- DIY Not!
- Did I make man bear Keith? (laughs)
(table saw wiggle)
- You have a microwave.
(electric drill) - Oh
- That's how it is now.
It's done.
- The people have been asking,
it's finally here.
(high energy rock music) - [Ned} Welcome to Try DIY.
The show where we transform our friend's forgotten spaces,
into beautiful new interiors,
using the power of of DIY.
Ariel knows what she's doing and I'm her husband.
Why DIY Ariel?
- [Ariel] It's cool to be able to do something yourself,
also rewarding.
- [Ned] And it saves money.
Each episode, we're gonna listen to what our friends need
and set them up with the DIY project
that will help them save money and be awesome.
- [Ariel] Right.
This show is about making our friends awesome.
- [Ned] First, let's go meet Keith and Becky.
- Well you know Keith and Becky.
- You guys know them, but you know it's like
we're trying to make it like-
- Show,
- Like one of those HGTV shows.
(jazzy guitar music)
(knock on door)
- [Group] Hi! Hello!
- Come on in!
- Hello, good to see you.
- [Keith] So this is our apartment,
we've been here for about three years.
We brought a lot of IKEA furniture and then
over the course of three years,
sorta replacing them piece by piece.
It actually started with this coffee table.
So this was given to us by a friend,
then we were sorta like happy with it,
we thought "Oh we should get more stuff,
that looks just like this."
- [Becky] Yeah. (laughs)
- [Ned] Nothing but dark wood panel.
- [Keith] This is actually not the problem area
that we need help with.
- [Ned] What's the problem?
- Problem is the room,
you've never seen cause the door is always closed.
- I always thought that was just a closet.
- No, well it is. - That's one way.
- Yeah actually is a more accurate description.
Today, we are redoing
our shame room.
Affectionately known as Keith's room.
- [Keith] It is a room that only has junk in it.
Early on it was just Keith's junk.
More and more and more stuff get- get in put in there,
and now its just sort of nobody's happy place.
- I grew up in a house that was very
very clean all the time
and very well decorated,
so having something that I look at everyday
that is not clean and not decorated,
it's like the Catholic guilt comes on
and I'm not even Catholic anymore.
Through here!
- Oh my god. - Oh dear.
(tense suspenseful music)
- [Keith] It's kinda like going to a Goodwill.
- You have a microwave.
- [Ned] You're telling me that if you need to
microwave something you walk into this room
and use that one on the floor.
- Yeah, you sit on the floor.
- Check this guy out.
I sewed this myself.
It was supposed to be an octopus but it ends up
looking a lot more like an octopus made of dicks.
I mean they're pretty good dicks, (Ariel and Ned laughs)
they're not the worse dicks in the world.
- [Becky] Keith's room is culmination of Keith
taking the joke too far.
Everything that's in there is at one point a joke (laughs)
that Keith had and he took it too far.
- A beautiful piece of horse art that
was purchased at gas station.
- [Ariel] It's signed.
- Yeah, cause it's art.
- This though, check this out.
This is a Mount Futurmore.
- That Futurama (laughs) - [Keith] It's beautiful!
- It's so big, but it's so funny (laughs) I love it.
My best friend made it.
- I do like the really big picture of Keith going like this.
That's probably my favorite thing.
I think his face is cute,
if you wanna do a full wall of his face
I would be more okay with that than the Furturama poster.
- (laughs) See he's gonna take it too far
and he's gonna actually do it.
- That's great!
- All of my accolades before.
- This. Naked Keith
- Having real accolades.
And then in this dresser,
its just full of like Frisbees and juggling equipment.
This one's not even opened. (laughs)
- Wow.
- When was the last time you played with a Fresbee sir?
When was the last time?
(laughs)
- I know that this room causes them a lot of conflict.
- Yeah strange amount of conflict.
- And if we can transform this it's
gonna improve their relationship.
- We're gonna save their marriage.
- Whoa.
- We're gonna save their lives.
That's what this show is about.
- This show is about saving lives people.
- This show is about saving lives.
- What is your vision for the guest room?
- I think it could be a fun flip to
make it more of a Becky's room.
- I do my makeup in the bathroom and our room
where we do not use the shower.
So we shower in one place
and do skincare and makeup in another place
and do our hair in another place.
- Wow.
- I'd be nice to do everything in the same place.
