Pallet and Barn Wood Built-In Cabinet

Delci Plouffe
Feb 10, 2016
2 min read

The porch. The dog porch. The place where all the dog hair, dirt, and mud dance around with glee. Also the place where tools, equipment, saddles and cowboy gear, gardening items and plants and all the boots, hats, gloves and coats pile up. This room needed help.

Old 2x4's, pallets and barn wood to the rescue!

Before and After

(I need to finish painting the backdrop to the top shelf but I ran out of paint and haven't had a chance to get more. So there will be a bit more decorations and books on it when it is completely finished.)

The wood I found in the back pasture had been out in the weather for years! It gave it all beautiful color and character. But a lot of the boards are warped and were hard to work with. Nothing in this cabinet is square and most of the time I was trying to figure out how to fix a problem area.

To start, I wrote out what I wanted the cabinet to accomplish: Hold dog food, cat food, garden tools, bee hive equipment, leather and leather tools, my tool junk drawer, workout equipment, dog beds and decorations. Phew! That's a lot!

Then I drew out my design on paper. And thought about it a lot and dreamed up this way and that way of how to put it together. So the design I started with was not what the end drawing was.

Measure! Cut! And go!

We started by anchoring the 2x4's down into the concrete floor. This is the only time my husband helped me (I'm proud of that!) Then the frame went up.

It was really hard to figure out how to do the back section with the pipe coming up in the middle of it all. I ended up doing two sections of frames on the back wall.