 We took this closet non-functional disorganized just a mess and we turned it into this closet popping looking like a fresh showroom floor and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a builder make it? So do we and we have a new video each week. This week I'm going in the closet. Yes you would be surprised to know that one of us has a shoe problem. Me. Yeah and it's not me. Well at least it's not mine that we're gonna work on this week. Yeah not this week. She also has a shoe problem. It's just not as big and we had a kid move back so she booted all of my shoes out of my shoe room. Well we had a kid move back so I had to move my office into our bedroom which had this weird sitting area that we really had nothing in except for lines of vans. Just lines of vans so now we have to do something with those vans because they had to come out of the sitting area and my desk is now in there. Well the reason they're in a sitting room area is because I did not have enough room in my closet. Yeah. My closet is like teeny tiny it's like six by six but there's so much stuff in there now and random clothes and clothes that are like ten years old that I don't wear they're just they're just in there for posterity really they're just hanging out waiting to become antiques. We have what's funny is we do have separate closets there is I guess a his and hers closet one is a small closet and one is a bigger bigger I wouldn't say it's all that big but it's a bigger closet and that's my closet so. It's a nice little closet. When you have 50 pairs of shoes in a tiny little closet it doesn't work so we got to find some we got to find the solution and that's what we're working on this week. So I want to do something with bikes because you know I love bikes I love bike even have a bike tattoo. I can't even express how much he loves his bike. I do. He didn't just love bikes he loves he's got a lot of bikes he just he loves them. He loves them. A lot of bike parts. Yes. A lot of bike ramps but anyway I couldn't think of anything like closet related. I couldn't tie bikes into closets so I figured a skateboard is bikes cousin and I'll just do like a skateboard themed closet makeover so that's what I'm doing today. Skateboard closet makeover! We did that to our own sound effects. She's like a beatbox you'd be surprised. Step one demo we're gonna demo everything in there we'll not really demo we're just taking everything out and pulling the shelves out. Right so it just has those builder wire shelves in there we're taking those out and we're gonna build a clothes rack. Now there's also alright so here's a funny story when we moved into this house Garrett has a dresser from 1982 I don't know yeah it is an old cheap super cheap what is it like laminated whatever particle board yes but some of it particle board it's swelled up some of it got wet so it's swelled up so one of my drawers doesn't even open anymore it hasn't opened in like a decade so when we moved as like this dresser is not coming with us and then somehow when we got here so movers move the furniture when we got here this was three years ago almost three years ago the dresser was in our bedroom when I went upstairs and I was like how did this dresser get here it was not coming with us so I made him put it in his closet if you're keeping it it is not sitting out here in this master bedroom it's not sitting out here so he put it in his closet and now it's time I think you're ready to let it go I'm ready to let it go so we're moving that out as well and we're gonna build a shelving rack this point of all that was we're gonna build a shelving rack he doesn't want a dresser no he wants to yeah to see my outfits I don't need the open drawers and peek inside and flip through it's not a filing cabinet I just want to walk in and see what color shirt I need yes he wants to be able to stack his shirts and look at them I think this is a this goes with ADHD really he wants a place to put all of his jeans he can see his jeans he can see all of his shirts I'm not sure like where your what is it your personables your intimates where those things gonna go my undies are gonna be outies so anyway we have we have some ideas so step one let's get everything out of that closet take down that builder grade wire shelving some issues removing the wire shelving we have a new lesson learned for you guys so now that we know how to do it I can tell you how to do it you need to use a flat head screwdriver to pry out the nail before you remove the bracket with the drywall anchor in the back because it is spread open with the nail so once you move remove that nail you can pull the dry the bracket and the drywall anchor right out of the wall and it does leave a still leaves a pretty big hole that has to be patched but it doesn't leave a four inch hole that has to be repaired that's what we had to have a little side what kind of project what kind of ape would just go yanking that wire shelving so we had a day we had a day delay in having to patch that spot and fill it in cute little patch thing there was a whole little patch kit just stuck it right to the wall out of the mud let it dry sand it we were good to go back in business a little paint good to go good to go now we have our closet all painted it's got a new little color scheme in there we're going to do some measuring and planning we're going to measure out what kind of space we have in our closet we know what we want to do and I'm going to decide how wide the shelves are he still needs a place he does have a few suits so he's got a place for some suits some button down shirts some dress clothes and then the rest of it I want it to be or plan shoes and hats as far as the eye can see we didn't even mention the hats for every pair of shoes he has a hat to match so he has just that many hats that's another shoe now the bottom half is going to have the dress clothes the top half are going to be shelves where he can put his folded clothes like a mullet except it's like a reverse mullet it's like business is down below already up top step three we're going to gather all of our supplies now we know what size the room is like exactly and we have everything planned out we even planned out a little like closet storage rack thing now it's time to gather all of our materials so we needed 19 2x4's we ended up just getting 20 just in case somebody messed up a cut 8 foot 2x4's yes 8 foot 2x4's we needed a 4 foot piece of pipe that's where I'm going to hang all my clothes and some floor flanges you know that's how we're going to attach to the 2x4's we need a bunch of brackets like a bunch like two for each skateboard and I have five regular standard skateboard decks and I found five plain longboard decks right L brackets are going to be for the shelving units for the hats the corner hats and then yep for the