Pallet Chair

While roaming the farm a few weeks back I spied a pile of pallets and after asking Jerome, the patriarch farmer about them, I found that they were available to be used!  Sweetness.

Pallets seem to be a popular material for projects these days because there is a constant supply of them.  When Ross and I were traveling in Turkey this past January we had a magical experience working at an organic farm near the Black Sea (I will definitely be posting more about that place, truly magical).  They had all kinds of unique building projects, most likely due to the fact that two of their children are architects.  One that definitely stood out were their pallet loungers.  The picture below is the top of the farm and just in the middle are the loungers.  (If I had something more than satellite internet and I would just upload a whole gambit of photos, buuuuuuut we have limited data...I'm just a little bitter on this and I'm working on it).    

 

I started a google search on how to make a pallet lounger and found this pallet porn site of ideas!  I mean, there are lots of sites with ideas, so I just had to stop after finding this one and it had a link on for making the loungers.  

 

And voilà!  A lounger was made.  I sat there the rest of the day having drinks and imagining what the garden would hold in just a short couple of months.  Ideas were flowing!  My lounger is a bit more rackety, but I needed to simply make it instead of trying to perfect it.  It's good to start and finish a project in a day and this is one you certainly can do!  The website with the instructions painted theirs, but I know that this will be the extent of the chair. Hopefully it will get lots of use this summer!

Even Phil the cat likes it!