Pallet Home Décor Ideas

Wood Pallet Home Decor and Design Ideas

What can you do with old wooden pallets for your home decoration? If you’re here, know that you’re in the right place because we have thousands of decoration ideas out of wood pallets. We present you with a small selection of them in this article. If you are there, making a beautiful piece of furniture out of colorful wood pallets is not as difficult as you think. You just need to be creative. Here are some decorative and design ideas to show you how to use wood pallets for your home decoration. More and more people buy wooden pallets simply because it’s fashionable, but others are doing wonderful things with them. You can use wooden pallets in many different ways – like coffee tables, kitchen bars, sofas and couches, desks, lights, wall shelves, and more. We’ll give you some examples of how to turn wooden pallets into nice decorations for your home. Be inspired!

Never enough room for things in the kitchen? Try a wooden pallet shelf:

Lack of space in your dressing room? The wooden pallet is ideal for storing your shoes and accessories. Moreover, it takes only a little space in your entrance or bedroom.

Wooden pallet for your dressing room

Wooden pallets are ideal for making storage furniture of different shapes and sizes. This beautiful and practical storage unit was made from reclaimed wood pallets and repurposed wood crates. With a little perseverance, it is straightforward to make.

What is even easier is to make shelves out of wooden pallets. In addition, you can color them in various shades, depending on the style of your interior design.

Wooden pallets are ideal for making shelves

If you want to be different from your neighbors, you can, for example, make a pallet table for the garden. You can do this yourself by adding four wheels to two wooden pallets and voilà! Another thing you can do is to put two pallets as the top and two more as the table legs. The table can be small or big, it all depends on your free space. And there you have it; your coffee table is ready. It’s not very expensive, but you can also make it yourself, it’s better for your ego. Check out this article for pallet coffee table inspirations.

Pallets as coffee table

If you have some white paint and a few wooden pallets lying around, you can turn them into a modern coffee table or a table for the garden. Reclaimed wood still retains its beauty, and you can turn it into a modern design table. For some people decorating is putting things together in a way that you can’t find elsewhere. A table made of wooden pallets with worms on top is exactly the kind of furniture you can’t find anywhere else.

Wooden pallets in the shape of a coffee table for the garden

You could also add some color to your living room with a piece of pallet furniture like this, a single pallet coffee table painted with a nice “pop” green color:

Make yourself a chandelier out of wooden pallets. Remember how the wooden pallets used to be and how they will be shaped into a beautiful lamp. Lamps & lights are perfect as wood pallet decoration ideas. If you need more pallet lamp inspirations, check out these 40 stunning lamps!

Sculptural Chandelier made from pallet wood & many bulbs by Studiomama.
Lampshade made out of pallet planks and painted in different colors.

If you have a small bedroom, then you can use pallets to make yourself a smaller bed. And your small bedroom becomes a design in one go. Or maybe you need a bed for your child? Do like Lori Danelle, who turned some pallets into a bed for her child. Instructions are on her site in case you need help.

Use your creativity to make a beautiful bed out of pallets

To make a bed, you would need more wooden pallets. Stack your pallets, give them a few licks of paint, add some nice cushions, and you’d have a unique, low-cost bed to put outside or inside. The wooden pallet can also be used as a platform. Please take a few shelves, put them on top of each other, and have a bed and storage space platform. All you have to do is choose a comfortable mattress and nice sheets.

Pallets can also serve as a headboard if you put them on the walls behind. All it takes is a little creativity. If you like minimalism and you want a cheap bed, go for pallets. An all-white bed or a one with inscription like below is always design. Pallets are simple and can be minimalist.

An original pallet headboard

Looking for a place to be quiet with yourself while reading a book? Then how about a reading nook made of pallets? You’ll need a few good tools, but the result will be worth it.

Black and white design sofa with cushions

With creativity and wooden pallets, you can turn your workplace into an eco-friendly and cool place at the same time. Stairs, desks, everything can be made out of wooden pallets. The design in the picture below is modern and made entirely of recycled pallets.