- [Ariel] Okay
- [Ned] That really seems ideal
- Did you guys find that you need space
apart from each other?
- There are definitely times where
- [Becky] There are not. - Becky has her friends over
to watch 'Vanderpump Rules' or something else
I don't really want to be apart of that.
- Somewhere else Keith can play his video games,
- I'm fine with that. - That's not the main area.
- We also want that to be a guest space.
I'd like it to be more of a multipurpose room,
I don't think we want a bed.
- We're not making a hotel room here.
Like a TV room.
- [Off Screen man] Den! - A den!
- Some storage that makes sense in there would be good
because we don't have a lot of closet.
- So what is you style?
- Becky changes her mind a lot about what she likes.
She loved every piece that we put into this house.
Everything here except for the coffee table, Becky chose.
She chose where it went.
She chose when we got it.
It was Becky's choice and then
she'll stand there and be like
"I don't like this."
Well we bought it.
- I wouldn't say that I change my mind often,
but I would say I change my preferences often. (laughs)
- Oh look at this.
How cool. How chic.
In two years, Becky will hate this. (laughs)
- I have an idea for what we're gonna do in there already.
- How you know?
- [Ned] So how we're gonna turn it from Keith's room
into Keith and Becky's room?
- Well they want to do a lot with this room.
That makes it pretty easy to chose furniture.
They need some very specific pieces.
They need a really good pull-out couch,
something with drawers that they can keep
whatever they need to,
that will also be the TV stand.
We need to create a little vanity space,
but the vanity needs to work as a desk because
Keith wants to work from home in there.
So instead of having a desk chair,
we're gonna do like a decorative chair
because they want all of this furniture
to travel with them to the next place.
We're gonna get two of the same cause
what are you gonna do with one decorative chair?
They can take these chairs to the next place
and maybe use them at the end of their dining table.
- Maybe be symmetrical.
That's a good tip.
(upbeat funky music)
- Alright, Keith, Becky,
its time to clean out this junk room.
- Oh boy. - Exciting.
- I'm so excited for you.
- Go! - Yay!
(lighthearted fast music)
- Is this an old drivers license?
- [Keith] Yeah, (Becky laughs) what do you do with those?
- Coming through. - [Ariel] Wow.
- Excuse me. - Oh boy!
- [Keith] We're making real quick work of a lot of relics.
- [Ariel] All right, we're gonna take these
and decide what we're gonna put on the wall.
Don't keep too much.
- This whistle was the whistle that I used every show
when I was in 'Mission Improbable' (whistles)
Wow.
(playful guitar music) - Let's take apart this thing.
You know we could put some of that in a frame.
- What's in this box?
- Oh what's in that box?
- Look at all these!
- I know.
- Look at all these!
- Look at them. - We have to just use these.
- Yeah.
- Should we open one now?
- Yeah.
- Something that I like to do,
is that if you have memorabilia that goes together,
you can put it in a frame together
so here's one of the postcards you wrote to Keith
when you guys were living apart,
which is so sweet.
And here's a bunch of the other ones
and I'm just gonna stick them on the back of the frame.
- Now this might just look like an ordinary table saw.
(plays table saw)
Are there ghosts in here?
- Whoa.
- There's something under this. (laughs)
- What is it?
- I dunno, I must have like repurposed it.
- Let's see.
- It's Keith.
- [Together] As a man-bear!
- Oh cool!
You made that for me.
- I did make this collage.
- [Keith] So you put that there.
- I don't remember man-bear Keith.
But this does look like my handwriting.
(spooky music) Did I make man-bear Keith?
(hearty piano music) - How's the day going so far Ariel?
- The day's going great.
We are getting rid of so much stuff.
- [Ned] Yeah we're giving a lot away.
- [Ariel] I also didn't know how much stuff was in that room
- [Keith] There's just so many memories,
I don't get rid of them.
If I don't have the physical item to remind me of the time,
what if I forget.
- He's crazy. He keep everything.
He doesn't throw anything out
and he wants to throw out beautiful gift from my parents.
- Like these.
- Adorable
- What do we do with these? - Kim saw them and thought,
- Becky. Keith.
- Burger. King. - Becky
Keith! My ma gave that to you.
So we can have it together.
- So we're about midway into the process
and we actually haven't gotten into any of Becky's stuff.
