The Family Builds an Underground, Earthbag, 2-Story Building $7000 Cost
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Here's the full version of the making of our Musart studio!! It's way too fun to binge watch a series but this is a full out movie! Please enjoy and stay tuned for our next adventure!
Shae aka Winter_Apple
June 23, 2017
Video Transcript
We moved to the country when I was 10 years old and my siblings were four six and eight
We absolutely loved the open spaces growing up here
Yeah, we were building all kinds of forts. We built a ship once. We used to all build forts together.
I think that's kind of you know the whole way that we were raised. We really stay on the farm a lot
We would do our school and we'd get that done
And we couldn't wait to get out and be creative and build something
I think that desire to build and create has just kind of stayed with all of us. As we got older being the millennials
we are, we eventually discovered
Technology and when we did it was iPods and that was it. We were sold.
When we were creative as kids, I think that creativity hasn't gone away kind of just gotten better. Our family has built a few earthbag buildings
So now it's time to put those skills to work once again.Build cheap buildings
Cheap buildings [laughter]
This is our biggest challenge so far. A recording studio
underneath and then there'll be a
workshop on top. The price to Build it somewhere between five to seven thousand. Which is a pretty good price for
a building. These kind of buildings are really nice because it allows the whole family to work on the building
Let us take you on our adventure and show you how our family works together to build it.
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When we had Jeff out to dig a hole. We're really pre-planning to have the studio done
It's really really deep here. Maybe if we go this way here's the latter.
And then I want to show you. There we got the whole crater
We noticed that the walls were kind of starting to have fallen a little bit so we decided to lay that foundation layer
That would be I would say pretty close to the center. Just to ensure that it wouldn't get buried because it was going to be
quite a few months before we would start building on it. We dug a trench all the way around the outside edges of where our walls
are going to be.
I'm taking the rock and putting it inside the foundation
We're going to be setting the walls on. We had originally planned to have a whole bunch of rock brought in so that we could
stack the two walls on top of each other and like a two-story building would be. We changed our minds
we're able to expand the top section so that we could encompass the stairwell
It's your high-tech level mechanism using like two shovels and a string to level it all
Everything's good right here - I had gone through before and just kind of checked it
and eye balled it and it was level. Then the guys came in and they're starting to level it
And it's getting less and less
Level and then they'd be like. Oh, it needs to go up, and I was just like
nooooooooooooo
We use some railroad ties for the entry and we just kind of buried them and then on the top we went ahead and cut
one shorter to put on the top. All right do you got the drill bit? Drill some holes.
And then we took rebar and we banged it into it to hold the thing together and then that's going to go ahead and be
the entry downstairs. It's going to be a little bit challenging to get this thing in the ground. Get started huh guys?
Yes
Bryson's got his new haircut. I'm cooler. Cooler because I don't have all the hair on me and I'm cooler because I look cooler
No comment over there popsicle girl
So why didn't you bring one for all of us?
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we've been really needing a sound studio and in the hearts to do so I'm excited to have a place to work on my
costumes and family to work with
When we get around 18 inches high with the bags we lay the electric wire in boxes
right here
Yeah
We're gonna go ahead and put plastic around our building
We got some plastic here to act as a moisture barrier between the bags and the dirt she's a pretty six plastic six male
10-foot High
Underfoot to Easily reach around the whole building
I'll keep pushing it out of our way as we grow back filling pushing it out of our way
You just want to make sure that you were involved in the mathematical calculation. So they know I want that. No responsibility to draw on
It you just said I'll roll in every field and it's not going to happen in my friends money orders written
we are
Going out there, so this is going to be inside or outside of the building itself the inside inside
Okay from sloping four steps down so that we can stair step them come out as we go along
And then we'll be building forms down here
It's based on a four-foot landing in front of a door that goes in
Where there are pockets of mostly sand the walls cave in but the clay like you see above doesn't budge
Classes, what do we do?
Leianna meet it with your mouth open
Yeah, your eyes wide open and facing up teaching like avalanche training is done
Go into the white smoke like a wave you know you go underneath it
Back here and plastic separating the dirt from our bike
So that was a good fun right totally
there's all kinds of
Geography, I mean every place has deserts everybody has rainforests and living in a certain area requires a certain type of glowing our
Geographical situation is far different than that that I be in the pacific Northwest or eastern
States in New York, and the makeup of our ground is totally different the amount of rain
We get we're only looking at about a foot of rain compared to
25 inches or more in the Pacific Northwest is it makes a big difference in what type of soil we get so we had to
Take these same things into consideration when we were building our
underground studio out of the Earth effect one is how much water do we get what type of soils do we have has a
Great deal of Clay in it it has a ton of Ghalichi. Which is a calcium
So we have kind of a hard soil, especially that first three feet of our soil
And you get the pickaxe through that stuff to get down
And then there are pockets of sand here and there the caliche level is like this first
First three feet you get a lot of rocks in our soil. There's a lot of clay inside here too, so it's very hard
Very very hard. That's just after a rain. It's time to strengthen the wall to ensure safety first we backfill
We're just muscled up
Whoa Esau glut boy. Yeah, are you getting pulling out?
Ibiza
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Okay, so we're going to put in the dead man just to help the walls
I'm Katie in it might be a little bit of overkill because of the way the bags compress on themselves
But better saying I'm sorry and this really isn't that hard to do so I think we're just going to go like three foot in
And then put like another three-foot chunk
Right there risking the one bag out one bag over
Stake a rebar through the two to hold the two together might even put a rebar in on this side
I'm going to do three one here. We've got another one over there, and then one more vital staircase
It's kind of interesting
We're about halfway up
and it feels like we're starting on ground level again because we've backed build around it and
Our fire is going to be able to stand on that and so are we
So we have to say well
How do we retain a circle inside of the ground we have some forces that work?
We have the force of gravity which pulls straight down
So how we fix that is that our bags are stacked directly on top of each other?
And we have two tamped, so that's a solid so you get to get the idea that if you can compact the soil
you're going to return back to the caliche or to the solid background which doesn't move
we have used barbed wire to help with the shear strength and
Three just by it being a circle it retains the same types of strength as an arch you can
Actually have an arch hold itself together
Throw it on side any forces that come from the outside in
Equally press on the circle get because all forces together too similar to the arch theory
The cool thing that this is its range because it means all of our derby and putting on the outside will settle nicely
That probably put the plastic you there definitely solid
We see donna building although like a doo doo space. I've always wanted to see
Chris our place to secure the back to the doorframe
morph
We need several hanger plates installed around the building in order to hang green screen and other background items on the wall
We built looks like it looks like we're all standing on the same level. We are but get on my level fun
Okay, you can ever stood on something this high you're getting very good look tall for you
there you go, I
Find that if I stay in the air-conditioning all summer long
I don't really the summer gets really super super hot so I find if I go down, okay?
And your body just seems to get used to it. So it's really important to get out early
It's really hot outside. It's not hot just our brain
Are you ready?
Yes, I am wow let's get in
Keep the sun off point five blocks. I was like I couldn't say no
Go get it quick. I'm not so much time for a comeback
Here husband dirt here, please feet that way that
We want it's the simple things in life
Bryce has always been a boy of wonder we all wonder - guys. I got a sector on me
What we're now calling the muse our studio get it cuz this going to be an art in a music studio
First steps here. We have a four foot opening going up our first actual going up. It's going to be right there
Is that cool yes ricing tells us? Huh?
