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I'm sorry but the inside of the drawers in the hallway .... ummmm...... table.. thing.... they are REALLY WHITE... they kinda ruin the entire BEAUTIFUL finish of the rest of the .... ummmm... desk-a-ma-bob .... I think you should take them one and spend the day just using Sample 73 on the inner plywood.... NOT SURE about putting on the inside too, but I'm leaning towards 'Yes... make the inside of the drawers dark too" .... but maybe test out how it looks on a scrap piece of plywood... it's not like you're running out of it and don't have a piece of scrap to spare lol :) - I do see how you might want to keep them light colorured (hehehe) because of those light stripes on the drawer faces.... but you should accent them by putting a small, dim strip of LEDs on the bottom of that middle shelf that matches the color of those stripes on the drawer... AND this acts as a way to see it at night... it really is a shin hazard, so a little safety light would be nice... nothing big, or over the top, or bright... just something to show you where it is.... we all know what it's like to get up for a drink after a long... ummm.... "conversation" with the trash lady... errrr... waste disposal technician??? 🤷♂ ... and WHAM!!!! right in the ANKLE!!! - Just some thoughts and ideas... pretty easy too... ask the wifey, she might like the ideas... it's the little things that can take from an AMAZING piece of custom furniture into a MASTERPIECE!!!! ... okay maybe it's not the Mona Lisa, but it would be pretty SMART :D
That bathroom nook shelving and hamper job was GORGEOUS!!!! I LOVE those hampers too!!!! You knocked it out of the park bro!!! and those lights.... having them on an angle was BRILLIANT!!!! You should think about doing more improvements around the house like this... it makes for AWESOME CONTENT!! Especially when you are the one making the furniture!! I'm so stoke to watch the video of the big shelf in the living room area you linked to in the description, too. Really tho, you should consider doing more stuff like this as content for the channel. I loved how this was like all about making the furniture still, but it was for practical reasons.. not just making furniture for someone else that we don't really get to see how it's being used.... Yes I DO love seeing all of that, but with this the end result was you wife in a joyful state, which is ALWAYS good content :) ... dang what a lucky girl she is... Disneyland AND home improvements in the SAME DAY??? You are ROCKIN IT MY MAN!!!! :D
I love how much effort you put into the cabinets, and she's like "oh that's nice", and the little $2 hook for the backyard door makes her go "Omg this makes me so happy!"
She literally said "oh wow" "it fits so good" 'it fits like a glove" etc to the shelves in the hallway and the gate thing , yeah, she's extra surprised that something so little could cure what had been such a headache lol
@@didu7080 That is not how anything works. I can also 100% gurarantee you that if you take your relationship advice from that guy on trial for human trafficking and worse, you will never find a woman that wants to live with you.
Architect here. For the hallway difference, it's because the door is opening against the bedrooms walls. If the difference wasn't on the hallway, it would be inside the bedroom. We prioritize not having those awkward spaces in the rooms in which you live, but in rooms that are for circulation or in which no there's no important activity; there's also the looks. The thing is designing a building is a really complex task. And not everything fits like a jiwsaw puzzle, you have to negotiate between a lot of stuff: comfortable and useful spaces, sun and wind orientation, all the piping and internal systems, the structure, the construction elements, the money and the buisness, to name the most important ones. So sometimes it's not possible to reach the best solution for all of those, there are some unavoidable leftovers. And that's not all, sometimes something wasn't well thought and designed, so it had to be resolved during construction by a constructor that isn't a designer. Sometimes there are also mistakes, someone built something different, and it costs money to undo and redo it, sometimes it's not possible.
...very interesting. And here I thought somebody from 1953 was just trolling me. No, but honestly...I do assume there is a reason for everything, constraints, etc... They are just above my head.
While I can appreciate everything you said, I'm a guy born in the 60's who grew up in houses built in the 50's, and I can assure you that there were design elements that were downright funky. And it wasn't urban space constraints that forced certain choices you might see in a brownstone. I lived in SoCal, where space was not the issue. Houses were full of strange partitions between living areas, odd angled fireplace walls, weird closed off dining rooms that never really got used, staircase landings that were tripping hazards, Foyers in ranch style homes that wasted square footage, cabinets over kitchen bar counters that hung lower than eye level... the list goes on. Then there's the build quality due to a lack of comprehensive codes. There is some shady shit in the bones of old houses. Nearly everything about houses built back then was dated within 10 years of completion.
Another architect here….We don’t design house for the most part, they are usually crap builder plans traded, shared, and “bastardized” at no cost the the builder….. want a good house? Hire an architect. Or at least have one input on a renovation.
@@danielsmith1040 Thank you! So tired of people blaming architects when a damn architect was never even involved! Builders are cheap and lazy and don't know anything about design. I'm a carpenter & furniture builder, and like Chris did in this video, I've spent my career fixing builder's mistakes. Either by undoing their bad design, or making built-in's that fit into weird spaces.
@@seawolf2144 of all creatures and of all things, a woman's feelings is the last thing you want to be building a relationship, much less a family involving kids, upon. also, it's the most boomer of all boomerisms. and look how it turned out for them
Grand gestures is worth nothing without the little things, in my opinion. A boyfriend that tore of my favourite t-shirt (that I refunsed to throw away) to sew and fix the hole under the arm were more romantic to me than any expencive gifts.
We have the same hallway end. Our floor plan is the typical Pacific Northwest late ‘60s split entry 3BR house. The floor plan is so ubiquitous that a repairman walked in, took a look at the upper level, and said, “huh. You took the kitchen wall out.” He’d never been there before. And he was right.
Wait. I think i lived in one of these houses as a child (we moved when i was 10). My brother and i stayed in the bedrooms upstairs and our parents were in the bedroom downstairs across from the den. I can visualize how open the place would be if one of the kitchen wall was removed.
She is such a wife. Elaborate Custom Furniture: "It fits..." Surprise Elaborate Custom Furniture: "Finally..." $2 part: "You have no idea how happy this makes me!"
Hey man. Just a heads up. Be careful about sharing the location of your home on the internet. I really hope that you showed a fake location. You just never know what kind of crazies could show up.
yea this is very true. I wish no harm upon foureyes funiture, but given that it took me about 5 mins to find the exact location from the images he showed, this is very concerning. I really think he should consider cutting or blurring out those satellite shots of the area. given the floorplan shown, his house is CERTAINLY one of those 35 even if it isnt the one he puts the first red arrow on. it would not be hard for someone with bad intentions to confirm which one it really is.
YEA THIS IS VERY VERY REALLY SUPER BAD CHRIS!!!! A 2 MIN SEARCH USING ONLY FREELY AVALIBLE INFO ONLINE TELLS ME YOU SHOULD DEFINETLY REMOVE THAT SHOT ASAP
I came to post this exact thing. Living in the same area I recognized several landmarks and was able to find the house within 5 minutes just out of curiosity. If you didn't use a fake house image, please remove this for your own safety.
Foam core poster board is your friend for those custom size baskets. Cut and tape the sides and bottom to form your box. Super 77 spray adhesive the surface and apply canvas duck cloth- no sewing needed- just fold under and iron the uncut edges and use fabric glue or rubber cement to keep it in place. They will outlive most plastic bins and are light and the supplies are cheap. Most of the projects that I make for friends are purpose driven. I recently completed a bathroom vanity for a disabled friend. She needed it to be higher than the standard ones available, with a narrow depth to accommodate her wheelchair and walker in a skinny bathroom space and she wanted deep drawers because she isn’t able to access cabinet spaces easily. Custom is worth the effort when it is a labor of love for family and friends.
I'm a 22 y/o carpenter in training and had a table saw accident at work two months ago. That did quite a bit of irreversable damage to my hand and I've grown rather scared and weary thinking about going back to finish my training after healing some more. I've even stopped consuming woodworking content which I used to love because it just left me feeling really sad. But watching your video gave me so much joy and made me remember the feelings I had while working with wood over the last years. Eventually, I want to create things as beautiful and well thought out as you do. It really moved me and I am very grateful the algorithm brought me to your channel. So thanks for making my day :)
Oh I'm sorry that sounds rough. I assume you know about saw-stop technology but just in case, wanted to put it out there. My husband builds furniture professionally and needs a 14 in tablesaw blade. Saw stop doesn't exist for that size blade. This profession is risky and any lapse in concentration can be potentially fatal. He had a tablesaw kickback that put him in the hospital for emergency surgery once. He was just working over-tired pulling a 48 hour or longer shift when he was younger. I don't want to be a downer though, and hearing you talk about the joy you feel warms my heart. I hope you can find your way back to furniture building, find ways of working that are as safe as humanly possible given the nature of that work, and forgive yourself if you need to.
