Wasted Space to Home Office in 10 days

she works now. A little over a year ago I built an editing booth when I thought ashley would return to the office but that doesn't look like that's gonna happen anytime soon so in my last video I tore out the booth which is way too small for me and converted it into a storage room so now I have plenty of space to build my dream office. There is a lot to do in this build including electrical, drywall, painting, wallpapering and wood siding so let's get started [Music] that's just buried in the wall what good see this this this outlet was just behind the drywall that one I knew it was there this one I didn't that's crazy I wish I could say this is the strangest thing that I found in this building but it's not not only was the outlet in there it was also fully hooked up and wired backwards so it's always good to check your outlets if you buy a new house I'm gonna be putting in a whole bunch of new outlets into this room but this circuit also connects into my garage so as I remove outlets I need to make sure that this circuit runs all the way through into those existing outlets on the other side of the it took a little bit to puzzle out and I'm not a professional electrician but I feel confident enough to do a couple of outlets here and there I did have an electrician friend come by after I done all the work and inspect it and make sure that it was all okay fortunately this room had drywall in it but the drywall was only secured with screws so it was easy to take those panels off which made it way easier to do the electrical work it's super nice to be able to lay out your own outlets I did this in my workshop and uh it's been really really nice to do it's one of the first things that I start with is figuring out where I want all of my plugged in devices and then set up the layout for electrical because if you don't do it at this stage it's really hard to do later the left wall was pretty straightforward I was able to get three new outlets in and connect back into the original power the right wall however was a little more complicated so this outlet connects directly into the panel and so there is no place to kind of end this circuit so what I decided to do was to cut the power run the cord up into the ceiling and there's a little crawl space up there that I was able to install a junction box okay jbox is installed you're gonna have to take my word for it cause it's really tight quarters in there from the junction box I dropped a new piece of romex down into the wall and then I could start connecting up the new outlets oh and if you're wondering what all that pink and orange stuff is inside of the wall that's all bondo this building was used by an auto body worker before I moved in and I find bondo everywhere I was on the fence about reusing the old drywall because it was in kind of rough shape but for what I'm using these walls for they don't need to be perfect and I decided rather than throw them in the dump just use what I have they're also already cut to fit beautiful so here's a quick tip for cutting your holes in drywall I like to just draw on my tape measure and my t-square with a pencil and then transfer those lines onto the drywall panel I find this is a really fast way to do it and I get really good results to cut the hole I use a drywall jab saw these work great and they cost about 10 bucks at your local hardware store I'm on the wrong side of the table huh it's gross back there [Music] there we go this drywall panel was pretty far gone on the bottom like third of it so I decided to cut that end off I did ultimately have to buy a new sheet of drywall but only one sheet to do this entire room which I'd say is pretty darn good I also should mention that I left about a half inch space underneath the panels as I was screwing them in and this should help prevent getting any moisture damage from the concrete below it [Music] [Applause] next up was to tape and mud off the drywall now I said this in my last video that I am not great at mudding and I got a lot of a lot of suggestions for stuff to do but I was already working on this uh project by the time you guys sent in those suggestions so they are appreciated if you don't see them used on this project that's because I didn't get them in time a lot of people said to add a lot more water to the mud than I'm using uh so I will take that into my next project a lot of people said not to wet the tape and I've always done that I've gotten that suggestion it's always worked for me I haven't had issues with it bubbling but some people said that wetting the tape is a bad thing my guess is that there's a lot of different ways to to mud drywall and a lot of different opinions out there which I do appreciate I just uh I don't expect to become a professional mudder anytime soon I have a lot of respect for the people who can do that well ultimately in this room all these walls are going to get covered uh with something it's either going to be wallpaper which does need to be flat but the siding is going to cover a lot of this and then I'm also going to put sound panels up so you're really not going to see a lot of this wall this is a quick drywall patching tip I like these better than the mesh versions that you buy at the big box store you can make it out of a scrap piece of drywall you just cut it a little bit bigger and then score it to the size of the hole that you need and then break off the excess leaving the paper there so you can just mud over the top of that it works really well and it doesn't cost you anything after three coats of mud and some sanding and some sanding and some more sanding I was ready to paint these walls were painted before but you always want to go over the top of fresh mud and fresh drywall with primer if you don't use primer you'll see those tape strips through multiple layers of paint and it's just a better sealer than regular paint speaking of paint I'm going to be painting the upper third of this room and in order to do that I'm just quickly using my laser level to give me a mark that I can see through the paint while I roll it out I'm using the same black paint that I used on my tool wall which I love my tool wall but as I was rolling this out in this little room something just didn't feel right I think I made a mistake that's too that's too black I thought it looked cool it doesn't it's too dark uh I'm gonna change it up I'm gonna get a different paint probably go back looks so much better I was really happy with the changes