I Finally Finished My Sewing Studio Renovation
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- Well, this ended up taking me way longer than expected... but the studio renovation Chonk #2 is done at last!
Wanted to shout out the artists whose work hangs in my studio now:
The teapot weaving - meekoak.com/
The carousel horse prints - www.etsy.com/s...
Follow my shenanigans on IG:
Instagram: / gettheetothestitchery
More videos:
Painting the ceiling: • I Painted Clouds on My...
Making the coveralls: • I'm Procrastinating by...
Meet Canterloupe: • I Bought A Carousel Horse
Other stuff:
Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/s...
Music licensed through Epidemic Sound:
www.epidemicso...
In the nicest way possible...it's so encouraging to see someone else struggling with home renovations too! It's like nobody talks about how hard it is when you can't get it all done in one swoop...like it's not that I don't want to...it's that life says no right now!
Same !!! I ripped out our shower (super hard water x 15 years on a glass shower door was about 14.5 years too many !!! ). Once I got the walls ripped out I realized I'd have to redo the shower pan unless I want to put up another glass door... It's been a year and a half now, so I'm going to go to TH-cam university, or hire a plumber to do a drain pan this year !!! This is the year.... Unless it isn't !!! 🤣
@@patientgrace TH-cam University and Professor Google have been a big help to me, not only to show me how to do things but also to show me the things I should *not* do myself, given my own limitations.
*comfy seat in corner, immediately sits on the floor in front of the comfy seat*.
Relatable.
I thought exactly the same 😂
I third that lol
I would've 100% done the same thing
Saaame lol. Chair is for back support from the floor
yes!!!
Hey Charlie, not sure if anyone else noted it in the comments yet, but the reason your jigsaw kept giving you the same crooked line/wouldn't cut the bevel right is a two-pronged issue. The crooked line + curvature is due to a dull jigsaw blade. Jigsaw blades dull incredibly quickly due to their small size and the materials you were cutting through. This causes the blade to flex and bend as you are trying to force it through the material. Every new jigsaw user runs into this and then nearly tears their hair out until they realize that all they need is a new/sharpened blade.
The other prong of the issue is likely that you were pushing too hard on the jigsaw. The jigsaw is a veeeeeeeeeery slow tool, all things considered, and if you try to force it through at all, it will bend and wobble and curve.
All that said, you did great for never having tackled any of this stuff before. Highly, HIGHLY recommend a miter saw for your sanity though--it makes replicating cuts infinitely easier and faster.
You can rent a truck for 90 minutes from Home Depot for $20. That's the real price. It isn't Uhaul, who lies and charges you $60 when they say 19.99. So you can buy the trim you need (and even have them cut it down for you if you want.
Came to the comments to say this too!
Home Depot and Lowe’s also rent miter saws by the day for these type of projects
Chiming in on truck and tool rentals from big box stores; super handy for large/long things. Also, if you have a small, local hardware store near you, they can be great sources of info for reno or repairs or for selecting the correct items.
I USED the same molding in my craft studio!
I commented this a video or 2 ago and also let her know they'll deliver too. I hope she sees it!
SO delightful! And it warms my heart when my favorite makers are all "I consulted XYZ and they told me..." because it's like a mini-collaboration.
Same!
Charlie, the fact that you’ve tackled so many new jobs for your studio and completed them successfully, is brilliant!🎉🎉🎉 Knowing when to bring in the experts (ie the carpenters to properly hang your doors, for example) is also genius: you don’t need to do every single job in your house just because you think you can. A house is a chronic work in progress so don’t be afraid to (or too proud) to call in the trades when you need to: having a whole roster of trades to call on when the need arises is a total life (and sanity) saver. Use them - that’s what they’re there for. Congratulations on the remodel of your studio. It looks great and must make you feel proud of tackling a those jobs you were afraid of. Good for you, girl. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊
I highly recommend loop earplugs to help with the noise issues- it keeps your hearing just available enough to be safe but it keeps the loud noises from sucking!
Watching you and Mat together is great!
Especially because they come with different sizes - turns out, standard ear plugs or ear phones are just too big for my ears!
Yeah I agree - loops lowkey changed my life
Absolutely - Loops are worth their surprising price. I carry some for when the sound guys at church go a little crazy. And for surviving echo-y venues like the Coca-cola Bottleworks shopping venue in Indianapolis.
