Pallet Wall at its Best
You wouldn't even believe it, but this whole project cost me less than $20! I swear... I'm just as impressed.
I picked up a slew of pallets from a local Wimsatt. They always have loads of clean pallets for the taking. I filled the back of my Jeep with as many as I could and went home to begin the hardest part: Taking them apart.
With a hammer and pry bar, I removed all the nails from each individual board (i believe 8 nails on each board) and carefully removed the one board from the pallet. about 2 hours in, and only 1.5 pallets taken apart, Cody got home and asked me why the heck I was doing it that way?
Cody went to his car, grabbed a sawzall, and handed it to me. I have never seen one of these but I knew if I tried this with no prior knowledge to it, I would be missing a limb before I took a pallet apart. I put Oz in charge of this job- he took apart an entire pallet in less then 3 minutes.
*I stained all the pallet boards with about 6 different colors- mixing some
* Using screws, I put up a thin sheet of plywood. (drilling this into the studs made it easier to put up the pallet boards without having to constantly find studs)
*VERY IMPORTANT: I painted the wall black so if and when the pallets didn't match up exactly, the black would make it disappear.
*I barely matched up the boards, I used light colors and dark colors to my taste... And I started from the bottom and worked my way up.
The Door:
I know you wont believe it but this part was completely FREEEEEEE and I didn't have to do it :-)
Cody removed the extra door and wall in the basement bathroom for a remodel project we are still working on.... and might be working on for the next decade.... He used existing materials and more pallet boards to frame the door, install, and paint it.
Stay tuned to see exactly where the barn door came from.....
