So, the Summer is on! We had wonderful three sunny days here in Ireland (that is as much of summer as you can get here) so I decided to keep myself busy and start a project of my own: PALLET BED. Yeap, sure you have seen it all over the internet for quite a looooong time now but I only got around of making one recently.
I would like to share few pointers with those of you who are thinking of making such bed base as well. There is plenty of manuals online on how to do it and it is really not hard at all but the work, the work guys that is definitely a killer (unless you have proper power tools which I do not,so I ended up doing everything by hand and by hand saw).
Pointer no. 1
If you are on the budget and can not afford brand new pallet then always order more than you need as not all the pallets will be the same size and build.
Pointer no. 2
Be sure to make the bed on your days off. It seems fairly easy to put few pallets together but you need to clean them up, sandpaper them, apply multiple coats of paint ( for the white gloss color that I used I was able to re-coat after 12 hrs.)so all around its not a 2 hours job.
Pointer no. 3
Measure and measure and measure everything. After I applied headboards on the back of the pallets I realized they are not the same height but because I didn't measure it didn't show when I was putting it together as I was using the exactly same pallets for this. (Genius moment).
Best of Luck with your own project.
Over and out !
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