 video has been a long time coming or at least a while, it's been in the process for a while. So I have been working on doing a few things in Cori and I's room just to like kind of refresh it, maybe kind of make it over whatever you want to call it. I've actually been working on this for a couple days and I'm finally getting around to filming an intro for it and then I'm going to be doing the decorating or more so decorating part of it today, but I'm going to show you guys everything I've been working on and there are some things in this that maybe you've seen before. I've been collecting pieces and things to go in there for the last little while but now I'm finally putting it all together. I'm also going to be showing you how I do my DIY faux shiplap. It's super easy at least in my opinion. I'm also super excited because I've got some special pieces for in the room that I'm so thrilled and I can't wait to share with you so I will be sharing that as well. So let's go ahead I'll start with the first clips that I started with. I think I showed it in an evening a few days ago and we will work our way through the progression of the things that I've done. Alright so I pretty much took everything out of here. I'm washing some of our bedding and getting ready to start doing this wall. So this wall I'm going to be doing shiplap on and if you guys have never watched me do this before I just do a faux shiplap. I'll show you my method and everything that I do and I would say probably about once a week I get a question on where I got this wall hanging and I actually made it. And towards the end of this video I'm going to show you a step by step on how I made this because I know I have so many new subscribers and I think a lot of people haven't seen how I did this. So I'm going to go ahead and show you that. Over here I'm going to be putting some shelving between these windows. These wall sconce little guys I've had for a really long time but they're from Amazon and as you can see they plug into the wall so they're super like renter friendly. You don't need to cut into the wall to do some cute wall sconces. So I'm probably going to take the plate part off of those whenever I do the shiplap part and then I've got something super special. I'm so excited to share with you guys but I have some really special nightstands for in here with a story behind them and everything. Excited about that and so I think what I'm going to do is go ahead go out in the garage and start off by cutting my board for these shelves. I need to paint it. I have a black paint they're going to be black shelves and obviously tomorrow since I'm starting this in the evening I will be showing you more progress and then the finished product. It shouldn't take me too long I'm really hoping to get pretty far into it tonight but we'll see how it goes and this is the rug I have in here I love this rug it is an Amazon rug and then I have this leaning long mirror that I've had forever and it was a clearance find at Walmart. I don't remember how much I paid for it but it wasn't much at all and over here is my desk area so I have some new decor items that I'm gonna add in as I go both on the shelves and then on the nightstands and then you guys know that I normally have a faux fiddle leaf fig tree that sits here so I'll be bringing that back in and I'll tell you guys where I got that because it's also a really great deal so let's go out in the garage and get started. I started out by cutting my board in half and I don't know the exact measurements of this board because Cory actually got it for me and marked it for me and everything so I just cut it in half and then it took a little sanding block over the edges just to make sure that there wasn't any splinters or things sticking out of it from me cutting it. Next I put the first coat of paint on and I can't remember the exact name of this paint but I will try to remember to leave it in the description box if I forget just remind me in the comments and I'll let you know I also use the same paint as you're gonna see to make the lines for the faux shiplap and it's got a pretty good consistency I really liked the finish of it and I would recommend using this black for anything it's just it's really a good neutral black. Alright I got some of the things I need to do this so there's a couple ways to do this and I'm not even gonna go into it this is just the way that I prefer to do it I just feel like it looks more realistic it looks more straight and yeah I've just always done it this way in our previous house I did almost one wall in almost every room of the house so this is a little bit of a process once you get through the first step it actually goes pretty fast so I'm gonna take the wall hanging down and then I'm going to measure I think seven inches you really could do whatever you want to do but I like to actually go on Lowe's website and find out what their shiplap is marked at I think it's seven inches something like that so I will go seven inches down from the ceiling I start at the top and work my way down just because sometimes the floor and the ceiling are actually kind of crooked and so if you do it from the floor and then work your way up you may end up with a really crooked looking board on the top line so starting from since your eye will follow the ceiling line a little bit more than the floor you start from the top so I will go from the top down I will measure down say seven inches if that's the amount I go with I can try to remember to tell you what I actually do then and take my tape measure make a little mark go the whole way along making a little mark every like two to three feet and then I take this big level and I level it up with both you know the mark