 What is up welcome back do you like to do it build it or make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week we're doing project runway workshop style that's right we turned a 90s office space into a DIY workshop because this week we're hosting our very first one for friends and family this is the front room as soon as you come into our space this is the first room that you walk into and as you can see it was definitely decorated as a 90s office space complete with blue carpet tiles and gray walls it can't get any more boring than this it was actually a little rascal showroom step one tear it down so we were removing all of the carpet tiles these had adhesive on the back so they were pretty easy to peel up we did the old Tom Sawyer on the kids and tricked them into removing the tiles for us we did we told them how fun it was and any of the glue and schmutz that was left over we just use a chisel to scrape it up off of the floor actually they use the chisel to scrape it up off of the floor step two replace the floor we're using vinyl plank flooring here this is style selections barnwood plank tiles it's peel and stick they're just like giant stickers but I did have to start in the center and try to get all my staggering correct so that again I could Tom Sawyer the kids into helping out lay the floor and you see me in most of this video because the boys would only tile in the middle of the floor when they got towards the wall I had the hard job of measuring the remaining tile piece that needed to be cut and stuck but you know what it was super easy you use an exacto knife and score it and snap it it's super simple we did this in about one day's time we did it the first second half of one day and the first half of the next day yeah well that's only because there was a very long lunch in between look at look at how it automatically brings so much life to this space just with the new flooring I mean you can hardly hate the gray walls at this point because they match pretty good with the floor I mean it really brightened it up but then there's a one heck of an echo now step three time to do the walls now we are leasing this space so we were a little nervous to add some brick to directly to the wall or add some shiplap directly to the wall because we know that when we do move we're gonna have to tear it down and put everything back the way it was so we chose to use this paneling that looks like shiplap boards it looks like barnwood door yeah it looks like barnwood planks but it's really only like eighth inch thick same with brick it's only like eighth inch thick and it looks pretty brick like yeah I mean if I really wanted a brick wall I think that that that looks pretty cool yeah but they came in the kids looked at it and said well I don't know about the brick well they didn't know we had big plans for this brick but we got the paneling up and so I laid the panel up and I just hit it with a one-inch brad the nail not the guy to hold it in place and then I strategically placed a couple of drywall screws I put them in the knots and in the cracks tried to hide them he did a great job hiding them I'll tell you if you ever have to nail paneling up like this find the knots in the wood and he put the screw right in there and you couldn't even see them I painted the screw had the same color yeah you couldn't even see it you back about two feet away maybe it's just my eyes but couldn't even see it you couldn't step four add the German schmere now this was our plan all along we were never gonna leave the brick here but we did want to make it that whitewashed look so we covered the brick paneling with premixed mortar yeah with tile mastic it's premixed mortar that's over there in the tile section and you'll see the buckets we have here it took two buckets to complete this job and it looks it looks great we used plastic putty knives to apply it and we tried to get it in where the cement would be I guess the black parts really cover up the black parts and kind of exposed some of the bricks and the tricky part was trying to hide the seam without looking like we're trying to hide the seam those plastic putty knives seem to work great we just scooped it on the knife and then scraped it against the brick and you know the harder pressure that you put on it the more exposed the brick was the lighter pressure the more mortar you had and to do these three panels it did take every ounce of the two gallons of the premixed mortar yeah here this last panel you'll see my job at the end was to see how much mortar I could get out of that bucket and then even went back to the first bucket to scrape out what I could put some gloves on it was using her hand to try to get every ounce of that stuff I did but look we finished it Garrett went to the top scraped off a little and added it to the bottom so two buckets three panels three panels and she's giving a little sponge bath at the end I went back with a wet sponge and anywhere where the scraper trowel scratched maybe the mortar a little bit I used the sponge so level that out smooth it out take out those rough edges kind of make it look a little more worn and not fresh that's right and anywhere where the mortar was too thick this also washed out some of that a little bit so if it was too piled up in one area I could wash it with the sponge and once we got the German smear up we noticed that the gray paneling the gray barnwood paneling looked really dark then really it was white washed paneling and I thought that would be perfect for this space but it still looked dark after we put the white smear