Sofa of pallets

Those times when making furniture to yourself was considered a sign of poverty are a thing of the past. Now everything in fashion is crafting, made by hand and with a soul. A sofa of pallets will give a special charm to a country house, a summer house, a hallway or even a living room.

Wooden pallets or pallets are boxes for storing and transporting various goods, building materials or products. Such boxes can often be seen around grocery stores, in warehouses. However, in skilled hands, these unpolished and coarse objects can acquire a completely different face.

Furniture and other items made from pallets fit perfectly into eco-style, loft and scandi styles, and are well suited to country houses and summer cottages. It's all about the tree, which is not hidden upholstery and pillows.The texture of the material gives the interior a natural warmth, purity and freshness. Light passes easily through the cracks in the pallet boards - such furniture does not clutter the space. In addition, such a sofa is very light, you can move it anywhere, which cannot be said about its massive “comrade” of chipboard and foam rubber.

The decor of these sofas can also be different. You can leave the tree clean, just smooth it polished. Lacquer coating will give strength and shine.

You can cover the wood with a stain - it will give a deeper and darker shade.

Well lays on pallets water-based paint. The sofa created using the technique of “aging” of the tree will look great. You can add furniture by cutting, burning out or applying decoupage.

Sofa of pallets can be designed for different rooms and purposes. For giving or at home in the city will suit:

• Small sofa bench with backrest.
• Ottoman for the rest.

For home interior, you can consider options:

• An ottoman or bed with a headboard.
• Bed based on a pallet.
• Sofa with armrests.
• Corner sofa.
• Children's sofa bed.

And in the country, and in the city apartment upholstered furniture from wooden pallets will perfectly complement the "cabinet" of the same materials. Coffee tables, dining tables, breakfast trays in bed, shelves for magazines and books, hinged shelves - all this can be made from pallets in the same style as the main piece of furniture.

The sofa can have a back (then it will be used for sitting) or a small headboard (then it will become a place to sleep). It is easy to supplement such a sofa with armrests, drawers from the bottom, to make it completely closed on three sides.

Most often, the construction is simple: a base is made from the pallet on which a mattress is placed on top. You can specially order a comfortable mattress of the appropriate size and cover it with a beautiful cloth. A retro mattress shot from the mezzanine is perfect for rustic options. The role of the backrest and armrests most often perform pillows.They can be ordinary, but best of all - furniture, from foam rubber. As an option - leave the pillows from the old couch and wrap them in a fabric of suitable style.

The easiest base option is pallets on the floor. No need for any legs! You can supplement the base with wheels - then the sofa can be moved very easily from place to place.

Pallets are not just crates, knocked down anyhow. This is officially adopted in the field of logistics and cargo auxiliary equipment, which is produced according to standards. A certain number of pallets are included in the container, and the containers are unloaded into vehicles. That is why it is so easy to work with pallets - they come from production of the same size, dosochka to dosochka.

• Europallets has dimensions of 80 cm by 120 cm. The distinguishing sign is a stamp burned with legs with beeches EUR in an oval.
• Finnish pallet a little wider - its size is 100 cm by 120 cm. The distinctive sign is the stamp of FIN.

Euro and Finnish pallet are certified. They have the same height - 14, 5 cm.

Non-certified samples may also be on sale (they are also used in the domestic market) - cargo pallets equal in size to Finnish and European, but they have no stamp. Moreover, they can be made of boards of different thickness and width.

Pallets differ in grades - first, second and third. Top-notch pallets are fastened with screws. Moreover, they are clean, bright and have no damage. Low-grade pallets can be dirty, darkened, and inside - knocked down by ordinary nails.

All this is important to consider if you plan to make furniture not from new pallets. Knowing that inside the nails, it is worthwhile to carefully examine the pallets and strengthen the connections so that the sharp fasteners do not accidentally fall out.

Ideally, it is better to buy new or quite a bit of used top-grade europallets. It is inexpensive, but much safer. They look eco-friendly, and the stigma adds style.

After choosing the pallets themselves (the size of the pallets will make it possible to understand how many pieces you need for a sofa of a certain size), you should definitely treat them with an antiseptic. This is especially true for used pallets, but it doesn’t hurt new ones.This is done not only to kill the bacteria, but also to prolong the life of the tree. Special formulations:

• Prevent rotting.
• Prevent the formation of mold and mildew.
• Reduce the "flammability."

Antiseptics are water, oil and combined - which one is right for you, it is better to consult a specialist in a building materials store. Clean the pallet before cleaning and degrease. Then with a brush or roller, you need to apply the composition to pallets, according to the instructions. Usually, the wood is literally impregnated with an antiseptic, applying 4-5 layers. After that, the tree dries out for 2-3 days (ideally - if on the street or on the balcony).

Now the pallets are ready for assembly. The easiest type of sofa is a bench. This option is suitable for giving or garden area, like outdoor furniture.

One or two euro pallets and several wooden bars 5-6 cm thick will suffice for it. A puncher, a screwdriver, bolts, screws, washers and metal corners are useful for work.