Also highly recommend for concerts. They really don't change the sound, just protect your hearing (case in point: the three people who went to the Eras tour with me had ringing ears for a day or three after. I did not. Only difference was the Loops).
A tip for painted over screws is to use acetone on the paint as it will not damage the metal and remove the paint and makes it a ton easier to unscrew the screw.
was about to comment and ask if alcohol and a qtip would have worked; glad to know I was on the right thought track. hopefully she'll see + remember this if any of the other doors in the house have the same problem.
"Are makers addicted to the rush?!" Yes...❤
Helloooooo, dopamine! ❤
Yes, yes we are🪂
there's this funny little "joke" i heard in the makerspace community where if u have a timeline for any project, before sending it to the client or starting the project itself, you have to multiple it by 3x and that's going to be far more accurate than your first estimate. great video! i'm really enjoying ur perspective and thoughts
That is the " Montgomery Scott" rule. JS
Oh yes
I love this room so much. It’s just the right level of whimsy without being like a stage set. And you’ve got just the right amount of bits and bobs without it being cluttered. I also love the light blue with the dark trim which I never would have done. I can’t wait to see what you do with your other rooms!
You might be able to rent bigger power tools from your hardware store, just in case you need to in future. 😊
P.S. I absolutely adore your redone space!!! May it bring you endless inspiration. 🎉
Also check your local library! Lots of libraries have started loaning things beyond the standard media.
Home Depot!
Miter boxes. Smaller, but so helpful.
And a good quality fine tooth hand saw to go with it.
I have a compound miter saw and it's my favorite thing 😁
Me too. I can even cut firewood with it. Great tool and not hideously expensive.
Miter boxes are so underrated. ❤
When I became disabled and mostly living in bed, my friend widened the windowsill next to me so I can fit MORE stuff!
Really glad I actually saw your video on the release day
Also yay for making husbands help us on their day off!
We had a friend of the family when I was in high school and this whole DIY craze started decide that she could redo her bathroom. So she demolished (did the demolition the way I said it first sounded better) it, freaked out, and shut the door and didn’t go back in for 6 months! Luckily she had two bathrooms. In the end her dad came and told her what needed to be done and assisted her because she wanted to “do it herself” and it turned out beautifully. Your story about this room and the comments about not being able to finish a project like this all at once reminded me of that. ❤
Ooh those brackets for the windowsill are gorgeous. Also it’s not bad to be slightly afraid of the power tools as then you will treat them with respect.
I just love your honesty and creativity and realness! Plus... obsessed with the outtakes and puppy content!
I absolutely LOVE that trunk and dresser! The room so good, and I love how the window sill/shelf turned out. 💕
Instead of replacing all the doors in your house, I've seen loads of youtubers just adding trim in the doors, looks really cute imo, will probably do that in my house when I find the courage
You should be proud. Not a surprise that turned out amazing.
You blossom having Matt with you girl. That version of Charlie is even better than the one alone.
As someone with a small car having just done a COMPLETE gut and remodel of an apartment, you'll be SURPRISED at what can fit in a small sedan. Renos are hard work, but so worth it in the end. Enjoy your new space!
I once fit an 8ft kayak in my Chevy Cobalt.
I have an impala, the back seat folds down and you can access the trunk from there. I can do 8ft pieces of wood if I do it right, 10 ft or more if I have them sticking out of the trunk.
@@thalinororcbreaker2840 same! I have a Honda Civic and it's very roomy if you fold the back seat down.
@dianatruica4431 I had my car for like 3 years before I figured that out, lol.
@Valcanhouser I once helped someone source a trailer hitch for her Convertible Mazda Miata so she could routinely carry her 15 or 20 foot kayak. Cushions on the top of the windshield, bracket on the hitch, and tie-downs on the front and back bumpers.
My first comment on this channel, 1) As the wife of a handyman you quickly find out that broken bits are an inevitability and they will happen when it’s most inconvenient. 2) LINK IS TOO ADORABLE! The sploots melt my heart! And 3) Don’t feel bad for missing your husband. It just means he is your bestie/woobie/chosen person/love. As a fellow introvert whose husband was working stupid hours at his previous job for almost a year I feel you. Love your content and humor! Subscribed!
