Gardening can get pretty expensive if you head to home improvement stores to buy plants, seeds, planters, soil, fertilizer, and well, you get the idea. But there are so many ways that you can cut ...

Here’s a little secret about building furniture out of pallets, those simple wooden structures used to schlep goods: Not all pallet wood is cheap, rough-cut pine. Sharp-eyed scroungers can find oak, ...

Here’s a little secret about building furniture out of pallets, those simple wooden structures used to schlep goods: Not all pallet wood is cheap, rough-cut pine. Sharp-eyed scroungers can find oak, ...

Here’s a little secret about building furniture out of pallets, those simple wooden structures used to schlep goods: Not all pallet wood is cheap, rough-cut pine. Sharp-eyed scroungers can find oak, ...

Here’s a little secret about building furniture out of pallets, those simple wooden structures used to schlep goods: Not all pallet wood is cheap, rough-cut pine. Sharp-eyed scroungers can find oak, ...

Here’s a little secret about building furniture out of pallets, those simple wooden structures used to schlep goods: Not all pallet wood is cheap, rough-cut pine. Sharp-eyed scroungers can find oak, ...

A simple, versatile bench made from pallet wood appears in the book "Crafting with Wood Pallets" by Becky Lamb. Be on the lookout for oak, hickory or even cherry pallets. Here's a little secret about ...