This video is a prime example of how easily a RUclipsr will sell their soul by accepting Better Help money. It's not as if Chis has 20k subs (and even if he did still no excuse).
@@sunalwaysshinesonTVs Not everyone keeps up with all the scandals and cancellations going around all the time. I've come across other content creators who genuinely didn't know about such-and-such a company, were alerted, did the research and stopped the sponsorship, but they didn't all know about the issues right away. Time will tell.
I get asked by so many people, “how did you get into woodworking”…and I think it’s an ice breaker for woodworkers, but a sincere curiosity for most folks. I often tell them, it’s because I’m cheap, and I don’t like spending money on cheap built junk full of particle board and cam lock fasteners. Or if it’s someone closer to me, that already knows how cheap I can be, I’ll give them the line about how it’s been so great for my mental health. Having something create the need to hyper focus my attention on a positive thing instead of consuming bandwidth on the worries of life, kind of statement. But the truth is, i started woodworking to witness that joy and excitement my wife has when the project is done. Her reactions brought me joy in the same way. Awesome!
Is wood not expensive in your country? For example, a spruce wood panel 200cm x 60cm x 18mm is already 70€ 😮 for 70€ I can buy a really neat little piece of furniture (but yeah, it'll be particle board).
@@dodopson3211 There are cheap options, including particle board. A 4x8 sheet of 3/4" birch ply is around $85. Compare with $25 for the same size OSB or $38 for particle board. Paper veneers like used on flat pack furniture is really cheap. Even making with that gets you a custom design that fits the space better than off the shelf stuff.
I fully understand what you're talking about with the "renovations" it took 9 months to find a house almost every tour I went on was "newly renovated" but most of the time I would be paying more just to undo all their bad work
This dude's got a great vibe. I feel enormous love radiating from the way he gently roasts his wife, and the patient way she tells him, "Oh, Chris, no..." I think I shall subscribe. It would be nice to hear more from them, and to know that they are well and happy.
Yeah, the "old house" problem is simply that the weird, awkward space that doesn't make any sense, used to make perfect sense back when it was used for the now long outdated purpose that nobody alive even remembers any more. And not just spaces, but utilities. For example, in my old house there are 2 completely unrelated water inlets. One of them feeds the water tank, central heating, kitchen, and the hot water in the bathroom. The other only feeds the cold water in the bathroom sink, bath and toilet. The main water inlet has the usual stopcock, but nobody has ever managed to find the stopcock for the other one, and we can't even trace where the inlet pipe leads to. My guess is that this house used to not have a kitchen, water tank or central heating at all, and when the kitchen extension was built, probably in the 1920s, they couldn't figure out how to isolate the existing water inlet, so they just added another. I bet the original inlet leads straight to the lake at the back of our house. At some point we'll need to dig up the field in between to test that theory.
Betterhelp has its faults (see: 'Facebook', for a good analogue), but otoh, they allow so many people to get therapy who would otherwise not have access to it.
30:08 “Finally!!” 😂 That’s the response my beautiful house projects always get, too. There’s gratitude, sure, but always in the context of my pacing being too slow.
As a woman who fixes stuff around the house myself. The response generally is: I was getting to that (he never does anything unless I make him a list and check up on it and i like diy so it works out, but thank you would indeed be better)
@@areyounecessary I feel this is just a huge difference between the sexes because I read your comment and just think "but why would it take so long?" (depending on project). Being reminded once every six months is really not bad going!! It is literally the only reason I learnt DIY; because it is infuriating waiting an age for my husband to do it, may as well just do it myself. Which is unfortunately what he is probably hoping.
@@sbo3 Yep, and here's how it typically goes. I wake up at 7am for work, make myself breakfast because my wife is still asleep, and I get home around 8:30pm. My wife already ate, so I microwave whatever she had before I crawl into bed to do it all again the next day. By the weekend, I'm exhausted and need to mentally recharge, yet I'll be met with a honey-do list. I work through said list of basic tasks, taking out the trash, fixing the sink, taking cars down to do oil changes, brakes, etc. When I get back, I get to listen to an hour long talk about how oil changes are so expensive and I should just do it myself, right after I mow the lawn because the gardener keeps knocking over her roses. Rest of the time is just mentally recharging myself so I can face the work week again. Then finally we get a decent 3 day weekend or something so I can head down to the store to pick up materials, but it's my wife's sister's birthday that weekend, so there goes that idea. So yea, that thing you want me to make, that would take a few days to make never gets made. Believe me, I want to make it, I enjoy making it. I just need a combination of both time and energy to make it.
Our place is a 120 year old entirely wooden house. The floorplan if fine cause its been changed probably 20 times, but theres 2 shelves above the stairs that you cant access without putting a ladder ON THE STAIRS. There is some boxes that have been there for years that nobody is about to try and get
There are ladders made for use on stairs. Adjustable ladders like the Little Giant are easy to find. Also platforms for using extension ladders on stairs to reach high up the staircase wall. (I've built similar in the past. Cheaper but not adjustable for different staircases) Or makeshift scaffolding using 2 ladders (handy for painting the walls and hanging stuff like photos)
They sure did....like 5 years ago. Lately there has been some stuff about data breaches, but I can assure you that if you go through the process of trying to apply (just did this to double check), you can't even make it to the application submission page without inputting your license number...they fixed it after they got sued...just like most companies do.
Quick note on the fence: I believe that diagonal gate support is backwards. If you flip it around so the top of the diagonal is on the handle side, and the bottom is on the hinge side, it’ll stop scraping on the ground.
That is one of my pet peeves, I see that everywhere, even on scale models ! Also tv shows with chess being played with the board the wrong way around !!
@@BrocksBricksTN A Chess board is a 4 sided object with a rotational symmetry of 2, so there's a 50 percent chance of being wrong. If you intend to play chess, the "white" square goes in the bottom right corner. If it's a "black" square then you have to play Checkers !
Awkward spaces can be GOLD - we built a pole and frame house with unusual walls and roof and while the house is spacious but with defined rooms we ended up with all sorts of odd spaces because it's not a standard boring suburban build. So many golden opportunities to in-build furniture with character - takes a lot more effort than the average tradie would be bothered with but so incredibly satisfying each time we complete another cupboard, shelf, wardrobe etc. But don't forget - not all spaces need to be filled!
I agree...the hall table, for being relatively subtle compared to other things I've built, is one of my favorite pieces. I think it would be awesome to have a house filled with stuff like this. it make it all feel extremely custom and high end. Honestly that hall table somehow makes the space feel bigger than when there was nothing there.
My house has exactly one good place to put a refrigerator. Apparently refrigerators were smaller in the early 50's so the only new unit that will fit in the space is the cheapest, most poorly built model that manufacturers sell. To add insult to injury, one wall abutting the space is load bearing, the other has the chimney directly behind it, and the third is the main hallway. Short of doing some major structural work or replacing all the cabinets and countertops, I'm stuck with the kind of same kind of refrigerator that one generally sees in a low rent studio apartment.
I live in a hundred year old house that's had several previous contractor owners, I feel this pain 😅 We literally have a massive "shed" that is obviously just an unfinished mother-in-law suite
I know that you were likely using the "extra" plywood you had on hand. But, for the laundry baskets, Woodworker's Source also has Premcore Plus plywood. It's about half the weight of standard baltic birch ply. I made some custom cabinets for my kitchen out of the stuff and it worked great. By the way, the projects look fantastic! Love that your wife was guessing car or dog... but you really hit it home with the latch. Sometimes, it really is just the little things.
if you're making custom laundry baskets anyway, i'd make them out of metal. toss together a frame out of 3/8" round and then put a nice fine mesh in between. much lighter and just as sturdy.
I saw a home owner once wonder why a weird nook in a room was there. It was for an old landline phone. There are lots of things in old homes that made sense at the time (milk delivery doors, phone nooks, coal chutes) but end up with weird spaces nowdays when all those things are gone. I think of it as part of the charm of an old house.
Besides the amazing projects, and the exceptional humour, one the best things about your channel, Chris, is that you take the audio tangents where you talk about something only mildly related to what the video is showing. Some people may bet irritated by your detours, but I love being able to hear your thoughts. Its kinda like listening in to the real thoughts you may have been having while you were deep into the work. I loves the Buy vs DIY monologue, and the reasoning was really good. You added an additional layer of value to my life other than simply good woodworking content. So thank you.
I really thought the latch "solution" was him getting her off his back. Like seriously? Your gonna support an addition that isn't securely attached? That new piece will fall of at some time soon. Find a longer piece and replace the latch entirely! Or better yet, FIND A LONGER LATCH!
just gonna throw this out there, nothing against taking the sponsorship, but betterhelp has repeatedly been in court for violation of patient confidentiality, and literally selling medical record information.
They never broke confidentiality as a company, just individual therapists did, and those therapists were fired. Don't blame the company for something an employee did. Betterhelp is so popular because it works.
