hi everyone welcome back to my channel where the gnomes live this is Sharon Ojala
and I'm popping it with an update I haven't talked to you guys in a while it
is May the 26th or 27th 2019 if you are new to my channel and this is the first
time you're seeing at this little setup here
I am currently building a forest in my craft room for gnomes and their friends to
live in and I do tutorials along the way my last tutorial I showed how to
build these steps this is a full tutorial here on my youtube channel that
should be popping up on your screen I also have tutorials on how to make the
bark and so on so today I'm working in the kitchen of the gnome home and I'm
gonna show you a brief rundown on how I built the cupboards but first let's do a
little update on the backyard here this tree has taken on a few different forms
when I first started it was a tall skinny tree and then I decided I don't
like that so I tore it down built a big tree and I thought it was just
obstructing the view so I tore all that down and then I decided on this design
here so it's just a broken down stump that's been sitting here for many many
years I recently added a bridge and there's some steps there underneath the
bridge is a creek full of fish and I just added some lights the other day
these are from the dollar store these are called bottle lights I believe this
is supposed to look like a cork and then they have this little light light string
attached to it so it might that look so really cool yeah so that's what I've
been building and so I decided to leave this like a broken down stump like I
said there's a little entrance here going into a mysterious place and then
down here and I'm still working on it so forgive that mess there I'm putting
another little pond in here so I'm just waiting for the resin i just ordered
some from Amazon and then that little pond will spill over I just decided that
yesterday so that's what this is here I still have to add bark here so it's
gonna spill over trickle down here and then it's gonna look like it comes
underneath the walkway and goes here so let's take a look on the other side
so this house is far from done on the inside I've been working in the bathroom
area and if you haven't been visiting my facebook page or if you're not on
Facebook and this will be all new to you there's life this is Aunt Katri's
ensuite this little bathroom here so there's her bedroom over there and this
side of the tree is not done at all it's still got the masking tape stage and no
bark yet but we have ant cut trees room pretty much set up in there I still have
to add pictures and all that great stuff down here is a mess and then on this
side and you can see I'm working on the kitchen I had originally had this all
closed in and there was no opening here so we could only see the kitchen from
this side and there used to be a stone floor in there and then the day before
yesterday I changed my mind because I've done too many stone floors I thought
I'll do something completely different and so I ripped it all out rip the walls
out I went to the thrift store and found a checkerboard and that's what this is
here and it fit perfectly it's one of those box checker boards that folds up
so I used one half for this little space and it works great so I'm gonna have a
wall that comes here and I'm gonna have a little peekaboo area right here that
way we could see into the kitchen and also see the other parts of the house as
well so today I'm going to show you like I said this is unplanned I wasn't
planning on a tutorial so it's not like your basic wonderful tutorial my
cupboards are custom made for my little gnome here
it does have to be pretty short she's only how tall is she about three
inches tall so her height here this all has to be custom-made to her same as
this little piece over here I made this piece the same way I'm gonna show you
how I made the cupboards so I started off with the basic height here that goes
well with my little gnome so you can use the same tutorial and do any size of
cupboard that you want to make alright my friends we can head over to my desk
it was actually filmed yesterday what I'm about to show you was actually
filmed yesterday and the rest of the cupboards are gonna be built another day
when I have a moment to do so but with what I show you in the clip
it will give you a good idea how I put these things together this little
setup here and also how I put this little cupboard together as well yeah so
techniques that you can be using for all sorts of different things all right so
before we get started what I'm using in this video is foam board and it comes in
great big sheets I get it at Walmart and also at the dollar store you can also
use cardboard you don't need to buy that foam word I'm using tacky glue tacky
glue is basically to use when you're putting stuff together I'm also using a
little bit of hot glue but that's not to hold anything together and I'll explain
that later I'm using a burnt umber regular craft paint and also a chalk
paint this isn't Irish and a wood filler you don't need to use wood filler you
can also use a clay exacto knife a ruler pair of scissors some paintbrushes and
let's get started all right before I get too far ahead of myself I thought I'll
stop and show you how I'm building my little cupboards here I'm using foam
board and I don't like building with foam board I decided today I don't like
it at all I actually would prefer cardboard but because I started off with
this piece using the foam board I decided just to stay with it and go to
the end building all the pieces with the same material and my little faucet here
is a piece of twine I didn't have any wire thick enough to do the job so I
