A charming pallet potting bench that is also a beautiful console table or craft desk!
Not to mention, it is easy and quick to make!
Just 2 or 3 pallets, a little bit of cutting and assembling, we have a DIY Pallet Potting Bench so full of warm sunshine, smell of flowers, and all the carefree earthy fun!
You already know how my we love pallets from our pallet remodel outdoor room, that is full of pallet DIY , right?
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Well, the pallet fun does not end there!
For this two-pallet potting bench, we are utilizing the structure of pallets to make our work easier!
Before you start gathering pallets, check out this article: All About Pallets, lots of tips on where to find, how to select and work with pallets!
We started with 2 HT pallets like mentioned in there.
The one for the table top has 3 stringers, see drawing below.
The one for the table legs has 4 stringers, see below. (The 3-stringer ones are more common, so yours might need 2 pallets here. )
The table legs from pallet #2 will decide the width of our table, 21″ in our case. Use that measurement to cut across the pallet #1 for the table top.
Cut the “legs” to the correct height.
A comfortable height for a potting bench is about 37″. So the legs are 32″ to 33″ tall.
The legs and table top are joined together with pocket hole screws! The Kreg Jig Pocket Hole System is such a great tool that makes very strong joints very quickly, especially when you don’t have routers to make joinery.
Here’s the only tricky part, so attention please! In order to attach the table top to the legs, we doubled up the end stringers on the table top, see drawing above. We also moved the boards from the underside of the table top pallet to make sure that the double stringers sit directly on the table leg stringers, see images below.
We added the extra boards from pallet #1 as brace and shelf below. We left most of the wood as is, and sanded the areas that are likely to cause splinters.
Final step: just add your favorite exterior paint! I love Robin’s Egg Blue!
So What happened to the scraps? They can be made into these vintage seed packet wall hanging art! (free download printables!)
Or these pallet crates with easy wax paper image transfer!
And this…. …… you shall see!! =)