As always, your work is inspiring. One enhancement that you might even consider as an upgrade to the laundry basket drawer that overcomes the “lift it up and over the front fascia” problem would be to have the drawer tilt out when it gets to the end of its travel. Since clothes aren’t liquid, that should avoid spillage but make it much easier to haul the full baskets out of there. Oh, and it’s adorable that Dolores’ favorite project of the three in this video is the $5 hardware store purchase with 30 second install. Yep, that tracks with my lived experience…
When you notice all the comments asking you not to support betterhelp, please actually take a moment to research them and understand why so many people are upset every time a RUclipsr they like falls for them. I've had to stop watching way too many creators who have no excuse for continuing to risk the health of their subscribers like that.
@@tyrelirwin I know there's a time period where nothing will change. If they signed a contract that forces them to make videos for betterhelp for over year though, I should not enable them.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated these practices: It ruled that BetterHelp had engaged in deceptive data collection by pushing people to turn over sensitive information under the guise of it being confidential.Jul 18, 2024
At least one could reasonably expect they're a good company if they didn't look too deep into them. There's another woodworking channel that does sponsored segments for a real money gambling app...
I got to that part of the video and thought-oops, renovation self-own there! The boxes are super cute, but I’d probably bang the edge of the drawer pulling them out - and worry about kids putting damp towels in and wrecking their finish. Still-so cute!
English is not my first language. But i do really think, people are the same in every place on earth. Because "Finaly!" was such a wife sound 😂. And the way, she was happy for the last fix... We're all the same😅. Great video 💯!
I don't know why the algorithm recommended this video to me, but good lordy am I happy it did. Gorgeous work! We have that same puzzling wall at the end of our bedroom hallway-- I love the way you solved it. Just gorgeous!
i had to quit woodworking, but every now and then i still come back to this channel to have a nice time. but instead, i always leave inspired. thanks chris!
@@lightpunch00 they were caught selling extremely condidential user info to outside organizations and seeing as there a "therapy" website that was both a bad thing to do and illegal. It was facebook, snapchat and other social media platforms that were buying the info
@@lightpunch00Look it up, but basically all the therapists are really bad, like they just don’t care or listen. and they had a really big lawsuit years ago but i cannot remember why. but just, never trust betterhelp
Future-proofing - when done well - is the most amazing of human activities. Because as soon as one of those lights fails I can guarantee you that no store on the planet will carry that exact light ever again. Nice job!
I really like your videos, but this might be my fav! This may sound off topic but hang with me: I was a Drywall Contractor back in the 80's and 90's. All the home improvement shows where the customer is almost in tears at what you created is very true, and very rewarding. Your wife's reaction really made those memories come flooding back. Thanks to the both of you! And nice work, Chris, as always.
Just found your channel and I can't express the level of joy and frustration your video caused. Joy because you're so exact and meticulous with everything you do. My SO and I were just talking about how it's so hard to find true 'professionals' who take pride in their work and perfectionism. Frustration comes with the shoddy workmanship the people I paid money to do a job only half-a$$ed it and nothing actually fits. Everything 'almost' fits and then they cover it up to make me think it's okay because I'm a female and I'll never notice. I just pulled/sanded/x-acto-knifed lots of caulk that was used to fill in the space between a new bathroom cabinet and the wall. Right now, I'm not sure what I'll use to fill that space but I need to sand and paint the wall and retexture before doing anything else. Anyway, your video gave me some ideas of how I can cut some wood to fill the gap and make it look like it's there on purpose and it's a design choice. Thank you!
We have one awkward nook in our house that I can explain exactly why it's there. In the 80's my parents added on a room and in order to get the width they wanted they were left with a nook that is created by what was the outer walls of the house. This corner could not be removed because it's an integral part of the structure of the house and could not be relocated without having to reconfigure the entire roof and the structural support on 2 of 4 sides of the house. Having a nook (that a desk reasonably can sit in) was the far more affordable option that didn't require us to vacate the house during building of the extension. Sometimes awards spaces are just the results of physical limitations.
I appreciate the commentary at the 21:00 minute mark.. had this exact conversation with a coworker yesterday. It’s not the building/woodworking itself that is difficult it’s finding the clientele and trying to retain/gain more that keeps me from taking a bigger leap. Hopefully social media can assist with this at some point 🤷 great builds by the way!
Your hall piece reminds me of Sam Maloof’s work. By the way, his wife decided to take control of his sales. She changed his price from 5,000, to 25,000 for his Rocking Chair, then gave tours of their home and became involved in the local businesses to promote him. When I met him he was 80, at that time he had more orders then he could ever create unless he lived to his late 90’s, we lost him at 91. His chairs were Red Heart wood. Love your work. Love your work.
My house was built in 1910. I am lucky that I don't have any of those weird angles that came later--it is full of mostly rectangular spaces. Well, spaces that were rectangular 114 years ago. 😆 We use a lot of shims.
1928, me too. Also, all the bedroom doors, and the bathroom door are 'privacy doors' that open so you can't immediately see into the room. So, generally, the doors swing into the room, with the latch by the corner of the room. Not designed by a builder.
I helped dad build a weird cabinet for our house like this when I was 10 3:03 tropical old tourist hotspots especially have a lot of this weird impractical rooms for actually living in, the whole neighborhood went for cheap when tourism dried up and most people didn't wanted to deal with the shitty houses, but my dad knew how to deal with it. When they sold the house a few years ago it sold for way more than a lot of the other houses there because all the custom shit actually made it a really good house. we even moved the kitchen and bathrooms to different rooms that made more sense and turned the weird living room into two bedrooms
Am a wood butcher now, but many years ago, i was a landscaper. My bestie was my worker bee. We LOVED gardening, etc, so decided to take some courses at the local community college to help us be better. You just talked about finding what people want. We had one fantastic professor. Very skilled. We had one course in landscaping business. And basically he said... "Find out what the customer wants, and give it to them." And several ways to talk to clients to find that out. That became my mantra in my work and certainly translated into my woodworking business. Thanks for the video!
@@Osmotic Easily 70% of comments I've seen are telling him about it. And he's interacted with almost every comment aside from the ones critical of his sponsor, so it's not like he doesn't read comments.
You make a statement that clearly insinuates there is something wrong with Better Help, YET you don’t take the time to state any reasons? You realize that’s exactly what the hate stream media does, right. Back up your statements with data.
I was really starting to enjoy your channel, then I saw the the Better Help and felt my stomach drop out. Right message, wrong company. Sponsors are a tool you are using on your customers. If the sponsor is dangerous or could cause harm to your customers, why risk it? Especially with anything healthcare related, most importantly mental health.
I think the main reason why old houses have really weird rooms and dimensions for things is because a lot of them were built with hand tools or by a single person. As long as the building was standing and looked good enough, then it passes. doing something like shortening that wall issue you have could've taken another day, or more depending on the circumstances. My house is from the early 1900's and was built by a single person, it has some really weird little spaces because of a chimney that no longer exists and from a really weirdly shaped closet. You also bring up a good point about things like ironing boards that rarely exist in modern society.
Hey this was actually really helpful to see the entire process. Authentic too! What were the lights you ended up using in the floating shelves? Saw that you didn't need any wiring and was thinking I could use these in my own home as well.
About the laundry baskets. I implore you to get some nylon laundry bags to line the inside of the baskets. You can then just grab the bag and dump the clothes in the washing machine along with the bag too because it’s a giant piece of fabric. Then chuck everything in the drying machine. When you finish drying the clothes you can find the bag and use it to carry your clothes to your room.
I think you're confusing is with was. Yeah, they got sued, and settled, and then tightened up their practices so it won't happen again. Heck, you're on youtube...google's done way worse than better help did.
You hit the hammer on the nail regarding the laundry baskets. As a woodworker you reached for a woodworking solution, but going back to your comment about custom furniture, there is someone out there who can make custom lightweight baskets to fit your need.
I greatly enjoy the way your voice overs compliment your videos. The subtle comedy perfectly punctuates my work day while the design of each piece is visually appealing and always fits a particular goal in mind instead of the mundane here's a cabinet it does cabinet stuff.
It was such a quick line, but I REALLY liked this at 17:32 "If you're a carpenter, you are way more experienced than I am. If you're a DIYer who has done one install, we are contemporaries. If you've never installed anything in your life, ever? Well let me show you how to do it." This shows true character. Humility in the face of experience, and a no-nonsense attitude about teaching people who want to learn. Well done, great video.
@@equizzix4804 One is an entire technology ecosystem that is nearly impossible to avoid accumulating data about every aspect of your life, and the other is just another advertising spam company that you can simply fast forward through.
