hello good morning don't mind this um sometimes there's a mess what can i say this week i'm doing
something very exciting an extensive amount of thought and time has been put into what i'm gonna
do with this i did endless searching and found no information and i'm just gonna go ahead and do
what i think would be great and the thing that i'm tackling this week is on my balcony it is this
situation i am going to be doing something with the railing um and the reason for this is a little
bit interesting so i love this view but if i were to move you over a couple feet you would
see construction and i don't really enjoy that view so i want to create a fencing type situation
that would still allow me to see all the greens and trees and stuff still add some nature in there
but that would give a little bit more privacy and that would block out what's happening over
there a little bit more i have big plans for my balcony i wanted to do it last week but then not
last week last year but i didn't have enough time so i feel like this would be a really great way
to add some natural stuff on my balcony add some warmth to it as well that could last kind of year
round but yeah i also think it would just be nice in general if in the future i changed my
mind and i just want to have my old view back i can just remove what i'm about to do because
obviously i'm a renter which means i can't install something permanent we're gonna just go ahead and
get going with my plans okay let's go also i did a different hairstyle what do we think that's like
a singular braid but that keeps my hair out of my face it's super easy as well and i see myself
doing this on vacation i just thought it up in my head yesterday i twist this side and i twist
aside and then i just combine it into one braid and boom it's out of my face and
looks pretty cute if i do say so myself i'm also pretty sure if i just did this when my
hair was wet i would have like a really cool beach wave i digress onto the balcony project
what were you saying hold on you were doing fine that's not what it sounded like
okay so we're just gonna go and measure outside
and then i'm gonna head to home depot i think with my mom so
that's what you sound like
so
freezing
here i am in the lumber aisle my favorite place to be
trying to have a good attitude about this yes i am
oh i saw these i thought these are really cool you can make tables out of it
aren't these cool you can definitely make little coffee tables but that's not the point here today
so this is kind of genius i think they actually tested out all the stains on a piece of wood
so you can clearly see what color it's gonna be that is so cool what a great display idea
and i think in terms of colors this one is nice or i actually really like this one actually or maybe
honey gold in person it's a really nice color didn't get anything at home depot but i just saw
this display here and i never considered lattice before and i feel like lattice could be nice
something to think about something to think about we're back and
we're getting some of the wood but not all of it so we just gotta get some cut
while we have time good morning having my morning tea
so yesterday was a bit chaotic and we did not get all the pieces of wood and the actual reason
for why is when we were running out of time and two we didn't have scissors to like cut
the bundles of wood and all the pieces that we could find that were decently good we got
got the wood hopefully fingers crossed this is still like a big question mark as to whether
my whole design is going to work i hate when it's like this because the ambiguity just makes me feel
super overwhelmed about the whole process and want to put it off but that's okay hopefully
it's gonna go and and come together and everything i was hoping in this video
i would be able to like fully install the whole thing and everything and that's still my goal
fingers crossed but i'm not 100 confident just based on whether or not everything else
goes to plan or not i was also supposed to pick up stain like deck stain for it
today but then that didn't happen either we'll just see how it goes see you back at home
so
okay so we have all the wood in here and we are about to put it together but there's a couple
things i wanted to just quickly discuss first so i'm really hot and out of breath from bringing
that up so the first thing is about how we're going to assemble it i made a wood pallet type
wall two apartments ago and i did it with a hammer and nails so that totally works but this time we
actually got a nail gun if you know me i work with manual tools for the most part and avoid spending
money on new tools but i figure i will get a lot of use of this for a long time to come now when it
comes to nail guns this is actually a brad nailer i don't know if that's the right type of nails for
this project but we're gonna cross our fingers and hope it works this is one of the only type
of nail guns that doesn't require a compressor so like sometimes you'll get a nail gun it'll be a
really good like dewalt one and then you have to get a separate compressor which can cost quite a
little money but this one's pretty affordable then it operates by a battery so i'll link down below
in case you're in the market for one and i will also let you know how much it makes it easier for
the project so here's the plan okay we are going to do a little measuring do a couple markings on
where stuff should go and then i guess just like place down the pieces of wood use the nail gun put
this all together this is something i have low key been procrastinating because i couldn't figure out
well i should have drawn out a diagram to figure out the spacing but instead i didn't so i just
like procrastinated for a long time and then this morning we drew it out so we just need to do a
little calculation and get to building oh also my husband is going to help me with putting this
together not because i particularly need the help but just so that it moves a little bit faster and
something fun that we can do together i'm actually the first thing we're gonna do upon reflection
is a little bit of sanding on some of the edges it's like super super
sharp and jagged front pieces of wood are just super rough i was thinking we only have
to sand one side of it like the one side that's going to face us the rest of it can be kind of
crap how do we know which side is facing us i guess we look like good sides yeah i
think we look at every side and then are like okay this side seems better than this side
okay so it is now time to measure everything out and mark everything off
and we actually were trying to find something around our house that was
four inches wide specifically so my husband who's standing right here by the way search
around our apartment for like one minute and found that these coasters that i made before are
a perfect four inches so we will be using this to measure the majority of the spacing which is
perfect what we're marking off is the beginning of where each wooden piece should sit so that we know
how to line it up when we're just nailing let's work everything off and in case you're wondering
