 Today's video is kindly sponsored by Simply Safe. Hi guys, welcome back to the channel. Today, we are building something that I've never attempted to build before. This is going to be a first for me and that is a range hood cover. Above your oven, you typically have some sort of range hood or something that kind of collects and filters, you know, your cooking, air, smoke, steam, particles. And that's the goal today is to make the big, huge, chunky box up here look nice and pretty. Now, I do have a couple ideas in my head. They're definitely not your traditional style of range hood. I want to do something unique, something different, something unexpected because I'm also going to be plastering whatever the range hood is to match the wall treatment that we currently have going on. This right here is my range hood insert. To be honest with you guys, I have no idea what I'm doing but we are going to make it work. Oh, okay, let's see what it looks like. Oh, wait. Oh, I was like, I did not want this to be white. It's just covered in cloth. It's giving ventilation. Imagine that's right here. The framework of our vent hood cover. I'm just going to be using some two by four boards from the hardware store, nothing too crazy. And I'm going to be measuring the width of our vent hood insert and I'm adding three inches to that. That's going to account for the pieces that we're going to add on the sides to create a full box. So as you could see, this is going to be the front horizontal piece that's going to go on the front side. I'm just tracing that onto the board and I'm going to cut out four of these because we're going to need four, both on the top and bottom to create the framework. And then I cut out four remaining pieces that are going to be the left and right sides of our framework. I got this clamp here. I saw McKenna use it in our videos on cabinets. It's a 90 degree clamp. So basically we're building the bottom frame right now out of the pieces that we cut. Then you're going to put your clamp and press it all the way down until it locks and it has your perfect 90 degree angle for you. So you can just screw right in. Not sure if it fits. I think it fit. So I believe the wood was just a little bit warped. So I actually undid one side. That way I was able to put the frame over the box and then I screwed it in with the help of Justin. So we were both able to press this around the box and then I screwed it back together and that was perfect. All right guys. So the bottom frame is complete and as you can see it wraps around. I do need to screw it in here and here but probably gonna do that a bit later. We're gonna create the top frame and then create the vertical pieces that are going to attach the bottom to the top. Now trying to figure out how much I want the range had to drop. So originally I was kind of thinking 24 which would be to here but I'm actually thinking we can get away with 22 to give us more shelf space here. So we're gonna drop at 22 inches. I'm gonna take the height measurement which is 22 inches and I'm gonna subtract that by six and we're gonna be cutting out four of those for our vertical pieces and I actually picked up a pocket hole jig which I'm so excited about. Always wanted one of these and I've seen so many people use them. So I finally got one and these are incredible. So it actually allows you to create pocket holes so that you can easily insert like boarding or create structures without having to use L brackets or any other sort of like, you know, connection point. This is just so incredible to create a nice clean framework that's durable and strong. Cleat, that's actually kind of easy. All right, so we brought the range hood base in here. It's laying across two pieces of wood on the marble because it is pretty heavy with all these two by fours. It's definitely quite a bit heavy and we're gonna be putting a wood cleat up here that way when we lift this up it has something to sit on. Oh my gosh, you guys look, it looks like culinary. I also use a pocket hole jig to drill directly through my top board to create an area for me to then screw into into the ceilings joist. So as you can see here, this is gonna pull it right up and secure to the ceiling. We'll get this carpentry, it's mounted. I can honestly hang from this. So I found this material here. It's called Polly Wall. I've never heard it before but I think we're gonna be able to use this to create the shape of the piece. It's super flexible and then we're also gonna create like a structure underneath using some lattice trim. We are back from the hardware store, went to Lowe's quickly and I wanted to share with you kind of my thoughts for the edge of this. So we have our box frame here but what I'm thinking instead of doing like something interesting on the front which a lot of people do, I actually wanna do something interesting on the sides and almost make this look like it's plastered into the wall. So I wanna create a rounded corner here, rounded and then have it flow into nothing. So it kind of like protrudes out, flows, flows and it's all plastered into the wall. So I kind of have this little box here that I wanna start drawing a rough template shape on and I'm just gonna put it up in the top and just roughly draw what I'm kind of picturing in terms of the shape. So this is our rough shape and I'm gonna use some rounded edges just to kind of round out the design and make it a little bit more perfected. This reminds me so much of when I was in fashion school because you basically would create these rounded curves and then you would go back in with your rulers and like perfect them. This is exactly what we did when we do pattern making. Once the template was created, I transferred that over to just some plain plywood with a pencil and I'm gonna be using a jigsaw to cut that out and I suggest cutting two pieces out at once. That way you have your sides perfect. They're both gonna be exactly the same on either side. We're just gonna need two supports for each side. So I'm cutting those out, then I'm securing them to the sides of our framework and the wall using pocket holes. Added the little side shape onto our box and this is kind of our first piece. So I actually did two pocket holes here in the back and on the back here to attach it to the wall and then fix it to the side boards there. The guides are on both sides and now we're essentially building the skeleton which is going to be created from these trellis boards and so they're just cut down and we're going to be nailing these all around the outside to create the shape but make it more of an actual form. 