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Step 8Doors and Windows
Cutting doors and windows from here is a snap. For ease, I suggest that they be cut between spacers, as once you cut a spacer you have to make a header and footer. We cut a door that served us well.
The size really depends on the materials you have available.
Someone suggested we use a refrigerator door. Originally, we thought the insulated nature was perfect, as were the build in shelves. Unfortunately, because of the narrow door we had to cut to avoid the difficulties listed above we had to remove the door's innards so that it would close flat against the wall. That said, some of my students starting thinking about making an entire house out of discarded refrigerator doors for their insulation properties and abundant shelving.
Windows are equally flexible. Use the spacers from the scrap pallets for headers and footers.
The Instructable "Pallet Playhouse" has good details about framing and the like that are beyond our class' project.
The size really depends on the materials you have available.
Someone suggested we use a refrigerator door. Originally, we thought the insulated nature was perfect, as were the build in shelves. Unfortunately, because of the narrow door we had to cut to avoid the difficulties listed above we had to remove the door's innards so that it would close flat against the wall. That said, some of my students starting thinking about making an entire house out of discarded refrigerator doors for their insulation properties and abundant shelving.
Windows are equally flexible. Use the spacers from the scrap pallets for headers and footers.
The Instructable "Pallet Playhouse" has good details about framing and the like that are beyond our class' project.
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