hey guys how are you i am doing something very exciting in this video now here's the thing in
the last video where i was working on the balcony i wrote in the description that this would be
the last video on the balcony that i would do before my extreme balcony makeover video you
guys because you watch the homemade happy series have the behind the scenes and know a little bit
more about what's going on i wanted to leave a little bit more suspense for you guys and kind of
stop what i was showing at the point of the last balcony railing video however i have come to the
point of having too many projects for it and this specific project that i'm going to be showing you
today and working building with you guys today is just too big of a project to include in the
full room makeover video i just feel like it makes sense for it to live on its own i do just want to
add a little note here it would mean so much to me if when you see the extreme balcony makeover
going live that you please please please watch it from the beginning to the end like it and comment
the extreme room makeover series that i've done has been basically the series that allows me to do
youtube as a living because those are my highest performing videos and so i know that you guys get
a lot of behind the scenes but if you will still show the extreme room makeover videos support and
love that would mean so much to me and that really helps me and will help the algorithm to still send
that video out because you guys are the ones that are going to be shown the video by youtube first
so if you love it and support it it will end up going out to wider audiences and honestly just
means a lot to me so thank you so much in advance but either way on to what we're doing today i had
planned for months and months practically a year i have been planning to put a built-in seating
situation on that full side of the balcony and make it kind of an l shape and i thought
that would be really nice it even got the cushions for it from walmart but i changed my mind because
there's like a hornet situation right up in that corner so i don't really want to be sitting there
we don't find ourselves gravitating to that corner so when i was thinking about what else we want to
do out here to make this space a space that we love one of our priorities is to have a barbecue
and that's something that we've truly wanted for quite a long time now the issue is we can't have a
propane wood chip or a coal barbecue because we're in an apartment and that violates the rules that
we have so we are limited to an electric barbecue and i found one that i really like but it's just
a table top bbq so follow me okay because of that i think it's going to make sense to build a
kind of like outdoor kitcheny area that the tabletop barbecue can sit on top of that is
what we're going to do today basically build an outdoor kitchen area but you could also use this
for something that you wanted to do indoors you could use this as a nightstand side table
or whatever you want to do really honestly balcony makeover video so let's get started
hello hello he's waiting for me to start look at it so comfortable
okay so yesterday my husband and i went to home depot and we picked out all the wood
i actually spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how i was going to design
this structure because i've really only framed out a couple pieces of furniture ever in my life
meaning like my headboard actually maybe just that one thing so i had no idea what i was doing
i think we figured out something that should work this is literally perfectly designed to fit the
size of my balcony we are using one by fours for basically every piece in this diagram with the
exception of the four pillars and those are one by sixes all of the pocket holes are actually going
on all of the one by four pieces and not on any of the one by six pieces that's just the way that
it needs to be constructed because the pocket hole needs to go on this side out of the top of
the piece of wood and into the side anyway on with the building
so there's going to be like three pieces right foreign
four one two three four the two shelves yeah right
yo look at this
how it's like the knot fellow oh my god hello so just a little update for you these are the four
edge pieces but then the next things we're gonna do are add in two little support pieces on this
side and on this side as a support for the shelves we're gonna put in and we're also gonna put in
two additional supports on the top piece so that the table top has more support as well
hmm
at first i didn't think about it at first i thought what else
did it do let's put it down and see what it looks like
yo this is so legit
guys this is so legit
this is literally a countertop yo this is how you frame a countertop sick
sturdy
looking so legit good morning so next step in this whole process is gonna be a fun one
so actually yesterday we went to home depot to get plywood to cover in all the sides
of the structure and we spent like an hour picking out the plywood only to
find out that the plywood cutting machine is broken meaning that they couldn't cut
it and there's no way for us to bring those gigantic plywood sheets back home with us
so there was another option and that option was to buy like the handy panel size which is like
much smaller but way more expensive like probably cost us an additional 70-ish bucks just in product
there honestly maybe more but that's okay because we are on a time crunch we need to get this done
so we are going to cut down all the panels that we got to size we are ready to make our first cut
my battery died
the piece of wood is leaving a huge gap in one section which i think
should still be fine if i can put caulking in there like silicone in there anyway whatever
my shoulder's killing me
