 Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel, Drew here from Lone Fox, and I am... I'm at a loss for words, clearly. No, but in all honesty, I am extremely excited for today's video because I'm actually going to be making over a space that I kind of did a miniature makeover on when I did my full kitchen. And I kind of put my kitchen and my breakfast nook hand-in-hand together so you guys might be able to tell exactly what this video makeover is. Well, you probably could from the title. So yeah, I'm gonna be working on my breakfast nook makeover today, which I am so excited about when I first did this space. All I really did to the breakfast nook was just paint the window trim black. I left everything else in there white, simple, and I really didn't decorate or add too much personality to that space because I did an extremely bold wallpaper on the front and I got over that lemon wallpaper, you guys, so quickly. I bet you within a month of having that wallpaper up, I was just overlooking at it. So we needed to change that. I'm so excited to say that today's video is also sponsored by Lowe's, which is just a major because I absolutely love Lowe's. It's one of my favorite stores to shop at when it comes to like construction materials or any sort of like power tool, whatever I need, I'm always shopping at Lowe's. But if you guys have never seen their Weekender series, it is being rebooted and I got the opportunity to host in the first episode with Monica Mangan, you guys. It was so much fun. I just got to give you a little rundown. If you've never seen the Weekender on Lowe's YouTube channel, it was a series they had a while back and these are full-on makeovers, you guys. And they're makeovers similar to my channel, very budget-friendly, do-it-yourself, attainable projects, but for real people. And they do them at such high production. Like, these videos are so incredibly fun to watch. I used to watch the Weekender all the time and then it went off air and I was like, Lowe's, where's the Weekender? And then I got an email saying that it was coming back and they wanted me to be a co-host on an episode. Like, that is so crazy and it was so much fun, you guys. I got to shoot with Lowe's for two days for the episode. We did a makeover in a couple's home. Their names are Bess and Marcellus and they were absolutely incredible. And this was such a fun makeover. This was really the first time I got to work with another designer or work with someone and we had such a great time working on this makeover. It flew by, you guys, and the space turned out absolutely incredible. So if you have not checked out the Weekender over on Lowe's channel, I'm going to link it below for you because it is a 100% priority. I took away so much inspo from the episode and I'm actually going to be utilizing a bunch of the techniques that we used in the episode in today's breakfast nook just to kind of transfer them over because I loved some of the stuff I saw and that we utilized in that space and I want them in my own home. And I was also extremely inspired by Lowe's new Origin 21 line. If you guys have not seen that collection, it is modern and approachable projects for your home and they really have absolutely everything from lighting to furniture to decor and so much more. So I think, honestly, guys, we got to jump in and get started with this makeover because there is a lot to work on. Hello, guys! It is the first day of our refresh in the kitchen slash breakfast nook. I'm watching a cat crawl on my car at the moment. And we are, of course, in the kitchen. As you guys can see, it is a little bit later at the moment. It's currently 4.45 because I spent a lot of the morning actually shopping for supplies at Lowe's, which of course I'll share with you as I work on the process, but something that I want to actually start in here today is getting up our picture frame molding on the wall. Now I'm planning on doing picture frame molding throughout the entire breakfast nook here, which I've never done before. I've never actually done real picture frame molding where you cut it from the molding. I have done pre-done molding, which was definitely easier, but I'm going to share with you guys how to do picture frame molding on your wall. And I swear too that this could be semi-rental friendly, but as you guys know, my landlord really likes me do whatever in here, which is so nice. Now something you guys that's quite nice about doing the picture frame molding in here is that we do have windows. So it kind of gives us already a starting point to where we want to do the molding. And what I'm thinking is one more molding a square in the center here. So in the center of the windows and then three across the top. So one above this window, this window, and then one above the center and same thing, mimicked on the bottom. And then I'm going to go ahead and figure out the opposite wall over here once we have this one done, but I'm going to start with this wall. So to cut our chair rail molding, I actually got this tool here. It's called a miter shear. And this is traditionally used for like plastic molding or thinner materials. But I found that if you do two cuts on it, so like basically we're going to need to create our first angled cut here anyway. So I'm just going to line it up on the angle there and just do a press down our first press. Or that one went all the way through. Sometimes they don't sometimes the woods a little harder. And what you just have to do is remove it and then just go the opposite way and cut it again and you're good. I just like it's so much easier