I don’t remember off the top of my head why we had pallets stacked up in the backyard, but we did. We must have decided not to do whatever we had originally intended to do with them, so we decided to take them apart and make something out of them. We decided to construct an outdoor table to display some succulents on and we wanted to use only stuff that came on the pallets (so basically, wood and nails). We salvaged a ton of rusty nails which ended up being the method we used to keep this thing from falling apart 
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Salvaged nails.
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Then we started picking through the disassembled pallets finding pieces that would work well, and we ripped down some of those pieces into shorter sections that would make up the table top area:
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One of the pallets had the words “SWEET DARLING” branded onto it. It was cool enough to be saved and constructed at the forefront of the table:
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As you can see, the table top was constructed kind of like a train track as was the bottom shelf:
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These look like stilts (because we don’t really know how to build furniture). The little blocks we mounted to the leg posts act as the resting place for the bottom shelf:
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Here’s the whole thing assembled, (note the location of the “SWEET DARLING” piece) sanded and coated with Thompson’s Water Seal. It looked a little better before the water seal was applied…..it wasn’t as dark. Before the water seal was applied it looked more like something you could buy at Anthropologie for $1k 
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Wood textures in this project.
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Finally, it found it’s new home outside…ready to display some succulents and brave the elements!
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We hope you enjoyed seeing this thing come along. We sure enjoyed building it!
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