Here you can see the plans for this Adirondack-style garden chair, including the cutting diagram for the pallet wood boards that can be recycled from a European pallet, explanations on how to assemble the pieces of this pallet furniture, and a detailed step-by-step video on how to make the pallet garden chair.
The boards we are going to recycle come from dismantling a European pallet, and they come in three sizes: 120cm by 14cm, 80cm by 14cm, and 120cm by 10cm. Here are the plans with the cutting diagrams. If you count the boards on a European pallet (11 boards), you can see that not all of them are necessary.
After cutting the pallet boards, we start by assembling the two pieces that will form the sides of the patio chair seat, the rear legs, and the backrest. As seen in the diagram (in the first image) with the measurements, the backrest and the seat are the same length, so you can use the first to locate the position of the second and the block placed behind it. The video shows well how to make this pallet chair step by step.
Now we assemble the central part of the seat and backrest. This time, the 80cm (800mm) piece serves as the backrest of the chair, and the 40cm piece will be the central board of the seat. In the plan, it shows a block under the seat, but to give more strength to this Adirondack chair, I will place a board that spans the entire width of the seat.
Place the three pieces with the backrest on the table and the seat boards vertically and upwards, and screw the 72cm board behind the backrest, which will also serve as the support for the wide armrests typical of Adirondack chairs. Initially, the gap between boards is 1 centimeter, but since pallet boards may not be exactly 14cm wide, it’s important to ensure the backrest’s width is 44cm.
Place one of the 44cm boards under the seat boards, 6cm from the front. Clamp them with a couple of clamps to be able to screw them.
This crosspiece must be flush with the sides of the seat, so if necessary, force the seat boards a bit.
We cut the legs, mark the outline of the seat and the crosspiece on the legs as a guide to know where to drill the pilot holes, and screw the legs.
All that’s left is to screw in the wide armrests so typical of these Adirondack patio chairs, though for this, it’s better to file the crosspiece that extends on the sides of the backrest first, leaving the support area horizontal so the armrest “rests” better in place.
