hi guys how are you okay so as you can see two things are going on right now number one a little
outdoor setup is on display just kidding this is actually just where we're storing
the railing pieces while the weather warmed up a little bit should i say first this is
part two of making a railing cover that adds privacy is super nice looks good is wood etc
in case you didn't grasp that there's a part one i'll link it down below the second thing
you should notice is i have my wood staining dress on if you know if you watch that video i literally
just got this dress in black so that i could stain wood and do other things with colored things where
i wouldn't possibly ruin a dress so if you can guess by that that means that i'm going to be wood
staining and specifically those pieces today now my husband is actually not here i would have loved
if my husband could help me with this because it would go double as fast but he is in toronto
for the week so it is just me you guys just you and me now the main things i'm concerned
about here are this needs to live outside so it would make sense for me to stand it
outside however there's a lot of hornets that are going around and i'm trying to do
some like home-grown situations to kind of kick them away a little bit like soap and peppermint
oil i heard would be good but i don't have the peppermint oil yet anyway i digress i don't
want to do it out there because i feel like i'm going to be like running in and out in and out
um so that kind of worries me a little bit plus that balcony gets really really hot if
you're doing work in like the middle of the day so i'm thinking i'm gonna do it in here
and just like close the door open the windows once the stains on there then i can move it out to dry
the other thing is the weather once you stain something with deck stain it basically needs
to be above a certain temperature for a couple consecutive days which means i might take it
outside to dry bring it back in take it outside to dry bring it back in and so on and so forth
you feel me anyway so i'm just gonna get started i have literally procrastinated doing this all
morning and yesterday but today's the day i gotta get it done cause soon is gonna come many days of
bad weather and so i gotta get it done before then clearly the first thing we're gonna do is actually
not staining typical first thing we're gonna do is actually add a little piece to the wood let
me explain okay so a little bit of a closer view i don't think i explained this last time but maybe i
did if i did forgive me if i didn't well here it is each of these wood pieces are exactly lined up
to meet the center point of the existing railing right after the post pieces there's like a two and
a half inch gap and then each one after that is a wider gap so they're not all spaced out evenly
net net i designed these to meet the exact design however i designed them so that these pieces
would be on the side facing us then when we put it out there we realized it actually would
look better the other way around however now everything's set up in a way that couldn't be
reversed if that makes sense we are actually to combat that going to add an additional piece on to
the edge because like this it looks like a railing but like this it looks like a picket fence almost
didn't think that through enough but yeah so i'm gonna add another piece on and then i also
got a piece that was just a little bit longer four inches this time so hopefully that will look great
i hope dang it is hot in here there's like barely any good wind flow i'm not ready for this
every part of me just wants to procrastinate i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do it gonna do it
i'm ready let's do this let's do this
it's been going on for a while
is
i can find a higher ground
to reach
i can't make the wood go in enough maybe if i clamp it
i feel like i started it looking glamorous and now i've fallen a long way okay so i got
this piece on by clamping this many times but this kind of discourages me a little bit about
continuing considering this is the shortest piece of the railing and also the easiest one
what should i do what should i do okay so i took a little break here i have decided that i will not
be attaching the other pieces on until my husband comes back or until later date when i gather
the energy motivation etc i'm just gonna start staining and then i will stain the individual
pieces that need to be attached on at the end in terms of actual stain i have two types of
duct stain one is in the color honey gold and i got this one thinking this is the color that i
like the most but when i looked at the samples of this it only showed it on pressure treated wood
so i had a feeling that this would end up being super super super yellow or orange on the non
pressure treated pine so i'm going to try this out on a piece and if this is too yellowy or orangey i
did get a clear deck stain so we'll just see how it goes so i just like stirred the can
and this is what it's looking like on the paint stick i have a very bad feeling it is so orange
oh my god we will still try it on a piece of pine though okay this is the moment of truth
learning moment here 99 sure that this is just a horrible color
why delle alive well i'm glad that i got the clear one because this is not
it kind of like a ray of sunshine mixed with a slice of orange um okay so at least now i know
so the question is should i still i think i should test the clear stain at least right
i think it looks great
time to gather the willpower here to proceed with any step
that noise was me dropping my phone and the screen protector totally broke
unless the actual screen broke oh good god oh thank god
you know when you just are not having a good day that's how i feel today and my last phone i had
for years and then one day i dropped it and the screen like smash in all these different spots so
and this sounded like a bad fall so i'm really glad i had the screen protector on there
hello it has now been two weeks in case you didn't grasp i got really frustrated when i was last
working on this i built one piece fully i stained it and then i just got super overwhelmed i was not
having a good day dropped my phone all sorts of stuff so i'm back at it today i don't know what
it is i think i don't know why but anyway my husband's back and so i have a helper and so
i'm going to proceed with the project exhibit a my husband my helper extraordinaire all right
let's go let's go we got to work we got to work we got to work okay so this is the current state
of the room still have this in here still have everything taped off so hopefully it shouldn't
be too hard it smells like stained in here so the first thing i'm gonna do is glue the edges
yes
okay so i just quickly wanted to show you the difference in color between the clear deck
stain and no deck stain just because there is a little bit of a difference so this is the one
with the clear deck stain on and it has just the littlest amount of warmth and finish
to it as opposed to this which has no deck stain on it so this definitely looks better
so i'm gonna get started on staining that one and my husband's gonna finish making this one
okay so it has now actually been a couple days and we're just about ready to take out the railing
cover thing so that we can fully install it put the lights back put some stuff out there and get
going with the rest of the balcony makeover that i have planned to secure the whole balcony railing
we're going to be using zip ties and just zip tying it to the existing railing which i'll show
you in a minute but yeah so i'm very excited to see it what it looks like let's get going
okay so i'm out here and it looks great but now it's time to restring the light bulbs
however the light bulbs do not fit in these little gaps so i'm gonna have to take all
the light bulbs off and just string the string which is kind of less than ideal
okay so i finally got the lights up i put my little bistro set outside that i
upcycled last year and i'm ready to show you
i can already tell it looks so much better it just looks so much better it frames out the whole space
and i'm in love with it so let me just show you what it looks like right now and here it is guys
beautiful little view and my bistro set really stands out there as well it definitely conceals so
much of the construction and sitting down this is my main kind of concern look at how much it kind
of concealed that overall i just think it looks so much better i really think it was a good idea to
install that top railing area if i were doing this again i obviously would have just constructed it
backwards um but i just think with that there it also just really looks like it's a proper railing
instead of kind of what it looked like before with the fence and i think with the lights it looks so
cute i mean it's daylight but i turned the lights on just looks so nice and it totally adds privacy
from that whole construction project that's going on 10 to 10 recommend love it so much
it looks so good doesn't it yeah you like it yeah it looks beautiful like with this and everything
it looks really good it looks so good and the black table goes with it yeah it does go yo sick
looks great
just wanted to say i am a summer child for sure
and i'm obsessed with that a plus upgrade really really pleased that i did this
anyway thank you guys so much for watching i'll see you guys next week i love you guys so much bye