 We just made these two porch posts in about two hours using a 4x4 and some pre-cut trim and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do like to. Do a little bit of make it. We do too. We have a new video each week. This week we're making some porch posts. We went to the farmers market and sold out. Sold out to the point where they're buying our displays so we need to make some more porch posts. Right. We had intended to make some porch posts and bring them to the farmers market to sell them. We actually made this project two years ago. Like two years ago. So we were thinking they would be a great farmers market item so we use them actually as displays and sure enough they bought both of them and they bought them rather quickly. So we need to make more and then we thought we'd show you guys how to make them again because they're a really hot seller. So if you're interested in doing a farmers market here's a good item for you. Or you can use it as a display like we were. Yeah. Until those vultures started picking apart our booth trying to buy everything. That's what you want. They even commented on our tablecloth. Tablecloth. I forgot the name of it. Yeah. You say I think they wanted to buy our tablecloth. I was like no they didn't. They just were saying because it's got this farmhouse wood paneling look to it. So it's cute. All they did was comment on it. Well I mean by that point we were down to two rounds. One was scratched and one look wonky. Yeah. And one porch sign. That's right. We only have three items left last week. That was it was great. It was good. Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. We needed a four by four eight foot long. We needed a one by twelve. We picked us up a six foot long board. We'll be using as our base for our post. A wood post base trim pieces. This is to make the bottom look all nice. Some regular trim pieces. This is to make it look fancy. A small dog ear picket. This is to be a little feet. Some knobs or hooks to hang our signs from. Some kind of topper or sofa foot. Some paint stains. Probably some brad nails. We're probably looking at some glue. I think that's about it. Step two. Take two. We're gonna make all of our cuts. We actually just finished up all of our cuts. But somebody forgot to turn the microphones on. Me. So we're we didn't know if the little pocket saw my little buddy would make it through this big thick wet piece of four by four. But it did. I had to rotate it three times as as shown here. I had to rotate it three times. But it didn't make it through. Right and then don't even know that you had to rotate it right. I mean it looked like it cut halfway through. We cut halfway through. Flip it and cut the other half. So you can use this little guy to cut a whole four by four. Now we just need to cut down that one by twelve. We need to cut it down to eleven and a quarter inches. That's actually what a one by twelve is. We're gonna make it square. I'm gonna cut two for me. I'm gonna pin them together and make a two by twelve. Now we're gonna cut all of our little pieces of trim. I'm gonna measure them against the four by four. Cut them all on a 45. Give them a little miter. That's all of our cuts right. That's it. Step three. Step three. Ooh now we paint. And stain. We're gonna paint stain. I just said to them how many times are we gonna attempt this two brush toss? Two. He said two. And it worked. Two tries. Second try. I'm gonna paint mine this pop the bubbly because I don't want to stain. Oh I was gonna say I thought you would want to stain. No. You want me to stain. Okay. I'd rather paint than stain. But I'd rather not paint either. Yeah. So we're gonna paint one. We're gonna stain one. One of them is going to be in this jacobine. This dark stain. We actually had quite a little conversation just a moment ago on which color to stain it. So you can give me your thoughts here. I know you've seen us use briar smoke a million times. It's like gray. It's like a grayish brown. Yeah. So I was thinking that would look nice with a black top. But Garrett thought since this one's gonna be popped the bubbly and they're gonna stand next to each other to make the second one darker. So I'm gonna go jacobine but I want you guys to tell me what you think about the briar smoke. Yeah I'm really excited about this pop the bubbly color. Ooh. So dark. Painting was supposed to be easy this project but I just learned that we have to paint all these little trim pieces like all these all these little trim pieces. You only have to do half of them and it won't take but a minute. Look I mean he painted this whole post. Lickety split. Right. But that was a big post. These are. It'll be quick. Come on. It'll be quick. We're painting them licorice. We're using our country chic chalk paint and licorice. Yes. I'm sorry. So we got