Furniture Project (Pallets Pallets Pallets)

Since starting this project it has been pretty full on and I haven’t had much time to be able to update this about it too much. So after deciding in the group that we were going to use pallets to come up with a piece of furniture. We got a number of blue pallets and broke them number to make them into different forms and to help with the design process. Whilst doing this we found it was hard to break them down into individual pieces so that put a restriction onto what we could do. We had been told the best option would be to saw them apart and use them that way. After getting four basically new pallets we were thinking of designs. We had planed at one point to incorporate growing/living plants into the furniture but this has now been decided against, along with a number of other ideas.

The reconstruction of a tree like shape out of the pallets.

It has been hard to think of a design and communicate it with everyone in the group and for it to be decided for or against. But different designs have been put to the table but have gone to make room for new ones.

Four basically new pallets

Ok so we have just under three weeks left of this furniture project. We thought we had eventually made some progress, which helped me to de-stress but then today our tutor basically told use, not in so many words that our design was crap and that were not getting enough out of the pallets. Which means now that we are back to the drawing board for the third time after initial ideas have been scraped previously. With not much time left lets just stay its going to be a very hard and stressful few weeks.


After hearing this me and Shona went down to the workshop to start working with the machinery and built some sort of structure out of the planks of wood cut from the pallets we have at the minute. It was good getting to terms with the machinery again before we start our actual design which is the only plus at the minute.


Tomorrow we are going to collect the new pallets which we have found, which will hopefully make it easier to come up with a design. I will try to keep this updated as much as possible over the next few weeks.