At about 7 minutes in you remark that you are surprised you are able to "hide" what you are making from your wife. My immediate thought was, "she's your wife, why would she give a single sh!t what you are doing in the shop?"
I love your wife's reactions. Mine says to "requested improvements", or surprise furniture pieces, "it's better than a diamond ring"! Nice work and great design aesthetics!
I like your approach of doing something "custom made". Many things I build by myself to fit specific needs even tho I don't have nearly the tools and workspace you have. But wood is such a nice material that really gives everybody the ability to just work on a project and get better at woodworking every time. Really like your curved shelf and the dark finish on it.
Chris-you killed it! The hall piece is phenomenal, That bathroom built in is great, (You nailed it on the baskets too). But I love most that you knew the biggest (and easiest) bit would make her react the most. THAT Sir is next level marriage! Knowing your person well enough to know that it really is the simple stuff that makes her happy. Also, good dad for not wanting your kids impaled on furniture. I mean, the bar, as you said is low, but it is still a bar! I love these kinds of projects. I had an older house back when I lived in Pennsylvania. So many oddball things I discovered over time. one example-Gorgouse woodworking on the stairs/railing, doorway from living room to dining room...When we pulled up the carpet-guessing it was at least 25 years old), we found wonderful wood floors until we kit the point where there was an obvious remodel. There had been a front enclosed porch that they took out and added a bay window and a little extra room. At some point during that-someone just cut some parts of the floor out to run speaker wires under the floor (ceiling of basement). The fix we found? once they ran the speaker wire and whatever they used electrical tape to wedge some scrap wood (NOT the removed flooring, just some plywood) into place. They wrapped the plywood in multiple layers of black electrical tape and jammed it into place. There was much cussing and head scratching at that...then I found some lumber, put in a few boards, sanded and refinished it. After all that, the now ex wanted to cover it with w2w carpet 🤷🏻♂
Who cares…Bro lives in SoCal and orders his wood from woodworkers source? What in the actual fuck dude. Go to Austin Hardwoords in Santa Ana for Christs sake.
Refreshing to see good woodworking craftsmanship, making furniture that is not overdesigned and messy, but designed with function and simplicity in mind. Immediately subscribed after watching this, great work.
I've been working at a custom cabinet shop for over 10 years now, and BLUM is still the absolute best cabinetry hardware you can get. They pair well with the fine, handcrafted furniture that you build. Love your work!
Great video. In the middle of several built ins and enjoyed hearing others had challenges. Loved the way you include mistakes. And so many humorous gems in your narration.
Two truths: North Americans don't have a full grasp on what it means for something to be old. Europeans don't have a full grasp on what it means for something to be far away. We all have a different experience in life, huh? 😅
hehe, the cabin next to my parents house here in sweden that I lived in during my teenage years has timber planks marked 1472 :-) i had a customer that i did some work at, his property was culture-marked (meaning it has a cultural importance to the specifik area) the land was devided into 3 sections and each had a building on it. the house i was working on was dated around year1750, the second was a bit over year 1450 and the last one, a farmers hut was uncertain, but the lumber used in the floorboards was from a wooden pecies that went extinct in sweden over 800 years ago, it's believed that the hut was built around the years 1150-1200. I learned that back in the OLD OLD days, houses were built in a way that you could dissasemble and re-use it again. meaning if a house, on paper, was built in the year 1700, the wood most likely came from a already disassembled house as long as it was still good to use. You might have seen our iconic red houses, the mud paint is open to diffusion, which means it allows the wood to breathe. Moisture can seep out of the wood, which prevents moisture damage from occurring. This is an important factor for the long-term durability of the wood. copper also has properties that counteract rot and algae formation, this is why you never see any algee or moss on buildings with copper roof for example. :-)
I would be very disappointed with that reaction, honestly. And this is the version of herself that she plays when she knows he's filming for millions of viewers😬
Phenomenal editing and narration. So much work storytelling and getting every angle on film. Then combining the two… so much work. I loved it. Thanks for sharing your journey… 🌷 Hi Delores 👋🏾
Could have used laundry bags. You just need wood frames, then place laundry bags inside of these. If you find the right netted bags, it would make it even easier to load the laundry machine.
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I'm sorry but the inside of the drawers in the hallway .... ummmm...... table.. thing.... they are REALLY WHITE... they kinda ruin the entire BEAUTIFUL finish of the rest of the .... ummmm... desk-a-ma-bob .... I think you should take them one and spend the day just using Sample 73 on the inner plywood.... NOT SURE about putting on the inside too, but I'm leaning towards 'Yes... make the inside of the drawers dark too" .... but maybe test out how it looks on a scrap piece of plywood... it's not like you're running out of it and don't have a piece of scrap to spare lol :)
- I do see how you might want to keep them light colorured (hehehe) because of those light stripes on the drawer faces.... but you should accent them by putting a small, dim strip of LEDs on the bottom of that middle shelf that matches the color of those stripes on the drawer... AND this acts as a way to see it at night... it really is a shin hazard, so a little safety light would be nice... nothing big, or over the top, or bright... just something to show you where it is.... we all know what it's like to get up for a drink after a long... ummm.... "conversation" with the trash lady... errrr... waste disposal technician??? 🤷♂ ... and WHAM!!!! right in the ANKLE!!!
- Just some thoughts and ideas... pretty easy too... ask the wifey, she might like the ideas... it's the little things that can take from an AMAZING piece of custom furniture into a MASTERPIECE!!!! ... okay maybe it's not the Mona Lisa, but it would be pretty SMART :D
SUCH an AMAZING HUSBAND!!!! I'm taking notes!!!!! lol
That bathroom nook shelving and hamper job was GORGEOUS!!!! I LOVE those hampers too!!!! You knocked it out of the park bro!!! and those lights.... having them on an angle was BRILLIANT!!!! You should think about doing more improvements around the house like this... it makes for AWESOME CONTENT!! Especially when you are the one making the furniture!! I'm so stoke to watch the video of the big shelf in the living room area you linked to in the description, too.
Really tho, you should consider doing more stuff like this as content for the channel. I loved how this was like all about making the furniture still, but it was for practical reasons.. not just making furniture for someone else that we don't really get to see how it's being used.... Yes I DO love seeing all of that, but with this the end result was you wife in a joyful state, which is ALWAYS good content :) ... dang what a lucky girl she is... Disneyland AND home improvements in the SAME DAY??? You are ROCKIN IT MY MAN!!!! :D
STOP SUPPORTING BETTERHELP
I love how much effort you put into the cabinets, and she's like "oh that's nice", and the little $2 hook for the backyard door makes her go "Omg this makes me so happy!"
Yup for the men who think pleasing women is so hard, this says a lot.
That’s why is better to not give them too much,cuz when you give them something they will be thankfull😮😊
She literally said "oh wow" "it fits so good" 'it fits like a glove" etc to the shelves in the hallway and the gate thing , yeah, she's extra surprised that something so little could cure what had been such a headache lol
She asked for one of them
@@didu7080 That is not how anything works.
I can also 100% gurarantee you that if you take your relationship advice from that guy on trial for human trafficking and worse, you will never find a woman that wants to live with you.
Architect here. For the hallway difference, it's because the door is opening against the bedrooms walls. If the difference wasn't on the hallway, it would be inside the bedroom. We prioritize not having those awkward spaces in the rooms in which you live, but in rooms that are for circulation or in which no there's no important activity; there's also the looks.
The thing is designing a building is a really complex task. And not everything fits like a jiwsaw puzzle, you have to negotiate between a lot of stuff: comfortable and useful spaces, sun and wind orientation, all the piping and internal systems, the structure, the construction elements, the money and the buisness, to name the most important ones. So sometimes it's not possible to reach the best solution for all of those, there are some unavoidable leftovers.
And that's not all, sometimes something wasn't well thought and designed, so it had to be resolved during construction by a constructor that isn't a designer. Sometimes there are also mistakes, someone built something different, and it costs money to undo and redo it, sometimes it's not possible.
...very interesting. And here I thought somebody from 1953 was just trolling me.
No, but honestly...I do assume there is a reason for everything, constraints, etc... They are just above my head.
Well thank you for the explanation, I'm sure we've all wondered about this at one time or another
While I can appreciate everything you said, I'm a guy born in the 60's who grew up in houses built in the 50's, and I can assure you that there were design elements that were downright funky. And it wasn't urban space constraints that forced certain choices you might see in a brownstone. I lived in SoCal, where space was not the issue. Houses were full of strange partitions between living areas, odd angled fireplace walls, weird closed off dining rooms that never really got used, staircase landings that were tripping hazards, Foyers in ranch style homes that wasted square footage, cabinets over kitchen bar counters that hung lower than eye level... the list goes on. Then there's the build quality due to a lack of comprehensive codes. There is some shady shit in the bones of old houses. Nearly everything about houses built back then was dated within 10 years of completion.
