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    Default Tiny, 'off the grid' house made from wooden pallets.

    A small house made mostly from wooden pallets.

    http://rickmagley.blogspot.hu/2012/0...ght-think.html

    Further down the page you can see how he managed to make some longer support beams out of shorter pieces of wood.
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    I realy like that!
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    That's really good
    You know a lot of pallets are made from Teak ? not furniture quality, but teak all the same

    Thanks for the link

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    thats awesome
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    That is very very cool indeed. The fact that he just disassembles it and moves it on is cool too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toddy View Post
    That's really good
    You know a lot of pallets are made from Teak ? not furniture quality, but teak all the same

    Thanks for the link

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    yes and soaked in some nasty chemicals to stop rot and insect damage.

    My next door neighbor a green woodworker and all round Wood Smith built a large shed/summer house from pallets earlier in the year between showers

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    Now that is really neat
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    Love it....the location is pretty nice too

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    Thats a great idea
    my old man has access to lot of pallets through his work.....hmmmmm......
    mind you i think it would need a more organised/tidy minded person than me to live in somewhere so minimalist
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    Thats impressive!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sandbender View Post
    A small house made mostly from wooden pallets.

    http://rickmagley.blogspot.hu/2012/0...ght-think.html

    Further down the page you can see how he managed to make some longer support beams out of shorter pieces of wood.
    That is awesome!
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    I thoroughly approve! It looks so homely.
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    That's really good. Although it looks like an awful lot of sanding was done judging by the standard pallet finish compared with what he has.

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    On the same line and a good idea http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...l8wz1zU4vb2Fgg


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    Some more ideas for pallets ..The swing chair looks good http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...m1SKcTGywLV0kw


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    Quote Originally Posted by JAG009 View Post
    Some more ideas for pallets ..The swing chair looks good http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...m1SKcTGywLV0kw


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    Some great ideas there, the swing chair looked good, I liked the vertical garden too. Not so many worries about the toxic preservatives it seems, I had heard that before somewhere. Here is another example of pallets being put to a different use.



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    Awsome. Funny though we all live in houses worth x amount of thousands but what we would all do to live in something like that.

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    Superb , i love it.

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    I like that a lot

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    Looks a lot better than the "goat shed" I lived in in Greece a few years back !


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    Lol.It's a better quality shed that's all. Nothing amazing about joining two short pieces of wood to form alonger piece imho.
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    Here is the new wooden house I bought for grandson in their garden





    Note fairy light solar panel on roof


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    Quote Originally Posted by rik_uk3 View Post
    "...Here is the new wooden house I bought for grandson in their garden..."
    That is fantastic, he is a lucky boy. All he needs now is a little pot bellied stove to fry his bangers in the morning.

    Quote Originally Posted by crosslandkelly View Post
    "...Nothing amazing about joining two short pieces of wood to form alonger piece imho...'
    Perhaps not, however the way he joined two short pieces of wood may be an obvious thing to thee or I but probably isn't to some, especially those from the younger generation who didn't benefit from childhood exposure to Meccano or Lego.
    Last edited by sandbender; 04-09-2012 at 12:44.
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