Okay
And we want to have steps that are going to be about seven and a half
Inches high on the Riser and we're going to pour a 12 inch thread
but then we're going to lay the next step on an inch and a half so we'll have a
Ten and a half inch tread we built one frame so that allowed us to just use that same frame Trustees the entire Bill
All right good let's try with this. I didn't need to be too sturdy as these that need to be created security
But I think we're okay
The steps were rectangular however they needed to go in a spiral going up
So you have one side that a bit little smaller on the other side larger, so that's it. Huh? Yeah, this is the second
Step at a time
And then we tear the frame out on and set our next step and then put our next step in and then pull the frame
Out and keep using the same frames all the way up so this overlaps onto the concrete
An inch and a half this is number one two three four
five six
So you're just doing steps and suddenly what?
what the
Jog Monday was at you for the you Monday or the diesel who was it who was it put their paw in this
And talk about deep print you put Michael
You feeling pretty good today?
another percent
hundred percent
so we went waterskiing and
The sunkist doesn't in my muscles wouldn't merc it couldn't get myself to haul in all this big heavy
Bottomed out of the water and I could know
You weren't the one scheme behind the boat see Mark. We're
Perfect alright, we're done
We're done. We're done. We're never done see step
Karin against letting the layout for the upStairs circle we wanted our bigger circle to be centered in our smaller circle and
the Center Circle has the staircase so we had to kind of account for that, so we move the reference pull over and
Put a little extension on it, so we could get higher
I got my colon and draw it out then I'm going to level it off for my neck my airbags
Won't we you as we will
I'm talking a highest point in the bag so we can know where to put the top of the stairs on actually a nursery
We counted 406 that opening and the two front posts there that you see are for French doors that are going to go in
possibility of me putting a six-foot slider in
This is the dead look for you one second. It'll be like hey
It's nice and sunny the next it says now. I'm going to pour rain on you, so
Yes here
We're installing a a berm around just the size of the building getting a little bit of pooling
Inside of our first layer needs to be able to divert the water out of the foundation level that's a common building problem
That's is that but I mean those are has to keep water out of their founders anyway
We're going to see how well this this holds up high peaks that
It has made of our bags a little bit soggy on the outside so we had to let them dry out
We get that wet all the way through like a real mud or move them at all and then they just turn into this real
Mush and it can cause tons of problems all the way down
We don't touch the bags when they're that so we just let them dry out. Naturally. I'm not playing. I'm sidetracking the dogs to Montevideo
So therefore. I am a key piece of
instrumental work
Sure rather than an adornment. I
Note that is what like a generation yeah rather than decoration
We've put in about an hour a day
Maybe a little bit more on the circle to try to get in a row of days
We'll work in the morning when it's not raining and then cover the bags so that we get whatever afternoon rains come through
We will soak our bags so bad. We'll be able to work the next day
Maybe how fast it really goes when you just do one one row a day that thing will be up in no time
the Walls continue to grow
Nice, shiny wheels we commute this family the guys begin to prepare for the electrical outlet?
Install the electrical boxes like you would a cleat we just nailed the boxes right to the plywood the duplex boxes
We're using them have nails and on the box itself so it's like nailing it to a stud
so
She should be out here learning electrical every wire her house. You never know right?
Okay, so the question is I have no more outlet
Where would you want it three across it rocks the one right there? I think it looks perfect, okay?
We just run the wire in between the bags and make sure they're separated from the barbed wire so we don't get any
Shorting going on inside or outside outside wire inside barbed wire
It's easier than trying to pin it to the wall later and come over. It subscribe if you want to see more you know
What's that one now gare your light switch that you said we news because you were right money
What's up with you being right to your mom?
when the kids get a room
They get a dog and Bryson hasn't gotten his yet when we finished Israel Modern all four months back
I think he just wanted to kind of settle in when the kids get up in their teenage years you know you no longer really
like them
They're little yeah, how them in you and you kind of what something as I get older you know you just don't do it anymore
That's tough when dad lays a big kiss on me
so we like them to have an animal when they get up in that age because
That just gives them something that they can they can cuddle with and love on. I think you more like a teacup cool
For Bryson yeah get a poodle. I'm going to get a poodle
Yeah, a little shaved all the way down to the skin with just a tell they make
Cognate though so just called hairless poodle
Exactly, and what not to shave it did a great dane took in cattle do so I thought about that
I think if you get not so great pain real small on a really hairy dog that doesn't shed or barn
Or eat or poop. I think you're talking about a statue. How about cuddly toy like a plushy toy Vicki cuddle ass
It's now window level
Say yes window raft. I gained weight
She chose
This particular room has larger windows. We live with a three foot by five foot windows no dad's mailing these
braces in Coulombs squared
So that you don't have a window. That's what I like
I'm Bryce's building to use two by twelves on
Brainy and Aaron's building we used to buy tan so I went back to the two by ten
The cost of the Layout I have to be often to you
I I bawled too much juice equation my dad and Garen plan out all the windows
Turns pocket by the window right here dad like so symmetrical burger and all like do that. I'll use a really long smells
We can't do that
oh
These will you picking beans over there? Are you eating them?
these are ten poles, and we're going to use these to reinforce the walls between the window like we've done a
Little bit of Movement on this wall because of all the ranges that later come over here. We get a shot of this repeat
We're out of plumb the best way that fix these things is just uh break them off hoping to avoid it
But he cuts or not
Use the pole in the pole
and we run our circle around that way we get our
Perfect circle that we want and I take the rope pull it tight in this case
I'm just using a knot at my marker and just running around
do that mark that all the way around the building before I tamp it and then we just follow that all the way up the
Building and then our walls are relatively straight
There was only half a brick
Brains like a lot and we had a giant storm come through it gets the bags wet and goes up art art yeah
Yeah, we're going to fetch a bad storm. They'll get wet lower down to so everything will be so
So I mean we should go down and take a look at the underneath here
Well see more like it actually is holding up really well. I mean, I don't see any like boulding collapse in anywhere
Which is good?
Some of the moms on bone who you can see water is cooled down here definitely
We got a lot of rain
Yeah, it seems to be holding up really nice actually
the solid as ever
Hey look a little mesquite tree. Look at that. Hey, you know if we wait long enough. You can see the center post
After weeks of dodging rainstorms we finally get a refreeze turn and I'll I now
Jump into work the recess out the window boxes were back don't know
Hold of it was the things out long
One of the ways to help reach our goals sooner is to cut the top of the window boxes up
We wanted to go ahead and shorten the walls to accommodate the roof a little better excited
Go ahead and just drop them down one foot and that brings the whole roof down one foot wall height was just getting too high
After we add everything on top of the windows limiting its going to be a skyscraper before we get the roof
Now this building is really wanted to do a lot of bottle when you put them together
I don't want to stick out too far beyond the bag because then you have cobb around and make stick out
So it's trying to stay real close to the same width where do you think right right there?
Yeah
Which bottles you can't just run barber room and just camp over them like normal?
Because it's all the weight when it starts building up will eventually break that bottle
So you have to like you put the bottle in and back up to it?
and then do a thin layer like over the top of it and then you tamp the only tamp up to it and
Don't tap on top of it until at least you get the next layer on
like this arch
When we first started the design process for this and everything dad really wanted to put in buttresses
We talked them out of it because we don't like the look well
But source it is because we didn't put the buttresses in it is possible that we had more problems than we really
Do it normally event way too many layers too fast and they never get a chance to dry and Harden?
