(upbeat music)
- My name is Kara, and I'm an interior designer
here in beautiful sunny Los Angeles.
Due to this pandemic, I've been on a mission
to help everyday people transform their space
into their ideal oasis.
So today we're gonna meet Jeff who's a gamer,
and we're gonna transform his bedroom
into a Twitch inspired man-cave on just $500.
So let's go meet him.
- My name is Jeff Williams
and I'm in desperate need of your help.
My room's pretty bare,
I just moved into a new apartment,
I need to find a way to make this place a streaming setup,
while also not showing everybody my bed,
that was my problem last time,
that's what I need, please help me, please.
(upbeat music)
- Hey.
- Hi Jeff, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you as well.
- I'm here to help, I got your call, what's going on?
- I'm so happy you're here I needed this,
I needed streaming setup for my room.
I stream all the time, I do after shows,
there's Spider-Man that just came up today--
- Okay wait wait wait stop, let's just go for it.
- Oh let's go .
Here it is.
(insects stridulating)
Yeah we, there's not a lot.
- There's literally nothing in there.
- I mean, I have a bookshelf, I have a dresser,
but I don't even have a desk.
- I have $500 and 48 hours to make something happen.
- I tried to do the LED thing like you mentioned,
you supposed to put it on the back,
it's not supposed to be seen,
it's supposed to be a straight line,
like there's so many things wrong with it.
- Let me get this straight,
you're telling me I only have $500 to transform this space
and there's like nothing in here.
- And 48 hours too.
- I really liked Jeff, he seems like a great guy
and I wanna make his bedroom extra special,
but I mean this small budget is gonna make it difficult.
I mean, I'll see what I can do I'm not making any promises.
(upbeat music)
So, I just pulled into the parking lot at my local goodwill,
I'm gonna go inside
and see if I can find anything amazing for Jeff's room.
I don't know how I feel about putting, (laughs)
used pillows on Jeff's bed, (laughs)
lets not do that.
Keep in mind I'm working with like nothing here
with pennies, I only have $500 to spend.
So Jeff is a huge superhero fan and I just came across this
and I actually think this is perfect, $6 perfect,
and on top of the art piece that I found,
I actually grabbed a couple of books
because I do have an idea of like
doing a DIY shelf above Jeff's desk,
and then I got an art piece
so yay to a successful trip to goodwill.
I'm now heading to the Melrose Trading Post,
not only for Jeff but for me,
so I'm gonna go see what they have.
Just found the perfect pieces of art for Jeff,
by this vendor who does like really cool art.
Okay, so I just wrapped up my shopping trip
at Fairfax flea market and it was a success,
I found some great art,
but that's all I found today, just art,
so we need to get furniture, we need to get bedding,
we need to make a desk, we have stuff to do.
Okay, so today was a very long day,
and I'm realizing that
pulling Jeff's space together for just $500
is actually a lot harder than I thought,
and today's shopping trip did not go as planned.
I didn't find anything within budget that we can repurpose,
so I'm gonna have to scale back
and think of something else for Jeff's space, wish me luck.
(upbeat music)
Hey guys, so as you can see, I'm in the workshop,
I had some time to think last night,
so after my failed shopping trip
because all I found was a few accessories,
a few art pieces for Jeff.
He still needs the major pieces,
the desk, the nightstands, the headboard.
So after spending hours tryna figure out
how I can give Jeff everything he wants for his gaming room,
I found this really cool DIY headboard on Pinterest,
so I'm saving major coins with this DIY headboard
because I don't have enough money to buy nightstands
and a headboard,
so I'm gonna put this together myself.
Keep in mind I am no one's DIY queen,
and I don't work with power tools often, so wish me luck.
So the great thing about this project
is that it doesn't require a ton of materials,
so in order to build out this DIY headboard,
we're first going to need our one by three planks,
that are cut into three sections.
This plank will act as the back support
to hold the horizontal slats,
and if you don't have a wood cutter at home,
which I'm sure most of us don't,
you can have the hardware store cut these for you.
