Mailing services are really great for easy transfer of goods to places situated at far distance from your home! There are local, national and international mailing services that are making the all people feel connected! If you also receive lot of mails daily, in a week or in a month then a mailbox is one of the big needs of your home! A mailbox is mostly added to home exterior portions and is a big symbol for a home that it is currently using some kind of mail services!
Also willing to have a personal mailbox of unique style and inside storage space also, just get inspired of this DIY house styled wood pallet mailbox tutorial, giving all required details so one can copy the entire design at home by following the construction steps and also the suggestions for use of hardware and wooden tools! The final design of this mailbox comes with all faux features of a double story modern house building and pallet scrap has wisely been used to craft the mini featured components of modern house like balcony fence, mini doors, tiny benches and extra small windows! Take a roundup of construction steps to feel more inspired!
Material, Tools and Supplies:
- Pallet Slats ( Where to get Pallets?)
- Chopped Pallet Pieces for Shingled Roof
- Trimmed Down Thin Pallet Planks (to pack flat for lower body installation)
- Glue
- Lead Pencil
- Measuring Table
- Angled Ruler
- Leveling Ruler
- Precise Wood Cutting Tools
- Krej Jig Tools (to provide grip to glued parts)
- Metal Accents (optional)
- Custom Symbols (optional)
- Paint (optional)
- Stain (optional)
This is here a superior model of mailbox having all modern house features like a shingled chevron roof, multistory building, balconies and awesome doors and windows! It would be more a kids toys than a mailbox for sure!
The construction plan of this modern house style mailbox all demands for single wooden lengths in abundance which are to plan the different parts of targeted mailbox design! So get your hands onto the right and appropriate wooden tools and go for a total dismantling of pallets to gain single wooden lengths in plenty! Trim the gained wooden lengths done and mark them to cut down to required sizes!
After a precise cutting process, the wooden lengths would be available to fit to any dimensions according to construction plan! Start building the lower body or base of the mailbox first!
The installation of lower body is all to be done neatly and you can go with different wooden types of wooden joins like box joints, dovetail wooden joints and lap wooden joints to get the required fittings and also to provide inner strengths and stability to entire model! To go with mortise and tenon wooden joint system, will also give the neat and stable fittings! Here planks have been packed tight together and joints have been made in box joint style so it gives edged sides!
At the end the dimensions of the box like shape have been raised by adding more pallet slats of same thickness but with large lengths one by one! This is extended edges which provide a style and support to entire chevron roof you are to install later!
For roof installation the cuts in the lower body frame will give the tight fix and you can plan also the final ridges and braces also with pallet slats, repeat the same joint system to strengthen the model more! You will also need three mini triangles to gain the roof in chevron style, put the pallet slats together and cut out a required size of triangle simply!
Now provide the necessary support and layer the glue between the wooden surfaces especially between the roof components to get a lasting and robust wooden skeleton for the roof! Use kreg Jig wooden system to hold the glued parts together till the glue gets dried!
Now get the bigger robust wooden slats and get them over the chevron roof frame and make them stable there using the appropriate hardware and glue!
Keep length of roof planks to cover also the edged parts completely! This is would be sure to bring a modern housing style to this custom mailbox design!
At this step, the mailbox design would be almost complete and now you will asked to plan an amazing finish to give this entire model a final precious touch and appeal!
if you want this whole model in natural blank wooden appearance the final glam appearance can be created by making the chevron roof shingled and also by doing little modifications as per demand of a modern design! Here are chopped pallet pieces in you need to make the roof shingled!
Layer the glue first and just start adding the chopped pallet pieces one by one, add the pieces in a row and keep on adding the wooden shingles till you cover the entire chevron top!
Here one side has been completed and see how amazing it looks when different overlapping layers of wooden shingles cover the plan chevron roof surfaces!
Make the entire chevron roof dignified with amazing shingled effect and do accentuate the front and rear chevron edges of the roof through some decorative patterns, here wood cut out have been used to give a classic shingle galaxy effect to front and rear chevron boundaries!
Now the best part of the construction, giving a fully featured modern house like look to entire mailbox, to do one can add first the balcony fences which will make the mailbox look like a double story building! Now use the leftover wooden scrap to install faux mini doors, windows and also little benches as shown!
Do the same with the front of this mailbox to have install a higher level patio or balcony space to this mailbox which is now all looking like a fully featured and well-engineered modern residence!
Now make a slim cut to put the mails in and you can even get the front door on hinges if you need also to use it as a parcel box! Now it is ready to be fixed on a exterior home pole or on your exterior home entry door, just go with the most suiting hardware hanging systems if need to give it a stable door mount!
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