Wood Pallet DIY Projects: 20 Building Projects to Enrich Your Home, Your Heart & Your Community (Fox Chapel Publishing) Make One-of-a-Kind Useful Items for Your Home and Garden from Reclaimed Wood - Softcover

Steve Fitzberger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156523930X ISBN 13: 9781565239302

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Discover the potential of rediscovered wood as you upcycle salvaged pallets to create beautiful one-of-a-kind projects!

• 20 step-by-step projects for home and garden accessories, from wine, spice, and coat racks to bookshelves and benches
• Learn to make one-of-a-kind useful products for your home and garden out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets
• Helpful advice on where to find skids, how to process them into usable lumber, fasteners, sanding, and the best finishes (if any) to use
• Important safety tips on how to make sure that your skids are safe for people and have not been sprayed with harmful chemicals
• Learn the authors' compelling story: Their inner city Abba Woodworks project creates jobs and opportunity with the slogan "Reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lives"

This book teaches you how to make useful products for your home, garden, and community out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets.

Twenty step-by-step projects include raised garden beds, herb and rail planters, wine, spice, and coat racks, book shelves, benches, water barrel stands, small compost bins, and more!

With practical advice on where to find pallets, how to process them into usable lumber, fasteners, sanding, and finishing, it also includes important tips on how to make sure that your pallets are safe and not sprayed with harmful chemicals.

Recycled Wood Pallet DIY is the first book to tell the compelling story of Abba Woodworks, the authors' inner city project that creates jobs and opportunity under the slogan "Reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lives."

About this title

About the Author

Steve Fitzberger is the founder of Abba Woodworks, an inner city Baltimore organization dedicated to reclaiming wood and reclaiming lives. Abba Woodworks' mission is to create great local jobs and create opportunity for those who may struggle to find one. Steve and his associates make one-of-a-kind beautiful, useful products for the home & garden out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets, all from local businesses. This is his first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156523930X
• ISBN 13: 9781565239302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224