low bed, and cheap industrial lighting fixtures

Cozy Retro "That 70's Show" Deco

Adding other reclaimed & painted wood gives a dramatic accent wall that is FAR different from a dark cabin look

Nursery makeover, Modern and warm

Pallet Tables

RESPONSIBLE DESIGN

Designers have a responsibility to create practical living spaces that utilize materials that otherwise would go to waste. Pallet tables and seating areas pictured below are just a few clever ways to recycle "one man's trash" and transform it into a stylish and functional space.

TREASURE

Simply stacking 2 pallets as a coffee table. It matches well with the natural wood floor to create a neutral palate of colors to work with in the room.

2 Pallets joined by 4x4s on the corners. Stain to desired color, add wheels. Portable outdoor furniture. Affordable, Easy, and Useful!

Another simple stacked Pallet design coffee table, great for storage (shelf)

With a heavy canvas or waterproof fabric, this could be a great outdoor furniture piece

Pallet Homeless Project

A group of college students at Emily Carr University built some tiny houses for the homeless as a school project.

The students built three prototypes and at first local governments weren’t interested in using them. Luckily someone came to their senses and today they are in use by the Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Society. They are no larger than 64 square feet, provide shelter and a warm place to sleep, and cost less than $1,500 CAD each to build.

Pallet Home

They are Schentzer Andreas Claus and Pils Gregor, two University of Vienna students who took simple materials and a modern design to functionally recycle pallets. This energy efficient and sustainable design reminds us that affordable housing for all (11USD per sq. ft.) is very attainable. 

Pictured above, Andreas Claus and Pils Gregor, who won the 2008 GAUDI European Student Competition for sustainable architecture. Since then, they have also won the 2009 Piranesi Student Honorable Mention.

Palate Pallet Palette

This blog is an attempt to cover 3 of my favorite things, Eating/Food/Culinary (Palate) Design & Crafts (Pallet) Art & Music (Pallette)

Definitions brought to you by dictionary.com

Palate:

1.Anatomy . the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate)  and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate)  that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
2.the sense of taste: a dinner to delight the palate.
3.intellectual or aesthetic taste; mental appreciation.

Pallet
1. a bed or mattress of straw.
2. a small or makeshift bed.

Palette
1. a thin and usually oval or oblong board or tablet with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters for holding and mixing colors.
2. any other flat surface used by a painter for this purpose.
3. the set of colors on such a board or surface.
4. the range of colors used by a particular artist.
5. the variety of techniques or range of any art: a lush but uneven musical palette.