first mark into the next mark and then I make a line across the level go to the next one in the next one in the next one and it gives me a really straight level line so I go through and do the pencil lines first and then I'll show you the next step so whenever I'm doing projects like this where it's time-consuming but it's kind of repetitive you know you don't need to overthink what you're doing I love to listen to podcasts or somebody motivational as far as a speaker or something like that and I've also been really into listening to audiobooks lately so that's what I was doing this night while I was doing all of this great so I took the lights off and I only found myself doing like one or two of these lines because you really can't see it on camera maybe there you can if I step like really really close but it's kind of hard to see on camera so now what I do is take painters tape and I also took the head board off and I have it leaning over here but I take painters tape and I put it on either side of the line leaving like I don't even know how to explain it other than maybe like a nickels width because I know a lot of people use that to actually hang real ship lap so just a very very thin line sorry my fingers look kind of dark from the pencil and I love frog tape I've actually used the blue tape to do this and it bled really bad and so I definitely prefer the frog tape it usually comes out very clean and so I'm gonna go ahead and do that and this will be a little easier for you guys to watch me do because you can actually see what I'm doing and a lot of times I think for a wall it takes me around two rolls so if I run out of tape I will just paint the top part first move the tape because I've done that before when I've ran out of tape I've moved the tape and you can just take it off the wall and stick it on the next line and use it there to paint that part on so I'm definitely going to do at least as much as I can tonight and then maybe I'll have to move some of it tomorrow morning when it's all dry we'll see this part is a little more satisfying to do just because I feel like I'm kind of halfway there whenever I do the taping and one thing I do really recommend is if you can do as little tearing of the tape like ripping it and then starting your tape piece over as you go along the line it just helps keep it really really smooth and you know you don't get any tiny little niches where there would be a seam or something like that and the other thing that you really need to do and as you're seeing me do this you can see it I'm taking my hand and really going across each piece of tape and making sure that it's solidly stuck to the wall so you don't have paint bleed in behind the tape I got about halfway down the wall and ran out of tape actually to finish this strip with some of the blue tape and I'm gonna go out in the garage and get the black paint to paint my lines but before I do that I'm also going to flip my shelves over because I'm sure they're dry by now and paint the other side with the first coat I think it'll probably take about two coats to paint those shelves the reason I said this is really great paint for this is because I've done this before with a paint that was too thin and it actually kind of like ran down the tape and then onto the wall where I didn't want it to be but this paint is definitely a good like I don't know I would say medium consistency it's not super thick but it's not super thin and it did really great coverage I only had to do one coat and then I could let it dry and have it peel off so this is actually the next morning I let it dry completely through the night and then went ahead and peeled it off and I actually did manage to do this all with one roll of tape I didn't have a lot of extra just because I was peeling off pieces and then putting them back on down on the bottom lines but even the second time around of it being stuck on the wall it did really good so I would recommend the green frog tape over the blue tape any day that I've done I am going to show you the really special pieces I mentioned earlier that I have for in here and give you a little backstory on them all right so it's these end tables and I am so thrilled with them there's one over here as well and they have the hairpin legs so one of my best friends Lexi Lukanen makes these gorgeous pieces and she is actually launching her shop at the end of this month I'm so thrilled for her she is doing a lot of side tables right now if you guys don't follow her YouTube channel her and her husband have a tree company so all of her pieces are handmade and sustainably harvest which is just awesome it's trees that they take down whenever they're sick we're gonna fall on someone's house or that type of thing so you can get a little closer look and every single piece is totally different so none of them are exactly the same her brand is called strong roots and this one actually has nails that are put in it let me get a little closer here so you can see the nails that are in it I love the character that's in it she knows that I really like light wood and so these are just perfect and then I have something else that's from her shop that I'm going to be using to decorate in here that I will show a little bit later Cory really loves the size of them because I think that the only other side tables we've ever had have been pretty small and so these are nice and big and round and have a lot of space to put decor and things like that one and the legs give it that modern feel which I really really love so you guys can check out all of her info below I'll leave her Instagram and her YouTube like I said she's gonna be launching towards the end of this month and she also does tutorials and showing