IKEA HEMNES BUILT-IN HACK! | CHRIS & EVE

hi guys and welcome to another episode of croissant Eve today is actually Valentine's Day so ironically we are doing something today that it's become a rite of passage for all modern-day couples but also maybe the leading cause of breakups in relationships and arguments and that is building IKEA furniture this wall behind us stretches from here almost we live in a house that doesn't add much storage so we're going to get rid of this chest of drawers and this TV and we are going to fill it with an Ikea unit and we're sort of doing an IKEA hack is five units but we're gonna build in between them to make them look integrated like they are part of the house as opposed to separate bits all the way along so we thought we would take you along for the ride [Music] [Music] [Music] hello he may come out of it it's not a dirty house I wonder where mr. jetty is I wonder where miss did yet years hello me what do you take all the way down there [Music] alright guys the units what do I don't even know we mean intro to this company but now it's so long ago the units are up there all built apart from the opposite side there but that's no big deal because we need to remove that camera first and now we are going to bring in the wood that we're paneling over the top of it to make it feel like it's built in so on to the next [Music] now March the 25th but we finished all the structural stuff the decoration trinkets organization bits have not been completed know it you'll see we'll show you a bit more of it but half the shelves are empty and we don't want to buy stuff just to fill shelves we're just gonna fill it as we as we do and we're hoping the Easter sales and England Easter is right at the end so much yeah beginning of April basically we're hoping that we can get a new TV yeah and that will make this look even better because we can put it on the wall so as you can see we've got a symmetrical sides and we want to have storage that things that you want in your lounge but you don't really want to see because they look messy like for example if we have kids we will have toys or toys for our friends kids and that sort of stuff no so we've got wicker baskets to fill the bottom two and then the top three so that it makes our storage look nice everybody's trying to see in it so it turns out the wicker baskets are really quite expensive and you'll never get them perfect to fit sort of the place on your shelf you know wide enough or tall enough or the right colour we looked for ages online and then realise why don't we look at IKEA because all these furniture is from Ikea and these are the gapek wicker baskets they're actually like a dark chocolate brown color and they're eight pounds each they're really quite cheap compared to how much they are other shops and we just got a concrete colored spray paint and sprayed them all so really pleased with those we're gonna put like random stuff in there that would look messy on a shelf but it will make it look neat in there although you can't really tell at the moment he's done a lot of interesting on like how to theme it to make it look unknown Pinterest of all so we're gonna go for a gold sort of metallic gold as you can see what a little touches here and these bowls from weight rose gold and pastel colors so the details that we gonna fill these shelves in will hopefully make it seem a bit more coordinated than we've got so far yeah we've got two identical sides either side of the telly haven't we Derby it's not a cuddle I think if I put me down yeah yes two identical sides so we this is my side to decorate and to fill the drawers with my stuff and the other identical side is Chris aside and he can fill that with whatever he wants yeah oh that we do try and want to make it coordinated don't like gonna be a black and white bachelor side is it no and a pink side no but coincidentally I've got the pink DVDs on my side speaking of DVDs we've got four shelves like this - this side into that side and we were just like on Pinterest how to make them look not an eyesore and it was basically color coordinating them like if you've got lots of books it's quite nice for them to be color coordinated as well and in a way color coordinating them still kind of puts them in genres because the pink and white ones are all the rom-coms weddings and father of the bride best friend's wedding bridesmaids all those thumbs so it kind of still puts them in John Rah's the black ones are all the mysterious ones thrillers yeah bit of Twilight's up there just that kind of thing so it does work cuz I almost wanted John Rose to color but now it's color I love color then this is the open section which we're kind of struggling to fill as you can see we're organizing got our family Easter eggs for next weekend and we've also bought peonies because we love the lush color but I think they're too way too long so I might get a little VARs and then cut the stems and put them in there and then you've got three drawers down here varying depths but one of my favorite drawers which is now Chris can't tell me off for EM he can't tell me off for stuffing things in look at this one I have my card shop draw and I flip them in orders I've got birthdays then what have I got I thought cake his-and-hers lots of cat worms new babies wedding days all of those all organized with a compound black sharpie some party popper wrapping paper and envelopes oh I love this draw that is the bottom draw is boring stats like files but I tried to make that interesting I've used a die mouthing to label the sort of archway of the file and so I've just done dentist and health banking-house staff cat car insurance all that boring stuff but I put that neatly in the bottom drawer because it originally we thought maybe some nice ways of displaying in here but I don't want to look at my car insurance and banking the whole time we're in the lounge no put that away in a drawer then these are I love coffee table books and things like that and I must say I love these and Paula and mum who we will probably be getting these for Christmas or birthday they are so good don't get them before we get them for you and then I think it's quite sweet at the moment to put those in even though they're old cards from Valentine's Day and our lovely one here promised at the card Lodge yeah I love that one I think that will be a forever one and then we've got two baskets here which I might they're empty at the moment because these make a bit of noise coming in and out what I've bought and see the original colour but I don't like this just scratchiness when you're pulling it in and out so I bought a bit of felt off Amazon and I'm gonna stick it with you who blew on bottom so that they just slide nicely knock they go this is obviously the TV stand so it's gonna have the standard leg well you get a new DVD player because that's so old it uses a scarlet still from the Sky box and that's my phone as he mentioned we can I get a new TV a smart TV because this is 12 years old and we'll probably put it on the wall so that will free up this space and then we've got so elevated plant pot from next yes because some orchids are poisonous to cats so be wary guys and then this side is pretty much the same we've got some rates and yellow DVDs the blue DVDs which is a mixture of like Disney Cinderella Monsters Inc frozen and then also like the faster Furious divergent Game of Thrones that sort of stuff you got anything to put in this shot yes so we just put this little Hetrick ornament we love our traveling in travel books say we've got you might seen these on our Instagram story the other day we've got places we've been sick for so any recommendations and then there's nothing really in here your sunglasses that's it yes this is my little jet ears aren't you being a cutie in the washing well we're doing our filming so they so there you have it guys that is IKEA hem nose built in hack video I hope you enjoyed it something different for our channel but we like to share what like lifestyle things you guys seem to be interested in the comments make sure to comment down below give this video a thumbs up oh yeah and we'll give you the basket link and the paint color and the spray color that we used on the basket in the description below don't forget to hit subscribe and we will see you next week for another video bye going [Music]

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Length: 13min 58sec (838 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 25 2018