that I made and now I was ready to start wallpapering this is my first time with wallpaper and I was incredibly intimidated but it turned out it was not as hard as I imagined it might be so I pictured in my head the old school style of doing it where you wet the back of the paper the paste is already embedded in the paper but modern wallpapers apparently have switched to adding the paste to the wall and then applying the wallpaper to the wall which is way easier first you lay out a liberal amount of paste with a paint roller it doesn't have to be perfect and the main thing is just to have plenty of it because that allows the the paper to move around this stuff is water-based so it lifts up easily with a sponge so if you make any mistakes it's really not that bad so I laid out a level line and I followed that level line on the right hand side and then I could squeegee out all of the excess paste and air bubbles that might be in there now this was my first attempt and it didn't go great so I was able to just peel that piece off add more paste and reapply it it's it's really that simple which was a surprise to me it takes a long time for the paste to dry probably I don't know 20 30 minutes so you've got time to work with it and the main thing is just spending the time to get those air bubbles out after the air bubbles are out you can go over the top of it with a sponge wipe down any excess and from there it's just rinse and repeat the only difference with the next panels is instead of following the level line I'm just following the line of the panel next to it and that's the most important bit it'll it'll stay level as long as you keep it butted up against that line I found this process incredibly relaxing to the point that I completely lost track of time I I thought this was taking me like two hours I think this wall took me about four hours and it was easily like 7 30 or 8 by the time I finished doing the first wall but it's really fun I I recommend trying out wallpaper if you've never done it before to determine where I cut the pattern I just followed the instructions on the package they have a repeat pattern length and I went for two of those lengths which was roughly 45 inches I cut each one one at a time which probably isn't the most efficient way to do it but I was worried that if it got off at all that I I would uh cut a whole bunch of them and then find that they were messed up and that didn't end up being a problem actually it ended up lining up really well the only thing that I found was that when I changed from my first roll of wallpaper to the second roll there was a little misalignment from where they cut it at the factory so keep that in mind if you change rolls you should make sure and line up your pattern it wasn't very far off for me and I didn't end up changing anything in the end one thing I discovered while I was doing this is that bubbles just keep forming and it's worth going over it multiple times just to double check that there's not a fresh bubble that's formed on one of the sheets because once it's dry you can't get it out after putting in that nice wallpaper I thought it would be great to rip up the floor this was so covered in in drywall and other paint um that I thought this would be a good idea uh it turned out that it came back to bite me in the end uh it wasn't too hard to get the the top surface off but later on I realized I have to deal with the bottom surface we'll get to that in a minute meanwhile I took a trip to second use they are not a sponsor but I do love a good architectural salvage place I found this douglas fir vg fur online and and I went to grab it they had plenty to cover the walls with and it was a lot cheaper than if I bought it from a lumber yard this is tongue and groove which I'm going to be using when I do the paneling but right now I just want to trim out the door and for that I'm going to cut off both the tongue and the groove side so it'll match the rest of the room I'm planning on keeping this bifold door but there really wasn't any casing for it so uh I kind of had to improvise I just nailed on a couple strips and kept testing the door to make sure that it could open and close once I had a finished edge to nail to I could then add in the trim remember when I mentioned the issue with the flooring I was hoping just to leave it at this stage but I'm planning on putting in carpet tiles and the carpet tiles need to stick to something so I had this idea to use some carpet tape try and stick it down and it wouldn't stick to it so the next step was to try and scrape it scraping didn't work and I read online that you can wet the adhesive and scrape it up from there while this worked it was an entire day of work just to scrape this floor down it was a huge pain by the end of it I had figured out quite a few good ways to do it one of the things is to make sure and sharpen your tools as you go I found that they got dull really quick and just adding a file you're able to scrape up things a lot faster the other thing that I found is that just a basic putty knife sharpened with uh some sandpaper was able to really clear out area fast this actually might have been the fastest technique but it was also kind of the most back-breaking because I had to be down on my knees and uh and push through it this sucks but after several hours I was able to get the floor cleaned up oh oh it's miserable with the floor clean I could start in on the wood paneling and for this I'm going to install a couple of mdf ledgers the concrete floor isn't level so the ledgers are going to give me a level line to start from I'm going a little bit taller than the first course so I'll start on the second course when when I get in there this will allow me to put the baseboards in later and just kind of slip them up into place and even if there's a gap at the bottom of floor that's not going to matter because when I put the carpet tiles in it'll cover up that gap to nail these on I just nail into the tongues and you'll notice on the wall I have the studs marked so as I go up it's really easy to just spot it and and nail it and then you don't see any visible nails from the outside I decided to start with the back wall because it's one of the most complicated walls with this little port that's in there this is for the glowforge I need an exhaust port for the glowforge and uh it was simple enough to glue up an extra panel at this stage and nail it in I've got the hole drilled out and then I can easily drill a hole through the