Your subtitles are amazing, as a disabled person, I love reading them instead of it being a chore/necessity.
I KNOW RIGHT? So few TH-camrs even bother to proofread the AI-generated ones for accuracy, let alone give them any proper thorough editing, so the way she does it and adds so much charm is just lovely! Another fabulous charismatic-captioner is Philosophy Tube
Hey Charlie - EVERYONE hates sanding. I'm quite sure it's universal!! 😂
That said, oh my goodness your space looks amazing!!!!! I wish you good luck and smooth sailing for your oyher projects ❤❤❤
Yay, renovation content! Both Charlie and ShannonMakes in the same day? It’s Christmas!!
In all seriousness, this may very well be the best room makeover I've ever seen. Honestly......chef's kiss of perfection 💖💖💖 I, too, love Shannon Makes. What she's accomplishing with that house reno is absolutely mind bogglingly amazing. She & Phillip truly have their work cut out for them. 💖💖💖
It looks so good! And when Matt comes back, you look so much more relaxed. You can see that both you and Link were missing him!
I also love your studio and now I'm jealous of your sewing space 🤣
For the record, I too have stepped over my husband while in the middle of a project. More than once.... also both of us have asked if something was level, the other answered, "Oh yeah!" and was answered with, "What do you mean by that?"
Reno shit is hard. And when something refuses to behave or schedules don't work out, it adds stress you really don't need.
And yeah, things I've learned about reno stuff: start from the top down, do all the painting before you do the flooring, and the last thing you do after you finish EVERYHHING is to do paint touchups. And #6 is as true for me after doing reno stuff for a decade as it was when I first started. Never trust drying times, don't sand the pink drywall compound the second it turns white, it's lying, and paint in corners takes longer to dry than paint anywhere else. We double our estimate then double it again. Sanding sucks, can confirm.
Making the holes for the door hardware is so much easier than making a door fit where it doesn't wanna go. Even the pre-hung doors that come with the frame can be a .
And yeah. If you're getting a mitre saw, I'd recommend just go for it and get a compound mitre saw (with the laser sight), it'll be far more versatile a tool and may lead to such things as attempts at carpentry :) Good job on managing with the jigsaw, the only way I would have been able to do what you did with the jigsaw is if I'd clamped a scap to the baseboard to use as a guide for the jigsaw deck. And yes, I too have covered a multitude of sins with caulking or wood filler.
Love the jar of threads, I might do that with my tiny scraps and threads, I've got a basket near the sewing machines that it all goes into right now and more small vases than I will ever put flowers in.
And trying and failing is how you learn to do a thing... getting it right the first time doesn't teach you nearly as much as messing up and not only having to figure out how to fix it but also what exactly you did and how to avoid doing it the next time.
{scribbles many notes} excellent comment, thank you for this!
Baseboards are the WORST. We have a miter saw, but getting the measurements, then carrying them to the saw, make the cut, carry the piece back to the location, check the fit, take it back to the saw, correct the fit, take it back to the location.... And then there's the nail gun, the caulk, the paint, the sealant. The MESS. My knees have never hated me so much, and we did one small room. I've hired contractors every other time when it came to baseboards. I don't care about it coming out a bit crappy if I don't have to spend a week doing it. So I am very impressed with your efforts. Baseboards and trim? Whew. Congrats on the amazing looking studio.
Look what you did!! You persevered and did it!! 👏 And ABSOLUTELY, hiring someone to do things (if you can) is totally fine. Good for you!
Caulk is my favorite thing ever. I have a 120 year old house I've been fixing up and it's amazing what caulk can fix lol
The more of your stuff you moved into the room, the more I loved the blue walls❤ I think you have a really good eye for colour and design and can’t wait to see the next room😊
This was such a breath of fresh air! And now I feel even more confident on doing projects in my new home :) Thank you for showing the ENTIRE process. Seeing a person struggle, work hard, take breaks, and be a real person is so nice. I also now have inspiration for organizing my crafts! Thank you for being you 💚💙💜
The studio looks wonderful at least. Your efforts really paid off. Having no space of my own to decorate I was happy to live vicariously through your home decorating and the golden bugs look lovely. Your whole interior really convey the whimsy you were going for. That chest for your smaller bits of fabric looks so cool!
