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So what's up guys! Welcome to this week's project on BeachBumLivin where on this
week i'm gonna show you how I turn this pile of driftwood I had collected
from the beach after the tropical storm came through
and how i was able to transform it into this cool looking old rustic kitchen island.
So
stay tuned and I'm going to show you how I got it done.
All right, this week's project was uh... ton of fun you know,
I had always wanted to build something and I
just never have up until
a few weeks ago I was able to get this whole pile of wood that I had
collected for the beach which was just some
awesome wood.
I knew I wanted to build something with it
I just didn't know what. So what I ended up doing was going to this blog that I
had previously found before that was really informative and its
this lady and her name is Ana White.
She just has a lot of do-it-yourself projects on
her blog
and she has this section where she actually designs a lot of her
projects and so she has these detailed instructions with measurements and
everything you'll need on it.
So I knew that would be a good place to start because her designs are really simple
and I knew with the wood I had I knew I couldn't build something really complicated
because it was
really rustic and old.
So it needed to be somewhat simple.
I went there and she actually
had a design that i guess one of our friends posted from her blog
onto her site and
it was from old paint designs.
It was just this
rustic
kitchen island which they had built with relcaimed wood as well and it just looked
awesome and i knew the wood that I had would look great
in this project. So
that's the one i decided on.
On her blog she these really detailed instructions that I was able
to print out and it has the
tools your going to need,
the material you'll need to buy,
and the cutlass which is what you will cut down the material
you know into it's each part of the project and then you'll basically just kind of
piece it together. So
printed it out,
decided on what wood I was going to want to use on of the pile of wood I had,
kind of cleaned it up,
cut everything down to the exact
specifications that she had in her instructions,
and then I basically just pieced it together. It ended up being really
simple and
overall it was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it. At the end I really
had a feeling of accomplishment when i was done because i took this wood I
found, didn't pay anything for it,
and was able to build something you know from it. Which
i just thought was awesome. So
it turned out great and
i was really you know how to uh... had a lot of fun with this project and I hope
I can do some more like this. So
stay tuned and lets go ahead and get this thing started. Okay, I'm ready to get started
on this project the first thing i wanted to do was go and get all the the tools
i'm gonna need. So
what i got out was i have a
miter saw,
sander,
circular saw,
cordless drill, a power plainer, a Kregs pocket hole jig, and a few knick nack
tools that I'm going to need.
Most importantly I have the instructions. I went ahead and selected
some of the better pieces
that i'll need
and this is just
all the wood that's going to be necessary for building
this kitchen island. So i have that out
and to get started the first thing I'm going to want to do
is go ahead and cut down
all the pieces that I'm going to need for the project.
Okay, so I just finished cutting the all the boards down into the exact length that
were specified in the directions but I wanted to show you this part real quick
before i start assembling everything.
It calls for
basically a notch
to be cut into the legs to allow these two by four supports
to fit down in nicely so it'll be flush once it's cut out.
What I plan on doing is, I actually saw a video on Ana Whites blog, that explains how to do
this. I'm going to use a circular saw
and just cut
a few strips in here
to allow me to be able to notch out the pieces
and it will have a nice groove cut in here
once I'm done. I'm going to show you guys how to do that real quick.
It calls for it to be a inch and a half deep and on these circular saws
it shows the depth of it. So I have it
set to a inch and a half and now I know when
I start cutting
it's only going to go down a inch and a half
and allow enough
to be cut out to where this two by four will fit nicely in here.
*hammer
*hammer
uh...
*chisel
Okay, so I finished notching the legs out and
as you can see it's just going to give it a really nice
flush look.
So pretty much all i have left to do was to start assembling all the pieces that I cut
which
should be pretty easy i mean once a get things cut
and it's kind of right
it should be like piecing a puzzle together so uh... So I finished putting
the lower part of the legs which was the part right just notched out that little
section where I was able to slide the two by four in flush which
that's pretty simple to attach once you have those little notches cut out but
the upper part I wanted to show you guys how I was going to do this.
As you can see it just fits in and is
flush and there's no really go way to screw this in unless you wanted
to use
huge screws and go from the back side
of the post
but it will just have this ugly screw head exposed on the outside of
your project so that's not really the route I want to go.
So what I have
Is this Kreg
pocket hole kit
and what it is
it comes with a
couple of things but this is the main
component that's in it
and what it is you set this to
whatever width your wood stock is and
you can see how it's going to allow
you to drill nice angles holes. It just set you up to where
you can be consistent drilling your holes. It
gives you a nice angled hole so that when
you attach this right here
you have a nice
hole to be able to drill in with your screw
and attach this and your screwhead will be nicely hidden.
Okay, so you use this little collar that comes with your kit
and you set it to the
depth that you want it to stop at on your drill bit
and you can see how it's going to only go to this depth,
you attach that,
I have the
Kreg pocket hole attached,
*drilling
So as you can see
it gives you a nice
angled hole
so now
when you go to attach it
your screw will go in
and it will have that nice hidden look to it.
So okay, I've completed the bottom portion of the project the next step is going to
be to
build the top shelf
and then the bottom shelf.
*drilling
*drilling
Okay, I've just finished putting on the top
and
this thing thing turned out
better than i expected you know i because I
was kind of hesitant,
i mean that the plans that I printed off were really simple and straight forward so i knew
that part was going to be easy, it was working with the driftwood that I collected I wasn't
to
sure how all that was going to piece together but it came out great and I couldn't
be happier with it.
So it's pretty much complete and
the only thing that i have
really left to do is, and
if it works and i think it'll be a really neat idea. I had also found this
driftwood stick
when i was getting this wood and
the idea I have for it is to maybe using some wood dowels
drill this out
on each end
and then drill through this face plate
a hole for the dowel to fit as well.
This will sit here
in the front of this
because this is a kitchen island
you know you can kind of picture this facing towards the inside of the kitchen
towards the sink and
with this hanging here
you'll be able to hand your dish towels and stuff like that over it. I just think it will be
functional and kind of cool looking. So if I can figure out how to
make this work
i think it will
be a nice addition to the
already cool looking island.
That's what I'll try and do next.
All right, I just got done putting on this
hand rail thing. I'm not even sure what you would really call it, towel hanger thing.
What I ended up doing was using that
driftwood stick that I had and
I used
these wooden dowels
and what i did it was
on the back side of the stick I just used one of these drill bits that
drills a hallow hole all the way through but I didn't go all the way through. I went about
halfway so that this dowel
could fit about halfway through the stick
and then on this face board
I drilled it all the way through. Overall, it ended up being a lot more difficult than I
initially thought it would be. Just tying to line up everything and
get it
perfect and everything because this is the only stick I had
so I only had one shot at drilling so if I screwed it up I didn't
know what I was going to do.
I'm happy with it. I think it turned out really good.
I think its pretty cool.
I'm done with the island
but I wanted to add something to it.
If you can picture this being in a kitchen, this side will be facing
inside the kitchen towards the sink and you turn around and here's the island
and you have the wash rags hanging from this
but on the back side
instead of having some bar stools or something to be able to sit there and
maybe have breakfast or whatever.
I still have a little bit of wood left over.
So what I plan on doing is using this big piece right here
and actually building
a bench
to go
along with the island.
I'm going to use the same style as I did
with the island as far as the four by four
post as legs.
I think it will look really neat with it.
That's what I'm going to tackle next.
All right, I'm done!
Turned out awesome!
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