Pallet wall

1.Tools & Supplies Used

Gloves
Reciprocating saw
Circular saw
Hammer
Flat bar
Stain
Rags
Plastic
Rubber gloves
Air compressor
Finish nailer
Finish nails
Chalk line
Level
Speed square
T bevel (needed for vaulted ceiling)
Stud finder
Step ladder
Goggles

2. Break Down Pallets

Tearing apart the pallets was time-consuming and kind of difficult as a one-man task. I could have used an extra set of hands. I stood the pallets up on end and used a reciprocating saw to cut the nails off that were connecting the planks to the three main pallet boards.
Tip 1: Buy a long blade made for metal. I was cheap and used a few short blades that my dad let me borrow. I broke a few in the process (sorry, Dad). They are kind of expensive (like $20 I think?) but it would have saved a lot of time. The short blades don’t work very well on the wider boards when you get to the middle of the pallet. The blade doesn’t quite reach the nails and then I ended up fighting with them quite a bit. A long blade would have solved that problem.
Tip 2: If the ends are too mangled to use, simply use a speed square to draw a straight line and then saw off the unusable section.

We started near the top of the wall, before it starts its peak. This was a suggestion from Cape 27 and their thinking was that when you get to the bottom, if the width of the boards didn’t work out exactly and you had to cut them horizontally, it would be better to have those half-pieces at the bottom of the wall than at the top. We had to trim some slivers for the bottom, and in hindsight, we should have just started at the bottom of our wall since we have a peak. Because we started in the middle of the wall, we had to cut boards at both the top and the bottom.
Regardless, we started level and remained pretty level as we worked our way down the wall. And when we were done with that, we started the peak and worked up to the top. And because our boards were warped, we ended up having to notch out certain boards to remain somewhat level. The angles…oh, the angles. I put my ol’ siding skills to the test and bought a T bevel. However, the angle was too steep and it left me with a lot of trial and error.
There was one cut piece that took me at least six tries, back and forth from the garage, up and down off the ladder, all while Kelsey was laying on the bed, giggling at me. Too frustrated to laugh at myself, we argued about the situation into the wee hours of the morning…Kelsey helped by taking scrap slivers and filling in the gaps. This is in no way perfect, but we like the look of imperfection.

It feels like we are sleeping in a log cabin! We absolutely love it! We’re working on planning out the rest of our master bedroom makeover and the pallet wall is just the center focal point we needed to start with

by wordsofwilliams