Another architect here….We don’t design house for the most part, they are usually crap builder plans traded, shared, and “bastardized” at no cost the the builder….. want a good house? Hire an architect. Or at least have one input on a renovation.
@@danielsmith1040 Thank you! So tired of people blaming architects when a damn architect was never even involved! Builders are cheap and lazy and don't know anything about design. I'm a carpenter & furniture builder, and like Chris did in this video, I've spent my career fixing builder's mistakes. Either by undoing their bad design, or making built-in's that fit into weird spaces.
I love how "car" and "dog" where her first guesses yet the little latch probably made her equally as happy 😂
Probably more... that was the reaction of someone finally getting rid of that minor but constant annoyance.
It's because she's wife material.
Happy wife, happy life
@@seawolf2144 of all creatures and of all things, a woman's feelings is the last thing you want to be building a relationship, much less a family involving kids, upon. also, it's the most boomer of all boomerisms. and look how it turned out for them
Grand gestures is worth nothing without the little things, in my opinion. A boyfriend that tore of my favourite t-shirt (that I refunsed to throw away) to sew and fix the hole under the arm were more romantic to me than any expencive gifts.
We have the same hallway end. Our floor plan is the typical Pacific Northwest late ‘60s split entry 3BR house. The floor plan is so ubiquitous that a repairman walked in, took a look at the upper level, and said, “huh. You took the kitchen wall out.” He’d never been there before. And he was right.
Wait. I think i lived in one of these houses as a child (we moved when i was 10). My brother and i stayed in the bedrooms upstairs and our parents were in the bedroom downstairs across from the den. I can visualize how open the place would be if one of the kitchen wall was removed.
Yup. Recognized this floor plan from a number of friends' homes up there as well.
no way, I think my parents live in the same floor plan (even with the kitchen wall removed) lol
She is such a wife.
Elaborate Custom Furniture: "It fits..."
Surprise Elaborate Custom Furniture: "Finally..."
$2 part: "You have no idea how happy this makes me!"
You forgot to add. "Is this it?" in the bathroom. 🙄
Hey man. Just a heads up. Be careful about sharing the location of your home on the internet. I really hope that you showed a fake location. You just never know what kind of crazies could show up.
Also gotta be careful about sharing the actual floor plan, as that can be used to find the house as well...
yea this is very true. I wish no harm upon foureyes funiture, but given that it took me about 5 mins to find the exact location from the images he showed, this is very concerning. I really think he should consider cutting or blurring out those satellite shots of the area. given the floorplan shown, his house is CERTAINLY one of those 35 even if it isnt the one he puts the first red arrow on. it would not be hard for someone with bad intentions to confirm which one it really is.
YEA THIS IS VERY VERY REALLY SUPER BAD CHRIS!!!! A 2 MIN SEARCH USING ONLY FREELY AVALIBLE INFO ONLINE TELLS ME YOU SHOULD DEFINETLY REMOVE THAT SHOT ASAP
I came to post this exact thing. Living in the same area I recognized several landmarks and was able to find the house within 5 minutes just out of curiosity. If you didn't use a fake house image, please remove this for your own safety.
I know you guys meant no harm (or do I?) but it's really funny how you're like "yeah I just searched up this guy's house, no biggie" LOL
Chris: "yet they can't cure cancer"
Deloris: "oh Chris...no"
this absolutely sent me looolll
I've had that response (from her) many times :)
LOL me too, I imagine he heard it again when she found out he went into her age and weight.
Literally went from 'Do you know how happy this makes me.....Oh Chris...No.....'
@@ZirkleWil trueee that wouldve been a fun reaction to see loll
There is a cure, just we not getting told it
“Ohhhh CHRIS….FINALLY”. So classic, that’s how my wife says ‘thank you’ too.
it's been a long time coming
As they say, "I'll get to it, you don't have to nag me about it for 8 months!"
Lovely piece, lovely reaction. Well worth it, and much more fun than Disney.
Foam core poster board is your friend for those custom size baskets. Cut and tape the sides and bottom to form your box. Super 77 spray adhesive the surface and apply canvas duck cloth- no sewing needed- just fold under and iron the uncut edges and use fabric glue or rubber cement to keep it in place. They will outlive most plastic bins and are light and the supplies are cheap. Most of the projects that I make for friends are purpose driven. I recently completed a bathroom vanity for a disabled friend. She needed it to be higher than the standard ones available, with a narrow depth to accommodate her wheelchair and walker in a skinny bathroom space and she wanted deep drawers because she isn’t able to access cabinet spaces easily. Custom is worth the effort when it is a labor of love for family and friends.
At least she says SOMETHING ...
I'm a 22 y/o carpenter in training and had a table saw accident at work two months ago. That did quite a bit of irreversable damage to my hand and I've grown rather scared and weary thinking about going back to finish my training after healing some more. I've even stopped consuming woodworking content which I used to love because it just left me feeling really sad. But watching your video gave me so much joy and made me remember the feelings I had while working with wood over the last years.
Eventually, I want to create things as beautiful and well thought out as you do. It really moved me and I am very grateful the algorithm brought me to your channel. So thanks for making my day :)
I'm so glad that you're starting to get your passion back! I hope you continue to heal and feel better over time.
I lost my thumb in an accident doing woodwork not clean off but no longer functional
I lost a couple in a firework accident and became a carpenter early this year Lol, I feel you
Man I hope it gets better for you! Take care of your happiness first, it makes healing better and faster
Oh I'm sorry that sounds rough. I assume you know about saw-stop technology but just in case, wanted to put it out there. My husband builds furniture professionally and needs a 14 in tablesaw blade. Saw stop doesn't exist for that size blade. This profession is risky and any lapse in concentration can be potentially fatal. He had a tablesaw kickback that put him in the hospital for emergency surgery once. He was just working over-tired pulling a 48 hour or longer shift when he was younger. I don't want to be a downer though, and hearing you talk about the joy you feel warms my heart. I hope you can find your way back to furniture building, find ways of working that are as safe as humanly possible given the nature of that work, and forgive yourself if you need to.
As a married man I can 100% relate to how the $2 hook got a bigger reaction than the labor-intense custom bathroom built-in 👍🏽
This video is a prime example of the difference between a beginner and an expert is their ability to hide their mistakes
...wait...which one am I?
@@Foureyes.Furniture😂
This video is a prime example of how easily a RUclipsr will sell their soul by accepting Better Help money. It's not as if Chis has 20k subs (and even if he did still no excuse).
@@sunalwaysshinesonTVs😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
@@sunalwaysshinesonTVs Not everyone keeps up with all the scandals and cancellations going around all the time. I've come across other content creators who genuinely didn't know about such-and-such a company, were alerted, did the research and stopped the sponsorship, but they didn't all know about the issues right away. Time will tell.
I get asked by so many people, “how did you get into woodworking”…and I think it’s an ice breaker for woodworkers, but a sincere curiosity for most folks. I often tell them, it’s because I’m cheap, and I don’t like spending money on cheap built junk full of particle board and cam lock fasteners. Or if it’s someone closer to me, that already knows how cheap I can be, I’ll give them the line about how it’s been so great for my mental health. Having something create the need to hyper focus my attention on a positive thing instead of consuming bandwidth on the worries of life, kind of statement.
But the truth is, i started woodworking to witness that joy and excitement my wife has when the project is done. Her reactions brought me joy in the same way. Awesome!
Is wood not expensive in your country?
For example, a spruce wood panel 200cm x 60cm x 18mm is already 70€ 😮 for 70€ I can buy a really neat little piece of furniture (but yeah, it'll be particle board).
@@dodopson3211 There are cheap options, including particle board.
A 4x8 sheet of 3/4" birch ply is around $85.
Compare with $25 for the same size OSB or $38 for particle board. Paper veneers like used on flat pack furniture is really cheap. Even making with that gets you a custom design that fits the space better than off the shelf stuff.
@@dodopson3211 Wood can last a lifetime.
we use inches
nice. does she give u some nice gasms for the work?
I fully understand what you're talking about with the "renovations" it took 9 months to find a house almost every tour I went on was "newly renovated" but most of the time I would be paying more just to undo all their bad work
This dude's got a great vibe. I feel enormous love radiating from the way he gently roasts his wife, and the patient way she tells him, "Oh, Chris, no..."
I think I shall subscribe. It would be nice to hear more from them, and to know that they are well and happy.
haha...we are well and happy.
Appreciate it. Dolores is around the shop a bit more now, so I'm sure she'll be making cameos in future videos.
Yeah, the "old house" problem is simply that the weird, awkward space that doesn't make any sense, used to make perfect sense back when it was used for the now long outdated purpose that nobody alive even remembers any more.