We have been slowly renovating out whole house, very slowly. Something we learned was to use the speed square to create a straight edge for guiding jig saws and power saws. But a miter is definitely very nice and makes fast work of things. You did a great job and over came the challenges thrown your way. That is why I enjoy watching this channel. So thank you for posting informative and entertaining videos.
The first video I watched coming back to your channel was the one where you talked about audience. In that comment section I said I was one of those members that subscribed but rarely watched. Now I watch every video when i get the notification. Idk why I wasn't watching your stuff earlier! I love your videos both the sewing and reno videos. You have such a great personality 😊
I technically found this channel through shorts-then came for the audience video. I love love love these videos, though! They’re so wonderful and fun! I get very excited when I see the notification
I love the contrast of the dark stain with the light wall color and that shelf is magnificent.
I love what you did - your studio looks beautiful! Mat is a gem, too.
Enjoy your space!
I just want to say I am here for your personality and will very happily watching anything you do!
* Don't forget about Habitats for Humanity. It's repurposed building "stuff" that is usually from businesses that have remodeled.
The sewing room is beautiful! ❤
I love the walnut trim against the blue it totally pops and the new window sill WOW I love the brackets and the deeper sill, that one I’m keeping locked away in my attic for when I can get to do my new bedroom.
Just love the use of those very pretty bugs as door handles, I did that with some dolphin hooks I found years ago so I turned them into the draw and cupboard handles and still had enough left over to use as the towel hooks in the bathroom😹😹
My husband is also away for work a lot and it was so nice to see you light up when your husband was finally home because that's how I react when mine gets home too. It's just so nice to have your person with you, especially when working on big projects like this. Even if they don't actually help but are just with you for moral support, it makes a huge difference
Home Depot & Lowe’s will cut your trim (or any wood of any kind) for you, including odd angles, if buying a mitre or rotary saw isn’t feasible. They also rent trucks & some even offer delivery. Aside from all that, you did a great job! Renovating is hard, especially when it’s your 1st time & are doing most of it by yourself. It was nice to see your storage & organizational setup now that your studio is done. Really liked the scrap thread art vase!
Holy cow. That is phenomenal. Come do my house with me. 🤣 I totally get the overwhelm... My upstairs bathroom has been stripped for a year, waiting for me to wrap my head around the simple but numerous tasks required to fix it
I LOVE IT! You did an outstanding job! That window shelf is such a fantastic idea. I enjoy how your mind works. Those door/cabinet knobs are what dreams are made of. Your creativity will really bloom out of this room. ❤❤❤
Thrilled to hear that you and Shannon are friends! I have been watching her videos for.... over a year I think, and they are so enjoyable. Would love to hear how you two met in a later video.
I love your video's so much. no annoying loud music in the background. not being way to perfect. Just you being you. Please never stop being yourself! And as a autistic person I so relate to hating sounds, but also hating headphones. it's a struggle for sure. Your room is getting so awesome. And in 5 years, does it really matter if it was done in a few weeks, or a few months? no. Just take your time and take some long tea breaks when you are overwhelmed.
You SHOULD be proud. It looks fabulous and it very much reflects who you are. ❤
When I was watching the video, I thought for sure you were going to fall in the pool while staining. It looked like you were right on the edge. I had a bigger tool box than my last boyfriend. He had to borrow my hammer and screw driver before we broke up. I have a drill, not cordless, but I want one. My family bought me a drill for a present and no one bought me drill bits. I bought some with gift money. I ended up buying sandpaper because of boy scouts. My daughter was in the BS and the pinewood Derby, she needed to sand her car before racing. instead of buying a miter saw maybe you could try using a miter box, it holds the wood and shows you angles to cut. You use a hand saw with it.
Yeah, I've built decks, repaired and built walls, re-wired 9/10 of the house, re-plumbed, installed baseboard, crown molding (upside down and backwards to cut the miters,) hung doors and windows and installed hardwood flooring, built a bar, and an *entire* bathroom. . . and it's still not all done (after 20+ years.) After a while it gets old though and having someone else do it gets very attractive even though it's very nice when someone asks "Who did your tilework?" and are astonished when you say "I did."