decided to use this twine and it'll do the job that I need it to do for now I
just want to get this kitchen built so I can move on to other parts of the house
so I just covered this with glue just like so and then I put it on my
styrofoam in the shape that I wanted use the pin I hold the one side down and a
pin to hold the other side down and then I just set my fan on it and let it dry
and once it was dry I put a little dab of wood filler I didn't have any clay on
hand clay would have done a better job but I
put a little wood filler on the end just to give it a little bit of a faucet look
and then I painted it all with grey all right guys I'm just editing to make it
super clear so the twine I use it's just rustic twine that I got at
the dollar store the reason why I pinned it in place after I put the glue on it
it's because once the glue is dried then it holds that shape can see here it's
held that shape really nicely so yeah you need to let it dry fully and then
once it's dry you can take the pins out and then cut or trim whatever you need
to cut off or trim off there and I made a hole in the back of my piece and then
I shoved the twine down into that hole and put in a little tacky glue to hold
it in place and I painted it gray and silver I used a dark grey it's a slate
first of the base coat and then on top of that base coat I used a metallic and
when you use metallic paint you have to have a base coat first
otherwise it won't show up so this is wonderful stuff here and it gave it a
nice chrome look to it for taps I am going to be using these paper fasteners
these are metal I got them off Amazon these also make great doorknobs as well
they're actually another piece that you would be screwing on the other side but
I'm not using the other side I'm just going to use this piece here and I'm
just going to attach them temporary because until I can get some proper taps
in here these will do the job they're a little bit clunky looking but when you
look into the kitchen they look okay just the way they are and I just put
them on top of two pins that I shove down into my foam board there's two
stick pins there and they just sit on top and when I find some better taps and
I can just take those off and replace them alright guys this is not a full
tutorial like I said I'm gonna give you a brief rundown what I did I cut an L
shape just like so and then the counter top I wanted it stick out our way as you
can see there so that is two widths so two of these pieces together back and
just glue oops
I'm gonna glue it here okay and now do these here so there's the start of it I
just wanna get here let's see okay and then the other piece went under here and
then I glued this one like this and then I just I glued an end piece here so that's
exactly how I started this piece here and this black stuff here you don't have
to worry about that I'm gonna explain why I have that here when I bring that
cupboard over to the kitchen and yeah you don't have to worry about this stuff
here I have to add that for a reason okay so the countertop you want to make
sure that you have enough overhang when you put your cupboard face on there that
it will overhang the cupboard face so just take that into consideration when
you're cutting your own pieces if you do a piece that's similar to this once that
glue was dry I use wood filler and I just put a thin layer I'm gonna show you
how I do it in a second put a thin layer and I like the texture of that you can
use clay this probably wouldn't be the best thing if you're making something
for a small child to be playing with because I think that would just be in no
time at all would break up and you'd see lots of chips and stuff but for the
purpose that I'm using this board it's perfect it's not gonna be pulled out
this is actually gonna be glued into place so I'm not worried about it
falling apart it's pretty sturdy as is this is the top cover here when it's
sitting on the wall this is going to be sitting on this side here so I'm already
started I made the little foam board box and then I did my wood filler all the
way around I didn't do it on this side because that sides gonna be glued to the
wall now I'm going to make the cupboard face I'm gonna do that on film for you
so it is two inches by three inches so the cupboard face like this part here
is going to be a little bit smaller then that 2x3 not too concerned about
the edges and stuff because I am putting the wood filler over tops I think
that'll be a good fit right there okay so what I do now is I'm gonna add a
layer of wood filler I've used this wood filler a lot to build things like the
wooden pieces so this is just gonna give me a nicer texture than just having
painted over plain foam board or cardboard to get a nice smooth surface
once you get the wood filler on there you can dip your finger in water and
then run your finger across and it smoothes it right out I did that when I
built my little bridge I smoothed it right out and then I added lines with a
pet brush a steel pet brush then you can get those awesome grain lines in there but
I'm not doing that with these cupboards I'm kind of just giving it a rough look
so now I'm just gonna set it under my fan and let it dry I'm popping it with
an edit because I was just watching my film and I realized I didn't clearly
explain the wood filler only goes on the surface that's gonna be seen I didn't
put it on the other side and you let it fully dry before you paint it well I set
it underneath the fan and let it fully dry and then I painted this and I do
these edges all the edges gives there was filler as well and then the surface
but nothing on the back so this piece here wood filler went along the whole
