A gate to any entry just gives you the control to permit or block any person when you are inside and provides safety to your interior when you are at outside of it! Every home or a room has a gate as a security barrier so they are the most important ingredient while building a new home or a room inside of your pre-built home! To provide distinction to your home access point, we have here these DIY wood pallet gates or doors that are sure to please everyone!
Just install the pallet planks vertically to get longer and stable wooden rectangles, cut the top in round shape and add the back supports to hold all the installed planks in place! You gate is ready to be added to your entryway! For installation of it to your entry, use the latest hardware hinges and also use the hardware locks and door handles for easy operating! You can also build the garden fence gate, balcony gate and stairway baby gates with pallets!
Build high quality wooden door for your for your apartments, room and your palatial entryways! Pallets are mostly made of highly stable and hardwood species like pine, oak, mahogany and lumber so sturdiness is guaranteed in all your finally finished pallet products!
Use some appropriate tools and methods to deconstruct the pallets into separate pieces! Join the torn apart pallet lengths together and build a large lofty rectangle shape with width size to fit your entry way! Give it decorative edging and enjoy a wooden gate out of pallets!
Sand all the wooden surfaces and edges with a medium sandpaper grit or use the highly profile electrical sander to create a super smooth, brighter and splinter free look of the wood! If you get the charming looking heat treated pallets like those of EPAL or EURO pallets then sanding can be skipped as they are already gunk free and good looking ones!
The top has been given a semi-circular shape in this case of pallet-made gate and really looks heart warming in it! You can select any pattern or style to give you gate a decorative and artful shape! For further decors one can also hardware metallic alphabets to tag the name of the owner in front of it or can use the wood carving method to draw some shape or designful pattern over the wooden surface!
Installation has been done using addition wooden supports and borders fixed at both opposite entryway walls! Then using the hardware hinges and screws the gate has been stable in vertical position and ca move freely around its axis for safe opening and closing! Opposite wall support really makes it easy to add a door locking system such as a latch lock!