For making a straight cut with a hand saw: Mark both sides of the cut and orient the board so that you're cutting vertically down. Start the saw in the cut, guiding it with your thumb against the saw plate (not the part with the teeth, the part just above that) and then as you're cutting, drop your hand until you're cutting at a 45 degree, paying attention to the side of the cut you can see. Then once you're cutting the full width of the board on an angle, switch to the other side and start cutting again, once again paying attention to the side of the cut you can see. Keep repeating this process of cutting downwards until the back of the cut reaches the previous cut depth and swapping sides until the cut is complete.
For painting doors and trim, make sure to let the paint cure for a week or two before beating it up. It will harden considerably during this time. Just "dry" is not fully cured.
The door trim you put up looks pretty good, but one pro move to make the corners turn out perfect is to measure and cut the pieces on the ground and then glue and brad nail them together (and let the glue dry) before hoisting them into place and brad nailing them to the door jambs. This will give you *chef kiss* corners every time.
A hand saw miter box can make trimming trim quite easy, though they take a bit of technique to master. You can't just stick the trim in and yeet the saw at it, you need to be a little thoughtful and deliberate with your approach. On the subject of trim: on inside corners it's tempting to do a miter, but a coped cut will be less visible when the trim inevitably pulls away from the corner and opens up a slight gap.
Anyway, you did a great job here!
Almost a year ago, I had to replace my shower curtain rod. The old one was on a tension rod; definitely not good. I also live in an apartment. The entire apartment complex is 60 years old. This presents its own problems.
I happened to have enough money to go & buy a new curved shower curtain rod, a cordless drill, all the bits (because the manufacturers know that they can make more $$$ if they sell a drill without the drill bits you need!🤬).
Nobody told me that putting up a shower curtain rod was a 2 person job. My cat did not help, she snooper-vised🤨. However, I persevered, and my shower curtain hangs level! I’m proud of my hard work. ❤
You and your husband working together is so wholesome and delightful! Your room is looking great!!!
When can you come to Slovakia and reno my place? Bring Matt and Link. It was nice to watch you two work together. You did amazing. I love your room and the colours. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷 Link doesn't like the Hoover either.
I adore the windowsill! And it was so much fun to meet Mat, you are literally made for each other!!! I am so going to sew myself a handiworks overall! Pretty, practical and perfect fit! Love allt the whimsy! And the organising, oh, so organised! I live in Sweden but I think we would be best friends if we met. Oh... and Im definitely getting a nail gun, which brings me to noises, noice canceling headphones... life altering!
Husband and wife doing home improvement together how cute 🐕. Home improvement tip measure twice then cut once😊.
You got the best reactions from my kids. Son : "it's perfect!" Daughter: "yeah and it's beautiful! I love the (felt) house!" 😊
My personal home renovation lesson is: There is no such thing as ONE trip to the hardware store.
Also, watching you and Mat work together on hanging/drilling/cutting things makes me wonder whether I have ever been in a functional relationship in my life?
Doors can be changed up by applying mouldings. Change the door knobs. They are Really Boring.
Most Excellent! The whole room turned out beautifully! A custom made door knob?? Totally Aces!! The Creativity Corner is a Splendid Idea! Blessings on all of your endeavors!
Your creativity corner and room is amazing---I love everything you did in there! Well done, you! Get a miter box, doesn't take up hardly any space!
Thank you Charlie for your video and congratulations. You are entitled to be proud of yourself. You did so much yourself and in all honesty I would always get a handyman or woman for doors. They never fit. Your studio is beautiful and your lovely chair looks so inviting for a bit of quiet embroidery. Enjoy your space and create beautiful things.
Welcome to home ownership and learning to do ALL OF THE THINGS!! We bought our first house in TN when I was 19 and hubby was 22. Both of our parents lived back in KY 5 1/2 hrs away. The day we closed on the house I went into the kitchen and grabbed the corner of the wallpaper and started ripping it off. Needless to say hubby is screaming “WHAT IN THE H*** ARE YOU DOING???” It was super dark in there and the floor was brick pattern CARPET, the walls had BRICK WALLPAPER and one wall was dark wood paneling. I said “THIS IS MY HOUSE AND I HATE THE BRICKS!!!” So we lived with sheet rock and plywood walls for a couple months until I finally found some wallpaper that I liked. Then I had to learn how to do that.