this little bun foot at this we got at Home Depot. Right. And we're gonna make it a finial for the top of the post. And we also use this I think we use the same one for our lanterns didn't we. Yep same exact one for the lanterns. So I think and I love the way it looked on top of the lantern so I'm really excited to see how it's going to look on top of this porch post. And now we're gonna assemble it. First we're gonna find the center of our bottom. We actually get a lot of questions about these little triangle things these little pyramids. We just get them on Amazon. I think they're like six bucks for like a lot of them. I don't even remember. I thought you weren't gonna use numbers. Oh yeah no numbers. Forget you heard that. We're gonna find the center of our bottoms. Kim's pick bottom. Wow so I don't know if I mentioned it before maybe I did but I'm just gonna reiterate mine looks like a two by 12 because I've glued two of the one by 12s together and I like this thick bottom and he's gonna go with the thin bottom. I'm going with the petite petite bottom. I'm just gonna drill a little hole in the center. This is gonna be way easier than trying to line it up center. Even fingerprints gonna have to wipe it down before we spray it. Yeah that's a bad part about the flat blackness. We're gonna do the oh we're gonna find the center of the bottom of this. I will put something away and a heartbeat. All you have to do is blink and I will put it away. She will. Just gonna make a little pilot hole. That's two holes on either side of the center. Yeah so I'll try to aim for the center with the screw. Okay we want to attach the feet. Now we cut four little feet for each one of these bad boys and we use the that small dog ear picket because it's pressure treated. This will be sitting on the ground. Probably collected moisture underneath the foot so you want to pressure treated. One by 12 not pressure treated. And I'm just gonna tack them down with a one and a half inch bread. Whoops the nail. Start my three inch nail. Screw. Start my three inch screw. Let's glue it first. Yeah there you go you got it. Thor's hammer. Alright let's do my bottom. Look at that there we go. We're just gonna glue the trim on and then hit it with a bread. Yours I want that black solar cap. I don't know why I keep calling it yours. So mine which I designed is getting this black solar cap that I just found out about. To go along with the trim I didn't know I was doing. And the color. Okay so I think for mine I'm just going to. Oh it goes this way. Yeah. Install this cap I think. And then glue a little glue and screw this thing in. We're just gonna add our little knob pieces or things that are gonna hold our signs. I got this whatever this thing is from Hobby Lobby and then Kim got this whatever this thing is from Hobby Lobby. It's a hook but he insists it looks like an elephant. Yeah I swear it looks like an elephant. We're just gonna use these a one inch screws. These screws are just silver but we're gonna hit them with a little spray paint or acrylic. Well yeah I mean I think you can cover it. There you go. Step five and now we have the accents. It's really just hanging these signs that we make. Oh my knob is too big. My knob is too big. We just got demonetized Kim. I'm gonna take these out hit them with some clear coat and that's it. We are done. So these are really really pretty easy. They were quick and easy. All we had to do is you didn't have to use the trim that we cut on 45s but like those caps that he used on the bottom of his. They look fine. Yeah they're already pre-mited and we just put one facing right side up and one facing upside down and they made it look like the other one so you don't even have to have trim skills. And I don't have trim skills at miter cuts for sure. I am the worst. I am the worst at miter. And what was great is that you could buy these little caps and like he said this was actually a bun foot from a sofa over in the isn't home Depot where the rest of the legs and like wood legs table legs and stuff are and then this one is really great because it has that solar Oh yeah the solar light. The solar cap on it so the light will come on at night. And always shine on my sign. Always keep his sign all lit up. And next week we'll show you how to make these signs. This is our project for next week. We'll show you how we're making the boards the words and a cool technique I found for painting these things. Oh look at the time. It's about that time. It's way past time Kim. So we got to go. So we'll see you next week where we'll do a bill to make it again. And I am not balancing these they are too heavy. Yeah and the sound I can balance this one. There you go. It's got a point on it. We'll see we'll see how even I made this thing. Oh look at that. Look at the symmetry. Look at the symmetry.