It's like a bag that can move even even with it. Just being Damp once it gets hardened
The thing is Rock solid a 30 foot circle on a 14 inch bag is
Absolute Mac
That you'd ever want to do it really is we didn't really know that going in and we didn't really sink to that far
We didn't even think it would matter really because we've had such good luck with the smaller circles
And then once we got to a certain height we had we didn't have some issues with just
Setting the walls and our center line got a little shorter at one point it brought the walls in and out and normally that would
Be okay
But then we had a big rain come through if you soaked the bags all the way through down to the bottom one
Because a lot of we came to happen and then it started to buckle
I mean if we were put buttresses in we wouldn't had these problems
It was it was the worst place for something like this to happen, but it did right there. We know it was definitely moving
So we're going to try to fix it we decided to use come along. So we're at the base of the door downstairs
We're able to connect the come-along at the base run a cable all the way up to the wall
We're able to run the cable through we put a backing on the back of that back and around out to come along and then
music how long to bring the wall in
That is already a fund that are beautiful. Look at this line. I'd go some more
He needs to be pushed in and I'm thinking to tamp it and we move it over and then tamp it down
So this isn't going to work
Got this you know
It's really working. Good next about here. We are already at one hundred two and a half three. So we're building a lot
Dirt on the center bag here since we had this big rain all the dirt is still damp hasn't dried yet
So it's going to resettle really nice
And it was all dry the wall would get this s term kind of thing we had going on
We were able to kind of straight to that when we were doing
this are one of our links in the wire we were using ended up popping which I
Guess you Kinda always
Expected or yeah, you're kind of always afraid of it. So you're kind of always careful around it, but uh
It actually happened this time yeah come out about six or eight inches in italy like that
Would really become alongs work really good to pull the wall back to where we wanted it
I think what was the spring effect where we pulled it in when it's busted?
It's just like whoa all as far
As it could go instead of just coming back to normal so it went a little bit past
We brought it back in and it's just unforeseen we can't always sometimes things break
It's actually a pretty good testament to what the bad help story
They really are I need to be able to spring back like that and hang out just at a crazy angle and just stop I
Mean that's it really is quite amazing
Dad's first thing was he just wanted to tamp it and I was like no no
No, you can't just tamp a giant section
Just does not work, and then you have to go over and I was out of ideas and so I was like okay
Dad's gone, we can test the tamp now
Look better it does
Don't talk bad. How we did and it actually did end up working a little because it was that hard to admit
Oh, yeah, look that wall look that wrong
Not beautiful back better than a lot of jokes that we managed to get it back and get everything all put back together
We're digging some holes to put some posts here to hold up our murphy bed. So that worked really well
We not only get nap post for the murphy band, but we also get those for the wall can help support it
Hey, didn't move at all. It's good
I've been thinking about some different types of roofs like this reciprocal roof thing kind of came up
We needed to build a reciprocal roof as kind of an example on a reference
guys bisect the circle draw a line and create eight equal segments
Well you might as well all the way across. How do we might have I cut it on thick circles
I'll show you how to go. What do you call that?
boom
section
Look at that line a little bit
So we were signaling outer space when we talk to you both in the ground
If you land here and here you can pick up with yeah
Yeah, I think this will work pretty good that is using an excellent method of attachment
Alright there it is and it was strong enough that one of us got up there and stood on it a little 300 break
Gosh that is amazing
We went down purchased all of our wood got our great big
30-Footers 30 foot 2 by 8 which is 800 pieces we had trees had to chop down to get those with
at least 30 feet
Everything was good
So what it did dad sure you got these right this one goes like?
Hang on Hang on
And I'll go through I thought I was going to just keep doing this over and over and over and it would work
The workers are doing that well look
this is create a
Month ago, I need much we've created a master. This is not going the video
Y'all go jo kim ah you better not me. I'm handling your eggs this thing in
the world's Heaviest Hula hoop
I
think we got to figure it out now so all we've been doing today is just building sketchy staff with
torque
Thus cackling looks like this crazy mechanism. That was hold up by One post
No, I had four posts looked like it was one carrier than hex, but it was now oh
I play league system fun. That's that you're with you're up here
Yes, that's it. Yeah
Your fault current and then on top of that they decided to put a ladder on top of all that well
We couldn't quite get high enough scaffolding only reached so far. So we headed up on top of that what level allows
It's probably 25 25 25
You're the best view to see if this is level. Can you when you stand up get that top of that level you feel comfortable?
There we go
See where we're at people
um
He's on that edit, and it's just if he does it just takes one step back. There's like nothing
Nothing to catch them on
So they're easy it is scary. They're they're very brave
they're doing a great job is just
That it's so stressful
Just watching them stay out here
Yes, seeing happen. Hey, we got to see up in the air and thanks to Sam and Garen and Bryson
we got all our rappers up in the air and
Everything's looking real good. There you go
But the raptors placed it's time to get leveling about four point across there actually that one is our highest one
So it makes that and we're just gonna go around and level and nail off all the raptors so that the roof is
this level
Gum once you drop our line level yeah, right? What does this look familiar does that look familiar?
So that's your new line level right there. Yeah run in line level. It's a top the wine for the line
Look at that beauty it's so big for the heart of scene artist seeing us the wrong words
I play impaired it's bull. Hey Jackie damn
How this was a spot in the bag where to bring?
They've got this so wet that was oozing out of the bag and now it's like
completely solid
Here down here you're looking up there you're seeing this beautiful little wonderful curve that comes up
Here, I'll show you how they work
Sorry, it's going to be boards that are going to come down here to help with these who think that up here like this this
Course for display now
We're putting in Jack rafters that fill in between the rafters and that helps with the support
Yeah, some guy named jack did I don't know why they named him Jack. We named the monkey down?
You know what's really cool is to
Have garen up there taking measurements and laying out and you know and then just hollering down
Specimens to me to cut now he's going to be able to do it on his own
Over a little more corvinus go back
the guys begin installing the Fascia the face of the roof
We built the fascia in kind of a zigzag pattern so which is the same width and dimensions of the raptures themselves?
So it's kind of nice to be able to build it in that way
I know some folks will save money with using smaller materials, but I kind of like to match the tails with the kristef a signature
You're always really happy when we get to this point the bagging
Around the last bay section, and then we're like we're done for good and then it's shiva cobbing and roof for those wait yup
victory my brother
Grapple on the battle but not the war
kids they think they've done bagging but there's a little bit more that we're going to have to do but
They're feeling pretty good about life. Son like I say on things
We first found this whole idea of the reciprocal route from doing a little bit of research on the internet
I found this pdf a reciprocal routes by a gentleman. That's a designer engineer. That's in Japan and
There was a lady her name is Olga
Popovic she had done a great little review of that particular process
And how that was all done the name of it called reciprocal frame architecture in Japan and check it out on Google?
So it's very confident that this was a good process start cutting roof and designing it
Just like it was done in Japan the idea, too
Is that we have compression rings at the top and a compression ring at the bottom?
It's very similar to a yurt or a teepee even for that matter you have a compression ring at the top
Where you rope around the tepee poles?
I'm very happy with the results, and I didn't building this a long time and very fine fits a circle just perfect
Dad wants to reinforce the frame with a cable system similar to a yurt he heads to our metal junk pile
so look for needed parts
type for this these are the Lobby area
perfect
If we run the wire through there it won't risk
Breaking eventually okay now to make it pretty do you think we had to cut the other side alone?
I don't think it needs to look pretty we're not singing it right. Yeah, this shows I
Say we do the for bend and cleaning. I didn't realize we were you still can do the forbidden
Deburring Move -
Yeah, I am cold. It's colder out here. I'm still unsure
Freezing out here folks you hold Darren's not so but you always were the bright one, right?