wondering we did do a really chaotic calculation this is what it looks like based on what our
balcony looks like and what the railing is so we're just going to go off of that i guess
okay so we have our nail gun hopefully this goes to plan
and we have safety glasses very important i guess when you're using a nail gun so cool
matches his carpenter dollarama my room construction yeah you're a real carpenter
okay so a little update here for you we've done the first one here but then we realized that we
probably should have reinforced the nails with some wood glue so um we're not going to take
that one apart that one's probably fine because it's just such a small piece of the balcony
railing but we did grab some wood glue i think that would be smarter a smarter thing to do so
carry on then
okay so currently we have finished the first one which is the smallest one with no glue
that one over there and we did actually attach the post pieces so those are the pieces that are going
to go straight to the ground because the majority of the pieces are not going to go straight to the
ground they're going to kind of hover the way that the original design is so if you see here
that is the bottom and the pieces on the end are longer we also finished the longest piece
but we have not attached the posts yet and that's because the design that i came up with has one of
the posts connecting to another section using the same post i'm probably making no sense right now
anyway so we're going to build that and then maybe we'll actually fully i don't know what i'm doing
the one that's i'll show you you see this thicker pole right here
that is the one where there's going to be a post and two pieces are going to connect to the same
post to hide that middle piece we're probably going to fully put it together and everything
except for that one post on the two pieces that will connect together and that one we will
probably assemble outside because otherwise it'll be too big i think so on to the third one now
okay so a little update for you here we have all three of the railing pieces put together for the
most part with the exception of that one vertical beam in the center that i explained about earlier
and the plan was initially to put them together like this and then stain it with
deck stain because that's what it will need to last a little bit longer outside however
we've learned deck stain can only actually be applied when there's a couple consecutive
nights of temperatures that don't go below like 10 degrees or something like that i think it says
it's supposed to stay higher than 15 preferably and we look to the weather forecast and it's not
supposed to be like that for a while so i'm not actually going to get to stain it in this video
which means i'm probably not going to 100 put it together because i don't want it to sit outside
without having any protection on it and to fully put it together i have to take it outside because
there's that one piece that needs to be attached to connect the two long pieces sorry i'm rambling
on but the gist is we're not gonna be able to finish it finish [ __ ] fully in the video but
i will be able to take it outside and attach it to the railings temporarily so that you and me both
can see exactly what it looks like but before i do it i do just want to mention a little bit about
using the nail gun the nail gun was super super super easy to use i was incredibly scared
before using it and i watched a couple of safety videos the gist is just like you know don't put
your hands near to where the head of the nail gun is going to be because the nails can go sideways
and who knows what else can happen and also wear eye protection we also had ear plugs in
i would encourage you if this is your first time or you're thinking of using it um definitely look
up some safety videos don't take this as a safety video and definitely be careful when you're using
it but in my opinion very easy to use it does weigh like five pounds though which i wasn't
anticipating so totally okay for something where you're going downwards but imagine using that for
like doing top trim i feel like you could get a little tired doing that actually maybe that's why
they use sometimes the ones that have the compressor because maybe then
it's not as heavy i don't know don't take my word for that all in all super easy and i
shouldn't have been scared to use it but as every new tool i often am scared to use it till i start
learning all about it so yeah just that for you so we're gonna take this outside all three pieces
okay so we've just taken them outside and we kind of loosely tacked them in place with zip ties and
the lights aren't in place okay but i still want to show you what it looks like because i can
already tell it looks so much better than it did before it frames out our space so much better it
makes us feel like we have our own little unique space as opposed to it just being a big window so
if you're ready i will show you what it looks like okay guys if you're ready here it is
this is the new railing and oh my goodness i think it is so much better than it was before and to
give you some more perspective this is the new view when you sit down yes there is a huge crane
there but at least you're not seeing all of that construction that's happening and ultimately when
that building is done being completed that one right there and you're sitting down you will see
just a peek of it above there but the majority of what you're seeing is actually this nice framed
out space that still lets light in ultimately we probably will maybe add another piece at
the top and maybe a ledge to just finish off the look and make it look a little bit
more finished as well as staining it to add a layer of protection on there i'm ecstatic
about it though this was such a loose idea that i thought about for ages like literally for weeks
and weeks and weeks i was thinking about this i couldn't think about what i could do out here
to fix the whole construction situation as well as to just make the space feel a little bit more
framed out so i just think that this adds so much niceness to it it actually brightens it up a lot
adds that layer of privacy adds a little bit more hominess to it frames in the space and i love it
so much and i also think from inside it not only looks great but once the inside of the living room
is done i think everything will come together so nicely i know it's not fully fully completed i
will have a part two to this probably next week where we will finish it we'll make it look 100
perfect we might add some styling in here and that will be like the first major thing of the balcony
that's completed and i couldn't be more excited about it i knew something had to happen since like
last year because things weren't working out properly last year when i tried to put stuff
out there so i will see you next week thank you so much for watching hopefully if you have a balcony
with this type of situation this can inspire you rental friendly not too hard to do and it looks
great okay i'll see you next week love you so much bye thanks for cleaning after my splinter