than having to go cut every single one with a miter saw. So then we'll go to create our other angle, which we want it to be pointed inwards like this. Now it takes a little force to wiggle it out, but once you get it out, you can just go from the opposite direction and just create the cut from that side as well. Once you flip it over and you're going to have your little piece of trim cut perfectly for you. And I transferred this to the wall and used a small level just to ensure my horizontal bottom piece was in the correct spot and nice and level because that will actually give you the alignment for your vertical pieces as well. And I just used a nail gun to attach those. So I kind of wanted to share with you guys why I thought this could be rental friendly because this is the size of nail and I'm only doing three max nails for the longer sections and then I only used two on the bottom. But if you could picture it, you can totally pull this off when you were to leave because the nails are only an inch long and just patch up the hole behind it. If you wanted to do picture frame molding, I do feel like you can get away with it rental friendly if you wanted to but I'm going to go ahead and finish up this first little frame section here. Earlier I mentioned that I was going to do three frames on top and three frames on the bottom but then I decided to change up my molding style which I think is really fun. Molding is something that you can definitely play around with. It doesn't have to be by the books at all and I ended up just doing like a straight line border on the top of our windows and then on the bottom of our windows, I just spaced it about five inches from the window trim and just nailed it on the wall just like I did with the other pieces of molding. Good morning! This morning I went ahead and finished up all of the trim work. All I had to do was just get a couple more trim boards that she picked up and I applied to the top and bottom of this left side so all of our trim work is completely done. I do need to go through and fill the nail holes. Totally forgot about that. But I did also go through and already fill in some of the cracks between the molding which was super easy. I used some wood filler for that and we're going to get to painting. What you guys, we have the paint. I have yet to share with you the colors. You might have seen some samples on the table but I'm going to share the paint in just a second. Going to fill the nail holes first and then we can get to prepping the paint. Now I'm also going to go ahead and remove the black tape. If you guys remember I did these electrical tape like hacks on the window frames to make them look black. So now we are talking about paint colors for the space. Instantly I was gravitating towards yellow. I've never done a yellow space before and it was really fun to do a yellow space. So I grabbed these swatches but after kind of looking at them and thinking about it for a while I opted actually for a blue tone. And the blue color I'm going to go for is this one right here. It is called Trade Wind Blue and this is what that looks like on the wall and I'm very excited. I think the molding is going to look so beautiful with the blue on it as well and I just want to start getting this color up on the wall. You guys, this Valspar paint formula is insane. Like it will give you, like I'm not hitting you one coat over the top of black. Like there's no streaks at all. Like we're going to only have to do one coat on this entire nook and it is just absolutely crazy. I actually used the same Valspar paint in the horror movie room when I redid it and I sprayed it and I used a dark color and only had to do one coat. Like this is my favorite formula of paint. This would not be a Drew Scott Lonefox video if I didn't change the paint color. So the paint color is changing. Let me give you guys a rundown. So I just want to show you what it looks like outside when you see the archway and then what the color looks like when you're inside. Now when you're in here, I like the color so much more. It's like a lighter, kind of blue, a little bit softer. It's not as pungent and like in your face but when you leave out of here and look into the archway, it is so like just bright, almost like a Tiffany blue color and it just isn't the exact vibe I'm wanting for here. I really thought it was going to work perfectly you guys but I think if I was to choose this color again I'd go with something a little bit more gray toned and a little lighter. The color is still beautiful nonetheless and the paint worked amazing. So of course it's just a selection error. So I'm going with this color. This new shade here is called Smoke Infusion and I really wanted to still kind of have something a little bit blueish, a little bit green. So this is like an in-between of like a blue-green shade. A bit more neutral and I still think it's going to be nice and bright and just kind of cheery in this space. So we're going to use Smoke Infusions in here and do one coat. Normally I have to do two coats of paint anyways. So you know what? I'm just going to call this my second coat and pretend like I didn't even do the first one. You've never seen me in a tank top before because it's never that hot here. Well, that's a lie. It's hot in LA all the time but normally I never wear these because I'm a little self-conscious but I decided to today anyways. So I am. We're building a dining table out here you guys. Painting is being done upstairs. Marie's actually upstairs painting currently. So while Marie's painting our new color up in the breakfast nook