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Wood Pallet DIY Projects: 20 Building Projects to Enrich Your Home, Your Heart & Your Community (Fox Chapel Publishing) Make One-of-a-Kind Useful Items for Your Home and Garden from Reclaimed Wood
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Product Description Discover the potential of rediscovered wood as you upcycle salvaged pallets to create beautiful one-of-a-kind projects! 20 step-by-step projects for home and garden accessories, from wine, spice, and coat racks to bookshelves and benches Learn to make one-of-a-kind useful products for your home and garden out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets Helpful advice on where to find skids, how to process them into usable lumber, fasteners, sanding, and the best finishes (if any) to use Important safety tips on how to make sure that your skids are safe for people and have not been sprayed with harmful chemicals Learn the authors' compelling story: Their inner city Abba Woodworks project creates jobs and opportunity with the slogan "Reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lives" This book teaches you how to make useful products for your home, garden, and community out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets. Twenty step-by-step projects include raised garden beds, herb and rail planters, wine, spice, and coat racks, book shelves, benches, water barrel stands, small compost bins, and more! With practical advice on where to find pallets, how to process them into usable lumber, fasteners, sanding, and finishing, it also includes important tips on how to make sure that your pallets are safe and not sprayed with harmful chemicals. Recycled Wood Pallet DIY is the first book to tell the compelling story of Abba Woodworks, the authors' inner city project that creates jobs and opportunity under the slogan "Reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lives." Review Thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, Wood Pallet DIY Projects is unreservedly recommended for personal and community library Woodworking instructional guides and manuals. -- Midwest Book Review Stemming from the success of an altruistic project that taught Baltimore schoolchildren how to plant gardens with wood pallets, the Fitzbergers have developed an entire book full of ideas for repurposing this unloved wood. This focus on reuse will inspire homeowners and builders alike to find ways to enrich their homes with used materials and avoid the landfill. -- Builder and Developer Magazine Book Description Create useful products out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets. 20 step-by-step projects include raised garden beds, bookshelves, benches, plant stands, tables, spice racks, and much more. From the Back Cover Upcycle Salvaged Wood Discover the potential of rediscovered wood! Start making useful products for your home and neighborhood out of reclaimed shipping pallets. Wood Pallet DIY Projects shows how to upcycle salvaged skids to create beautiful one-of-a-kind projects. Twenty step-by-step projects include raised garden beds, bookshelves, benches, water barrel stands, and much more. Keep pallets from the landfill and give them a new purpose. 20 step-by-step projects for home and garden accessories, from wine racks and coat racks to planters and wall sconces. Helpful advice on where to find pallets, how to process them into usable lumber, fasteners, sanding, and the best finishes (if any) to use. Important safety tips on how to make sure that your pallets are safe for people and have not been sprayed with harmful chemicals. "I love the whole idea: the philosophy behind [Wood Pallet DIY Projects] and the finished projects"—CHRIS LUBKEMANN, author of The Little Book of Whittling About the Author Steve Fitzberger is the founder of Abba Woodworks, an inner city Baltimore organization dedicated to reclaiming wood and reclaiming lives. Abba Woodworks' mission is to create great local jobs and create opportunity for those who may struggle to find one. Steve and his associates make one-of-a-kind beautiful, useful products for the home and garden out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets, all from local businesses. This is his first book.