you guys how they go through the process of making these and she also sent me a clip and I'm gonna insert it here just of how these were made and the process okay so now that you got a peek into the tree company and the process with that which I just think it's so neat she is also doing like coasters and earrings and other things here is the shelving and the reason I didn't film putting it up is because Cory actually put them up and it was very spur of the moment when he had a minute to do it so these brackets are from Amazon and I think they were I I want to say like around $10 for all four brackets and then he just mounted them in with the anchors that came with it so there's very sturdy perfect I'm so excited to put decor on these and he did such a good job here is a few of the things that I have to decorate with I'm just gonna go ahead and look at putting things where I want them to be these I will talk about in just a second there's something else that is from strong roots so you guys can just watch me as I'm decorating and then I'll talk about everything that I'm putting up so here is the finished product and you guys know that I'm all about very minimal simple pretty decor I love neutrals and things like that so I have this mirror here we've had this since we moved here and it is from Walmart and these are some of the prints that are from my friend's shop they just look so great I love them so much I'm actually thinking about doing having her do something else for another area in our house but they're so beautiful and this fiddle leaf I've had for quite a while but it's from QVC QVC has got the best priced fiddle leaf figs and a lot of times that they even have a code for them to have a certain amount off or they go on sale so if I can find a code or anything I will leave the link for this below and leave that info below as well then obviously my gorgeous nightstands here these little houses I get questions about them a lot they were in my dining room but they are from Target this is a diffuser from Amazon that I love you can make it different colors and does a really good job diffusing my lights here are from Amazon and love those the wall hanging here I'm actually going to insert now how to make this and at least to my best of my abilities of how I filmed it it was kind of my own design and I went about it my own way I wouldn't necessarily call it macrame because you're not doing knotting and stuff with it but it is made with macrame cord alright so like I said I had made this soon after we moved in and I went ahead and measured the wall trying to find the center of the wall and also the center like of the bed and everything so that it wasn't too off with the where the bed was sitting against the wall and then from there I made marks on either side and hung up the dowel rod with small pieces of the macrame string or whatever you want to call it rope and then I also secured it with monkey hooks and if you don't know what that is just Google it but it can hold a pretty good amount of weight okay I cut one cord to show you how I'm sticking it across the dowel rod and I don't know if I mentioned this before but I got the dowel rod at Lowe's and it was like literally $4 and for this size I can't remember what size around it is it might be like an inch maybe something like that it comes in 72 inches I think and that's pretty much exactly the width of a king size bed so it worked out but I think don't take my word for it you could check but I think that they can cut them for you right at Lowe's so if you had a smaller bed or just wanted to do this in a smaller scale you could have them do that alright so to put these strands on I have them have this one cut like this and I'm gonna cut some more and all I do is lift it out put the strand over it's a little hard to do one-handed but just to show you I think I can and then pull the string the last little tail through and then just tighten it like that then I got this stuff I have no idea what this is and I'm gonna weave it through the top of it so I'll kind of show you once I get going on that part of it so I went along and basically just did this every other strand and then it just kind of wove it right in and worked perfectly and then because it was kind of wooly feeling that stuff I put in between I was able to just tuck it right behind the wall hanging and it held just fine and then I gave it a little hair cut till I liked it and that is it the bedspread I believe is from Amazon like I said I'll link everything that I can these pillows covers are from Amazon and then over here this little fiddle leaf guy he's fake and he's from Big Lot I thought I would get a little bit closer and the little guy here is from Hobby Lobby and then this is one of Cory's work hats like this is his side of the bed so a lot of times his things end up over here then the shelving so my idea with this shelf up here is that I would do like some kind of draping viney kind of plants that would come off of the side of it I love for this to kind of be a plant shelf I just haven't gotten any new ones to put up here so wait for that these letters obviously our initials are from Big Lots this guy's actually from Big Lots from like a year ago I think then these little candle houses or whatever you want to call them lanterns are from IKEA this basket here is actually from Aldi but you can find them a lot of places they're one of those that collapses and then the rug is from Amazon I'm just so happy with how all of this look thank you guys so much for watching today and if you're new here I'd love it if you hit the subscribe button I do tons of home making cooking cleaning decorating type videos 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