I'm actually going to start constructing the table in here and I'm super excited because I actually am going to be creating like a round breakfast nook fluted dark walnut stained table and I've seen a bunch of DIYs kind of of this fluted table but I'm just going to go ahead and kind of make my own rendition of it. I have this idea in my head. It seems pretty simple and easy and I really want an easy build table for this room. So let's go ahead and get started. I'm going to share with you guys the supplies. For this table build I picked up 22 of these one inch wide dowels and they're six feet long so I was able to get two cuts from each dowel and then I also picked up two of these 15 inch round wood pieces that are in the same section as dowels and the first thing I did was just cut down all my dowels to 28 inches in length and I was able to get two 28 inch sections per one dowel. So in the end we ended up with 44 dowels. I also cut down a two by four to the same height of 28 inches and this is going to be our center support beam that's going to make the process of attaching the dowels so much easier so I made sure that all the dowels fit and for the base of the table I'm going to be securing our wood round to the two by four so we're going to be adding one on each side and just make sure that your two by four is pretty much in the center and I just did a little roll test outside to make sure that the rounds were pretty symmetrical and they definitely were. And now comes the pretty repetitive part. The two by four is going to act as a perfect spacer for us to insert our dowels from the side. So I just slid the dowel in from the side and used a two and a half inch long nail in my brad nailer and I just went straight through the top adding two nails to every single dowel. You can even do three or four if you'd like but two worked perfectly and ensure to also flip it over after you add your dowels so that you can secure it from the top as well. Make sure to do brad nails through the top and bottom so your dowels nice and sandwiched and I actually got this idea because in Bess and Marcellus's space before the weekender we did a really really cool slat wall which you guys have to check out and I wanted to recreate a little bit of that look in my breakfast nook so I thought this kind of gave it the look of the slatting but more in a rounded kind of pretty version which I think is perfect for the breakfast nook. And I also have to mention that these dowels are adding so much extra support to the base of our table it's not just the two by four holding it up there are a ton of dowels around the outside as well. We have our base our fluted round base and it looks perfect seriously perfect so happy I had that spare two by four that I put in the middle and then I just nailed the dowels in the outside and it is extra. So now what I'm going to do is actually stain this before adding the top and I'm going to be using this stain here from Lowe's it's the special walnut minwax stain I love walnut toned wood and I really think a dark table will look so beautiful in that space so we're going to give a coat of that with a stain brush. Believe it or not you can actually purchase pre-made round tabletops from Lowe's this is a 36 inch round tabletop and that just cuts out a whole step of having to cut one out and sand it so what I did was I just measured in from the edge 12 inches so I could find the center of that table and then on the underside of our base I just screwed on these little stoppers so they wouldn't you know like damage the floor and then last but not least we are going to secure the top of our table or the tabletop that I got onto our base so I used some Gorilla Glue construction adhesive from Lowe's and I just piped a bunch of that on there let it kind of cure for about 30 minutes or so and then went in and started staining the top as well with the same exact walnut stain Day 4 of our breakfast nook makeover and you guys today everything is coming along I already got to work a little bit this morning because I have been so indecisive about what I'm doing to the arch as you guys know previously it had a lemon wallpaper on it it was super super bold but I am genuinely so obsessed with the molding that we did on the inside and how beautiful it looks that I kind of was going to add a wallpaper first that was my first intention but as I kind of started looking at wallpaper options and stuff I just really felt like it took away from the molding and the color on the inside of the breakfast nook so what I'm going to be doing instead or what I've already done is paint it darker so I actually went ahead and grabbed that paint swatch card and went two shades darker than the one that I did which I think the first one was Smoke Infusions the color is actually the center one here it is called Coastal Dusk it's so pretty it's kind of like a more muted turquoise like an unsaturated turquoise tone and I went ahead and painted that on the entire archway but I didn't go all the way up to the edge because I actually decided to do a fun little detail since we weren't doing a pattern on the wallpaper I was like why don't we add a stripe to the underside of the arch and all I'm doing is taking painter's tape putting it right across so this actually blends into the color here and then this is going to blend into the color on the front so I think it's going to be a very visually graphic kind of look and I just went ahead and kind of tested it on this side here simply just spacing them out by the width of a tape so I'll put a tape down then I'll put one as a spacer put