 What is up a welcome back do you like to do it build it or make it we have a new video each week and if you're not yet subscribed hit that subscribe button and be sure to tick that bell to be notified of our new videos each week this week we've been here for one year and one month we'll take you inside and show you what we've done with 5,000 square feet of craft warehouse space all right when you first walk in you walk right into our DIY workshop space so this is where we hold all of our DIY workshop classes this is the first room you walk into and we hold weekly classes here most of the projects you see on our channel become projects in our classes this space used to be a little rascal showroom it looked like an office space it had those corporate carpet squares and gray walls so if you watched our makeover video you know that we pulled up those carpet squares we added some flooring we added some paneling we did a faux brick German smear wall for accent walls we added our little paint shelves over here we added our showcase wall where we have all of our door rounds that we're doing for this season up on the wall you can shop from that wall and there also uses examples for when you're making a door hanger workshop we've held over 30 workshop classes and everybody leaves happy it's always a good time this room is a good time now let's move into our paint room before we head into the paint room we don't have a sponsor so we thought we'd sponsor ourselves actually we're being sponsored by our patrons yes you can join us over on patreon.com Kim and Garrett make it we offer additional content there's a lot of fun to be had over there extra videos outtakes there's three different tiers a top tier patrons get all the goodies SVGs zoom calls t-shirts come and join us check us out it's a lot of fun and this is the paint room it's actually the everything room our meeting room our paint room this is where we made over 3,000 signs that we sell at the craft shows yeah this has become the hub of our operation this is like your kitchen island right here we all hang out in here this is kind of where everybody ends up congregating throughout the day we do a lot here like we said this is where we hold our workshop space but we tell folks when you're done with your door sign bring it on down to bowtown while this looks like nothing much right now we've got big plans for bowtown you guys have seen the video for our rolling ribbon rack we're gonna add more ribbon storage and make it a fun place to come and add the bows for your projects she's probably done 3,500 bows over here at this bowtown between the craft shows for the finished products and our DIY workshop classes where we make a bow for everybody signed before they head out I'm gonna say like 3,500 maybe 4,000 bows have been made over here bow hands and then over here we brought out both our om tech polar laser and our glow forge we took them out of our video area and put them into the public space yeah we want to start offering classes and show folks what you can do with these lasers and how they work this is our main office this is me and Garrett's office this is where all the design magic happens our little imagination studio this is where Garrett makes all of his designs we manage our business we haven't done anything to this room except packet full of junk oh one thing we did add our final shots our product photo area yeah very crude our photo wall over here it used to be out front but we ran out of space out front so we had extra space in our office so now this is where we take our final shots of our photos before we post them on our website you like my minimalist desk and across the hall is Courtney's office needs a door plaque so for most of the year this was a kitchenette but we needed better use of our space yeah we needed more space so this has become Courtney's office and we move the kitchenette outside we'll show you where we move that and what we did with that space this is where she answers all of your comments your emails anything about wholesale manages our patreon t-shirts the patreon t-shirts this is our shipping space nothing exciting boxes scales and shipping things for the first half of this year this was Courtney's office and Tanner's office they split the space but it didn't take long for that summer heat to force shipping from outside in the warehouse which has no AC into a room that has some AC where Tanner could get a little relief from the heat so we moved shipping in here into an air conditioned room we booted Courtney out we booted Tanner's desk out and now it's a shipping room you guys want to peek behind the curtain so while we've done a lot around this space we haven't completed all of our projects this room was just an open doorway already here between these two spaces this is actually our filming room and this is the only door that we have it's still a curtain where this is a TBD project soundproof I'm sure you recognize this space on this side it's always clean we'll put some new paper up you get a sign to look at but on the other side it's a totally different story you guys want to peek behind the camera let's look at the other side this side is not so neat it's very crowded it's very messy there's leftover projects and remnants from every project we did and currently there is a DTF printer in parts this is gonna be Tanner's new area Tanner's got a new desk he's gonna start editing and this is the setup he went with now one of the projects we're gonna start this year with is we're gonna move our filming studio or filming space from that side of the room to this side of the room that side actually backs up to the warehouse and it's pretty noisy over there so we're gonna move everything to this side we're gonna give it a whole new wall a whole new look it's something cool yeah a fun project we're gonna film take it to another level and then we'll put Tanner back on that side of the room and then hopefully clean it up and make it look a little nicer in here hopefully clean it up all right let's head into the warehouse to see where all the work gets done this is where the work doesn't get done this is our little break area break room that we made so some place where we can come and chill out and not be caught up in the mix of the workshop classes or painting and this is where we moved our kitchen so it was in Courtney's office space now we moved it out here we put out a little refrigerator toaster oven microwave right here next to our little break room space we made a little warehouse cafe yeah you come in you can come out this from Christmas time you can escape it feels like you actually went to like a Starbucks practically a Starbucks the rest of the area is more warehousing so we restore old projects so we try and keep this side of the warehouse there's two sides to this warehouse we try and keep this side open this is where all of our shipments come in through this door so we need space to get the wood in and load it up over there we do have a lot of these rolling racks on wheels so that we can move things around in case we change it up because we do often rearrange things there's two racks over here that has all of our leftover project materials and then this is more shipping materials or shipping supplies and you'll notice these are two of our hanging planters that we had for the farmers market a couple of years ago they didn't sell so we ended up turning them into extra shelving space for packing boxes and packing materials and of course we have all of our leftover inventory these are wagons are full of signs and inventory left over from the fall and the Christmas season one of the projects we're going to be working on very soon this year is a place to store our out of season inventory a way to put those along this wall and get them out of the way so that we can start bringing in and making new inventory for our spring and summer craft shows all of the MDF comes in through this door it comes in and big four by eight sheets we usually get 25 to 30 in a stack we use a manual pallet jack that the lumber company makes fun of us about because we're a small business we don't have money for a forklift so we do it all manual well we went to pick up a load of wood one day and they were laughing at us and said oh you guys are the ones with the manual pallet jack and we're like yeah but what they don't know jokes on them that's way better than when we used to pull it off the truck one by one using our bare hands yeah that was a nightmare we stack all the four by eight sheets on top of each other right where they come in and then as we get an order we'll pull a sheet of MDF we'll throw it on the panel saw we'll rip it down to the size of our laser bed we have a stop block so we don't even have to look we just run it until it hits the stop block we cut it then we bring it into the tent now we have to use this tent because during the summer here in Richmond it would get to be a hundred degrees with a humidity of a hundred percent and that is not good for the air compressor or the laser tubes we use this giant party tent with some AC units to keep the humidity down and then we have all of our lasers on the network and we have them routed into a wireless router and then we can use one laptop to run one instance of light burn and send all of the cut files to each one of the lasers we also have all of our exhaust daisy chain using dust collection fans and we pump them all the way down to a giant dust collecting fan which then kicks it out of our one hole in the building that's the end of the tour we've shown you our workshop space we showed you where we do our painting we showed you where we do our shipping our filming and our cutting all right well we are about out of time so it's time to wrap this tour up we've done a lot over the past year but we're looking forward to even more projects in 2023 so stick around so we can show you what we have planned for this year I will see you next week we'll do it build it and make it again now you don't have to go home but you can't stay here