We'll also need some horizontal planks,
that are cut eight feet long.
So because Jeff has this window that is above the bed,
I didn't want this to be too high,
so I only have eight planks,
but if you wanna make your headboard higher,
feel free to add as many planks as you want.
And the final piece that we need
in order to complete this headboard is our plywood board,
and these are gonna actually act as the side tables.
So these are 16 by 12,
and they're gonna sit on either side of Jeff's mattress,
they're kinda like nightstands.
In order to mount the plywood boards to the headboard,
we actually had some woodblocks cut on a 45 degree angle,
that are gonna act as brackets for the side tables.
It's time to put this headboard together,
so here we have our planks laid out,
I want this height to be 21 inches,
so I created a two inch spacer, to help me guide
how much space needs to go in between each plank.
So let's start with our bottom one,
let's place this here and just go up
and perfectly align each plank with a two inch gap.
(soft upbeat music)
Okay, so now that we have our beams
perfectly spaced out with two inches in between,
we're gonna go in
and we're gonna add our back support beams.
So let's start with the center. (beep)
(upbeat music)
So it looks like our support beams are a little short
so I'm gonna have to go back in and cut this,
but first let's measure and see where we went wrong.
So the overall height of the headboard is 21
and it looks like the plank is only 19 inches,
so I'm gonna have to grab a new plank and get a recut.
(upbeat music)
(saw buzzing)
That was easy,
okay so we're back with the right size planks now,
so let's see how that worked out,
okay perfect, we're ready to get started.
Now that we have our support planks at the right length,
we're going to measure the mid point
and get this bad boy on here.
So for a little extra support,
I'm gonna take some wood glue
and just make a dot on each plank,
to hold down the support beam,
and we also have our spacers on each end,
just to make sure that
we're keeping the two inches perfectly in between each one.
So now that we have our
center support beam perfectly centered
and we added a little bit of wood glue
just to hold it in place,
we're ready to nail this thing in.
So I have a nail gun,
but keep in mind that you can always just use a hammer nails
when doing this,
but if you are gonna use a power tool
just make sure that you're extra safe,
you keep your hands far away from the gun.
(nail gun fires)
Jeff has a queen bed and our headboard is eight feet long,
so right now what I'm doing is
I'm going in and I'm marking,
how much space we'll have on either side of the bed,
to perfectly place our nightstands.
Now that we have a mark of where Jeff's bed's gonna sit,
I'm just going to go in and put the nightstand in
or the nightstand shelf in
just to see how much space we have to play with
and it's pretty tight,
so I'm going to add the end planks
to the very edge of the headboard just to be safe.
So now I'm gonna go ahead
and add a little bit of wood glue to the edges,
to make sure that our end planks are secure,
and then we're gonna in and nail those in.
(nail gun fires)
So we've just secured in our right side planks,
so now we're gonna go over to the left side
and finish this up.
So I just wanna make sure that everything is super secure,
so we're adding a little bit of wood glue,
before we go in and nail this in.
Also keep in mind that if there are any imperfections
on your planks,
you always want them to face the backside,
so just keep in mind which way
is going to be actually facing the bed.
Okay, so we have our beams secured in,
everything is looking really good,
I think I killed it for my first time
doing a little DIY project.
Let's see, okay, uh-oh,
there's some nails sticking out on this side,
so here and here--
- Oh you missed.
- I know.
(both laughing)
So now, I'm gonna flip this thing over
and I'm gonna attach the side tables.
So before I attach the woodblocks to the tables,
I'm gonna just go in with a little bit of wood glue,
just to make sure everything is even
and secure before we nail anything in.
(soft upbeat music)
(nail gun fires)
So, we're all done with Jeff's headboard,
it looks amazing,
everything turned out great, I'm really proud of myself
and I got this done all within an hour.
So now we're gonna head to Jeff's
and we're gonna do a big install so stay tuned,
we're gonna be painting,
I'm gonna get this headboard up on the wall,
and Jeff is going to have the gaming room of his dreams.
(soft upbeat music)