One oh
Look over my work not looking. Yeah, right we have enough
perfectionist, yes right now
You're not going to see it from the only cut in the air just bring the pair of pliers and their cable thing you wanted
to do
What is your plan is to put these in here?
And yeah, baby against the wall, so it's all with the same yes, man
Just draw all right here climbing this through Slender cable. We only have eight to do it shouldn't take that long. That sounds yeah
oh
There we go. That's one
Cable that we're installing now is something to look to a compression ring
which holds all the bottoms of the rafters and it's kind of an extra measure of
You know I've got one of these before so I'm kind of going with something a little extra at the bottom like a year
the table is going to be below the ceiling level so we do get the opportunity to tighten it and use it as a
Hang Banners or something from it'll be fun
Cool. I go any nice. That's the insurance. That's a baby
Moist time to get our plywood for the roofing section, but then I usually like to buy the plywood
But the wood has become so much more expensive than I went with the osb
It should be eight feet it's not it's a little too long in your path naming it
Yeah
One Bay complete
Ha looking good coming together
laughs Mary, bassett
This is the top site that the Kerbal set on
Dad made a seven sided polygon. I'm gone like the wind
getting measures already
Well, let's just call this one and cut offs out another one this happens longer um three fails this morning
Well third time's a charm right yeah of course
All right, then
Perfect. You are a genius. We knew you had it in you, dad. We always believed you
Well, I missed it
We received a surprising call from Susie and endora representative offering us materials to use on our bus today it arrived
the main Deal
Which we're thankful that and gave us some product and we're all set. It's awesome
It's really awesome very excited very grateful these guys so willing to do this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you happy kind
We're Gonna go ahead and carpet
That's good enough. We can figure this out now
Okay, I'll change this you can slide it up and down. Yeah
Thank you
Start putting up the first day kind of figuring out where we want everything and how we want to start laying them out wind starts
Picking up looking like it's Gonna rain
This is that can you?
Just good easier, but it's my whip your with measurement now if you could give me that that okay that all right, okay?
Let me nail this so that I don't move it. This is what we got to do exciting
Yeah, I go to the right at the top to the touch. That's it right
Back a little bit I said that's it that's perfect
At one point you blew even some of our sheets on well, they're tough yeah, they are
throw together the One day that we got
Possible okay, I'm I'm going for it right now put things away and wait for wake up tomorrow to finish up yep
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injury
goes to hammer the nail not your finger
ready to Hammer the hammer salt yeah, chemical Step down I
believe sorry Sharon Keep Blanco training poor Workman blames his tools
jared
Our good friend Marvin came out to to help us out and we're very excited to have him out here
he's quite - quite the carpenter -
now I've seen a lot of kids with saws and crews the stuff that I've run and
It's amazing to watch these guys use these sauces so confident. They're using them properly
safely
very impressed
So we're trying to figure out a solution to this skylight
And I think we might sound one nice best idea so far one good lead is not my I think it's inevitable ice assault regardless
Now it's time for the skylight on
Skylights on my friend that means our job is done
The guys decide to start from the bottom up they head inside and downstairs to start the soil cement floor
we set the grade by taking two bricks for leveling and putting one in the center of the floor and
at the seal of the door
And then we level it from the seal to the middle of the room that's applause your hand if you're out all right
We want to have the right grade the right amount of dirt
So that we put it in the cement everything gets mixed in there. We don't have to pull anything out there
it is of course is to have everybody marvin come out and help again, so I'm
Just Gonna stick the dirt out
Wait, I've joined these Marvin dry sand shaking yeah
If you try to call about three deep in a pole, it's going to help you, okay
See so hot go away. Come on. Come on my pole
first time we turn this entire thing I turned the whole thing by Charlotte first and then you guys to the tiller the
young guy in the room
Bryson was able to like do twice as much work for us because you know
We're seasoned carpenters you know and so
We weren't as apt that a shovel as he was so or workmen claims is tool. I'm not better than the shovel
I'm just blaming the bodies of the two old guys that you are working with you know you're coming over for this digimon. Oh
Yeah
It's a really enjoyable that
So we use the water to actually dampen and keep the dust at the same time and then I got a chance to spray
Bryson every now, and then which was fun. You only did it once surprisingly directed more?
You know when we lived in the city. You know we were putting the kid's in activities
Which is great activities are great?
But I think the moments that we spend working alongside each other are probably the most valuable
Moments, we have with them. Yes allows us to build that relationship with them
You know they get to see to how we handle problems and probably don't have a problems very well
So they'll see some of our mistakes, and they'll say that
We're not as perfect as we think we are so it's humbling
And it's enjoyable because you're sharing and the kids get something out of it
I get something I learn all the time and you you're good leveler. I mean with dad not taking that out to helping pedro
We get to see how our kids handle stressful situations dude
what the walk at the time yeah on how the situations were no tire and
It just allowed us these moments to intervene
Again, I'm almost done with my crop circle
being on watch no
huge
Call that down a different this thing up, and you can't recruitment
Now we all focus on level in and then we campus oh
No, peace you gonna get me in trouble. Don't make any conference quick quick. We
need to find and cut down some good tree limbs to replace the temporary pose for the entryway of the studio work the pile of
potential
posts
Let me pull this out melanie. Toby - HMM
We think of these to have this one that one have fun
Dad makes plans to frame the floor
So my double to the ten and then come out to about four feet and then can't leave her back over the top of it
and so after the cleats are built we take twenty foot two by Tens and
Clap them together and then put them across the long distances the longest part of the circle
And then we'll just shrink it down from there and just put singles
Bring it down here, and I think exactly I appreciate all that I can push it far. Yeah
He's amazing you can know that and a film by Julius tank
Because another brain it can't defeat us right boys. Yeah
The one it's going to determine the height yeah
I think it's going to be that one over there the next to the work of this one pew half
we're just a second we will put them in but not nail and then just
You know where they're basically lifted up the sides of the cleat so that we got a nice level. Oh, oh
I think that's pretty dead-on
Exactly our goal is to finish the floor this week, so the guys continue installing the floor joists
Is four five six four five?
Well block it up to that basic
When Bryson and Dad are filling in the sections on the floor us gals are bagging in between the joists
We were asked if us girls use power tools I use power tools
But to go, it. Does is a problem
That is a happy job the bags are like Adobe Bricks, but with nails in between them to secure the floor
There we go look through stairs, but hang on a craft like three tango or something
and that is why we don't show us using comm
That will dumb
Ninja television, you know
exactly
So fill it to see that
We can do a couple of these minute forget to jar now all the way to the wall, okay?
We're going to take the deck footers where we're going to run out over the top and several
cantilever them out
you're going to
point so far
Now, what are you going to do?
Hey, we're selecting our posts now for chair railing. Let's look like a great post
I mean it had some memories too into it from our tie swing oh
yeah, and
Kind of excited to do a mesquite stair rail
What's good about a post that's secure is if you can actually make it part of the floor
He won't sing basically so it can bolt it down
Just cool while the skis it's really twisty oh - it's not like pilot just raced in
We bolt it right to the to button
We're going to run that at 38 inches on the post hide and maybe like 40 or the top
Section I forget the racial piece on them and then back right up against it and then put some blocks in
so that makes really nice strong posts as opposed to just like
Attaching it with a bracket or something to the top of a deck
Now that the main stair puts our in we're going to head downstairs laying down from our electrical yep
Doing the three-way switch, so we turn the lights on and off upstairs and the fan, too
Okay, so we are doing well press. I'm not a lot of press though right guys because of it
Hold what you're seeing is the astra bath
I was carrying this on my shoulder, and then right when I got right to my childre for one second, okay?