- Well, we threw away her mug and she stole it back.
- [Ariel] Right. (mischievous laugh)
- Wow you have a lot of cool stuff in here.
Oh hey Ariel.
- What are you guys getting rid of in here?
- Well stuff cause there's a lot of keepers.
- [Ariel] Is that right?
You know, my other rule is that,
if you haven't used it in a year, it goes.
- [Ned] How are they doing with your idea,
that they're only going to keep the things
that will be displayed.
- That went out the window immediately.
We had to create a memory box full of stuff
that could not get displayed but was not
going to be thrown away.
- You said that, that was you special whistle,
is this also a special whistle?
- Nah that is just some other fucking whistle.
- Garbage.
- [Ariel] Where's your special whistle?
- This one.
- [Ariel] THey're doing so well at being emotional about it
and then being like "now we're getting rid of it."
and I'm impressed.
- Keith, it's time to get serious.
We need to start throwing things away.
- Okay. This is garbage.
- Let's throw this away. - Garbage.
- Oh wow that was sad. (laughs)
(fast-paced guitar music)
(vacuum humming) - Oh she's working hard.
- [Ned] Oh my god, it's a different color.
- [Keith] Wow look at it.
- Guys, this room looks awesome.
- I can't believe it.
It has not looked like this for three years.
- There's only one thing left.
Does it fit in the memory box?
- Yeah, Ned, yeah. - Yeah.
- Squish it down.
- If we put a book on top of this we're good.
- Then we can keep it!
(cheers)
- Keeping the cocktapus.
- The cocktapus lives another day.
- Now that the room's all cleared out,
you guys ready to start the DIY project.
- DIY not!
(lighthearted music)
- What are we doing Keith and Becky's DIY project?
- The story behind this DIY is that Becky
really wants this vanity she found at Urban Outfitters.
It has a half circle mirror with a shelf underneath,
so we're gonna make one for her.
- How much does that cost?
- $400?
- Okay.
- And this is a $50 mirror and and $20 shelf.
Step one, you want to
screw the shelf into the wall,
you want to make sure it's level.
- [Ned] Step two, install the mirror,
what's step three?
- Enjoy it.
- Whoa, two steps?
- Everything has to be level,
and one thing we're gonna throw at them is
we don't have the desk yet so,
- They're just gonna have to measure.
- They're just gonna have to measure
where the desk is gonna go.
- So on the rear wall, you guys are doing a gallery wall.
- Yeah.
- Which, you can actually watch on Try Wive Wine Time.
That project was so fun that
Ariel and Becky did it themselves.
- We did, we opened a bottle of wine
and decided to this very complicated framing
and hanging project by ourselves drunk.
It was fun.
- That's her.
(light energetic music) - All right, here we go.
Got the tools!
- Oh wow, that's a big tool bag.
- Oh this is still here.
(sad violin music) - Bye Mount Futuremore.
Bye Bender.
- Goodbye. - Bye Fry.
- Bye Professor. - Bye.
- Bye Dr. Zoidberg.
- Oh no, you're not keeping that one?
(Becky laughs) - I'm gonna figure out a way.
- You guys have a super easy DIY project.
The only thing I could think of
is that you'll get it off center.
- So we hung this picture over our bed.
- We hung it, it was not level.
I drilled a new hole and then I-
- I had to drill another hole. - There were a bunch of holes
- There can only be so many holes that close together
before the hole rips apart and there nothing on the wall,
so that's how it is now.
It's done.
- I'm scared.
We're just gonna leave you guys to it and be back in a sec.
- Okay. - All right.
(playful music) - Can you get a piece of tape?
Oh my god Becky.
- It's fine.
- She's dropping tape on the floor.
Just put it above and then we'll put it on.
- (laughs) I'm trying.
- Okay is it centered with the blue tape?
- No.
- Tell me which way.
- I dunno.
- You gotta know.
- What is this?
- That's just where she put the tape initially.
- Why'd she put this here? - Take it off the wall
if it's bothering you.
I didn't put the tape there.
I don't know.
- You guys look like you're doing great.
- Oh we feel great Ariel.
(drills) - Do it.
- Is it supposed to make that noise?
- No you gotta push in harder on the screw.
- Oh yeah I'm gonna take it from here.
- Oh I binked it.
(intense music)
- There's a shelf on the wall look great.
- You did it.