And not just spaces, but utilities. For example, in my old house there are 2 completely unrelated water inlets. One of them feeds the water tank, central heating, kitchen, and the hot water in the bathroom. The other only feeds the cold water in the bathroom sink, bath and toilet. The main water inlet has the usual stopcock, but nobody has ever managed to find the stopcock for the other one, and we can't even trace where the inlet pipe leads to.
My guess is that this house used to not have a kitchen, water tank or central heating at all, and when the kitchen extension was built, probably in the 1920s, they couldn't figure out how to isolate the existing water inlet, so they just added another. I bet the original inlet leads straight to the lake at the back of our house. At some point we'll need to dig up the field in between to test that theory.
Please do more research into Better Help as a sponsor
i am confident they know, money speak louder tho.
Especially when you don't see any other way to make the job you like work.
What do you mean?
@@Kenny-yl9pc Better Help sold their patients' data, then after they were sued, acted like they did nothing wrong.
Betterhelp has its faults (see: 'Facebook', for a good analogue), but otoh, they allow so many people to get therapy who would otherwise not have access to it.
I am amazed that Better help keeps crawling back, after several f-ups. Bad weed never dies i guess.
30:08 “Finally!!” 😂 That’s the response my beautiful house projects always get, too. There’s gratitude, sure, but always in the context of my pacing being too slow.
Exactly!!
Ladies, important marital advice: you only have to ask us to do something once. There's no need to remind us every 6 months.
As a woman who fixes stuff around the house myself. The response generally is: I was getting to that
(he never does anything unless I make him a list and check up on it and i like diy so it works out, but thank you would indeed be better)
@@areyounecessary I feel this is just a huge difference between the sexes because I read your comment and just think "but why would it take so long?" (depending on project). Being reminded once every six months is really not bad going!! It is literally the only reason I learnt DIY; because it is infuriating waiting an age for my husband to do it, may as well just do it myself. Which is unfortunately what he is probably hoping.
@@sbo3 Yep, and here's how it typically goes. I wake up at 7am for work, make myself breakfast because my wife is still asleep, and I get home around 8:30pm. My wife already ate, so I microwave whatever she had before I crawl into bed to do it all again the next day. By the weekend, I'm exhausted and need to mentally recharge, yet I'll be met with a honey-do list.
I work through said list of basic tasks, taking out the trash, fixing the sink, taking cars down to do oil changes, brakes, etc. When I get back, I get to listen to an hour long talk about how oil changes are so expensive and I should just do it myself, right after I mow the lawn because the gardener keeps knocking over her roses. Rest of the time is just mentally recharging myself so I can face the work week again.
Then finally we get a decent 3 day weekend or something so I can head down to the store to pick up materials, but it's my wife's sister's birthday that weekend, so there goes that idea.
So yea, that thing you want me to make, that would take a few days to make never gets made. Believe me, I want to make it, I enjoy making it. I just need a combination of both time and energy to make it.
Our place is a 120 year old entirely wooden house. The floorplan if fine cause its been changed probably 20 times, but theres 2 shelves above the stairs that you cant access without putting a ladder ON THE STAIRS. There is some boxes that have been there for years that nobody is about to try and get
There are ladders made for use on stairs. Adjustable ladders like the Little Giant are easy to find. Also platforms for using extension ladders on stairs to reach high up the staircase wall. (I've built similar in the past. Cheaper but not adjustable for different staircases)
Or makeshift scaffolding using 2 ladders (handy for painting the walls and hanging stuff like photos)
0:12 "no one knows what it means, but it's provocative"
No it's not.
Gets the people going!
This guy knows who was in Paris
Better help has had lots of issues with therapists not being licensed and other controversies
They sure did....like 5 years ago.
Lately there has been some stuff about data breaches, but I can assure you that if you go through the process of trying to apply (just did this to double check), you can't even make it to the application submission page without inputting your license number...they fixed it after they got sued...just like most companies do.
Quick note on the fence: I believe that diagonal gate support is backwards. If you flip it around so the top of the diagonal is on the handle side, and the bottom is on the hinge side, it’ll stop scraping on the ground.
Correct sir
It took him 3 years to get the extender, and he wants to sell the house.... Do you think he would put in the effort to flip the bracing?
That is one of my pet peeves, I see that everywhere, even on scale models !
Also tv shows with chess being played with the board the wrong way around !!
What makes a chess board the wrong way around? Aren't they symmetrical?@@Urban_Spaceman
@@BrocksBricksTN
A Chess board is a 4 sided object with a rotational symmetry of 2, so there's a 50 percent chance of being wrong.
If you intend to play chess, the "white" square goes in the bottom right corner.
If it's a "black" square then you have to play Checkers !
Awkward spaces can be GOLD - we built a pole and frame house with unusual walls and roof and while the house is spacious but with defined rooms we ended up with all sorts of odd spaces because it's not a standard boring suburban build. So many golden opportunities to in-build furniture with character - takes a lot more effort than the average tradie would be bothered with but so incredibly satisfying each time we complete another cupboard, shelf, wardrobe etc. But don't forget - not all spaces need to be filled!
I agree...the hall table, for being relatively subtle compared to other things I've built, is one of my favorite pieces. I think it would be awesome to have a house filled with stuff like this. it make it all feel extremely custom and high end.
Honestly that hall table somehow makes the space feel bigger than when there was nothing there.
My house has exactly one good place to put a refrigerator. Apparently refrigerators were smaller in the early 50's so the only new unit that will fit in the space is the cheapest, most poorly built model that manufacturers sell. To add insult to injury, one wall abutting the space is load bearing, the other has the chimney directly behind it, and the third is the main hallway. Short of doing some major structural work or replacing all the cabinets and countertops, I'm stuck with the kind of same kind of refrigerator that one generally sees in a low rent studio apartment.
try a european or asian model!
I live in a hundred year old house that's had several previous contractor owners, I feel this pain 😅
We literally have a massive "shed" that is obviously just an unfinished mother-in-law suite
I know that you were likely using the "extra" plywood you had on hand. But, for the laundry baskets, Woodworker's Source also has Premcore Plus plywood. It's about half the weight of standard baltic birch ply. I made some custom cabinets for my kitchen out of the stuff and it worked great. By the way, the projects look fantastic! Love that your wife was guessing car or dog... but you really hit it home with the latch. Sometimes, it really is just the little things.
Good tip
if you're making custom laundry baskets anyway, i'd make them out of metal. toss together a frame out of 3/8" round and then put a nice fine mesh in between. much lighter and just as sturdy.
Truth!
It's funny you say it's just a little things, because I was thinking of the Chinese water torture in relation to it
That "Oh, Chris, no!" at the cancer joke is just so precious... Best wife ever!
2:10 not sure how good it is to literally point out your house on a map, then follow it up with a zoom-out at 2:21
no one cares, I have people living right next door to me, would you imagine?
@@TempA-jg4qw Would you post that info on the internet tho? If it's nbd, mind telling me your address?
@@TempA-jg4qw Maybe you haven't noticed, but there are crazy people on the Internet.
Crazy people everywhere.
Stay strapped, and pray.
@@brettyance7685
Maybe it was a different house? Hopefully no rabid haters try to dox some poor rando 😅
Her response to the bathroom was priceless!! I'm happy for you all!
I saw a home owner once wonder why a weird nook in a room was there. It was for an old landline phone. There are lots of things in old homes that made sense at the time (milk delivery doors, phone nooks, coal chutes) but end up with weird spaces nowdays when all those things are gone. I think of it as part of the charm of an old house.
Besides the amazing projects, and the exceptional humour, one the best things about your channel, Chris, is that you take the audio tangents where you talk about something only mildly related to what the video is showing. Some people may bet irritated by your detours, but I love being able to hear your thoughts. Its kinda like listening in to the real thoughts you may have been having while you were deep into the work. I loves the Buy vs DIY monologue, and the reasoning was really good. You added an additional layer of value to my life other than simply good woodworking content. So thank you.
It’s always the little things that gets the biggest smiles. The latch
not always :(
I really thought the latch "solution" was him getting her off his back. Like seriously? Your gonna support an addition that isn't securely attached? That new piece will fall of at some time soon. Find a longer piece and replace the latch entirely! Or better yet, FIND A LONGER LATCH!
just gonna throw this out there, nothing against taking the sponsorship, but betterhelp has repeatedly been in court for violation of patient confidentiality, and literally selling medical record information.
ive never heard that but it makes sense everyones promoting them all over youtube
@@mcl223it was a 5 million dollar fine. Just Google better help controversy
Yep, and none of the creators seem to care at all. Usually they don't respond about it at all.
@@JohnClark-tt2bl they probably sign an nda or smthn
They never broke confidentiality as a company, just individual therapists did, and those therapists were fired. Don't blame the company for something an employee did. Betterhelp is so popular because it works.