So the plan without you doing the mixing mugs with pure light
One two one four right now kind of see what comes out?
We're going to add some water probably just a little bit. I wouldn't have
Maurice you go sent it. Yeah
Okay, this poison my deathbed
We got it to a peanut butter
Mixture that was their first one then I went to pete and ending with the pancake batter. I wanted a little bit right in there
Where you can ask right? Well, it's sure a texture that sets off so we'll sit down
Oh, yeah, morally
I think you're going to make more sound moves in a straight line until it hits something and
Then the more times it hits something the weaker the sound gets
So the idea was with the rolls of the bag we get a little bit of deadening and also to
Reflects off of the little pieces of pure light that it bounces off something so the more bouncing we can getting in there really
Is the better I can get all kinds of different Angles and soft materials?
Then that causes the sound to dead, and that's we're trying to get as a dead don't know what?
Sounds good when you're standing in the middle like this being over here is really nothing quieter
over here
Arina paint the Downturn did yeah
Paranoid Garden
gnome oh
Yeah, oh, I was also test think pancake batter
No, no, I've got something else you get food when I say pancake it was a cool dinner time actually I left it
So we have our our bands
Are piping the dog stuck his head in here, and it got jammed on it
This was kind of broken and kind of hanging off
And so we're trying to get it off the car to get off I get over here
I need your help. You need to run. Go ahead really do it
Hopefully, we can salvage it and just some pipe out of it and basically our plan for cup of escape
this time to supposed to stretch out to eight feet but I
Got your feet many
People you did not learn the first time do not shake your head in there. I think you I just enjoyed it
put in the air, but now
Is going to be our draw so it can dry our from down there and push it up in here, so yeah
It's going to look like that. Hi if we can grab the lowest coldest air down there
Which is at the very very bottom right and pull that up so what we'll do is
We'll just run that four inch by 12 inch pipe
They make this like this, and we'll just go right straight down alongside the wall you always need good Airflow down there
You know it also gives a good airflow. Yes, and get fresh air
Shelley and I were just like traveling around one of the hardware stores
And we bumped into this architectural glass we picked up a couple of these and we'll be installing them in the floor
You'll put it in okay. Yeah, I?
Think that that can handle the weight of a person yeah, don't you step on tea?
Okay, easily. Oh, I foot didn't go through that would been a disaster
This goes in here in the wall collects light from the outside, but it all has to come through this hole
This week we'll start by doing some painting downstairs
my knees
Kind of like a gray I like it
Planted a put in the campfire good candy and do it can delete to put the camera in
Okay
If you want me to make students think well, that's ridiculous it is
ridiculous
Got a hand holder. Yeah, all right. Yeah
Where were you when I put mine in you know doesn't matter that that Christian does the me now. If there's an island Lankan Cricket
be honest
If you think the guides were the only ones working then we're going to give you a sneak peek of a future video follow me
Whoa or themself fragment?
Yes, this is a dragon rocket. So which is built over the dirt foundation in the corner of the news art studio
We have a separate video that documents this build we starting could be feeling downstairs
We have some landscaping cloth here that will be running underneath the floor joists
And this will help keep the insulation that we're going to want to put between the rafters
Held into place we pull a ceiling tile down. We don't get a face full of insulation
Right then where are you we need you?
Really because like we need you guys already like I think he's almost done
so we were into town in the
Gutter rub tiny groove for our decking and we got all of our insulation to we're kind of me about jeans material
And that's hot stuff. So it has better sound quality
It has this grid system
and I didn't want to lose me ceiling so we decided right up on the bottom of those rafters that found a
Really really interesting way of holding they because tiles on your aid, I thought it was spectacular. They did that way
It's already sounds like the recording studio
Dora
All right traffic done
And it's beautiful
We're going to do this whole circle with its insulation because this is right above the sound studio
And this is supposed to have higher sound qualities because it's made out of recycled jeans
And I guess your cycle cotton and that stuff we can stick your hand in here, and you're like
Brushing step out and feels like petting something and all the hairs
What a picture the thing we decided to put a mask on pillow
I think we're moving at blazing speeds so all the dust is coming up, but you think eh yes, sure. It's pretty dusty
There is actually a blower for this installation
But we lift you're far from task to go right one and a half ago to get back so much driving
So we're doing it by hand, but it's cool
We got this the guys jump in to help a little bit with the insulation
Everyone comes up with their own amin way of busting up that insulation. This is just our heart our tool
we've been using for sculpting and
Being called up some to trial
And then I just kind of laughed at it
and it just gets a
lot faster than tools or
Really anything?
So I think I found very best way breakdown to insulation
You can do like half a bag at a time and just put it in there
Pinch off the top with your hands just slam into the grass breaks the whole thing up in a couple hit half bag aside
Take it yep fall apart you ready it is through that one now
We're also using screws, and we're going really close to go everything a lot secures and the floor feels really solid because of it
There's a big difference between putting a floor down in a square room where you're using square materials and here
We are trying to actually put a square peg in a round hole and so it did make for some interesting cuts. We had our
Interesting being shot play around and yeah, I would love fun actually
We're gonna Dance on this for a baby in me
This week it's time for windows and doors
All right
Good boy good boy. Yeah, this is bullet. If my new Dodge is a good doggy
furnace plus
My fingers happen interesting too with the back building as you can't the back is down and stuff any frames you put in place
subscribing through the dead level
And either nail them or level a minute as you go because as you put those bags in and tamp those back down your frame
You can shift around a little bit
There's a crack
That's a kind double pane. So double pane because a thick here it back. Yeah. I'm just gonna Dig
You have to pay him
Put this in turn around the Windows VVVV nail-gun got five
Drawl does music week what I mean we were out enjoying our carving session singing. That's using no
I don't usually have laughing enjoying each other's company
and then
Bryson joins us and our wonderful little session turns into an argument about measurements might?
Universe like sony so our response
What is that even you know I know all sorts of measurements because I work in like you know like dog, and I'm like
Huh? Oh, oh you know
This is widow, but I know what a cupid is. Do you know what a centimeter is
And I was like no, Bryson. I don't know what it's not a meter is but in the end
I won because he didn't know what a cubit was that shame. I mean, she did not know I
Learned other things cuz you know I can h a lot of things, but measurements aren't one of them
Okay before that way a little bit the doors are really fun minutes. You don't send them here often so it's like
They're really difficult
Get right get one corner 92 the rest of its lines on Dumbledore
It's a little more complicated because you go six well, we want that to be even all the way around
You know it's really good
Our door shuts unlock then
Last week while we were working on the outside my friend esther came over and she was a big help
And we were all just kind of singing song
Sob my being in the video. No I give you my consent. I'll put my beautiful fiery
myself a manifest after our
Insurance why I didn't worry about the lord or a Christian
Recently we've all really gotten into a movie on Netflix called struck the musical and we've all been
singing the songs quoting the lines now you'll live with
Me and we were really happy when?
