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October52011
How To Build A Pallet Day Bed | Prudent Baby
I swear I don’t have a pallet obsession. Though if you looked back on my blog you may come to that conclusion. Don’t look back on my blog! Haha! I reckon I could get enough pallet DIYs that you could build all the furniture in your house with them. This piece is a double duty piece - a comfy bed for chillaxing on while you read a book or lay out in the warm air or a chair for many while you entertain. Plus it’s easy to do if you have the right tools! Get to starting on your pallet house yo!
Too long ago to want to admit, the now defunct magazine, Metropolitan Home, started out as Apartment LIfe, which began in the late 60s. Colourful and practical, this bi-monthly then monthly magazine exemplified a general audience Whole Earth Catalog ethos, and focused on recycling, basic cooking, and general do-it-yourself articles for those (younger boomers at the time) starting their first households. We loved and thoroughly dog-eared our copies of this magazine until the publisher dumped the practical of the late 70s recession era, and turned to the more over-the-top and luxe (read coke-fueled) envy of the go-go 80s and 90s. (Sadly, after the boxes of our old issues got soaked in a leaky storage shed, I bid them farewell around 1990 or so. LIke old LPs, we had hauled them from El Chuco to Santa Fe to San Angelo and back again to El Paso.)
That said, one of the articles that has stuck in my mind after all these years are the instructions for making a pallet day bed just like this one. The fun thing about the magazine were the ‘guest’ home images ala Architectural Digest. Of those, I remember the New York apartments of the now divorced Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher and Michael and Deanna Douglas (jan. 1980).
Tags: /crafts /day bed /diy /furniture /pallet day bed /prudent baby /woodwork /apartment life /metropolitan home /travels /magazines /whole earth catalog
Reblogged from Scissors + Thread.
