 We are making a DIY headboard and it's all in the ground. Yeah, it's probably in my garden. Hey guys, today is May 10th and it is currently 12 10 p.m. We are on our way to Home Depot to get some wood because we are making a DIY headboard. Mine is for a twin XL, so I have like all the measurements for my bed. But I mean you can use this for any size bed, full queen, I don't know anything else. I've been wanting to make a headboard for a really long time like the wood pallet ones. Like I think they're so pretty and I don't like the dark brown stain. I'm going to try to go for like a gray like distressed looking one. I don't know how it's going to turn out and hopefully they have the stain color that I want because I looked in Walmart the other day and all they had was like dark browns and I just don't really want a dark brown. It's not like the vibe I'm going for in my room. My room colors are actually gray, blush pink, white and gold and stuff like that. Just like neutrals, you know. I'm a very visual person so I thought I would help you guys out by drawing a picture of this wood pallet for you guys in the dimensions. So first I'm going to start with the wood pallet itself. So just imagine this right here is a square. This is going to be 42 inches at the top. And this is going to be 42 inches right here. And you get that. So then we have our back beams in the back. And this will just help me draw kind of a straight tour line. That helps a lot. I should have probably done that before. And we're going to have two of those. I mean you could do three if you really wanted to, you know, stabilize it a little bit more. So the back beams that are going to be reaching the top all the way to the floor is 70 inches. So I actually went to the room I was going to be in and measured the bed. I am 5'3". So if you do have like a longer torso when you sit up or are a bit taller, you might want to increase the height of the whole headboard itself. Because when I sit up I think I'm going to reach about here. So that's like perfect because I don't want my head like on the wall. I want it to be like on the headboard when I'm sitting up if that makes sense. And another quick thing that I wanted to share with you guys is that we actually had 7 wood pieces going down. And each of these wood pieces were 6 inches to make 42. So that actually worked out really well. So I hope this visual helped you guys out a little bit. And now let's get on to the fun part. Do you like these or do you like them? No, I think they're fine. Really? Yeah. How much is it? $1. $1. $1.5? $1.5. Is there anything cheaper? How much is this? We got 14 pieces in total because we wanted to do 7 on each headboard down. Shout out to Ryan for helping me build my board. I got the, what is it called? The backing. The beam for the back. What? The beam for the back. The beam for the back. We're going to go to aisle 5 to pick out some wood stain. We got 4 beams in total, so 2 for each. And these boards were just a little bit thicker than the other ones. We're looking at wood stains right now. I have my eye on this one right here. That's like the color I want and I want to make it like a little bit distressed. This is like, you know, gray. I don't really want gray, but I definitely don't want like brown. This? Yeah, you're just looking at it. But that's like so gray. Even this is pretty. Like these. Carbon gray. What do you think? This one? That's actually really pretty. I can't pull it out. Oh, this one? Carbon gray or classic gray? I feel like... I don't like this gray. No, no. Do you think? Yeah, I want it just like a muted brown. Like a brown that I could turn like distressing gray. But I don't know, I think this is cute. This gives it a little bit more color. The other ones just kind of washed out, you know? It's like you didn't even paint it. Good? All right. Shall we do it? So we are going to get this. So it like waterproofs it and kind of gives like a tough finish on it so it won't get ruined. So the total for all of this was $50 and we're making two headboards. One for me and one for my roommate. So $25 each for a headboard is not so shabby. Time to load it up. So we got the wood. We're going to head back to his house. What did you measure? Dun dun dun. Put it behind here. Am I pressuring you? Yeah, that's going to do it. Look at that. Nice. Okay. Perfect. And you can always check it by bringing that down and let it fall right on. Just bisect the mark. There you go. I pushed it. Red thing in. That's it. Simple, simple, simple. So we're cutting the wood into 42 inch pieces. We have this cool saw. Very nice that we could use Ryan's grandpa's shed so we didn't have to buy anything extra because then that would have cost us like I don't even know how much more. So Ryan's measuring the back beams to 70 inches. So again the other wood pieces were 42 and then this back beam is 70. Spread these to the width of this. And side with side do you want more? Make a side more. You like that? Okay. Shoes, you want this on the left side, right side? Damn. All these decisions. You want to line these up at the top. Make sure it's flush on both sides. What's flush mean for all those non-carboners out there? There's no lip or anything. It's just one straight line. Okay. Screw. And what side screw are we using? Maybe it's a 1.5 inch. Like separate them like this. With the middle of this board. Okay. So that'll hold that one down right now. And then do the opposite of the side that you did up there. So put this one in the bottom. So you can either do them touching like this. So there's no, there's a little bit of space but there's no like gap. Or do a little bit of like opening like that. So it looks more like a pallet I guess. So I think we're going with though like a little bit open. Just like a teeny teeny little bit. It looks good. Yeah. Maybe it'll look more rustic feel but it's not like everything's exactly the same. Yeah. Yeah. When you're standing the wood go with the grains. So like the grain of the wood runs this way the most wood. Some of these. And the fish are all over. And then here. It doesn't matter what you do to it. You can go up and down, whatever. This is my time to shine. I've been feeling so helpless. And you can start with the light. Add more if you want to get it darker. Okay. Looks good. Is it cool like that or no? This is a polyurethane finish. It ultra fast drier time for your print resistance, period of building. And it's all on the ground. Yeah, I spilled it on my dog. All over your back. And me. Just want to rub it on. Just like you're stinging it. That's it. So it's being glossy. See the difference between there and there. And this is the finished headboard. So I hope this video helped you learn how to make one or gave you inspiration to make one because I think this will add so much to my dorm. And I can't wait to see everything together.