Esther saw the show with us. So that she gets all of our jokes now and understands they're quoting
the greatest all to get in
And it almost grew it's a little weirder. Yes. I don't even know if I think
I'm on that time for these olympics
In the next three days things are really going to get serious
We do not have everything done that we would like to have done. So we've been really putting in an extra effort
We're going to be bringing out a hopper that we used in my room for the cop and we're going to be putting stucco through
It and especially walls with it. Yeah, there's a modified a
Mud hopper or sheetrock actually it took them the technique that worked the best for keeping the mud onto the wall
Is to actually use a method where we wet is down to almost a liquid
Bricen would throw it fell over the top of the hopper hole I guess and then when he's ready to release the air
He would just pull some away I
Think thicker or to coast that's what I said yeah
I wanted it really wet and dad wanted it really dry. So I got slurry
Pressed out my fish to try right wow no
It pours out, but it sure goes on that
we were on both opposite end of the field and
Briefings in is that when you guys just make it in between batch. This is slightly thicker, okay?
just to equal view and
Okay, go get it. See what happens. I'm game for something new I
Leave it up to her for the logic
looks like water
Nice off. It is nice good. Yeah, and although I still think it should have been mutter I
Get Windshield wipers
Every once in a while, my dog would lose sight of me now, and howling my dog is so attached to me
I'm right here. We keep doing buddy any better attack, and you know our secret Chris. I'm coming for ya, okay
All right, cory I'll talk to ya
Because I know you probably got a solid hit darn covering the main code is building not here, dad
And he goes I want to do another batch pretty time
It was pretty sure I was not very happy enough. I knew that we had to do it - you know your spots
we needed Done -
Mom was watching me clean off the bottle and how the light would just like shine through in the room was gets
Smidgen bit higher and it was really it was really kind of cool
before we start painting we need to clean off some of the stucco Shane found the perfect tool I
Just wheat the eve
Sounds productive am I right?
The guys get out there, and they paint a section on the building and I'm just not liking the color
Part of winning his experiments and a trip to the store real quick to pick up some agree, but we did find something
By the time I got done mixing all of this pain up and getting this new color for Shelley price is gone
It's computer problem
Oh and brees computer crashed, and that's kind of an important computer for all of us and with those nice dreams and with Roadwork
So Bryson's in there doing some first aid on her computers. Oh, and I'm left to paint this thing by myself
If you painted the ease of a home before it's like totally frustrating and having an air sprayer like in your hand doing the eases
the coolest things I
Feel really bad because gary he's trying to accommodate the fact that I didn't like the color
But I'm still not liking it first. I'm thinking well. Maybe when gary takes that plastic down
I'll actually like it, but it's just not happening. I look out there and like okay. Yeah, I like it
I like it, and then as the day goes on
I
just I just
I don't know what to say it has to be right if you're not going to like the color you're not going to like looking
At this it's a pretty color
I just don't think it fits into our desert scheme and because it looks to me like it belongs on the beach somewhere
You know yeah, I get that always a lot of learning I start looking into other ways to change the color
Sponging ragging rolling anything I'm searching online
Outside comes to the outside moms the final decision
We're going to go with the dark green and then bring us a little bit of wine over it. She didn't leave
I think I'm going to like this a little more
It's kind of tone that down a little bit, so I'm really hoping I'm going to like trim color, too
It's going to be really fun it are you think it looks like chocolate Rajesh?
mmm like the way you think I really like this look - I think it abs is kind of a organic and creativity of of
These shapes and textures, and it hides a lot of a bump bumps and blemishes in these buildings
I'm like it
Okay, I thought you had your head so song I thought I would face so say that out loud
What have you done um that was it's between my toes
I'm not coming out a while. That was magical
I think I'm finally really happy with the color
It actually looks kind of it looks more desert II and it and I have that alternate marble type of texture yeah, yeah
And it's hidden a lot of the blemishes. I like that too. So you're look at it with your eyes closed
Yeah, and it disappears. That's true. That sounds I've seen done before and we went ahead to do the ragging
The family heads back inside to work on the stair rail. We decided he barked the stair post. Are you doing leg away?
It's not flattering let me I'll make myself look better here
no, just chips off the old block I
Got this tool. Which is the good tool if we're honest you know che I really actually have quite an advantage with this tool
Oh, yeah
Chink are you shaving?
I don't personally think that bray should be able to film anymore because all she can do when she comes over to film eyes is
fun after school if
You need to get out of here picnic like down
A
Bigger box than a slice, they're not welcome in the workspace anyone
Would you get them maybe barking that will key shake?
Ten Random you know I'll be putting around here
You can imagine that you have this curve, and you have pieces that are really curved
I mean
they're the pieces of Mosquito or
Twisted and in turn and so on so it's a puzzle to be able to put them all together and a rating like this
So that was a lot of time
I think what I'm going to go ahead and do when I put the rayleigh's together is to just go ahead and overlap them and
Then run a bolt right through the middle and dinosaur post
This is so beautiful that
Jiggly person here is my friend. She's gonna help us with the work today. Hi, she actually volunteered
As a branch a guitar looks so much easier and more fun so worth a friend because you can sing
And I hope to come back and during the summer and all you guys build with yeah free labor
You know thank you very much. Yes, what?
unless the door opens
What has a gun?
You know you need to do a lot of those little ones. Yeah, they're supposed to be designed for like kids
So they don't stick their head to join stepping out
So you put a little close together, so I figure if we leave the stickers on kids wanting to touch up
Yeah, good thinking
What is that? That's enough appeal I don't even recognize it
That's pretty good wood down there. So just getting down to that, Whitewood and all this good stuff. We're ready to go
I use my half
Yeah
to top on it to get the time so that you have a flat so after the distance between
Bottom of that hole and the top of this hole is greater
So that you can just push it in on the top slide it in and pull it down put a nail right there
So let the determination of how far apart these are I just don't want default deal with it
Please don't prove. It's like it's Gonna work. Yeah
yeah, before he
We have this
section beside the Stairwell that goes on down that's on the left hand side that it's a new space perfect spot to put
Doors you know ten minutes and fill that up with as many cabinets as we could afford and just for one
Cabinet is a little over $100. See if we could find some used ones
I find this deal of these looks like a lot of cabinets. I'm going to go look at them and
Really to our shock. They didn't come out of a kitchen. No. They did they were all custom cabinets. Oh, thanks for the
Bag I know very nicely made very strong. Maybe even better than what I could have put together oh
My I just don't know like God when gary and I were going in to purchase on but we'll try to get them for $75
telework
But when we got there, I looked over at Darrin. I'm like
Maguro Little all pretty little bit embarrassing was there was so much cabinets for it was already such agony
I was just great too. So yeah, he was a wonderful man and
It's really nice. This is very well built
Like a geek resonance form that would be cool
Took two trips because one of the cat one of them was just filled up the whole bed in the back
Every time you can call something down behind closed doors. You're the place that's it from my houses
You know what I mean though, easy, huh?
We're just putting a white base coat on and then we'll go back through and antique it. You look totally different. Oh
You're so vain, okay feels like what you saw on
Chasing this all-white now, so it's really cool
Keep antiquing. What's the word on the cracks mom? Well you can see now. They are actually coming through we were worried
They weren't going to come down one of the things we watch it. It's the coolest color
That's got a lot of texture. That's for sure
Yeah, it totally it totally matches the fun kind of shape and theme that we have going on in here, so I
Love this idea here have a leathery
Stone look or cave wall what they just love this dark spot light spots and have a nice texture to it
The cracked lead creams just kind of break or something. It's nice. I like this
The guys get started installing the cap
That was very cool
you trying to go with the too Long 53 by
42 I think they are we put the two of those together, and then a taller one that is 80 inches by 32
we will hold and we put bolts through the
connecting pieces at the
Because it's a round wall and square cabinets
So wherever they connected we stuck a bolt in there now that I have the arrangement?
We'll just go ahead and take the cabinet doors off
so I'm going to sand everything down and we're going to match the stain that we're going to use for the railing and coat a
Red Oak
Gary's idea if they do just a long streak. So they just do one
Are you sending that or y'all yeah? Oh yeah?
