DIY Pallet Potting Bench

I have found pallet love! At work we had 2 very large, heavy duty, pallets that we weren't sure what to do with. I saw this on Pinterest and decided I would try and make it. I ended up using only one pallet and some 2x4s.

We could have gone one of 2 ways with this project.  The easier and more rugged way or the harder but much more pretty way.  We chose easy and rugged!  The harder way would require us to remove every piece from the pallet and then design from there.  The easier way involved keeping the pallet as intact as possible and just adding some 2x4s to make the bottom shelf.  We needed to split the pallet in half to make a top and bottom shelf.  We used the sawzall and cut it down the center.

Once we got the top cut, we flipped it over and cut the bottom side.

 

We did not want to have the 4 pieces on the bottom shelf so we removed those.  This worked out very well as we used the 4 pieces we removed to fill in holes on the top side of both shelves.

Once we removed them we nailed them to the top.

We added 2x4s to the ends to help with strength.  On the bottom shelf we also needed to add a 2x4 the length of the shelf since there are only 3 boards that run through the middle of the pallet.

Then we attached the legs!  We wanted our table to be 36" high so we cut the front to legs to that height.

After the front legs were added we added the back legs.  We chose a height of 50 some inches for the back to legs so we could add a small top shelf.  We then screwed in the bottom shelf.  We used an extra pallet to raise the bottoms shelf off the ground so we could screw it in place.

We then added our top shelf and we were done!