As always, your work is inspiring. One enhancement that you might even consider as an upgrade to the laundry basket drawer that overcomes the “lift it up and over the front fascia” problem would be to have the drawer tilt out when it gets to the end of its travel. Since clothes aren’t liquid, that should avoid spillage but make it much easier to haul the full baskets out of there.
Oh, and it’s adorable that Dolores’ favorite project of the three in this video is the $5 hardware store purchase with 30 second install. Yep, that tracks with my lived experience…
In my country there’s a saying which roughly translates to “the blacksmith’s mare is always barefoot”. I’m glad you broke the curse!
There’s also an old saying, “the cobbler’s children have no shoes.”
When you notice all the comments asking you not to support betterhelp, please actually take a moment to research them and understand why so many people are upset every time a RUclipsr they like falls for them. I've had to stop watching way too many creators who have no excuse for continuing to risk the health of their subscribers like that.
what if these creators are stuck in a 12, 24, or 36 month contract and don't have the legal budget to extract themselves?
@@tyrelirwin I know there's a time period where nothing will change. If they signed a contract that forces them to make videos for betterhelp for over year though, I should not enable them.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated these practices: It ruled that BetterHelp had engaged in deceptive data collection by pushing people to turn over sensitive information under the guise of it being confidential.Jul 18, 2024
At least one could reasonably expect they're a good company if they didn't look too deep into them.
There's another woodworking channel that does sponsored segments for a real money gambling app...
Yea, no. If someone claims something, they should also say why and provide evidence for the claim. It's not my duty to check those claims.
For the laundry basket you could make a nice box and have a way to hang a cloth bag. That way you don’t have to take out the clunky box.
Was coming to the comments to say the same thing
perhaps I'll look into a retro fit
I like the boxes!
the boxes are nice enough to have other uses, maybe store paper and such.
I got to that part of the video and thought-oops, renovation self-own there!
The boxes are super cute, but I’d probably bang the edge of the drawer pulling them out - and worry about kids putting damp towels in and wrecking their finish. Still-so cute!
English is not my first language. But i do really think, people are the same in every place on earth.
Because "Finaly!" was such a wife sound 😂. And the way, she was happy for the last fix... We're all the same😅.
Great video 💯!
I don't know why the algorithm recommended this video to me, but good lordy am I happy it did. Gorgeous work! We have that same puzzling wall at the end of our bedroom hallway-- I love the way you solved it. Just gorgeous!
i had to quit woodworking, but every now and then i still come back to this channel to have a nice time.
but instead, i always leave inspired. thanks chris!
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Finally someone else knows
Why?
@@lightpunch00 they were caught selling extremely condidential user info to outside organizations and seeing as there a "therapy" website that was both a bad thing to do and illegal. It was facebook, snapchat and other social media platforms that were buying the info
@@lightpunch00Look it up, but basically all the therapists are really bad, like they just don’t care or listen. and they had a really big lawsuit years ago but i cannot remember why. but just, never trust betterhelp
they sold Medical details of clients to sdvertisement companies. which was settled for 7.8 million in court
Future-proofing - when done well - is the most amazing of human activities. Because as soon as one of those lights fails I can guarantee you that no store on the planet will carry that exact light ever again. Nice job!
I really like your videos, but this might be my fav! This may sound off topic but hang with me: I was a Drywall Contractor back in the 80's and 90's. All the home improvement shows where the customer is almost in tears at what you created is very true, and very rewarding. Your wife's reaction really made those memories come flooding back. Thanks to the both of you! And nice work, Chris, as always.
Love woodworking. It’s so therapeutic watching and listening to the voice over. Keep it up!
Just found your channel and I can't express the level of joy and frustration your video caused. Joy because you're so exact and meticulous with everything you do. My SO and I were just talking about how it's so hard to find true 'professionals' who take pride in their work and perfectionism. Frustration comes with the shoddy workmanship the people I paid money to do a job only half-a$$ed it and nothing actually fits. Everything 'almost' fits and then they cover it up to make me think it's okay because I'm a female and I'll never notice. I just pulled/sanded/x-acto-knifed lots of caulk that was used to fill in the space between a new bathroom cabinet and the wall. Right now, I'm not sure what I'll use to fill that space but I need to sand and paint the wall and retexture before doing anything else. Anyway, your video gave me some ideas of how I can cut some wood to fill the gap and make it look like it's there on purpose and it's a design choice. Thank you!
We have one awkward nook in our house that I can explain exactly why it's there. In the 80's my parents added on a room and in order to get the width they wanted they were left with a nook that is created by what was the outer walls of the house. This corner could not be removed because it's an integral part of the structure of the house and could not be relocated without having to reconfigure the entire roof and the structural support on 2 of 4 sides of the house. Having a nook (that a desk reasonably can sit in) was the far more affordable option that didn't require us to vacate the house during building of the extension. Sometimes awards spaces are just the results of physical limitations.
I love that she nearly cried at the gate latch. haha. The little things are truly the most important.
31:17 ‘oh Chris noooo’ had me cackling. Great video as per I loved seeing the reveal!
I appreciate the commentary at the 21:00 minute mark.. had this exact conversation with a coworker yesterday.
It’s not the building/woodworking itself that is difficult it’s finding the clientele and trying to retain/gain more that keeps me from taking a bigger leap. Hopefully social media can assist with this at some point 🤷 great builds by the way!
I LOVE your videos. Combining a custom woodwork with story time keeps me engaged throughout.
Your hall piece reminds me of Sam Maloof’s work. By the way, his wife decided to take control of his sales. She changed his price from 5,000, to 25,000 for his Rocking Chair, then gave tours of their home and became involved in the local businesses to promote him. When I met him he was 80, at that time he had more orders then he could ever create unless he lived to his late 90’s, we lost him at 91. His chairs were Red Heart wood.
Love your work.
Love your work.
My house was built in 1910. I am lucky that I don't have any of those weird angles that came later--it is full of mostly rectangular spaces. Well, spaces that were rectangular 114 years ago. 😆 We use a lot of shims.
1928, me too. Also, all the bedroom doors, and the bathroom door are 'privacy doors' that open so you can't immediately see into the room. So, generally, the doors swing into the room, with the latch by the corner of the room. Not designed by a builder.
1:19 eewww brother
That's how you see what the grain will look like.
@@Foureyes.Furniturewhoa! Hawk Tuah!
@@justaddguitar😭
I laugh xd
I helped dad build a weird cabinet for our house like this when I was 10
3:03 tropical old tourist hotspots especially have a lot of this weird impractical rooms for actually living in, the whole neighborhood went for cheap when tourism dried up and most people didn't wanted to deal with the shitty houses, but my dad knew how to deal with it. When they sold the house a few years ago it sold for way more than a lot of the other houses there because all the custom shit actually made it a really good house. we even moved the kitchen and bathrooms to different rooms that made more sense and turned the weird living room into two bedrooms
Am a wood butcher now, but many years ago, i was a landscaper. My bestie was my worker bee. We LOVED gardening, etc, so decided to take some courses at the local community college to help us be better.
You just talked about finding what people want.
We had one fantastic professor. Very skilled. We had one course in landscaping business.
And basically he said...
"Find out what the customer wants, and give it to them."
And several ways to talk to clients to find that out. That became my mantra in my work and certainly translated into my woodworking business.
Thanks for the video!
5:18 RIP Chris 🙌
haha...I'll be okay
Better help? Really? Why does no one do research before they rep them...
They pay a lot
Most people haven't heard yet and it sounds like a safe, even positive sponsor.
@@Osmotic Easily 70% of comments I've seen are telling him about it. And he's interacted with almost every comment aside from the ones critical of his sponsor, so it's not like he doesn't read comments.
Money over morals. Any creator can search "Better Help, controversy" and even if they don't really understand why, it becomes clear there is pushback.
You make a statement that clearly insinuates there is something wrong with Better Help, YET you don’t take the time to state any reasons? You realize that’s exactly what the hate stream media does, right. Back up your statements with data.
Don't support betterhelp
You're supporting them by commenting on this video. 😊
Why?
@@halosnova1604selling medical records, assigning psychologists to people that were no psychologists etc.
Great video and commentary. For project videos, I usually watch the intro and then advance to the final product. Your commentary had me hooked.
Super refreshing to hear the like and subscribe bit coming later in the video rather than right at the start
I was really starting to enjoy your channel, then I saw the the Better Help and felt my stomach drop out. Right message, wrong company. Sponsors are a tool you are using on your customers. If the sponsor is dangerous or could cause harm to your customers, why risk it? Especially with anything healthcare related, most importantly mental health.
It's still the customers responsibility to do their own research before trusting their therapy to betterhealth.
