DIY IKEA HACK Wooden Minimal Shelf with Rachel Metz!!! // Lone Fox

Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel it is Drew here from Lone Fox and I am with Rachel Metz from Living to DIY. Rachel Metz is literally a DIY queen like her YouTube channel you guys is so good and I've been following you for so long like probably like two and a half years and I knew. No because that makes me nervous you slid into well not even slid into my DMs I think I slid into yours and then I think I messaged you again like I don't even know how I didn't even know this was you I like freaked out because I am such a big fan it's like an honor right now. Uh yeah well anyways thank you for that. Rachel does literally the best stuff with power tools I know nothing about a power tool so I thought it would be really fun for you to kind of teach me how to use a power tool. You're gonna be using a couple today yeah. Yeah and then we're gonna make this like really cool shelving system that I saw at Ikea which I'll pop up a photo right now for you guys I saw this at Ikea and I sent it to Rachel I texted it to her and I was like can we make something like this? $130 at Ikea which honestly that at Ikea looks like it should be like $50 doesn't it? Well it's a piece of plywood we spent $22. $22 total on this project and well and some hooks maybe like $24 or $25. We were walking through Home Depot and I started really realizing what this build was I almost got like jealous so I'm like I pick the most difficult builds to do. But that's what makes your video so good. No but that's why I'm like I wish I thought of this but now I'm excited because I'm just I can't wait to see you use a table saw. I know I'm oh. And a good miter. Love a good miter saw. I love a miter saw. I love a table saw. I love a what are other kind of saws? A circular saw. Okay I'm so excited right now you have no idea I get so nervous before I build because I'm just I just want it to be done already. All right I think let's get into it. Okay Rachel and I are in Home Depot not my stomping ground definitely yours. Definitely we're gonna make this as easy as possible though for you guys it's not gonna be super crazy. It's not gonna be that hard Rachel says. There's a Project Pantone. We're at the Pantone Center. All right guys so the oh that bird is me flying in the Home Depot. What do you think it's looking for? Probably bird seed they probably sell that here in the exterior section. Basically we're changing the shape from the IKEA one because the original IKEA one's like a square yep like a perfect square. It's like a hashtag. That's literally what it is it's a hashtag so we are now creating I feel like it kind of makes it a little bit like 70s almost like a longer and skinnier. Yeah it's just more sleek instead of like being an eyesore when you look at your wall and it's like big it's like sexy. I want it to be like skin like a skinny legend shelf. Put an overlay right now showing you guys a piece of wood that kind of has the cuts that we're gonna attempt to make or we are gonna make we're not even gonna attempt. Well I tried one and it didn't go well so we hope it goes smoother tonight. I think you need one of these Rachel in your house. I literally just a 7000 series year cutting solution vertical panel saw with safety speed manufacturing. The guy that cut our wood thinks that we are a couple and we have a 10 year old kid so and he got my number and he got your number yeah and then he let me do a call. So some of the additional tools we're going to be using are a speed square hammer chisel tape measure pencil and also these little d-ring hangers but what I wanted to start off with doing is showing you Callie look at her she's running around but we actually needed to go in and cut down one of our long strips that he cut for us originally in half so that we're gonna have two 24 inch long sections and then two 48 inch long sections. Okay okay now you can start it okay done you did it professional oh my gosh the first woodcut I've ever cut really if a woodchuck could cut wood. So we cut the wood which I just showed you guys and now we're marking at 8 inches on these little 24 inch sections which are the ones we cut we're marking at 8 and at 16 because those are where we're going to cut the grooves and to hold these shelves just a quarter inch on either side of this. I used a ruler on either side to make a starting point and then I drew a line down to the center of that wood piece which is four inches down. So now we're ready to cut kind of scared you're gonna use kind of scared I'm scared we'll do the smaller pieces first and pull the wood away okay and then the toggle on the bottom that says on and off okay and then let it keep going um no you pull it up basically chisel out that little nub yeah and then that will be our first joint. Okay we also decided that because the table saw not everyone or I feel like not a lot of people have a table saw we're going to use this circular saw which is this saw over here because a lot of people can easily access the circular saw and I personally have never used power tools before so I'm actually kind of excited to use multiple different types of saws as opposed to just a table saw and just a miter saw like I wanted to learn how to use a circular saw too you know so we're going to do that and cut these ones. Okay so now that all the cuts are made we're actually going to be using this little chisel here and we're going to be chiseling out this inside section that way we don't have to use some form of power tool it just seems a lot easier like that. So now that we have all the joints cut down we're literally just going to puzzle piece it together by putting the halves to slide into one another to connect it that's literally now all the assembly that this takes so a little bit of glue and then we're going to use a speed square too just to make sure we have these 90 degree angles and that's it we're done like three steps. So we ended up using a paintbrush and just some wood glue to add a little bit of glue to each of these little slots because once you actually press them together they are going to be extremely tight because they're actually very form-fitting but the wood glue is just going to act as an additional bonder to make sure that everything is nice and perfectly just placed and in the perfect place if that makes sense. I'm also using a mallet and a little piece of wood to just make sure that this is fit together extremely snug and it's just going to last forever. There. Wow this looks so good and then don't we just have to add the little d-hooks to the back and then Rachel also mentioned that if you wanted to because these still will hold like a good amount of stuff like they're pretty sturdy you know but if you wanted to put like huge books across this or something and use it as like a bookshelf she mentioned that you can put brackets underneath these sections and put it on the wall like that so that way it holds up more weight but I'm not going to have that much weight on mine so I'm just going to hang it from like the center points here so the next day it was time to hang the shelf on the wall and this is actually part of my room makeover video I did about a week ago on my channel I absolutely love the outcome of my room and this just made it look so incredibly amazing and it fits this space perfectly so I hung up some drywall anchors or I hammered them in then I added screws then I hung my shelf on the drywall anchors to make sure that it was really going to be mounted and secured nicely because I did want to add a couple nice pieces of decor on here so I started off with a large faux hanging plant I've had this plant for so long I want to actually transition it to a real one but I haven't yet and then I added just a ton of random knickknacks a little radio this film canister from the thrift store some candles some books some palo santo a helmet whatever you want to put on your shelf style it away and you're good to go like I said before I'm a little bit jealous how simple this build was yeah so easy look at it it's right here I just can't believe that it's basically three steps yeah and you're done you measure cut put together yeah and I hope that you guys enjoyed this build and I hope you enjoyed watching his face change when he was using all the saws and all the power tools I loved using the power tools I loved coming over to Rachel's house this is actually the first time that we've actually met I know we're like we weren't gonna film the first time we went but then it was just like so like casual like let's just build this and film at the same time but I also feel like right when you pulled up I was like it just feels like you've been my friend I know is that weird I'll be coming over a lot now and I'm really you should help me with my pantry sliding door okay geometric nail guns oh I love nail guns I love a good nail gun we got a brad nailer and nail gun previous perfect also make sure to check out the video we did over on Rachel's channel which I was in as well we created another really fun project with more power tools so definitely check that out one different ones a link is in the description box below subscribe to her her content is amazing and I will catch you guys all the next one but wait if you're coming over from my channel watching this video and you see this outro you best be subscribing so don't even leave if you haven't subscribed subscribe below yes turn the bell and you know like and all the things yeah all the things you need to do thank you for coming over thank you for having me oh I'm so excited I would hug you but I'm like a little sweaty I'm so sweaty I was like please don't try to hug me right now I'm like tacky okay we're gonna go cool off okay we will see you later bye guys