Beautiful & Easy DIY Pallet Sign for Our Farmhouse Front Porch

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

Sharing all the details about how to make this beautiful outdoor DIY Pallet sign for our farmhouse front porch including a step by step tutorial of how to build a diy pallet sign for your home.

We have been working on adding Curb appeal to the front of our farmhouse & to help finish that off I created a DIY Pallet Sign with Jason’s help. 🙂

Our family loves to make pallet projects & use pallet wood because the wood is free and already distressed which is just perfect for the style of our old farmhouse.

Beautiful & Easy DIY Pallet Sign for our Farmhouse Front Porch

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Sharing all the details about how to make this beautiful outdoor DIY Pallet sign for our farmhouse front porch including a step by step tutorial of how to build a diy pallet sign for your home. #palletsigns #palletprojects #palletcrafts #palletfurniture #palletart https://lehmanlane.net

Supplies & Tools Needed to Make an Outdoor DIY Pallet Sign for the Front Porch

  • Pallet Wood
  • Saw to Cut the Pallet Wood (we used a Table & Miter Saw)
  • Sand Paper or an Orbital Sander
  • Finish Nailer
  • Vinyl Letters Printed Out
  • Scissors, Pencil & Sharpie
  • Exterior Screws
A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

Step by Step Instructions for How to Make a DIY Pallet Sign

Size of our DIY Pallet Sign is 37″ Wide by 22″ Tall by 1.5″ Deep

Step ONE – Take Apart your Pallet

Take Apart your Pallet. For all our tips & tricks for how to do this safely, check out this post HERE

Step TWO – Line Up the Pallet Boards & Cut the Boards to Size

After prying the wood from the pallet, we lined the boards up one on top of the other to decide how big we wanted to make our DIY pallet sign. 

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

Some of the boards had red paint on them so we separated out the painted boards from the plain ones.

Jason cut the center boards down so they were all the same length with a mitersaw. 

We then cut 4 of the red boards to frame the sign lengthwise with a table saw.

Step THREE – Sand Down the Pallet Wood Boards

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

Jason sanded the boards down with our orbital hand sander.

Step FOUR – Nail the Pallet Boards Together to Create a DIY Pallet Sign

We attached the boards together with a finish pin nailer.

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

Step FIVE – Using Vinyl Letters to Create your Welcome Name Sign

My sister had given us a vinyl cutout of our blog name on it for Christmas & I first tried to attach that to the board but we soon decided it was not sticking as well as we wanted it to. 

I decided to cut out the letters in order to trace them. 

We also printed out the words “the” & “est 2001” to add to our outdoor diy pallet sign.

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

Tracing the Vinyl Letters for the Outdoor Pallet Sign

I cut out the words & numbers & traced them on the diy pallet sign with a pencil.

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

Using a Sharpie to Color in the Pallet Name Sign for the Front Porch

Using a sharpie I colored in the words and numbers I had traced for our DIY pallet sign. 

Because the board was still a little rough the black letters from the sharpie came out looking distressed already!  Yay!

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

Step SIX – How to Hang the Outdoor DIY Pallet Sign for the Farmhouse Front Porch

Jason screwed the sign up with 2 long exterior screws above our red entryway bench.

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

We hung it a little high because that faux beam will be coming down so we can extend the roof of our front porch soon.

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today!

I love the look of our diy pallet sign next to our new barn light from Lamps Plus.

A DIY Pallet Sign for the front porch adds so much character to the front of our home. And the best part is it was totally free to make, learn how to make yours today! http://lehmanlane.net

I hope this inspires you to make a diy pallet sign for your front porch!

by Tara Lehman

We are still working on the curb appeal for our farmhouse and recently added a pergola to it because every farmhouse needs a front porch!!!

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Farmhouse Friends DIY Projects & Farmhouse Decor

I am excited to joining in for the first time with Farmhouse Friends where myself & a few of my blogging friends share our farmhouse projects & farmhouse décor.   

farmhouse friends collage

Click their names or photos below to see each blogger’s project!

Angie @ Knick of Time Susan @ Love of Home 

Julie @ Love My Simple Home / Laurie @ Vin’yet Etc. /  Paula @ Sweet Pea 

Tammy @ One More Time Events Stacy @ Anastasia Vintage / Kim@ Hunt and Host

Tricia @ Suburban B*tches / Amy @ My Life From Home Christen @ DIY Swank  

Megan @ Hello Farmhouse  / and me Tara @ Lehman Lane

Comments

  1. Your sign is the perfect addition to your pretty front porch. It’s great that you could use pallet wood already painted with some red for the frame. Be ready for compliments when guests arrive to your home!

  2. This looks so cute on your porch, Tara! I thought the lettering would be a difficult process, but I love that you just used a Sharpie–so easy! I would love to try to make a sign like this for our farmhouse!

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