another piece and then remove the spacer and continue the process down and so that's what I did here and I actually quite like it because when you're from the front it's pretty subtle but then from the side it just adds the slightest bit of detail which I think is so fun it is a little quirky but I'm hoping with the styling and all the additional elements I can kind of tone down the corkiness of it and have it more as a design detail so I'm going to continue this throughout the top and share with you guys kind of how I did it like I kind of mentioned I use the tape itself as a spacer so that's just the width of my stripes and once I had all of my tapes added on I went in with a paint brush and the original wall color just to paint over the top of all those edges that's going to make a really really clean crisp line once we add on our statement color removing all those pieces of tape to reveal our nice clean lines and I went back through and just kind of edged out all the rest of the front there to ensure it was nice and clean the striped archway is done you guys and how fun is that addition it was definitely something I was like it could lean a little quirky it could be a little bit too much kind of circus vibes but I absolutely love it I think it is such a fun accent you can get such cool angles from the space and just adds the tiniest bit of graphic touch which we eliminated the wallpaper and I'm happy that we did because I love your paint it just frames our new space and I love how the stripe kind of just transfers in and out it's such a cool element I'm very very excited about the rug that I'm putting in this space this is my first ever vintage rug that I've owned and I got this at a flea market a while back and I actually got it for this space this is a 5x5 little nook this is a 4x4 rug you guys and it is from Afghanistan it is a hand knotted but also the guy told me that it's tufted and knotted or there's two different types of weaving in this rug which is really special about it and I just feel like this is going to be so pretty in this space it's a perfect little size for the corner I feel like this adds a little bit of moody element back and this is going to be the rug in the space to finish off this table I sealed it with a sealant and I actually used a satin finish because I wanted it to have a little bit of sheen to it and not be super matte so the satin finish gave it that look and I re-coached this over the entire table are you absolutely kidding me with this table that we created from Lowe's products this is stunning you guys and this is the light reflecting on the bottom here it's all the same tone it looks perfect in this corner here and the great thing is it's such a small space that we just have two chairs so the rug is perfect the chairs are kind of facing this direction one chair facing this direction they're not quite here from Lowe's yet I think they're going to arrive tomorrow but the table is beautiful I love it in here they arrived this morning from Lowe's and they couldn't be more perfect first of all they're insanely high quality these are such pretty chairs the fabric is so nice the wood is great it's the same color as the table which was not planned I mean it was what kind of seat also draws in color from the artwork up there and from our darker tone in the stripe it's just ideal it's a perfect, perfect chair and it's such a great price point too Lowe's you guys they have Q furniture so what we are doing in here today is just wrapping it up it really just needs a little bit of decor and that's really all we're doing you guys so let's get to decor-ing I wonder why they didn't just call it decor-ing instead of decorating like why decorating why not just decor-ing I just added the last touches to the space which really were super minimal I just did a little bit of decor on top of the table and that was all we got the new chairs this morning from Lowe's they look incredible and this space you guys has had such a makeover I am so excited to share it with you I absolutely adore this space and I'm gonna reveal it to you in 5, 4, 3, 2 and a quarter, 2, 1 1 and 3 eighths and 1 and now, love the outcome of this space it is truly perfect like look at the vibes in here you guys this space gets so much sunlight I actually really wanted to add a light fixture up here because the Origin 21 line at Lowe's you guys has such cute light fixtures if you haven't checked out that line as well I highly suggest you do so it's very modern, they did such a great job with it but all around this makeover just turned out better than I expected I went a little daring with the color which is something that we did in best in Marcella space as well and I did a little bit of a daring color in there and I wanted to go bold in here and that is exactly what I did I just love it so much I feel like these stripes also kind of go back to theirs with the wood slat wall that we did and then the table is just perfection the chairs I love it so much I hope that you guys love it as well I cannot wait to have breakfast here every single morning that is about all for today's video I have kept you here for a long enough and make sure to subscribe over there too because they're coming out with so many episodes not just the one I'm in, there are a lot more you guys so definitely check them out watch the weekender and let me know your guys' thoughts because it's actually a great series and there's so many incredible DIY projects you'll find out about within the series so I'll catch you guys on my next one I hope you enjoyed this one and I love you all bye guys