Chic and stylish – that’s how you can define a desk hung in pallets. We’re not sure if it’s excellent, but it looks great. If you want a natural office for your home, the wood pallet is there for that. The contrast with the rest is charming. Discover original ways to reuse wood pallets into practical desks.

Comfortable and original hanging desk

For some of the furniture you can make yourself; you would need special materials. Like for example, the sofa in the picture below: it’s a plastic pallet cut into halves with stainless steel plates and legs for stability. The added blue cushion add style.

Sofa in blue and wood pallets for your living room or your bedroom

Another idea is to make a sofa out of wood pallets in warm or flashy colors. The pallet that follows the mattress will accentuate the style of your sofa. A sofa made of wooden pallets is the perfect piece of furniture for your garden. Even though it is quite simple, there is something about a wooden pallet sofa that catches the eye. It can also be the sofa where your kids go to play Wii, Playstation, Xbox, etc., or where you drink beers with your friends.

Sofa made of pallets that can be put inside or in the garden

If you like simplicity, an L-shaped sofa made of wood pallets may be the simplest sofa you’ve ever seen. It would be best if you had 6 pallets and lots of foam. A sofa with a built-in coffee table? It’s all from the cousins because the pallet base is quite similar to the other sofas.

Minimalist and simple L-shaped sofa

A sofa for your kids? Pallets are perfect for your teens’ room. Here is an example by meetmeatmikes.

A wooden pallet sofa would be very comfortable for the garden, but it will also be super modern. It won’t be tough to make, but don’t forget that it will need to be well sanded. A homemade sofa can cost you as little as $5.

Sofa in grey for the balcony or the garden

Perfect for putting your instruments or even your flowers in your garden or your balcony, a multifunctional pallet plant stand will do the job.

If you don’t have enough room for your books, consider getting a wooden pallet bookcase which also looks great. Another way to store your stuff is with pallet storage carts. And again, you can make them yourself. Ana White can tell you how.

When you want to have all your photos in front of you all the time, wooden pallets can serve as frames that you can put on the wall.

You can make yourself a honeycomb pallet mirror. It is beautiful and design like the one in the photo below.

Wooden pallets frame for decoration

Pallets can be used to cover your floor if you like the natural look. Don’t expect it to blend in well right away but it should come with time.

Make yourself a coat rack out of wooden pallets and mount it on the wall after sanding and painting the pallets the way you want. You recycle and create at the same time.

If you have a small balcony that you would like to beautify, add one pallet, use it as planter and add flowers, you will have a small nature garden.

With a simple wooden pallet, you can make anything – sofas, high and low tables, chairs, shelves, storage, wooden frames, and decor. With this cool dining table, you don’t even need a tablecloth for your meals; it is so beautiful!

Wood is a natural and durable material, perfect for outdoor spaces, and so pallets are. If you are patient and persistent, you can easily build your outdoor deck entirely out of wooden pallet furniture. You can even create flower pots.

That’s all, folks; you have some nice ideas here to start working with pallets. You can browser the thousands of pallets ideas on this website to better suit your needs.

Neokentin

Engineer, Co-founding partner of 1001Pallets. I earned my Engineer degree in Aeronautics & spatial telecommunications and navigation systems from INSA (Toulouse, FR). I worked as a sub-contractor for Airbus Aerospace & Defense for more than 12 years; I was the guy who worked on the black box inside the aircraft that give its exact position, useful if you want to land in the right place :). Since September 2015 I'm full-time working on 1001Pallets.com & Recyclart.org. I'm passionate about recycling, vintage & refurbished things; I'm always amazed by the creativity of people around the world and how with their two hands and some imagination they can transform almost anything into beautiful objects, I also love to explore flea market in search of the "unfounded" object. I'm also a kind of a geek, and I'm behind the technical aspects of 1001Pallets.com & Recyclart.org, so if something is not working as it should, it's all my fault, and you should contact me for debugging purpose. In my spare time, I love going in the countryside, hiking in the mountains, drinking a delicious glass of wine with my friends and traveling to explore the beautiful places of this earth and meet other people and cultures.

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