You have to do it to learn and back then you didn’t have TH-cam. You had a wall mounted phone with a cord and you called long distance for so much a minute to ask mom or dad to talk you through doing it.
It gets easier as you do more. We are now in our 50’s and still meet new things that pop up but now we have TH-cam!!!
Your room turned out beautiful. Be proud and enjoy the “Makers High”. You definitely deserve it! Now get busy. There is a guest room calling and things to create in YOUR SPACE!!💙💜💙💜
If you don't have the space for a miter saw, you can absolutely rent one. Its well worth it if you already have everything at home and measured out. Rent the thing, bring it home, batch it all out (plus a couple of extra) and take it back. Last I looked at my store, it was less than 40 for 24 hours, and less than 30 for a 4 hour rental. If you choose to do a handsaw again, miter boxes are cheap and well worth having. An additional tip is to run a (sharp!) utility knife down your line first a couple of times. Go for multiple light passes instead of trying to make it deep with the first pass - it's much safer that way. But it will help the blade stay in line with your mark.
Your space turned out gorgeous. And I LOVE that trunk! I've been looking for one like it off and on for years.
She is looking lovely. Tue blue and brown together feels so charming. ❤
In the same vein of renting things that someone else mentioned, Lowes, Home Depot, and probably some other home improvement stores will rent tools. And since you're in the LA area, there are probably places that rent out all sorts of stuff one might need, like miter saws, saw horses, basically anything you might nee only once in a while. Oh, and here's a tip for sawing a straight line. Clamp a speed square to the board. A speed square is a triangle shaped tool with lots of measurement markings along every edge. They are available at tool stores. They're shaped like your fancy shelf brackets and have lip on one of the sides. Just look up How to Use a Speed Square here on TH-cam and you'll find hundreds of videos that will show you.
And I've got to say that your workroom/studio is gorgeous. And good on you for taking up the challenge of working with power tools. And I know you thrive being a chaos gremlin, but please be careful. One second you're fine and the next you're looking for your finger.
The rush of the completed make is absolutely what brings me back over and over to something new. Once I've done something successfully, though, I don't feel the need to do it ever again. And that just seems like a fault in my design.
Great, now you can both sew and saw!
It is more fun doing this kind of work with a friend - emotional and physical support, plus someone to laugh with!
Oh, and speaking of relatable: Last week I decided to take off some slidey-track closet doors and, yes, two hours here too. TWO HOURS. Two. Whole. Hours. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy? is an accurate response. I'm inspired that you conquered your closets!
After binging a bunch of chill, 'mess around and find out' videos of yours, I gotta say the cold open with the saw coming up next on auto-play was a surprise. But I live for that level of chaos!😂
Something that might be helpful to know for potential future mitre cuts, they make these boxes called mitre boxes that help you align a saw in the right orientation for different kinds of common angled cuts! it's significantly smaller to store than a whole mitre saw, but still does the job fairly well, and I believe you can buy them at most hardware/home improvement stores
Although it took you longer than you anticipated, it looks awesome. Couple of tips for you: when removing your old molding number them and use them as a template for your cuts; when painting base boards or the door trim get yourself a wallpaper timer that has a metal edge, for you can angle it to keep from getting paint on floors/carpet and with a quick wipe of your rag it comes off completely; and finally, Home Depot also has services by trained professionals that you can hire. If you are looking to get the maximum use of the interior of your closets take a trip to the “The Container Store” for they have not only the expertise to help you design something, but also the installers as well.
Loving the contrast between the blue walls and the dark wood.😍 Great idea to use the insect hooks as handles. I'm definitely stealing that idea!
Wow! You have done such a fantastic job! Instead of buying a mitre saw, you can buy guides/jigs for guiding you blade or saw at an angle. This would be waaaay easier to store than a bulky mitre saw. Looking forward to watching the rest of the renovation with lots of crafty moments in between. Good luck!
You did such a good job (with Mat's help)! I especially love the creativity corner--great idea! The colors are soothing and yet fun with the clouds and sunlight and the closet color!
You do such a wonderful job on your videos, very entertaining. I love your room and the storage options. The room really suits you. Very cute and whimsical. I love when people are able to make their maker spaces fit their personalities. Great job.