- Let's check the level.
- Yeah - Let me shake this man's hand
- We did it.
- Isn't it worth $100 to pay someone else to do it?
- You're doing great.
Look you put the shelf up.
You are worth $100.
- Uh huh that's so little.
(drills)
- That is a commitment in the wall.
- That's how you hang stuff.
- That is a commitment.
- That is how you hang stuff,
you gotta hang it.
You gotta put a hole in the wall and hang it.
- I can't see anything.
- Now I can't get it off.
- Well, we'll let you get frustrated
for a little bit longer.
- Great.
- And then uh come back and check in with you in a sec.
Water? Coffee? Tea? Anything?
- Maybe water.
- Some water. Okay you got it.
- There's gotta be someone who's gotta invent a way
to even see what you're fucking doing.
Yeah, it's just too wide.
- Oh no, that's how we had with the picture.
- I know but I measured it.
- I'm not saying its you.
I'm saying its the house.
- I know, well it's clearly me.
- Our holes are too big,
we gotta get them a little smaller together,
so we're gonna move it up all about a half inch
and in about a quarter inch on each side.
- Member when your whole bit was,
"you guys figure it out yourselves." (laughs)
Okay.
- Here we are.
- That was our bit.
(drills) Yes Keith.
- Yes Keith. - Yas Keith.
(playful music) - Found the stud.
- Hey.
(vacuum hums) - Normally
I'd make a hilarious joke right about now. (Becky laughs)
- All right, let's hope it fits.
I think mines on.
- It's not level though.
- You know what we could do?
Let's put a piece of tape and it'll lift it just that much.
- Hack.
- That is pretty good.
We did it.
- I think now that it's in,
we leave it forever.
- Great I would love if you would apply
that philosophy to everything in our home.
I appreciate your help.
I'm sorry I got frustrated in the process.
- Can we all hug and make up?
I feel like I need a hug.
- I think we all need a hug.
- I've never seen Keith quite that angry.
- Think about it this way,
it was a day of frustration to replace daily
- frustration.
- Frustration.
- Let's get some furniture in here!
(cheers)
(funky music)
- Here we are back at Keith and Becky's.
We've got the furniture delivered.
It looks awesome, with the makeup mirror,
that Keith and Becky did.
- They did a great job.
Now we're gonna have Keith and Becky
leave the apartment and Ariel and I are gonna
put on the finishing touches and then surprise them.
Nice haircut by the way.
- Hey thanks.
- It looks great.
(lighthearted funky music)
- [Ned] The room is all done.
- Let's get them in here.
Okay, I'm excited. I hope they like it.
Okay guys, come on in. Keep your eyes closed.
- You got to put me somewhere.
- Keep your eyes closed. - They're still closed.
- You can open your eyes in three,
two,
one.
(Excitement) (energetic techno music)
- [Becky] It's so bright.
It's just calming to be in here,
like I wanna get my book and read.
- [Keith] A clock!
- [Becky] We can tell time!
- We don't have a single clock in this house.
- We don't know what time it is.
- Oh my goodness.
I'm so excited for Keith and Becky.
What a transformation.
- I'm excited for us,
I'm going to spend a lot of time in this-
- I'm going to be spending time in this room too.
- [Keith] It feels much bigger than it was,
it's probably a seventh or an eighth of our home.
- Yeah that we just never used before.
- I'm excited when people come over to be like,
oh look at this room.
- Oh people are gonna be shocked,
we're having a party in here on Saturday,
having this extra space to like funnel people in,
it's gonna be so awesome.
- The DIY project, I know was a little challenging,
but it looks really great.
- I'm really proud of them.
- What if I put my feet?
- Yas.
- Then I can be the table.
- You're the table.
(cheers)
(high energy music)
- [Zach] This unfinished room is just this like,
nagging little thing in the back of our brains,
that I know upsets her.
- [Ned] Zach is going to redesign
this entire room with our help,
you're not going to be able to see
the end until it's all done.
You're just gonna have to trust him.
(high energy funky music)
- I feel like it's missing just one little
something. - No.
- Look he matches the decor though.
- No.
- What if we hide his dicks? (laughs)
look at that!
- Maybe he'll sleep in a drawer away.
- We'll just put him here for now.
- Maybe he'll sleep in a drawer. Yeah
- We'll just leave him right here.