Build Stadium-Style Home Theater Seating on the Cheap with Shipping Pallets

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We’ve shared some inter­est­ing con­struc­tion ideas for ship­ping pal­lets in the past, from build­ing a couch to a whole work­space built with them, but this sug­ges­tion is a lit­tle eas­ier to tackle—comfortable stadium-style seat­ing for your home the­ater or base­ment den.

You’ll def­i­nitely need the space to set this one up, but aside from that you’ll need about 12 pal­lets to form the seat­ing, and the cush­ions to make the pal­lets com­fort­able once you’ve got them all in the right places. They look like stan­dard ship­ping pal­lets, which are avail­able in tons of places, the least of which at ULine (also a great spot for cheap boxes if you’re mov­ing house), but they’ve clearly been painted to match the intended decor of the space. Plus, once they’re all assem­bled and attached to one another, you can slide books, mag­a­zines, and DVDs into the spaces on the side for a lit­tle added storage.

The whole space is def­i­nitely a lit­tle “designer chic,” what with the pal­lets on the wall to mount the TV and every­thing (not bad) but you get the gen­eral idea. If you have the space and don’t want to shell out a ton of money for lots of cushy seat­ing and a raised floor to build your home movie the­ater, this is a great, green way to approx­i­mate it for much less money, and prob­a­bly more com­fort. What do you think? Let us know in the com­ments below.

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