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So if you guys can see, went through and added this tape here which is just folded up and around and then added some joint compound on that just to create more of an actual edge here so we can kind of start creating the shape on the bottom but we do need to finish off the front here and then also connect up the duct work up here. So I picked this up this morning and it is a four to six inch reducer. I don't know if that's good, like that. I just attached this to which is of course leading outside and I'm gonna use actual duct tape, duct, it's really called duct tape to put around this which is a metal tape just to tape off the tube. Like I understand why it's called duct tape now, duct tape for the literal duct. It's like a metal tape. I picked up some boards this morning that had a half inch thickness and I'm gonna add one to the bottom front and I'm nailing that down with my brad nailer. Then I'm gonna add four pieces to the middle just to create a structure across the front of the middle. Oh, this cuts so nicely. We're getting into the fun part. We are now using liquid nails and I'm gonna be putting this across all of my front board so anything that our poly board is going to be attached to I'm adding the liquid nails. Then I'm putting this up and I made sure to cut this on the eight foot length because I want this to be one fluid piece across our entire front of the range hood. So I'm using some brad nails on a really light setting just to set some nails into there to hold it into place and then I'm adding liquid nails all the way across and we're bending and forming this poly board around the framework that we created to then create more of a seamless smooth kind of look to the piece that's gonna be able to then be plastered. So adding this liquid nails to the left side as well and as you can see just wrapping this around using brad nails to secure to the top and bottom kind of skeleton pieces that we created and then I'm gonna go in with some scissors at the end to trim off any excess in a razor blade to really finish it off and make sure everything's nice and smooth across the bottom. Look you guys added on our top layer and as you can see it's a bit wonky but do not worry we're gonna be fixing this plaster's going over the top and that's really gonna finish and polish off all of our edges. This is what the other side looks like over here. Now what I'm going to actually do is do our first coat of primer. We're doing kind of a two step prime. We're gonna first go in with the Zinzer bullseye one, two, three primer for all surfaces. I've used this a trillion times on my channel and I love this. It just goes all over everything. It creates like an area for anything to stick to. So we're gonna prime with this first then with the quartz primer that we used when we did the wall treatment and then the plaster after. It's time to plaster. I'm excited. I'm also a little nervous. This is what our form is looking like. Look how beautiful that looks. I told you guys we were gonna get it looking great before starting the plaster and now it is time for plaster which is going to be the exact application done on the walls just with the trowel and smoothing it once it kind of gets a little bit dried down. I actually ended up grabbing the product in gallons today. So this is what it looks like in a gallon form. I know I shared it with you last time in a bucket but I just got two gallons to finish off the range hood up here and then we just need one more coat in the underside of this arch as well. In case you didn't watch one of my last videos I actually plastered all the walls in my kitchen in the same material so I'll add a card above that you can check out to see how I did that but I'm just using the same plaster on the front of this vent hood and making sure on the edges to just get it right up close to the edge and nice and smooth along all of our corners. The hood is drying as you can see and I'm about to mount the rod, the brass rod that's gonna be going behind here. I'm so excited about the pot rail. It's gonna be going right underneath the shelf, underneath our vent hood and everything's just working out so nicely so far. So this morning I picked up a masonry bit meant for stone. We're going to go ahead and drill this into the marble. I've never done that before. We've freshly drilled one hole after about 25 minutes so that's great. And we got one part of the pot rack up. It was an extreme challenge so we're gonna finish this other side off camera and then I'm gonna catch up with you guys in the morning and share with you what it looks like. Good morning you guys. I was up last night until about 2.30 editing this video. It's actually Thursday morning right now, the day this is going up. I have been just so excited about this vent hood. You are going to freak out when I flip the camera and show you how I just styled up this vent hood area or like the little I guess oven section of the kitchen. I just have to show it to you. I'm gonna do a pan up. Oh, stunning. Does this look you guys? I just did like a quick little styling literally through what I had. I had a couple branches through them in this pot. I had a couple bits here. We added the rod last night across the backsplash and of course our oven is gonna be going here which is currently on order. I will let you guys know about that shortly. Added Arvind's little owneda bowl and it looks so good. I'm so happy with the plaster. Now of course this is just our first coat but it does give you guys an idea. I do have to go and clean up these edges. I'm gonna start doing the second coat today which I'll definitely share with you what that looks like in the next video. We still do have a little wet spot here. It's currently drying down but this looks unreal. I am so happy with the shape of this vent hood. It's exactly what I wanted it to look like and everything is just coming along beautifully. Like just look how stunning cooking right here would be. I have no words. I truly have no words. I wanted to share with you guys how this kind of feels and sounds as well. It's like perfect. Now it is just time to get the stove and that is today's video. I hope that you guys enjoyed this one. I love the way that the vent hood turned out. I think it might be my favorite thing in the kitchen. I don't know if it's topping the marble or not. Like it is probably not. The marble was more expensive so I like the marble more. But I will catch you all in my next video. Make sure to subscribe to my channel and click that bell icon if you don't have that bell icon turned on because it's actually gonna notify you whenever I upload new videos. You can also follow me over on Instagram and TikTok both of which are Lone Fox Home. And last but not least, do not forget to check out Simply Safe. They're having their biggest sale, your new home security system, which is incredible. The link for that is the top of the description box below and I will catch you guys in my next one. Bye.