To make the basis for the bench, you need to do the following step by step:

• Saw the pallet into 2 unequal parts. A standard pallet is assembled from 7 boards, it is necessary to divide it so that on one part there are 4 boards, and on the other - 3. The wide part will be the seat, and the narrower part will be the back.
• Fold back and seat with each other at an angle of 90 ° and firmly pull the screws or screws.
• Strengthen fastening with wooden barswhich should be attached to the diagonal from the top corner of the back to the bottom corner of the seat. Get something like a diagonal armrests.
• If desired, the remaining boards can be made legs, so that the pallet is not lying on the ground. It is best to make them low and thick enough and fasten, reinforcing the metal corners.
• Throw on the sofa a mattress and pillows.

This sofa is best to put against the wall, because over time, the back can be a little loose.

To make an ottoman for spany, you need 6-8 standard pallets.

• Each pallets measure from one edge 20 cm and saw off completely this part (along with the "legs").
• The board, which sawed off, and the legs need to be separated, removing the fasteners from the inside. These parts will become fasteners in the place where you will connect two pallets together.
• Take two pallets with felled edges, fold them with a saw to each other.
• Under the boards, put the "legs"and put the board on top, which turned out to be sawed off. Secure with screws.
• That way you don't just knock two pallets together., and you will make a “seam” that will hide the cutting place and the base of the bed will look like a single large pallet.
• Combine other pallets in the same way. It will be very nice and convenient if the base of the ottoman is two pallets high, that is, you need to make two bases and place them on top of each other, connecting them with fasteners. It’s not necessary to be afraid that the construction will collapse - the pallets were originally designed for large loads and for standing on top of each other.

• The base is additionally sanded and sanded. You can toned pallets with stain, varnish or paint if you want.
• After that, you can put on the couch mattress (any, depending on your wishes of comfort), as well as decorate rugs, bedspreads and decorative pillows. Advice from experienced designers - so that the mattress and pillows do not “ride” on the bed, you can sew around the edges of strong ties and skip them between the pallet boards.So the mattress will remain in place even after a stormy night.

Corner sofa can decorate your living room, and in the country - a veranda or gazebo. You can make a low sofa from a single layer of pallets - then it will be furniture in oriental style.

The instruction is as follows:

• For one row of base, 3 pallets will be needed. Two of them are connected to each other in length. This will be the longer part of the seat. You can just knock them down, but you can - with sawing and putting the legs, as described above.
• We connect the third pallet at a right angle with the long part of the seat - the shorter part will turn out and the angle will be formed.
• Further, if necessary, we make the second row the height is similar.
• The back of such a sofa is made from other pallets. To do this, remove them from the legs and bottom boards. Wooden lattices will turn out. They need to be placed vertically, attached to the bottom of the base. So the back will turn out strong enough and high. Put as many "grids" as you need along the length of the sofa.
• Next is the grinding, toning, decoration with paints and textiles.

At master classes from designers in the style of "loft" often show a sofa with armrests from the side parts of the pallet. This is a universal material from which furniture can be assembled from a designer. Side parts can serve as shelves, legs for tables, shelves for storage.

If you need a sofa with armrests, then they will need 2 additional pallets. Saw the side parts with the legs, without separating the parts. There will be parallelepipeds, empty inside with blocks-legs along the edges. They will be the armrests. Just put them on the sides of the sofa and attach the screws. From one pallet you get 2 armrests - left and right. To make them higher and more functional, duplicate them from above with the same details from the second pallet.

Depending on the style and purpose, you can make a variety of sofas from pallets. The most important rule of successful interior decoration is support. That is, such a crafting sofa should not be alone. It must be supplemented with a table, shelves or some other details from the same pallet.

This photo shows a corner sofa for the garden with a table. The pallets are painted in a pleasant “dusty” blue color, very suitable for outdoor furniture. The same tone is repeated big pillows, folded at the back. Pillows purple and lilac shades in harmony with mattresses. A striped pillow link table (on which lies a towel from the same fabric) and a sofa in a single ensemble.

Another example of a bright corner of a country house is a small sofa-lounge, where you can drink cocktails and sunbathe. The tree is painted with bright paint - this once again underlines how well the pallet looks with and without painting. Stylish bright blue pillow bases are made to order. Red pillows make the ensemble even brighter and tie together a sofa and a table on wheels.

Obviously, to achieve the effect of a full match in the color of the pillows and the color of the paint for the tree, you must first buy / sew the pillows, and then, looking at the shade of the fabric, mix the paint, adding the desired color.

A real “loft” in a country house is a small ottoman for relaxing indoors. A retro mattress is laid on the basis of pure wooden pallets and original pillows are arranged according to colors.

The original and budget solution for the bedroom. On the basis of pallets laid mattress to sleep. For convenience, the base is made much larger than the mattress - it turned out to be a rather low bed. The lattice bottom is perfectly crafted - under it there are light bulbs laid out (it is quite possible to use an ordinary New Year's garland), which makes the interior mysterious and additional comfort.

In the apartment, in addition to the living room, bedroom and hallway, where the furniture from the pallet fits perfectly, you can put such a small sofa on the balcony - in modern large apartments with loggias this may be true. So the balcony from the place of storage of junk will turn into a zone for rest.

Country sofa can be placed anywhere - not the veranda, under a canopy, in the gazebo. A set of such furniture looks just beautiful on a sunny lawn, but in this case the sofa and table should be mobile enough so that when the weather worsens they can be easily removed.

Depending on the style of the interior and the original idea, furniture from pallets can be either a temporary solution (as long as there is no money for a luxurious and comfortable sofa) or the main style dominant of a room.

This clear master class will help you make a simple and comfortable sofa.