Is it if I get bored hearing soon? Well? I'm wearing safety gear what I have shoes on
So you can put in oh yeah
Trina I'd agree
When I discover something we hid from you left. We didn't show it because
Now it's not secret. Hey watch it in this yeah, don't fall into the third floor
In those old movies when they open up the shutters and they start Young, Winningham
She's very organized the way she tweets each step. Go judge me separately
I love the way you believe I'm so sneaky at least I'm cleaning
Visuals you have a very sweeping personnel. We're getting ready
I have a rooney and my strategically placed bucket. We have empty space under the stairs
You can name that like harry Potter's room. Well, it looks like something from hogwarts
Back at it again. We're trying to get our railing in for our stairwell
How's it going Daddy with great call hybrid with camera one them?
Here from now. You'll wish you started today. You don't know who said it
Secure the handrail right here. This is nice and secured secure and that will be secured down here
Dad and Darrin begin planning for the murphy bed
And then just started watching looking drawing this whole section here
Is going to be right and then we kind of just spent two hours?
figuring out exactly what we wanted to do son has designed a little bracket that will fit our situation and just
try to determine
what how to build the frame
Now did you call your room good together you decide the bed?
Carbon oven
Ellie's Gonna come to help with that
I'm going to go ahead and put a hand item
What are you thinking right here, okay?
Hey, Dad you want you're not here for sex?
Doll ago, but is it sounds mark here on this Dosa makes?
perfect solutely probably a nice light down here
Yeah, you found me a good boy
The mirrors to down below as someone is very kind of a strutting. Thank you Pam is going to be awesome together
Jetmir how should I ask?
It's not like you would expect actually salty at the base of stairs. We have a solar light nothing like seeing yourself everywhere
They're good. So we're good now or shut off lights and see how much I do right yeah, oh
Wow, that is a whole ton better. Yeah look at you and reflecting off the wall
Right, we're done
This is going to be for our turkey bad now we found somebody who had a great design to make the frame in the box
Today which which gives us a box you through some pointers Kelsey took my wood and nails or it screwed screamed, and he blew
this is
The bottom piece or actually the right side piece and go up onto the right side
And it should fit right here against the wall
And be the right side of our murphy bed hard to make a round pot with a straight saw
Really the thinking we did in my room. Which is using these floor panels as ceiling panels inside of the stairs
Just like there's a light up there
That's really cool
We found a seat swivel for a boat it's a six inch plate with a nice swivel
And that's the main mechanism for both sides guy and sit here
It will be comfortable. This is our going to quite a bit clean
Just an L bracket really with a sprint offset on the L bracket and then the seats goal will be offset as well now
We will get tension when the bed's coming down. I'm sitting just follow that
We're going to get these two hinges installed and finish up the murphy bed. Oh
Sure, I'm in it out, okay
right
Okay, and the good thing is that it wrong. Which is one screwed picture
This will send down. Yeah. This can go up. This is that
We go, okay, just okay?
Okay, we need to get it out past this so we have to go through it all
Right right now. I'm trapping snake counterweights. It really nicely it does it a lot
There's good. Okay. I have a spring now
how deaf Cobra and
She goes bad it was fun. There's a lot of lot of thinking that went into it
Like that second that it turned out to be a lot simpler which was which was really good. Oh
Yeah, yeah, I'll give ya
We got functionality on all the mechanical
Part for this thing built on the stringer and hinges are in it's going to work really good. Yeah
The material for the ceiling arrived we got some canvas here for the ceiling. Oh, well, not exactly campus
100 yards of burlap there it is we love the look of their physical rough. It's got this cute little design
It's a shame to think that we might have to cover that up, so we started thinking about
How could we do that where we could put stuff in between there?
They'll be able to see the design we're going to staple this up in between the boards so that we'll still have the board
Showing and then we'll have little sections of burlap with the insulation underneath itself. We're hoping it's going to work
We're doing yeah, nothing more than just a little top part right here
That's my job well mom and Bryson have been putting up the burlap and the insulation
I have to stay ahead of them because we wanted to be stained before we put it up there. It was a ratchet
So doesn't rip?
Well, I'm gonna have a finish line to work for it if we just set up the goal of finishing up the news art studio
It would be so overwhelming be just miserable yeah, so we set up small goals
Which is what we did on the ceiling and I think I got a little over ambitious on this one Tuesday
And there Wednesday, and so on a whip the top today's Wednesday, which is Beyond this layer
And we're 78 so we may catch up. I think the kids side is a little ridiculous this time when I joined the road
Now we're sitting at the Thursday, and I don't know still fun to have the goals and try to achieve on you know
but as we miss on
Like in this case. There's predictions going to make this one
But they're once in a while her goals get a little ambitious
And if they're just barely ambitious typically as kids are like. Oh, no, mom
No, this is where what if there'd be extremely ambitious, or just like okay by saying come here. I would like to brush your hair
Hmm. It's a long time. I'm going to deny your quest
we would you
And eventually moms like this was a giant goal
What's kind of fun about these projects is I really enjoy the time that we come out together as a family
And then like an hour of our day what we're just all together working side by side on this project now
We could really all be out there together as a family because we only have one staple gun
But we picked up this air gun for the job, and oh it's so worth it
This is a good event cause we just took turns working in pairs or three of us would go out at various times
It's some of the best ways to build relationships with each other whether its family or even friends sometimes
I think that when you have to work with someone it's even more but catch to that
Friendship or relationship are you keeping up?
What?
What up the cotton candy from home?
so there's also you just have to kind of build off each other a lot in a work space and
Endanger someone sometimes when you're working
jack you know where everyone's at and you have to communicate those frustrating moments you have to work out a lot of
Compromising when it comes to ideas a lot of middle ground. It's like okay. Let's
Compromise here, I'd be one way to learn
- heels imprinting these little
Dragon heads, we're going to use them like
Well, just like this in the music studio with cabinet door handles
So we ordered some black plastic online to replace the pink knobs that are on the cabinet and all that might be
So we started out printing on Garrett's printer because my printer was broken down at the time. It's finished
kind of like a slog
You just need to have all the support stuff taken off
Isn't it yeah? It's very cute. Gosh. It's just silky beautiful
Just supposingly keep our hands safe
But I don't want to smash this or ruin this take a drill bit in
I'll show you how to drill the holes into the back of them
I'm gonna go get the old knob I'm gonna give it let me hear screw here and see some tasty
I'm not in my pajamas
Ahahaha
It's not easy
Maybe if I held it on this side
It's the same method that the other knob did where if the screw just simply screws in the back?
First ones done look at that
From Sears sure is a process though
So our original number is 12
But we may end up printing more depending on how many cabinets - listen we may put some
Larger ones for the murphy bed going to keep all my fabrics in here. Keep my footmen in here. Oh
Yeah
We ran out, so we'll have to finish this up later
You know what does it think that?
Always with every project is how do we get enough time to do all the things that we need to do and I?
