Everyone needs a pallet coffee cup rack, right? Well, everyone but me, because did you know…. I don’t drink coffee? But that doesn’t stop me from repurposing a pallet to hold coffee cups. This coffee cup rack will be going to Glendale with me later this week. Oh my gosh…. I can’t believe that it’s time for my once a year craft show already.
How to: Pallet Coffee Cup Rack
This was a fabulous pallet, and so perfect to make TWO coffee cup racks. However, I’ve only had time to make one. I started to work on the second one, but I don’t have screws for the hooks.
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Cut apart large pallet
The pallet was cut in half with a circular saw. The pallet is a little different that most pallets I’ve seen. For one thing—it only had 2 boards on the opposite side. It didn’t have any forklift slots, I found that odd.
Stain or Paint Pallet Coffee Cup Rack
After a little sanding with my orbital sander, it was time for stain. My neighbor Rodney said these are oak boards, so I reached for some Minwax Weathered Oak Stain to bring out their beauty.
Attach Coffee Cup Hooks
My best tips for adding hooks are as follows—
- Use a tape measure to space hooks evenly
- A kreg multi-mark tool will assure that all the hooks are the same distance from the edge
- Pre-drill holes
- Secure screws with a screwdriver, not a drill
You may notice the screws are silver. The screws that come with the single hooks I bought from D. Lawless Hardware were a little too long for the Ā½” pallet boards. You’ll see below how I fixed them.
Stencil But First Coffee
I made a contact paper stencil on my Silhouette Portrait machine. I’ve used the But First. Coffee stencil on cupboard door coffee cup racks.
Do you like the black bleeding through from the old pallet nails? It wasn’t so noticeable in real life—but really stands out in the pictures.
I used the same paint and a small artist brush to paint the heads of the screws black. I did three light coats on each screw head.
From this point of view you can see that I added one of the boards from the back across the top to make the pallet coffee cup rack have a small shelf.
Making this pallet coffee cup rack was fun and easy! I think it will sell quickly at Glendale (KY). The weather is suppose to be really pretty this weekend. How do you store your coffee cups? Behind closed doors or out in the open?
gail
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Gail Wilson is the author and mastermind behind My Repurposed Life. She is obsessed with finding potential in unexpected places and believes that with a little hard work and imagination, any old thing can be made useful again, including herself!
Gail reinvented herself during a midlife crisis and has found purpose again. She hopes you will find new ideas for old things and pick up a few tools along the way.
Fonda
I remember an episode of a show with Norm Abrams (of This Old House fame) as a woodworker who made something out of reclaimed pallets. I remember him telling us that some of it was more expensive woods, like oak. I think he made a table out of pallet wood, but I don't remember that part too well. It's kinda cool that pallet wood could be oak.
My brother is building a tire house in Ohio, and he has gathered loads and loads of pallets. He got a planer to get them all to a specific thickness. He will be using that for flooring and cabinets (I think),
It's nice that people can use those cast-off pallets for useful things.
Gail Wilson
That project sounds like a lot of work, but very creative!
There is a pickup truck with a trailer that cuts through my street all the time, and it's always loaded down with tons of pallets. I'm green with envy. š
gail