Pallets for transportation of goods can be used not only for the direct designated purpose. They have found broad application also in interior design for creation of the ecostyle fashionable today placing emphasis on environment protection and use of salvage. The coffee table from pallets made with own hands looks very effectively, originally.
Wooden pallets for storage and transportation of cargoes – the free eco-friendly material giving huge scope for creativity. Only two pallets and plain set of tools will be necessary for production of simple, but stylish coffee table.
Preparatory work over production of table begins with careful cleaning of surface of pallets of pollution. Pallets wash by means of cleansers then drill with special nozzle for woodworks remove deeply eaten dirt and grind the surface of wood.
If in pallets there are rusty nails, they need to be removed by means of the hammer and nail-catcher then to replace with new. In the course of removal of nails at old pallets small fragments of boards can be split and break away. The integrity of surface is restored by means of joiner's glue then the glued board is clamped in vice until full drying and skhvatyvaniye of parts. The prepared table-top is adjusted to the necessary size, sawing off superfluous, and the same sequence of actions is repeated with the second pallet. To provide to future coffee table mobility, the lower pallet is equipped with small wheels with swinging bracket. On the inverted pallet pencil put down tags under screws, by means of drill make the necessary quantity of openings and reliably fix wheels.
Both pallets cover with layer of primer and after its drying paint table in right color with acrylic or polyurethane paint. If there is need of saving the invoice of wood, then the table can just be processed mordant and to cover with several layers of wood colourless lacquer. After final drying of the painted or lacquered surface both parts of table connect among themselves nails or by means of metal corners. Wheels with turning gear can be replaced with usual furniture legs for table, having picked up them for height, width and the invoice so that the general style of coffee table was not broken. The table-top can be covered with the sheet of transparent plastic or the sheet of strong, tempered glass. The option of coffee table with continuous table-top differs only in the fact that in gaps between boards of pallet the wooden bars suitable on width are established, or at initial processing the pallet understands on separate boards which after cleaning and grinding force down in continuous surface, without formation of intervals.