The fact that you left that adjustable screw hook thing for the backyard door just hanging there with the other one just makes me so frustrated
That's my level of DIY skills and I'm proud of it
"I'm a -doctor- woodworker, damnit, not a screw hook engineer!"
I think the main reason why old houses have really weird rooms and dimensions for things is because a lot of them were built with hand tools or by a single person. As long as the building was standing and looked good enough, then it passes. doing something like shortening that wall issue you have could've taken another day, or more depending on the circumstances. My house is from the early 1900's and was built by a single person, it has some really weird little spaces because of a chimney that no longer exists and from a really weirdly shaped closet. You also bring up a good point about things like ironing boards that rarely exist in modern society.
Hey this was actually really helpful to see the entire process. Authentic too! What were the lights you ended up using in the floating shelves? Saw that you didn't need any wiring and was thinking I could use these in my own home as well.
12:10 I love this radius in the corner, if this was my furniture I would have kept it
About the laundry baskets. I implore you to get some nylon laundry bags to line the inside of the baskets. You can then just grab the bag and dump the clothes in the washing machine along with the bag too because it’s a giant piece of fabric. Then chuck everything in the drying machine. When you finish drying the clothes you can find the bag and use it to carry your clothes to your room.
better help is NOT great, please reconsider supporting them
I think you're confusing is with was.
Yeah, they got sued, and settled, and then tightened up their practices so it won't happen again.
Heck, you're on youtube...google's done way worse than better help did.
9:40 Better"help" sponsor here. You can click away in protest or keep watching. Do with that information as you please.
Love what you’re doing but atleast don’t make the timestamp the start of the sponsor 😂 make the stamp after the spinsoe
You hit the hammer on the nail regarding the laundry baskets. As a woodworker you reached for a woodworking solution, but going back to your comment about custom furniture, there is someone out there who can make custom lightweight baskets to fit your need.
I greatly enjoy the way your voice overs compliment your videos. The subtle comedy perfectly punctuates my work day while the design of each piece is visually appealing and always fits a particular goal in mind instead of the mundane here's a cabinet it does cabinet stuff.
I hope you didn't dox yourself with that map zoomout.
I'm unfortunately already findable I think.
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@@Foureyes.Furniturebro just does not care 😂
I was able to find his house in a few minutes, so yea. I doubt anything will come of it though.
Business owners are usually easy to find
5:10 Actually laughed out loud to that. Subscribed.
It was such a quick line, but I REALLY liked this at 17:32
"If you're a carpenter, you are way more experienced than I am. If you're a DIYer who has done one install, we are contemporaries. If you've never installed anything in your life, ever? Well let me show you how to do it."
This shows true character. Humility in the face of experience, and a no-nonsense attitude about teaching people who want to learn. Well done, great video.
Listening to you talk is basically listening to my inner thoughts out loud. Your brain works the same way mine does. I had to subscribe!
Better help steals peoples info. just letting your know, it’s not a good company, and you shouldn’t support it. Awesome build tho
So does Google. I guess you better stop watching RUclips.
@F0XD1E sure, but one is a web browser and this other is therapy, which is a big difference, and one is much more personal to many
@@equizzix4804 One is an entire technology ecosystem that is nearly impossible to avoid accumulating data about every aspect of your life, and the other is just another advertising spam company that you can simply fast forward through.
@@F0XD1E BetterHelp steals and sells your medical info. Big difference from Google stalking your search history.
this
At about 7 minutes in you remark that you are surprised you are able to "hide" what you are making from your wife. My immediate thought was, "she's your wife, why would she give a single sh!t what you are doing in the shop?"
1:20 I didn't expect Chris to hawk tuah on that thang.
I love your wife's reactions. Mine says to "requested improvements", or surprise furniture pieces, "it's better than a diamond ring"! Nice work and great design aesthetics!
I like your approach of doing something "custom made". Many things I build by myself to fit specific needs even tho I don't have nearly the tools and workspace you have. But wood is such a nice material that really gives everybody the ability to just work on a project and get better at woodworking every time. Really like your curved shelf and the dark finish on it.
0:36 thank you my guy you would’ve woken up my whole entire family. My Alexa is at max volume.😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I needed this upload today
Appreciate it! Hope you enjoy
2:12 did you just dox yourself? haha
Yeah wtf 😂
Gave us a whole floor plan and all!
Damn that wasn’t a good idea
Chris-you killed it! The hall piece is phenomenal, That bathroom built in is great, (You nailed it on the baskets too). But I love most that you knew the biggest (and easiest) bit would make her react the most. THAT Sir is next level marriage! Knowing your person well enough to know that it really is the simple stuff that makes her happy.
Also, good dad for not wanting your kids impaled on furniture. I mean, the bar, as you said is low, but it is still a bar!
I love these kinds of projects. I had an older house back when I lived in Pennsylvania. So many oddball things I discovered over time. one example-Gorgouse woodworking on the stairs/railing, doorway from living room to dining room...When we pulled up the carpet-guessing it was at least 25 years old), we found wonderful wood floors until we kit the point where there was an obvious remodel. There had been a front enclosed porch that they took out and added a bay window and a little extra room. At some point during that-someone just cut some parts of the floor out to run speaker wires under the floor (ceiling of basement). The fix we found? once they ran the speaker wire and whatever they used electrical tape to wedge some scrap wood (NOT the removed flooring, just some plywood) into place. They wrapped the plywood in multiple layers of black electrical tape and jammed it into place. There was much cussing and head scratching at that...then I found some lumber, put in a few boards, sanded and refinished it. After all that, the now ex wanted to cover it with w2w carpet 🤷🏻♂
Holding the gate open was the big surprise. Who could have known!! 💖
2:20 didnt bro just show us exactly where he lives
yeah you can find the exact address on google maps in about 30 seconds
Who cares…Bro lives in SoCal and orders his wood from woodworkers source? What in the actual fuck dude. Go to Austin Hardwoords in Santa Ana for Christs sake.
"Yet they can't cure cancer" had me dying😂 love the humor in your videos
Thank you :)
Refreshing to see good woodworking craftsmanship, making furniture that is not overdesigned and messy, but designed with function and simplicity in mind. Immediately subscribed after watching this, great work.
You 2 are so good together.I hope she truly truly appreciates you and I hope you worship her
I think she appreciates me...and I do worship her :)
So are we just ignoring the fact that he hawk tu spit on the timber @1:25 minutes
29:55 Well duh...
I've been working at a custom cabinet shop for over 10 years now, and BLUM is still the absolute best cabinetry hardware you can get. They pair well with the fine, handcrafted furniture that you build. Love your work!
are you me?
@@uuuultra Idk is me you??
nice
Great video. In the middle of several built ins and enjoyed hearing others had challenges. Loved the way you include mistakes. And so many humorous gems in your narration.
"My house, built in the 50's" While in the UK, My house built in 1810 🤣
Yeah "old" is a relative term.
Yeah, that made me laugh too. I'm also from the UK.
You know you don’t call 50’s houses new, even in the UK
Two truths: North Americans don't have a full grasp on what it means for something to be old. Europeans don't have a full grasp on what it means for something to be far away. We all have a different experience in life, huh? 😅
hehe, the cabin next to my parents house here in sweden that I lived in during my teenage years has timber planks marked 1472 :-) i had a customer that i did some work at, his property was culture-marked (meaning it has a cultural importance to the specifik area) the land was devided into 3 sections and each had a building on it. the house i was working on was dated around year1750, the second was a bit over year 1450 and the last one, a farmers hut was uncertain, but the lumber used in the floorboards was from a wooden pecies that went extinct in sweden over 800 years ago, it's believed that the hut was built around the years 1150-1200. I learned that back in the OLD OLD days, houses were built in a way that you could dissasemble and re-use it again. meaning if a house, on paper, was built in the year 1700, the wood most likely came from a already disassembled house as long as it was still good to use.
You might have seen our iconic red houses, the mud paint is open to diffusion, which means it allows the wood to breathe. Moisture can seep out of the wood, which prevents moisture damage from occurring. This is an important factor for the long-term durability of the wood. copper also has properties that counteract rot and algae formation, this is why you never see any algee or moss on buildings with copper roof for example. :-)
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Happy wife, happy life. My honey-do list feels never ending, but the Missus's reaction is always worth the effort.
The nagging stops too!
I would be very disappointed with that reaction, honestly. And this is the version of herself that she plays when she knows he's filming for millions of viewers😬
Phenomenal editing and narration. So much work storytelling and getting every angle on film. Then combining the two… so much work. I loved it. Thanks for sharing your journey… 🌷
Hi Delores 👋🏾
Could have used laundry bags. You just need wood frames, then place laundry bags inside of these. If you find the right netted bags, it would make it even easier to load the laundry machine.
this
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better help? more like shitty help
Why would you say this if he's getting something out of his therapy with them? Just mean
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