 We just made this six foot tall Blanket ladder For 15 bucks in about two hours, and we used a bunch of crazy tools You got to see what I did with this bike chain, and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder make it so do we and we do it every week This week. We're making a ladder for some blankets a blanket ladder. They're too short You need to get a little higher. It's a decorative accent And we're gonna put it in our family room, and we're gonna make the blanket We're making a blanket next week Can't wait Step a one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. This one was a really easy shopping list too. We just needed Two six foot one by four and an eight foot one by four With some paints or stains, whatever you want to use Step two now. We're gonna make all of our cuts our cuts are real easy. We're just making four 20 inch planks Super easy. I'm gonna use my little speed square To keep my saw straight Step three now. We're gonna assemble it. We're just gonna use some glue and A one-and-a-quarter inch brad Set the top rung eight and a half inches down and Then 11 inches for each one after that I'm using the speed square to square up the boards to make sure the rest will be straight. All right. There's our ladder So we got so far now. We're gonna beat it up. We're gonna distress it. We got a bunch of weapons I mean tools. They got a bike chain a hammer Drill bit Well, my little poker tool cricket poker tool a cricket poker tool a screwdriver a screw Now we're just gonna kind of hit it make some butterflies The hammer like they missed the nail Did again like the different go. Oh, yeah I like it Okay, next step would be just to sand any Gouged areas that might be sticking up so that Distressing we need we do our standing and painting we did some experimenting and by we I mean Kim did some experimenting I would show you because I came up with Three different boards with very different techniques and looks to them But I actually like them all but we're gonna obviously narrow it down to one So for this one if you can zoom in and see that up close This is the anti-slone French linen paint that we've been using lately with this dark wax this bear Dark antique wax over it. It looks dirty. Well, I don't think it looks dirty I think it looks a cool antique color. He thinks obviously he thinks that one looks dirty. It's dirty All right, so this board Actually started with this light trellis gray offers a chalk paint We just got this at Home Depot and had it started with the white base and had them tinted this Really light trellis gray, and then I added the dark wax onto this one And it gave it a really neat color and look yeah, I like that and Then the third board has two options on it or two techniques on it First I stained the stain the whole board Jacobean Jacobean whatever whatever and then on half of it the top half here I added white wax over top of the stain and gave it kind of a gray ish I don't know hazy look Here's it like I like how that wax get caught in the yeah left the the gouges are more white I do I like that too and then the bottom half I started with the Jacobean stain and added the trellis gray paint on top And then just sanded it and distressed it But I didn't really let that stain dry very long. It didn't let it dry for hours I really let it dry for probably 10 minutes before I added the paint and let the paint dry And I just started sanding it so did the whole thing in like 15 minutes, and I think that's the look We're gonna go with I think we're gonna try to do the bottom one again Top one looks cool. Just with the wax, but I think the bottom one looks like rustic and worn and That's that that's the look I like All right, so if that's what we're going with then we're gonna start with some dark stain now After I told you I use Jacobean on my test piece. I don't have enough Jacobean We are we are out. We are running low. We are down to nubbins So we're gonna use this Kona, and I think it's gonna give us pretty much the same look Nobody freak out. It's gonna give us the same look You want to stand and I'll wipe Okay, well, it's gonna set for a minute. I guess yeah, I guess we can get like half of it done You can wipe it and I can start on the second half Deal seems okay All right, we just went over it with heat gun for a minute and now we're going to paint it Right here We're gonna use this Bare chop paint in this trellis gray Now we're not gonna get crazy with the paint. We don't want to get in all that distressing that we've already done You want to kind of paint it paint it normally don't try to do it in there We've got so it's like a really bad heat job, but I think after we distress it you'll see Beauty pop give us a five minutes to dry Yep, just want to dry enough to touch Step six now. We're gonna give it a little more distressing with the sandpaper 15 minutes. Do you want to show them up close see if you can show them what the paint really looks like? So it's not perfectly painted It's just like I said a bad paint job for right now Yeah, who does the bad paint jobs now came? What is this? 120 little 120 Not too bad, huh? We took a couple of minutes We got ourselves a new ladder for our blankets. I'm so pleased Haha It's gonna look so nice Final shots and intro and Kim decided that it needs a stencil. No, you think it needs a little stencil right here It's gonna look great Five minutes be able to take five minutes back on back at it a stencil So I'm using the Cricut app right from my phone. I couldn't find a good font So I just downloaded an SVG off the web imported it in here I decided I wanted it about 12 and a half inches wide. So we're gonna have to use this long mat. I selected vinyl and Now we can press the flash and go Okay, so we weeded it and put our transfer tape on it. So now we're just gonna add it to the front of our Ladder just gonna hit it with a little bit of Mod Podge to seal it So it doesn't bleed when we paint it for that white waverly my idea to put the stencil on but he's gonna do all the work Yeah, I'm gonna keep busy Two hours save yourself a chunky blanket for next week Right it needs it's screaming. I need a chunky blanket You guys like this week's project hit that like button if you're not yet subscribed we do this every week Or something like it. Yeah Until next week why don't you guys check out a video right here? Or maybe Kim's video the other one. They're pretty sweet. We'll see you guys next week