Further adventures in making ugly furniture... ha ha...
Pallets were always something found lying discarded on the other side of a fence...
A tall fence..
The kind of fence that you might be tempted to climb, but not the kind of fence you'd try to drag a pallet back over, with you...
And the pallets would, generally, be filthy and battered and frankly, not worth the trouble...
Sometimes, if fortune smiled on you, you'd find pallets on the right side of the fence, and in not too bad condition...
Where did I put that colourful magazine article about recycling pallets into furniture?
According to the article it's an exciting project! And, it'll only take a weekend!!
And by reusing the pallets I'll be recycling!
How virtuous of me! ha ha...
Hang on... are we talking about the same pallets?
It's just that the ones I have took most of an afternoon to clean....
And because they're rough sawn timber, it took a good day to sand them to something near a moderately smooth finish...
I don't know about feeling virtuous, but I do remember feeling tired, and slightly disappointed because all I had to show for my efforts was a particularly ugly piece of furniture...
One that I somehow managed to overlook when I left, when that particular lease expired... ha ha.
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