hi, welcome to the Handyverse the last time in our first vlog ever we talked about the wall behind us and
today, we're going to tackle the wall. Stick with us
So I'm going to start by removing the temporary
pictures on the wall. Jason's doing that right now so that we can do some test configurations up on the wall behind us
so we can decide what it is that we want to actually put on the wall. We're not sure yet
We gave ourselves a deadline in the last vlog to do our
videos about every two weeks. We're about a week in so we only have a few days left really to get this project complete
So we need to be efficient we were busy working on our new website
Where you can check it out, and get some free plans. We will put those up as we get a chance right now
We have two
And they link in correspond a couple of videos that we've already posted. We were also busy
celebrating Canada's one hundred and fiftieth birthday
With a friend and so we were busy doing that living life a little bit, but now back to work
fixing the wall, so we want to put a picture up on the wall a
picture a few shelves so suzanne saw a picture that had
it was a couple of zebras and
It was used a low polygon effect to make the picture and it was something
she really liked but we want to make it our own, so
Suzanne was in Africa and last year and
she she has her own pictures of some zebras, so we're going to use that we're going to edit those make them low-poly and
We need to figure out a way to frame it. So when we were away this weekend
we we went to a few antique shops and
We got some ideas on how to frame it from old pictures that were there
So we're going to do that while we were there we also saw some
kind of creepy things and we also saw a
chaise that was just begging to be Costanza'd
so uh
yeah, so that's going to be our approach of this we're going to start by putting some tape up on the wall and
Just seeing how we're going to lay them out
we decided on a configuration that we think we're happy with. The true test will be when we
make the picture and make some shelves to put some things up, so
We reduced the size of the picture we were going to do poster size 2 feet by 3 feet
But just try to make it work on the wall we weren't happy with it
So what we're going to do is make a sixteen by twenty picture instead
And then we're going to have these two shelves for smaller pictures, plants, things like that, so
What's next?
We have to create the... Make the picture
So here we have the picture that Suzanne took in
Africa of the Zebra. Here's a reference picture that were this gives us the look that we're going for
So what I've done is I've already scaled this image up to
to a higher resolution
so to print it at sixteen by twenty inches and
the reason I did it beforehand is because we're going to draw polygons over it and
We want those to already be at the resolution needed for print size. So we're going to turn on the grid
zoom in and we're going to start on the head over here and
we're going to simply use the polygonal lasso tool and
Start outlining our zebra
And what we can do is
when we close a loop
I have an action created
So when I hit F2 it will automatically create a new layer with that selection, blur it, and add a line around it
Now since this takes hours, I'm going to go into super fast mode here until I have both zebras outlined with polygons
And that took a little bit longer than expected, but we have something that turned out reasonably well
if you would like to see a more in-depth tutorial on this just let us know, drop a comment
and we'll see what we can do. So let's go back over to the living room and
we'll plan the next part
The living room here, this is where the picture is going to go and
We have two shelves to build. I'm going to take a break from working on the picture
And I'm going to do these shelves
We're just going to simple, narrow shelves to hold smaller pictures on the wall
So I'm going to do that today because Suzanne is off work tomorrow
And she'll have a chance to do work on that so in order to get this thing done. That's the kind of stuff
we have to deal with and
So the top shelf is going to be 5 feet long
According to our master plan here with the painters tape and then this shelf is about three and a half feet long so unfortunately
we won't get it out of
one 8 Foot board, but
but that's okay, so we can look for longer 10 foot boards or a
couple of 6-foot boards for each shelf
Yeah, I've got all my boards cut I
cut
one by three inch boards for the back and the bottom piece and
Then a one by two board I cut for trim around the front of it
So what I'm going to now is drill some pilot holes in the back
to put screws into the base and I'm going to use finish nails to put the front the face on the trim and
And then drill three holes in this piece to allow me to hang it on the wall
So Jason finished building the shelf and I'm the the putty master, so I'm going to putty it, let it dry
We're going to run to Home Depot and hopefully it's dry by the time we get back
Then throw it up on the wall and then paint it while it's on the wall
Sticky fingers!
Okay, so now we're going to mount the picture. We have great use for a sewing cutting mat here
I'm going to use it to mark the spots of the plexiglas for the holes we want to put in
Except this marker doesn't write on it
Okay, I haven't drilled into Plexiglas before so
This should be interesting
I've
heard you can try drilling through with the drill going backwards to burn through as opposed to drilling to prevent cracking so
I'm gonna try that first
That worked like a charm
Are you going to be able to get that off? Yeah, backseat driver...
So we couldn't get the standoffs that we want it in time to do this project, so we went to Home Depot and we improvised
What we're going to do is use these screws, two fender washers
The plexiglass is going to go in the Middle here
we're going to use the nuts of spacers to
Keep it off the wall
We're going to decide if we're to put one or two on and then we're just gonna put wall anchors right into the wall
So we're going to use this
To hold up the plexiglass frame till we get the proper ones in that we want to use
Just using the static to get rid of any dust. I have my alignment arrows here on the plastic
But I'm about to take that off so I don't want to change the orientation once I
Once I pull this plastic off
so now we want to secure the picture on the backing plate and
Here's where this sewing mat comes in very handy because we can use the squares to line it up make sure it's in the middle
It's as easy as that. Now we want to put a little bit glue on the back here just along the top
So now before I put this piece on, I'm going to use it to mark the holes in the wall where I want to
Put my drywall anchors
So, that turned out alright. Our little makeshift
Standoffs worked surprisingly well. I think we're still gonna switch them out with the the real ones, but this works for now
Now that we have this up
we realize that this shelf is probably a little bit too high so we're going to move this down a little bit and
Then attach the shelves to the wall
the wall's up
I think it looks pretty cool and
I'm loving my cactus plants which I don't have to water very often. So if you like this video, hit subscribe and catch us on the next project.
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