on there so Garrett's bright idea which was perfect it worked out he did a white wash in the paint so we just had some water in the bottom of the bucket added a little paint was super thin we just put the sponge in there and wipe the whole wall with a sponge and it gave it this nice extra white look to it it also gave my hands an extra coating of paint gloves I didn't wear gloves I had to get it I thought it was watery and it would wash right off it did not I had gloves for like the whole night white gloves like I felt like Mickey Mouse step six add the trim so now we have our paneling on the walls the walls are nine feet and our paneling is eight feet so we purposely added some color to the top you'll see we added a little blue up there and then we put this white trim to cap the top and the bottom so it looks framed it gives it more of a farmhouse look yeah we just use some one by fives and painted them white and then at the top and bottom we tried to find the studs so they would actually kind of hold the panels in place to not just my strategic screws because this is a commercial space those studs are metal studs but he was able to use those drywall screws and get right through the wood and into the metal stud you can really tell where it was attached to the wall very strong yeah and then for the side panels as we as we brought those together and covered those up with the piece of trim we use the just a little bit of that classic gorilla glue yeah and then a couple of brad nails to hold it until the gorilla glue would take hold but we figured we'd be able to chip that off or just break it off when we take those panels off step seven add some shelving well we made some rope shelves we have a video a whole video about how we made the rope shelves we did that one last week and then we made a couple of paint shelves eight paint shelves again we use some one by fives and a one by two just pin them together with a one or a quarter inch brad the nail not the guy and then hung them on the wall with some L brackets step eight make the workshop tables gotta have a place to sit and work yeah gotta have a place to take a nap i'll probably find him out there one day out there on the table i'll totally be taking a nap on the table we use some plans from shanty to chic these were workbench tables the only change we made to these plans is we didn't cut the tops down to fit the tables exactly we left the four by eight sheet of three quarter inch mdf and it leaves an overhang so folks can slide up and put their knees under the table yeah there's like a 12-inch overhang on the sides i guess and then a six and a half inch overhang on the sides as well and i don't know which are the ends and which are the sides i had to make four of these workshop tables so again i tom soyard our our kids into helping me out and we threw a couple of them together and then i had to take a break midway through to go do a live with kim on tuesday uh tuesday live if you look inside the door there you can see you might be able to glimpse us standing there talking to the camera now it took me just as long to cut all the wood as it did to just assemble everything these were super easy i made all four in about eight hours it was a simple frame at the bottom some two by four and two by six legs and then a frame at the top i centered each top put a pilot hole about eight pilot holes around the top added a drywall screw just to hold it in place i don't think anybody will be picking these up by the tops but i don't want it to slide around well and we plan to put craft paper over each of these tables for each workshop like we do with our uh filming studio space we add that white paper onto our desktop every time we plan to do the same out here and that way folks can get sane get paint on them and hopefully we'll keep the tables looking nice keep them crisp and clean a little while gotta make it gotta keep it looking like a hospital like a farmhouse hospital step nine add a sign always be branding we gotta label our space we cut this on the large laser this is 48 inches wide and 20 inches tall we painted this just like we would paint any door around it was a very simple sign to make and used our regular starbound thick to glue it together but we did leave off the m e and the t and then we used those spaces to put some drywall screws in and attach it to the wall then we glued the letters back on kind of hide the screws can't even tell how is it how is it hanging there how is it even up there it's magic step 10 now we have the accents this one is the funnest part of the whole project because it really brought the space together we added paint on the paint shelves we brought in some of the old projects from our previous videos hung those on the wall to give it that farmhouse decor we added all of the spring and summer signs to the rope shelves to give it options for new projects and new ideas for the next time you want to come in for a workshop it's looking inviting so what do you think do you like what we've done with the place it doesn't look so grungy and fifties anymore what was your favorite part this week is the tables do you notice any of your favorite videos on the back wall here we tried to use some old video stuff how far away do you live you enjoyed what kind of car do you drive you get good miles to the gallon come see us a big thank you to the patrons but it looks like we're about out of time so unless you're joining us for the patron after show we'll see you next week where we do it build it and make it again let's see how this goes Kim let's see whoa whoa whoa