Turning my Sewing Room into a Hobbit Hole!

Don't mind me, just LIVING MY DREAMS. When Nick and I decided to split his office in half to allow for a sewing room/guest bedroom, I knew eXACTLY what needed to be done.
So I set forth on a quest to turn it into a hobbit hole (as much as you can without replacing windows and doors and being underground lol). I took just around 9 days to transform the space with plaster paint, fake beams, and a whooole lotta sweat.
I hope you enjoy this epic journey!!
LOVE YA!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 Design Phase
02:29 Jazzy Paint Time
03:50 Measuring & Cutting the Beams
05:46 Plaster Paintin'
07:59 Thunderstorm Break
08:15 The Fireplace
09:41 Trash Bricks
11:00 More Painting
12:08 Priming & Staining the Beams
15:54 BEAM TIME
17:51 Decorating!
22:14 The Reveal
22:55 Wrap-up & Bloops

#hobbit #homedecor #lordoftherings

[rachelmaksy]

Hi friends!! Captions are out for transcription and will be up soon! LOVE YOUUU!

[meesha]

My husband watched this with me and when you put the fireplace all together I heard him whisper, "she's a wizard".

[neverbeenmyself]

Not to be weird and mushy but I love that Nick seems to wholeheartedly both love you and your ideas and takes them in stride and using his expertise to help you

[annabella]

At this point Rachel is not inhabiting that home, she’s inhobbiting it 🤭🤭 and we’re here for it 🤍

[violetscrypt]

i have this feeling that rachel’s house is going to be about 60% foam and 40% retique it when she’s done decorating it

[hannahfiddler]

" oops it's the next day" feels like how I've been living my life for the past 5 years

[gregputnam]

Not gonna lie, if I had a friend who told me that, when I came to visit, I would be staying in the Hobbit Hole? I would get so excited

[kiramariejack]

“Whomst art thou going to beckon?!” Rachel Maksy! Thou art so quotable! I’m crying with laughter. 😂

[lisa_wistfulone]

“Life is about taking risks… or about being too lazy to take precautions.” You described my creative process!!😅😍

[Hewene]

That Murphy bed would look so sick with Swedish folk art style flower motifs, like they used to paint to cabinets and chests and other parts of the house ✨👌

[E_FoxSnowspirit]

Petition for Rachel to make a video spicing up some of her already completed projects!
I’d certainly be willing to watch it if she felt like going over/fixing some of the things she wasn’t pleased with.

[fiestybritt]

Faking wood 100 different ways with Rachel Maksy. I love it. That in itself could and should be its own series.

[annaabney]

The small bricks in the back actually make the fireplace look deeper. And given it's a hobbit theme, a little forced perspective magic is not remiss!

[BeverleyButterfly]

Huge thanks to Nick for sacrificing an office space for this work of art! I'd love to see you and Nick make him an office of his dreams xx

[georgechickenmcbottom]

I think the small bricks for the fireplace back wall gave it depth and tricks the eyes to think it is deeper than it actually is. Very nice :)

[queenanneboleyn]

The experiment is called oobleck! Feels like a word you would like. It's a non-newtonian fluid which gives it that texture

[ColorwaveCraftsCo]

“And Bilbo’s your uncle” I’m definitely stealing that 😂

[ainoessi]

Nick's knacks. (I'll see myself out.)

I love the fireplace, it came out so nice! And the whole room, so cute!

[cjlaw]

As a New Zealander every time Rachel takes on a hobbity project my native hobbit heart grows three sizes I love it xo

[anitagander]

The wood „grain stamps“ as you call them are actually called rockers, as in you would rock them across a surface. It‘s a scenic art technique to create woodgrain either just with paint or some texture. I‘m a scenic artist myself and its really fun seeing you discovering all this stuff. BUT there is a whole RABBITHOLE you could go down. ❤❤❤ keep doing the good stuff!!!