drywall when I need to the opposite side was a rinse and repeat just minus the exhaust port there's a fair amount of processing to do to the boards before I install them on the walls I square up the ends cut them to length and then sand the faces of all the boards these were pretty dirty they had stickers on them and they took a fair bit of sanding but I think it's worth it so that I don't have to sand them while they're up on the wall for the boards that were going vertical I cut a groove at the bottom using my tenoning jig I've got plans for this tenoning jig up on my website if you're interested in picking them up it's a pretty simple little jig that will work universally with a bunch of different table saws [Music] with the addition of the groove cut at the bottom these vertical slats went in really quick I also put in a couple of pieces of blocking behind them so that I could nail them onto something fortunately I had access to the inside of that wall so I just put in a couple of two by fours to slot in the last one I added a short piece that I just ripped on the table saw and then I could use a putty knife and a pry bar to pry them into place so that they're sitting in that tongue it's a little bit of a gap on that side so that there's room for expansion and contraction to cap off the vertical slats I just flipped one of the tongue and groove pieces upside down so that the tongue was facing down and then that slotted into the grooves and locked everything into place after that it was back to milling which these are all the boards that are going to go against the walls these aren't cut to a specific length I'm just trimming off the bad sections I'm basically processing the lumber if there's any flaws or anything I'm cutting those out since I'm going to have to cut a lot of these down to length it made a lot of sense to me to have my chop saw in the space with me I find with jobs like this where there's a lot of repetitive cuts it's good to get your tools as close as possible to you so you minimize the amount of walking back and forth [Applause] for most of the boards I'm only using nails but a couple of the boards were shorter than 16 inches which means that they're only going to connect to one stud in the wall so I added construction adhesive to those as I worked my way across the wall I'd occasionally hit outlets and to cut out then the hole for the outlet this is pretty easy I just lay the panel into place make the marks that I need and then take it over the bandsaw to cut it out ah it's a little low might be a problem I'm gonna cut another one [Music] [Applause] with the left wall done I could switch my tools around and start in on the right wall this started going really fast especially having the chop saw in in the room and this was the easier wall because all the outlets were at the top I found some of the cuts really hard to make on the band saw so I actually ended up using a combination of a of a japanese pole saw and I also used the multi-tool which turned out to be really good for these small trim bits the last strip that I added had the tongue removed from the top and it was sanded down I also uh should have pre-finished this because it's right up against the wallpaper I'm gonna be pre-finishing some of these panels um but I wish I had the foresight to do it on all the ones that touched the wallpaper to attach the upper trim I use the laser level again and these pieces have both the tongue and the groove removed from them so they're a little bit thinner but I don't think you can really tell [Music] it was at this point that I could remove those ledgers that I installed before they come off pretty easily with a pry bar and as you can see I made it tall enough so I can just slip these underneath again I use a pry bar to lift it into the tongue and then I can nail it off next I could focus on the wall with the glass door I added in a bit of molding around the door and then I could slip in some strips to the wall I did decide to glue these in I think that I was able to capture a couple of two by fours but I didn't know how much structure was in this wall so I just decided to add construction adhesive as an insurance policy the vertical ones definitely didn't have any support so I just glued those on and they should be fine as I thought more about what I'd have to do to apply finish to these walls I decided to pre-finish these uprights it's going to make my life a lot easier I wish I had thought of it sooner but I'm going to go through and do a tips and tricks video on water-based finishes that's what I'm using here I'm using total boat halcyon clear and I'll do a whole video on water-based finishes because they really are some of my favorite finishes there's loads of advantages to using them I think they look great and they're easy to apply I'll go into that in a later video but for for now I pre-finished these so that I can make my life easier when I go through the full finishing process next week I really love installing trim I I feel like it's a great kind of puzzle to figure out how to get all these finished edges on everything make sure everything looks right make sure that there's no kind of weird dead ends and stuff and ultimately I honestly like this wall with the glass door a little better than the wall with the wood door I actually went back and swapped out one of the pieces of trim because I thought I could match that side a little better make it a little tighter a little bit neater and I'm glad that I did [Music] so [Music] how much better is this room it's so nice in here I just can't wait to get to work and uh set up my desk in here there's still a lot left to do I still have to put finish on the walls and put in the the outlets and I've got to fix the lighting the acoustics are terrible I want to build a sit stand desk I've I've got to build cabinets and lots and lots of things to do but this is about 10 days in and I'm still super excited about it so let me know in the comments down below if there's any sort of officey things that I should know about modern office accessories and stuff because I like to do that as well when I build the desk have a bunch of cool accessories and stuff so thanks for watching the video thank you deal dash for sponsoring this video and thank you as always to my patreon supporters you guys are the best and I'll catch you in the next one [Music]

Channel: Michael Alm

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Length: 26min 10sec (1570 seconds)

Published: Sat May 14 2022