so
are you ready to see it all constructed because honestly it's coming together
seriously it is so coming together this i believe is actually how you frame at a fireplace does this
not look like a fireplace if you were doing like a faux fireplace with an insert dang this looks
good i will just mention on the top piece it is the only piece of plywood that's slightly thicker
i think it's like half an inch thick versus everything else is a quarter of an inch thick
and the top part that has the table top is the only part that also is reinforced in the center
and you can actually see the difference of what that does when it's reinforced in the center it
definitely is much more stable and heavy duty and since i'm going to put something heavy on
top of it i thought that that would be a good idea and it totally was the next step is going to be
to caulk all the little gaps and stuff i've been putting it off for like the last 45 minutes but
i'm gonna do it now i have no idea how this works i feel like i'm missing something oh it started
good morning so the silicone caulking has like fully dried and now the next step
that i'm going to do on this whole journey is i'm going to put some spackling on the outside of
this i want it to look kind of like this organic cementy look so that's what i'm going for you know
now this stuff is graded for interior and exterior
and not all sparkling i think is like rated for exterior to my knowledge but yeah i'm
only gonna put this on the tops sides and front that's what it looks like bright pink
i was never the one to write up a song for just
anyone i i was always the one to find myself lost in more conversations all
cause i've always been told that things will unfold if you keep on waiting
the spakling is officially dry am i 100 sure that i'm using all the right products
for this project in terms of the caulking in terms of the exterior spackling no i'm not 100 sure now
the one saving factor i think to me is the fact that the paint is going to be this whitish color
the texture and spackling is white the caulking is white if there is ever any chipping or peeling
or whatever of the spackling or of the caulking i figure i can just repair that pretty easily
i also didn't apply any spackling to the sides of the project that was just like a time and product
save because it's gonna fit so perfectly in there you're not going to see any texture really that's
on there anyway i do have a really good exterior paint i got it from home depot it is bare
this is the paint color that i have hopefully it's good now i think i will use a cloth thing to
maybe add a little bit more texture i think that would be smart just a little more texture thinking
so
hello good morning it is now the next day because i got sidetracked working on something
else for the balcony which is going to go in the balcony makeover video and hint make sure
that you watch that just a little reminder once again the next step i'm going to do in here is
actually add some shelves and i thought wood cedar shelves would be a great option now i
didn't realize that sear is really expensive but i like the color of it more than like
pressure treated wood and since it's going to be fully exposed and live in this cabinet i thought
it just makes sense for it to be real nice wood so if you remember i put some extra pieces of support
here and here and on the same on the other side and that was so that i'd be able to
basically put a piece of wood across so that the shelves can sit on top of it
and so that's what we're going to do here and i did think ahead and actually measure the distance
the center point of the support pieces from the top and from the bottom so hopefully this should
be pretty easy and once that's done this structure is done very excited and i can finally move on
to all the final touches and all the things i planned for the balcony which i think it's going
to be great when it's done and also so we can barbecue my husband's been asking me like every
single day can we barbecue can we work with you not yet so yeah let's get going with the shelves
so
ta-da my little supports are in
okay so the shelves are in and i have just added in a couple little things
so you can get an idea i'm not going to put the barbecue on top because i
want to leave that as like a full kind of reveal type thing for the balcony
makeover because i think it's such a nice big statement piece and i think it's just
gonna go perfectly but i will show you what it looks like semi-staged i'm in love with it
if you're ready i will show you here it is holy cannoli it is perfection
oh my goodness i'm obsessed this looks so good this is beyond my dreams of kind of like what i
thought i could make for this space it turned out so good i love the shelves i wasn't 100 sure right
when i put them in whether it was the right color i thought maybe they should be darker but then i
put a couple items in and it's just perfect the perfect little accent and you guys this is just
it's everything look at it hey yo i made this how i don't know i mean i just thought it up struggled
with some dimensions and struggled with measuring struggled with the framing struggled with all the
products along the way and here we are lo and behold so i think this is an excellent excellent
example of you can think up something that is so you that fits your place perfectly and you can
create something that is better than what i could buy in store so ah i'm so excited i'm very excited
for my balcony makeover and to see everything come together because there's like some other
stuff that i plan to do but either way thank you so much for joining along on this journey it was
super fun i'm really glad that i made this and i will see you next week i love you guys so much bye
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