How to make a pallet kitchen?

When it is not possible to purchase a factory-made furniture set, kitchen furniture made with your own hands from scrap materials can be a budget option. For such creativity, the easiest way is to use pallets - cargo pallets. Their cost is low, and if something does not work out, you can easily replace the damaged part of the structure.

Pallet furniture turns out to be multifunctional. You can easily assemble a sofa or a seating area, a kitchen stool, a table or a cabinet with shelves.

A do-it-yourself kitchen made of pallets is no different in its characteristics from a factory kitchen; it can have many drawers and shelves for storing all sorts of little things.

1. Pallets are easy to process: they can be sanded, painted, opened with stain and varnish. Furniture goes well with decorative elements (pillows, mattresses, bedspreads).
2. Pallet material - natural wood - environmentally friendly, does not emit any harmful substances.
3. Pallets marked EUR and EPAL have standard dimensions and do not require additional measurements. EUR pallet - 1200x800 millimeters, the top five boards are installed with gaps of up to 5 centimeters, a wide 14.5 cm board alternates with a narrow 12 cm board. The platform is supported by 9 square checkers fixed on transverse boards. The thickness of the boards is from 2 to 2.2 cm. The lower side is reinforced with three longitudinal boards with reverse alternation: narrow - wide - narrow. The corners are chamfered. The assembly of parts of the headset can be done without additional fasteners.
4. Do not use pallets with IPPC marking, which indicates the treatment of wood with a chemical composition against quarantine wood pests. Such material changes its properties under the influence of chemicals and cannot be used for furniture that is in living rooms.

Assembling furniture from Euro pallets is a simple process, the work is like assembling a designer.

You will need to stock up on the following tools:

• a hacksaw for working with wood;
• a grinding machine with different attachments;
• electric jigsaw;
• screwdriver;
• hammer and nail puller;
• pencil and tape measure;
• protractor.

Be sure to purchase mounting angles, screws of different sizes and nails. To prepare pallets, you need an antiseptic primer, stain, varnish or paint, foam rubber and fabric for sewing pillows.

The kitchen set consists of at least seven items:

• tables for cutting meat, fish and preparing vegetables;
• stools;
• cupboard or shelves;
• sinks;
• bar counter for receiving guests;
• dining table;
• soft corner.

The simplest will be the assembly of the soft corner.

• You need to take 4 pallets and prepare them: wash, sand and prime with stain, and then varnish or paint with paint.
• Place one on top of the other, place the third edge on the floor, with the main surface to the side of the "sofa", so that the back matches the length of the sofa.
• Fix the resulting structure with corners or self-tapping screws - you get the simplest sofa. On it you need to put pillows specially sewn from foam rubber on the seats and under the back.

Making a dining table from pallets looks a little more complicated.

• For two pallets, you need to saw off the checkers with a hacksaw at an angle of 90 ° to the boards near the middle row of checkers, practically divide the pallet in half, so that one side of it is with two rows of checkers, and the other with one. In one pallet, the cut should be on the right side, in the other on the left.
• A wide board of 14.5 cm is superimposed on the resulting cut, we fix it with self-tapping screws.
• We install a third, completely whole pallet on the received pedestals, you can fix them using corners, glue and self-tapping screws.
• For convenience, castors can be attached to the lower board (leg). It is recommended to cover the top plane of the table with glass or fill the boards tightly and put oilcloth on top.

To make a bar in a summer set for a summer residence, you will need only two prepared pallets. You need to fold them with the bottom side to each other, fasten them with corners and put them on the edge. Sew up the upper part with a wooden board to get a tabletop - for this you need to cut off boards of the same length and stuff them on the transverse jumpers fixed on the checkers of the resulting pedestal. In the cabinet itself, you can cut out a couple of boards, the second and third from above, on the edge of the fourth board, fix a shelf of the appropriate size, where you can store some little things: cups, spoons, napkins.

For a sink, it will be enough to assemble the same structure as the dining table, cut a round hole under the sink and install it. If the sink is not yet available, a metal basin can be inserted into the resulting hole. If there is no sewage drain, the "legs" of the curbstone are connected along the lower boards with jumpers, where a bucket is installed to drain the dirty water.

The cupboard can be assembled from pallets using only the top side.

1. Remove the fasteners holding the pallet blocks using a nail pusher.
2. Disassemble the top surface into separate boards.
3. From the materials obtained, assemble the frame for the cabinet, connecting four strips alternately at an angle of 90 °. Two rectangles for the frame are connected by transverse strips of the same length.
4. The sides of the resulting frame for the cabinet are sheathed with boards.

The simplest shelves can be obtained by putting pallets one on top of the other, 3 or 4 pieces. Then cut the boards between the second and third pallets (this will increase the storage area for the dishes) or hang half of the pallet on the wall with the top side to the wall, and tap the bottom with a board. A side is formed of a small height, behind which you can store cups, jars of spices and bottles of liquids.

Stools for a kitchen set for a summer residence can be perfectly made from pallet checkers. It is necessary to connect 4 checkers with transverse plank jumpers. In this case, the checker must be turned with the chamfer outward. Putting 3 such squares one on top of the other, you get 4 curbstones of checkers, with a chamfer outward from the center of the stool, connected by plank jumpers. The upper edge should be sheathed with boards and a foam pillow should be placed on top.

When all the parts of the headset are ready, arrange them as you like.

For information on how to make a kitchen out of pallets from a pallet, see the next video.