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Theatre seating with pallets….this could work!

A few pallets, paint them white and make a cushion that looks like an ice cream sandwich. Brilliant. I need one of these…now to find a DIY on making couch pillows.

Colorfully painted pallets used as planters. Great spring project! I would love to see how else people are hanging / using pallets as planters…time for some reconnaissance. Off to the internets…(queue zippy Batman music)

unconsumption:

Pallets — wall mounted and repurposed as planters. ‘Nuff said.

(photo via Stacy K Floral)

Yet another fantastic use of pallets. 

unconsumption:

More pallet projects

Do you remember when I asked — here on Tumblr and on the Unconsumption Facebook page — about your interest in seeing other items made from repurposed pallets? The replies were overwhelmingly positive.

So my Unconsumption colleagues and I continue to be on the lookout for pallet projects we haven’t yet covered, such as this garden installation featured on French architect Patrick Nadeau’s Web site. Interesting use of pallets, isn’t it?

(Spotted on Pinterest here, via friend and landscape designer Susan Cohan.)

Related: Smaller-scale gardening in pallets: see previous posts on turning single pallets into vertical gardens here and here.

This has been floating around the interwebs for some time now but this picture is really what we were looking for, the process of creating such a great looking seat out of pallets. Stacked and painted pallets with upholstered foam cushions. Perfect for spring!

Should RG make a guide for putting this together?

Pallet wood as flooring! Nice work. We have been thinking of re-flooring the immense Repurposed Goods workshop and this was the idea.

unconsumption:

Beautiful new floor made from old pallets

A couple days after writing about Arctic Plank floors [Unconsumption’s post about it is here] made with reclaimed shipping pallets, Oregon-based Viridian Wood Products announced two new flooring products made from shipping pallets and crates. The two lines are FSC-certified, 100% reclaimed, and available with or without a low-VOC polyurethane finish. 

Viridian Wood Products may contribute towards LEED credits in a number of categories, including for materials reuse, recycled content, regional materials, and certified wood.

(via Jetson Green)

Special note: In the Jetson Green post’s comments, a reader addresses the subject of safety of pallet wood reuse, noting that some wood’s been treated with chemicals to help kill or repel insects and/or bacteria. Viridian’s owner responds, saying the company uses heat-treated (not chemically treated) wood and has had no problems with it.

Related: On the Unconsumption Facebook page, we’ve discussed the idea of using heat-treated pallets instead of chemically treated products. And, over on TreeHugger, Lloyd Alter has also brought up the subject. (See his recent post titled Are pallets unpalletable building material?)

For other pallet repurposing ideas/projects — furniture, palletecture, and more — see the Unconsumption archives here.

You really cannot beat Candice’s water side PAC lounge. By the looks of it, she has made 3 regular PACS all painted and one Love Seat PAC stained dark brown. This looks so relaxing! As always, great job Candice!

Mississippi River Delta Picture. This type of visual certainly makes us at Repurposed Goods anxious to do more good with our chosen material. If anyone is out there in Mississippi OR in Tuscaloosa in dire need of a seat / chair / rest…please contact RG and give me your situation and I will provide you some PAC plans. Good luck to those in Mississippi, Alabama and here in Georgia…it’s been a rough spring so far but it will get better! 

Oh yes, on the brighter side….HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

Another great take on using pallets to create a low cost shelter. I would love to see the plans OR create a DIY Guide for something like this. Side observation, their pallets look mighty clean which makes me wonder, were they ever used for the transportation of goods?

ohmyfurandwhiskers:

This shelter was designed for refugees in Kosovo, back in 2006. Now it is being developed by i-beam design for use as inexpensive and efficient low-cost housing not only for people displaced by natural disasters but also as a solution for affordable pre-fab housing. In most cases in a disaster relief effort, many of the pallets will arrive as part of the transportation of food and materials; so the basic materials are there already. The shelters can be built by hand at a rate of 500-600 pallets per day. One transitional shelter measuring 10’ x 20’ would take 80 pallets to build and cost approximately $500.

As much as I would like to live in a yurt, I think this would be a fantastic idea too.