How to build a playroom out of a liquor cabinet

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(soft music) - [Seth] We've been doing some serious baby proofing around here. Plugs in all the outlets, little pads on the corners of shelves and of course these little cabinet latches that keep the little one from getting in all the kitchen cabinet. She pulls all the pots and pans out, God forbid she got to something dangerous so we're locking this place down. But we left one cabinet open just to keep her occupied and give her a place to play. So here she has plastic and wooden spoons and just things we don't really use. So she can hit them against things and throw them around. She actually goes inside this cabinet and plays with this stuff. And as she gets older, she's one year old now. All rebellious angst ridden toddlers need kind of a bigger place to call their own. They need some privacy. And so we're going to move her into the liquor cabinet over there. (upbeat music) All right, so over here is our liquor cabinet and we don't drink a lot. So it just kind of sits there. It's a bigger cabinet. And so we're going to take all the liquor out of here. Probably put it in the smaller cabinet and then we're going to make this into like a toddler, teenager room. (high tempo music) So first things first, we're going to remove these child locks because when we're done here, she's going to be able to come and go as she pleases. (screw whirs) All right. So works like a normal cabinet now, but as babies do, she likes to slam it. And so I'm going to install soft close adapters and these are going to make it so that, it closes a little bit softer. Yeah, that's definitely going to stop her from slamming her finger. These are pretty stout. So now that the cabinet is accessible and safe I want to put these padded tiles on floor here. I guess no matter how you do it, there's always this on the outside. So maybe we'll use the table saw. (high tempo music) (machine whirs) I just want to say that worked absolutely perfectly. Can't see any of it, open it up, it's baby world. Okay so, right here, we've got, lights on, so that you can see into the cabinet, but when little miss Rebecca is in here, she's not going to have lights. So we have to make her one. First of all, I've got this little tap light, which takes batteries. I don't want her to turn it on like this. I want her to turn it on with a real household light switch. So I can use this opportunity to show you how a circuit works. So this is a nine volt battery and it's inside of a little box so that the wires are hooked up. It just makes it easier to work. This is a little light and you can see this is the positive end, and this is the negative end. And you can see, if I just twist these wires together. Boom, we got a light. So that's a circuit and it's in a big loop. It's in a circle. So if we cut part of that loop, the circuit is interrupted and it stops. That's what a switch does. A switch cuts the circuit and reconnects the circuit. So now all you have to do is make the same circuit with this light, which is going to go into the baby liquor cabinet. First thing I'm going to do is take this apart and get down to the wires. (upbeat music) I don't have a wire, but I have an old USB cable. That's probably got some wire inside of it and it's nice and protected. Ho ho , look at all those wires. Okay. So just to make it easy, we use the black and red wire. So we want to connect these wires to here, but we don't want to just twist them together. We want kind of a better connection than that. I'm going to use these little heat shrink, solder connectors. So what we do is, we put one of these connectors on each wire, then to connect them together, we just apply heat to it. So you hit it with the heat gun, the solder inside of here melts and fuses the wire together. The heat shrink tubing shrinks. And that's it. You have a nice insulated, secure connection. So now the remaining wires, we're going to connect here to make them a little more durable, I'm going to tin them. (high tempo music) We can just connect any side of this battery to the light switch. (machine whirs) (high tempo music) Stuff everything into here. (high tempo music) Cool. So we'll Mount this baby light switch. (machine whirs) (high tempo music) Let there be light. So that's it. Her little baby player room has a light and it's a big one, just like the grown-ups have. So that's super cool. Now we have to personalize this a little bit. It's just a room. The walls are really bare. So I want to put posters of all her heroes up here, but because she's a baby, she'll end up just ripping the posters down. So we're going use vinyl stickers and we have a way to do that now. (upbeat music) Because she's going to start getting rebellious and angsty, I think she's going to start having reservations with the Paw Patrol. Everybody's got a problem with the Paw Patrol. Till they're hanging from a bridge somewhere. (upbeat music) All right. I cut these pieces of wood earlier. They're all sanded down. I'm going to show you what they're for. So each of these pieces of wood has a little slinth cut right over here, and then it's got pocket holes in the bottom. So if we put it up against something flat, it tilts up. So we're going to put these on the wall and she's going to be able to roll this little ball down and it'll go from one to the other, I'll show you. (machine whirs) (high tempo music) Let's test it first. So, this one comes down. This definitely takes some doing. (ball rolls) Down a little bit. (ball rolls) There we go. (machine whirs) Proof of concept. (ball rolls) All right, so it's like an educational toy. I don't think at one, she's going to get the concept right away. But if I show her a few times, she'll eventually be able to do it. I think it's cool. So now we put the rest of her kitchen toys in here aka spoons and things like that. And we let her discover it. All right, let's see how it goes. Look what we got you. Ready? Here. (soft music) What is all that? What's in there? (ball rolls) Rebecca, look at this, watch. (switch flicks) See, he touched that. That's how mommy and daddy turn the lights on and off. All right, so the baby liquor cabinet seems to be a great success. It's going to keep her occupied while we are doing parent things in the kitchen. She's got all her idols. She's got her toys. She's got a nice padded floor. These doors aren't going to slam on her fingers. And she even has a light switch, just like the grown-ups use. Oh no, no, no. You can't eat the... No, you can't eat the tin foil. Sorry, sweetie. If you have any reservations about the safety of this, just keep in mind, she's one, she tries to climb on the banister on the outside of our stairs. This is really, really safe. Trust me. I know this is a little bit different but the trails are wet and I've been wanting to do this for a long time. I hope you enjoyed it, whether or not you have kids, and if not, I hope you at least learnt something. Thanks for riding with me today, and I'll see you next time. (Rebecca stumbles) (baby mumbles)
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Channel: Berm Peak Express
Views: 292,445
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Keywords: do it yourself, diy, tools, home, projects
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Length: 8min 27sec (507 seconds)
Published: Sun Mar 06 2022
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