countertop and went along the whole surface here all of this down here
across I didn't do any on the side because that part was gonna be going to
the wall I didn't worry about that part but everything else got covered with the
wood filler and of course you don't need anything on the underside because you're
not going to be seeing any of that and once this basic piece here all the
glue is dry and when you put the wood filler on it it becomes pretty solid
it becomes one solid piece and again you can use a paint brush to
smooth it out if you wanted to or use water like I said dip your finger in
water and smooth it all it all out if you wanted to I left it you can see
pretty rough-looking so this bridge here was made exactly the same way I just
showed you in how I did the cupboards so cardboard and then the wood filler over
top I smooth it out with my finger dipped in water and then I ran a pet
brush along to get all those wonderful grain lines in there so this bridge was
built the same way I did the cupboards and the steps were as well and you can
see on mine I kind of rough it up with that burnt umber so I'm gonna take some
of that get the excess off I start on the bottom work my way up they kind of
just gives a look like they've been worn out in that area the most of this is
gonna be covered so I don't have to worry about the middle part you know I'm
sure a lot of people won't like this look and that's totally fine we all
have different ways we're going to do things you might want to make your
kitchen look like it's totally brand-new and everything looks perfect and that's
great too I'm the opposite of that I like things
that look wonky it looks like they've been around for a while just makes my
life easier okay that piece is done right so now I have to paint this one
green let it dry and then I'll do the same thing and my piece is all finished
I just finished dirtying it up at that burnt umber you know it's ready to be
glued on top so I'm just going to use this tacky glue
you're my little handles here are very simple cut from a cereal box just a very
thin strip and I just bent the ends I cut the ends into little triangle shapes
and then that bent them so they stick out a little bit nothing fancy there but
super easy and I got the original idea for these types of handles from Bentley
house minis she has a tutorial on YouTube on how to do these little tiny
handles in all different styles so what I've done here is it actually a
simplified version of what she does she decorates the ends and hers a fin-tastic
and they actually look like little metal handles and yeah she does a really good
job I was a tutorial but like I said I just did a simple strip and then cut the
ends and now I'm just gonna glue these I was surprised how well it holds I'm
gonna leave that dry for a few minutes before I put it on them all oh and I
almost forgot my sink I was kind of just winging my way along so it's a little
bit wonky but I cut the hole in after I have all
of this built because I didn't even know where the sink part was gonna go yet so
I kind of played around with ideas yeah yeah I put it inside the house and
checked it all out and decided that's where I wanted my sink so then I cut
a little hole and then underneath you can see I just built a little box out of
that foam board and glued and taped it into place and that wood filler over
that and then painted so here's the unfinished room that these cupboards are
going into and I told you I was gonna tell you what these black pieces for for
if you take a look at this board here this is a checker board and the middle
of it is bowed down so when I put my pieces in here I noticed straight
away that I could see underneath the middle part of my cupboard and
especially if I looked at them over here I can really see an issue here so what I
came up with was just that glue these are the black strips here so it creates
a shadow and so when I look in at the cupboards I
don't have to see any light underneath and it looks like they go right to the
floor so that was just an easy solution to a permanent problem that I have at
this floor I'm going to glue this in place so what I'm going to do when I use
hot glue and tacky glue hot glue will just hold it up in place while the tacky
glue dries because you never want to attach anything with just hot glue
because it'll eventually just pop off and then you'll have a problem I just
ran tacky glue along the entire edge there and now I'm going to put hot glue
on the side on this side here okay I ran a bead of hot glue and I want to make
sure I'm doing this right where I want I
think that's the perfect height right there and see that hot glue just grabbed
it right away which I wanted and then the tacky glue can dry underneath there
and that will be permanently in place once the tacky glue dries so that's
great I think that Heights good there too so what I'm gonna do now is gonna build
the other piece I'm kind of winging my way along like I said earlier I'm not
even sure yet what I'm gonna be doing over here I think I might do a corner
cupboard because I'm gonna have a wall coming on this side here and then I'll
have shelves going across in between them almost see what happens all right
my friends that brings us to the end of this video tutorial even though it
wasn't the greatest tutorial I hope it gave you some ideas and some inspiration
maybe you could get yourself a little bridge made some stairs or maybe a set
of cupboards and next time hopefully we'll have another little creek here
filled with some fish for you to see yeah I'll be back soon with more updates
until then keep dreaming and keep building and we'll see you super soon