If you've been dreaming of a beautiful wooden deck for your yard but the cost of this pricey home addition is more like a nightmare, then we have the perfect DIY for you. Blogger Liz of Hoosier ...

This article will show you how to build your own low-cost patio or deck using mostly recycled wood pallets.

One method is to split a pallet into three even parts — those are your shelves — and create legs from the deck boards of another pallet.

He put together the wall frame by bolting two levels of square pallets together and adding a roof frame made from 12-foot-long 2x4s secured to the pallets with deck screws.

The homeowner revealed that the deck area was "made from mainly free pallets". She was able to source these from Facebook, keeping the total cost of the project to just £120.

There’s a lot to building a deck. And if you want to build your own deck or renovate one, you’ll find much of the advice centers on building codes and topics like laying out floor joists or ...