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Three Clever Ways to Reuse Wood Pallets

Help reduce landfill waste and make your home beautiful with clever upcycling ideas for discarded wood pallets.

Pallets are the flat structures used to stabilize large quantities of merchandise during shipping. When companies that aren’t in the manufacturing business receive pallets, they will often give them away for free, .

Enter DIY-ers. Here are some options for using pallets.

Industrial Coffee Table: Head over to to pick up four screw-in casters.

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Vertical Gardening: Fern, from the blog “Life on the Balcony,” has a tutorial for creating a vertical garden using a wood pallet, staple gun, landscape fabric and sandpaper.

Pallet Headboard: Clean the pallet, let air dry, sand and use a cleat to hang the pallet behind your bed or screw it into your metal bedframe.

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