Tag: Reclaimed Wood
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Building a Pallet Wood Storage Bin (With a Matching Lumber Rack)
Every shop ends up with two piles that never go away: cut-offs too small to throw out, and full-length boards with nowhere to lean. This build tackles both at once: a fully enclosed rolling storage bin for scraps, and a companion open-divider lumber rack for longer boards, both built the same weekend from the same…
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DIY Rustic Dart Board Cabinet from Reclaimed Pallet Wood
I had a stack of reclaimed pallet boards sitting in the shop and a dart board that needed a home, so I built a surround for it instead of just screwing the board straight into drywall. The result is a simple recessed wood frame that holds the dartboard, catches stray darts, and adds a bit…
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Reclaimed Wood Rolling Scrap Bin: A Pallet-Wood Shop Storage Cart
Every shop ends up with a pile of offcuts too good to throw away and too awkward to store, short lengths of trim, cut-down boards, the odd curved or notched scrap. This build turns that pile into something useful: a rolling bin, framed in new lumber and clad entirely in reclaimed pallet boards, that rolls…
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DIY Chevron Patio Set Built From Reclaimed Pallet Wood
This patio set started as a truck bed full of free wood shipping pallets and turned into five separate pieces: a chevron-top dining table with two matching benches, a smaller accent table with a completely different four-way “pinwheel” chevron top, several straight-slat stools, and a two-tier plant stand. It’s the largest single build in the…
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DIY Pallet Wood Lounge Chair
A Lounge Chair Built From Broken-Down Pallets This one started as a stack of pallets in the bed of the truck. By the time it was done, it was a low-slung outdoor lounge chair: the kind you sit back into rather than up on, with a reclined backrest and a seat that sits close to…
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DIY Chevron Trash Can Built From Reclaimed Wood
This is the smallest piece in an ongoing chevron series: a reclaimed wood trash can cover with a mitered chevron-pattern lid and a carved wood handle. It uses the same mitered-board motif as a Chevron Coffee Table, a Chevron Outdoor Bench, and a full Chevron Patio Set, just applied at a much smaller scale, which…
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DIY Industrial Pipe Clothing Rack — Two Builds, Two Looks
A clothing rack built from threaded black pipe fittings, documented through two real builds — an all-pipe rolling-cart version and a redesigned wood A-frame with two shelves and a shorter pipe accent rail.
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A Rustic Platform Bed with a Reclaimed Wood Patchwork Headboard
A dark walnut-stained platform bed frame paired with a separately built reclaimed wood patchwork headboard — mixed board widths and tones laid up into one panel, then joined to the frame. Documented from raw lumber to finished piece.
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DIY Coffee Table Made From a Reclaimed Door
A coffee table built around a salvaged window sash — its own glass panes and muntins become the tabletop, and cut-down sash panels form the sides and legs — shown from raw material through the finished piece.
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A Rustic Live-Edge Desk Built from Reclaimed Wood
A compact home-office desk built from a patchwork of reclaimed boards, finished with a hand-shaped wavy front edge for a live-edge look and set on angled A-frame legs — documented from raw frame to finished piece.