Of all the craftroom redecorations I’ve seen, your studio is my favourite! This is just like what I want. Whimsy but not overcrowded. Great job to all of you all around 👏👏👏👏
Beautiful. You won't be able to help but smile surrounded by all that whimsy. Great job.
The room turned out absolutely stunning! Love the walnut finish and the trunk with drawers is a great find.
I totally have an antique typewriter for vibes. Two in fact. They were my grandparents' so inherited, but they only exist to bring me joy when I see them.
My great aunt (typerwriter grandmother's sister) had a carousel horse horse in her basement, I am tickled pink to see your rocking horse carousel horse!
Edit: so it takes some nerve and practice, but a circular saw can be set up with a guide board for doing larger straight cuts, it is noisy af, but quicker to do. Jigsaws are great for smaller/more delicate cuts, though (imo) a saw is a saw
After putting trim in one room during a total reno of my home I bought a radial arm saw. They cut perfect angles and can cut wider planks of wood. I do, however, hate hanging drywall and will play dead in order to get out of it. Much luck with your future endeavors. The secret is to stock up on caulk and construction adhesive. True life savers.
Wow! That looks so good! It may have taken a bit, but most first project do, and what can you do when Matt's away! So nice. You should be so proud of yourself
Look at you! You’re an electrician and a carpenter now! 👏👏👏❤️
As someone who has recently fitted two cupboard doors in their house, I enjoyed watching you learn all the things that we learnt about how door just do not fit. We did it ourselves, but swore never again
this reno was months ago... but habitat for humanity restore is a great place for all sorts of hardware!
It turned out great! What a fantastic creative space. Love the pale blue with the dark trim. The whale basket is so fun!
Your studio is absolutely divine! Such a lot of new skills you tried...brave girl. And all that hard work paid off...I love your results!!!!!
You did GREAT! You found out what all the professionals do. The wood filler and calking, is exactly what they use. So YES you achieved perfection. I am an avid watcher of The New Yankee Workshop and he, Norm Abrams, is a master craftsman. He uses wood filler and calk. Great job!
Sometimes the sled on the jigsaw gets shifted which causes all cuts to be off. There's screws that hold it in place, and it might be worth loosening then to make sure the sled is seated straight and that the mark that's supposed to indicate where you are cutting is actually aligned with where the blade is
You and Matt are so friggin' cute together, and the changes look amazing!
Love how your room is coming together. The light is adorable! Your work around to get it working was a good idea, I just hope you capped off the loose wires in the ceiling. In our remodeling of past homes we have seen some really sketchy stuff with electrical and seen some hot wires. Scary
You will be so excited when you get a miter saw! I love how cozy your studio is and I am excited to see what you do with the rest of the house.
If you have a Harbor Freight near you (or online), they sell cheap tools that are great if you don’t expect you’ll be putting them to hard use. If you clamp a metal ruler along a line on the wood and then run your hand saw or jig saw along that line, it will help you saw a straight line if you don’t have a table saw. The other secret to good caulking is to keep the finger doing the smoothing wet with water.
Mom and Dad are renovating their main space but they got a people to do it for them - but the main guy - whose business is all about managing home renovations- didn't know what picture rail was. Do people not do picture rail molding anymore? It is super useful! And we can move the art around without poking holes in the walls. I recommend it!
FYI, you will get a much better join if you cut each plank on a 45 degree angle instead of butting the ends together as you did in your project. To this end, highly recommend either renting or investing in a compound miter saw. It is an indispensable piece of kit and is useful for myriad home renovation projects; like your trim for instance.
It's gorgeous! You did so well. I love those bug handles. Total sewing room envy 😂
It’s so cool to hear that you are friends with Shannon Makes! I look forward to both of your videos each Friday to see what you guys have been up to!
Great job! You can also get a miter box instead of a whole miter saw that would be easier to store. It has plastic channels that you clamp your wood to and then use a hand saw in the channels. It the box keeps your lines straight and does the nice 45° angle.
Congratulations! It looks great! I love the dark wood on the light blue. It makes the room feel warm and cozy while still being light and breezy.
You've made it both bright and cozy at the same time and I love it!
There is only one detail I would change, and that's to put wood stain on the thread rack/holder so it better matches the wood it's hanging on. 😅