Travel for work sometimes so it requires me to be out of town for three four sometimes five days
You know it's frustrating knowing that everybody here at the house
Working real hard like they're working on the ceiling I'd really longed to be with them too, and be there when I am away
It's really
Reassuring to know that
Bricen and Garen are here to just be here part of the family
Kind of upholding and I know that both boys really step up to the plate when Dad's gone
And I just like okay guys I feel better on the inside. This is a spindle for the headboard
dry on blue
it's so cool to come back and be able to you know play here and create and
And have a lot of fun that that to me. It's like one of the coolest things about what we're doing
I
Really like the same it does to me on what you see is really wow that looks so cool
We are driving towards the goal of completing the underground music
Studio with several finishing touches still needed to be completed the family heads downstairs to see what's next
Hell in the dark in here the gap between the ceiling and the wall still needs to be fill okay this actually ridiculous
But we did this on Brighton houses
Go between the ceiling and the wall, and we can then we'll trim stops get purple, and it will actually look half of these it
Is Great Foam stuff I?
do
pick responsible Mom told
Me Dallas automakers, you want to get some colors
This is where dad supposedly fell through
Yeah, he said he felt through all the time, but he really just yeah, it's folder matter you're going to do is
This morning peacefully I intended out just like exactly like you fell out for me
I don't you just put a bandaid on it and have that sign it before okay next a badger to that distant thing
I haven't no obsession
pieces Annoy and Want maybe
Illusion house for so many of us working. We're always misplacing the tape measure
crazy Sense of Adventure Bryson -
to unlearn
How many of you so be a little careful what we just what dr.? Hood? Yeah, please do
Actually mom I think we're both lying. Oh
ah
But this going to try to trim this off that look like this kind of part of the wall it detached
Just look like it's part of that stuff in law
And then Shale come back can paint it with a purple
And then it will kind of blend it a little bit better than them, so
Nice. What kind of tripped and did that isn't it beautiful? Yeah, it's like my signature yeah, I
Don't have a lie so down here. Yeah
so I wired up the fan so that they'll work off just a normal plug in mainly because we just wanted to test them and
We need to get some airflow down there, and they're working great. Oh, yeah, I can feel it
There's already changing temperature in here
- hi
We were on the Electro for the building
We started on like all the outlets call them and we think that out pretty quick Joe is
Where the tape measures tiny decision and getting the height of the light is the challenge part they all are a little different
What do you?
What are you wearing?
Ant army chance book lobster, and that kind of uncomfortable with that in your toe like that
Are you filming me? What are you doing?
Que esperar Dn right now. I swear RD in and then we just put the cap we got limo
And she could be unboxing and drop test. Oh in
intensive oh sweet oh
Cool. I'm faster than you
What's this brazen? Why are you messing me up? I'm not messing you up. You said you can do a pastor at some
Serious yeah, I'm good
Are you serious?
Screw in a lightbulb. I'm gonna go play it, okay works
The testing at the end was editing work. Which was she had a circle important and good music did right?
Alright. I look so cool down here free chicken Worthless which
man
Really like let's trim up pretty good. Yeah, it does it looks great guys wonderful work, I
Don't work today, and I'm so excited the boys went ahead and got all the electrical hooked up
It's all working so good, so I'm very excited. They did a great job the last thing needed for this building project is the floor
you did
Our burlap came be able to finish that and look over here to our flooring material
So we are ready to go whoa
So che what you doing? I'm your training the steps that we can not fill on the whole
thing
Yeah, I got
This is Marvin. He's back 20 guys up to this today sent for a tiny hit some had laid down Marvin has graciously
Donated some carbon which I get right out of his house, so they don't have any carpet in that room now
We said you could do without for a few months. No big deal. I like perfect ink
Yeah, good. Let's go all the way to now
up a little stragglers, huh, I
Get right down here
And out that one little piece almost covers the whole thing yeah
So I get to mess up if we met someone I
Do kind of like the red tint. I think I do too
I left out a lot of much approval um y'all me just three before you and then you come back through when you paint it
Yeah, I'd like to make a point that mom has started painting at the top of the step which is clearly a wise decision
When there is no other exit only going to do half down and half back up. You just you got this figured out
Obviously, I'm home
Get some new blades on our rules
Gary had this idea to put on floor on the upstairs floor with there was like oh
I didn't want a big gray floor up there
I like the foam idea to our surprise we found out that they made foam in Pattern
three-quarter inch plank
And the only place we're going to use a straight edge is in front of the door
Yeah, putting up with cars looking over get started
Once we get this first fighter down
We can all just get going on so ebay we found our best price
And they had edged a marble pattern I would prefer that that would for whatever reason was a lot higher try so we just went
With the lightest flooring that we can find they want a glue
around the Edges
You can always beautiful meet you
Check them out yeah. Yeah, and look you're going to like it. Oh, I love it
Now wow, they're big. I don't know why I would realize they're so big they're fun that I'm gonna make your seat belt
there's a top hard plastic coating to the top of this it's not like who's
This boys going to clean up real nice when it's right there
I thought it would look really corny
But I thought well we could be pattern easy to clean and it's got a foam
and it's not gray can we get a drill too and we'll
Open up our thing and kind of see where we need to cut I'm going to build a square
tram Dad right on inside of here
Down okay stop there to end off instead of Mass
And then kind of all the jobs that we've done on this building so far this one's my favorite. Maybe you can play oh
Good, I just cut this morning off dreams of the woods. Oh going to the wood. That's okay
It's gonna be because yeah, you want to paint over notice. That's a really ocd cracker dude
I'm having a heart attack. It's enopp key
You know what the cool thing about someone singing off-key is what it makes you realize how?
Good the people singing Arc on k are yeah it also makes you lament. If that one person is in the choir
amazing I
Love it to my surprise. It's um it actually looks really really good has a vinyl top on it
So you can kind of clean it off you need to and so that's the nice things that lock on it
You clean it slips up nice you're not very expensive, and you think - is it one gets ruined this replaces of another yeah
I don't know how you know how long it lasts, and how well it will hold that, but I guess we'll see scooter tries
Or were about?
Too much left
We got to turn on the hall
notice these and and Those I
Think having some metal here getting ready to create the brackets that are going to hold 30 bit up there
just getting fabricated now will get cleaned up and then the bracket will go from here over and
Then we'll tie them together and put them on
Good yeah
Yeah, hey, sit. This is comfy
Notice how the crossbars would yeah, dad likes it a lot better than that. Oh
No, yes, Dad is going to be really mad at himself push
Dad you did your boo-boo. Can you fix it rise? We won't even tell him
We just finished our muse art studio. Let's go. Take a look around
Welcome to my here's art studio
Today should you like to show off your corner?
Technically this is my work area and that is my work area, but we like to say that is everyone work area
But this one's specifically designated to walk sure that's not the boyfriend
Communication station, thank you fourth friend headquarters right here
This is the rocket stove here that shay and dad designed and put together and this baby's going to keep us warm
During the winter time you know since we can bake all around just walk
Right you don't even need my Sara spending extras are more today
Our cousin action was actually the first one to sleep in the murphy bed
Good, okay. Let's rock and roll downstairs to the studio part of the studio
You'll actually probably notice these sound different from upstairs to here
So we're still putting in furniture, and now we do the new lighting new Sign Studio
We begin five down toners of ten of my buttery would wait here we go
What are you doing? I'm just showing how beautiful you guys look in this place. Can always count on that light
There anything else
Look at this. This is our most beautiful editor in the world
That's beautiful, ma maybe the cat eye little mom get out delightful pinky
Where's the big screen TV is a refrigerator? This is not a guy change instead of a pancake?
Oh, that's what it is a man came
It has this bold and artistic feel to it. I love the curtains and colored balls. I like being in here
Yes
I just really like it and just the skylight at top just a beautiful look it still has that Modern feel those
Videos on the purpose of this building to have a place where we can think creatively?
And a place to work
You don't really realize how huge this building is it's bigger on the inside and make a doctor who reference one all right?
So let's go time
Lex light and reflects it on the inside at the bottom of the stairs. Oh if there's a little bit of top on our window
Nobody installed a little bit of a patio here and some of the gates and Entryway ramp
So that wraps up for this building 3p put it home replay you can wash all your dishes to it
Thanks so much for being here. Bye
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