skateboards so I'm expecting where we have ten of these and I think we said 10 shells 10 shells for hats to 10 shells for hats yep okay so times 20 kind of match 40 40 brackets here like there's like 40 brackets and then of course a new light fixture we have that corny light in there and if we're going to do cool skateboards I don't want that like nipple light it is the most boring light in the world yes and I have some sheets of MDF that I'm going to use for my hat shelves I went with MDF because it kind of looks like skate light and it reminds me of our ramp surfaces bring it back to the lamps step four we're going to make all of our cuts we're going to cut 22 by fours at 48 inches long we're going to cut 14 2x4's at 14 inches long and then we're just going to leave 4 2x4's at 96 inches long 8 feet so basically for each end we're going to make a rectangle and then we're going to add just spray supports for shells all the way up and we should make all of these cuts with my pocket saw wow like up in the air you did he's like he's late like that he just slips right out of the pocket yeah I'm gonna make all my 14 inch cuts using a stop block I'm gonna measure out 14 inches clamp it to the table and that way every cut should be 14 inches exactly and if they're not every cut should be off about the same so measure once cut 20 times measure once cut 14 times and all the other 2x4's we're just gonna cut in half since they're not a true 96 we're gonna measure 48 inches from one side 48 inches from the other side and split the difference safety first our cuts are done got all the little 14's now these little 14's need pocket holes so that we're gonna hide the screws so it looks nice and fresh nice and neat on the front side yeah I got you okay what's four times 14 babe 56 56 pocket holes a lot of holes how's your arm feeling beefy beefy all right some of these edges are looking a little rough little frayed and some of these holes are looking a little frayed from the pocket holes so we're gonna sand this up but I have I have a dilemma yeah I don't know what to stain this little shelving unit thing I like the my raw wood look of the skateboards I like the natural look so I don't know if I want to keep this natural or like stain it briar smoke yes he's like oh I won't I won't stain it at all I want to just keep it the natural wood and I was like you're just gonna look like you got two by four lumbers in there we don't want to put lumber in there not lumbers lumbers two by four lumbers lumbers jacks just lumber in there it just it would look unfinished so then we talked a little bit about maybe we would just add a coat of poly on it and just give it a finished shine to it kind of like that thing but I'm still I'm still not sold on that so I'm I'm influencing a little bit that we go ahead and stain it a color and we're gonna I think we're gonna do it in briar smoke so I guess we'll do it in briar smoke and we need to do it so we're gonna go ahead and stain it just unassembled and because we can't make this thing and take it upstairs it's too big so we're going to have to stain all of our pieces and assemble it when we get to the closet yeah assembly should be easy because all the pocket holes are done so sand and stain let's do it back to the home improvement store because we ran out of sandpaper there was a lot more sanding than I thought there would be and I found this stand instead it's colonial maple I thought maybe we try to match the skateboards I decided I hated this stain it looks nothing like a skateboard I'm just gonna leave it natural so either this is gonna go on the bottom of the bottom shelf or the top or the top of the top shelf so everybody sees it this is horrible it looks orange I don't like it step by now we're gonna assemble it so we're gonna start our assembly here in the studio and then we will assemble the rest of the shelving unit in the closet so we're gonna assemble the end brackets which are basically a large box on either end and then once we get upstairs we'll start outing adding the shelves every would you say every foot yeah we're gonna starting at four feet up because we need enough room to install a bar yeah yes for clothes for his suits and things like that my suits it does for hanging items my hanging items my goods all right now as we mentioned before we opted for the new statement look so well well this may not look finished to you it should go with the aesthetic of the closet very skateboard-esque okay that's the plan sides are all pinned together we're gonna take them up to the closet and put them in place we're gonna attach the shelves with this one and five eighth inch screw you know as we add the shelves it'll become more stable and I ended up ditching the two by fours and I went with a one by 12 by 48 inch project board not because the two by fours look lovely step six now we're gonna install the skateboard shelves using some L brackets and we need like a thousand wall anchors yes use the wall anchors to secure the L brackets to the wall before I get the skateboards all the way on I decided to add some LED lights to make it pop we're gonna use some gorilla tape on top of the L bracket to hold the skateboard in place until I can secure it with this little half inch screw I rounded out these shelves I used the glow forge to cut out some shelves for my hats I could fit three hats per shelf and we use the same L bracket technique for these shelves even more drywall anchors even more holes we just patched a bunch of holes step seven still caught it how we install the light that ugly nipple-looking light thing has to go I can't have some cool skateboards and some lame lame late Kim's gonna go kill the power and I'm gonna change up the light a step the most dreaded step putting everything back in the closet so what do you think you jealous I know you are I it turned out way better than I thought it would I mean it looks like a van shop I I'm happy with my closet now and I can see everything and I know where all my shoes are see all my clothes I'm happy that you're happy with it and it seems like it'll be functional for you as I started this project I think I shared you know those with a little ADD can't handle their stuff hidden in drawers so I think by keeping these things on these shelves can see everything that he has and you'll be able to use more than the first thing that's on top you know three shirts and one pair of pants I just recycle the things as they come out of the wash I don't think I've worn anything that's been in that dresser in a year all right it's time for me to go so if you're not gonna join us for the after-show on patreon I guess I will see you next week where we'll do a building to make it again and I have nothing to balance because everything's in the closet so I'll show you a bunch of closet shots right here