If Your House is Old...You'll Understand

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Every house has at least one weird, awkward space...where it's almost impossible to fit furniture. My house has several. Well today I'm addressing the two weirdest spots in my house and building some very custom furniture solutions AND surprising my wife in the process.

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0:00 Intro
1:46 Everybody Has This Problem
2:57 "The Old House Problem"
4:18 The Plan
4:57 A Big Surprise
6:20 "The Renovation Riddle"
8:11 When trying to be smart backfires
11:08 Did the fix work?
12:45 Starting the Bathroom Built Ins
14:33 DIY vs BUY?
16:39 First time for Everything
19:33 Hall Table Base
20:34 The Easiest Way to Make More Money
22:50 Floating Shelves
25:25 Didn't Expect To Have to Do This
27:22 New Finish & Hall Table Beauty Shots
28:42 The Install
29:16 The Reveal

[Zweyrohn]

I love how "car" and "dog" where her first guesses yet the little latch probably made her equally as happy 😂

[kylere]

I love how much effort you put into the cabinets, and she's like "oh that's nice", and the little $2 hook for the backyard door makes her go "Omg this makes me so happy!"

[Cassandra-..-]

We have the same hallway end. Our floor plan is the typical Pacific Northwest late ‘60s split entry 3BR house. The floor plan is so ubiquitous that a repairman walked in, took a look at the upper level, and said, “huh. You took the kitchen wall out.” He’d never been there before. And he was right.

[syster]

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[RazzTheKing]

Architect here. For the hallway difference, it's because the door is opening against the bedrooms walls. If the difference wasn't on the hallway, it would be inside the bedroom. We prioritize not having those awkward spaces in the rooms in which you live, but in rooms that are for circulation or in which no there's no important activity; there's also the looks.
The thing is designing a building is a really complex task. And not everything fits like a jiwsaw puzzle, you have to negotiate between a lot of stuff: comfortable and useful spaces, sun and wind orientation, all the piping and internal systems, the structure, the construction elements, the money and the buisness, to name the most important ones. So sometimes it's not possible to reach the best solution for all of those, there are some unavoidable leftovers.
And that's not all, sometimes something wasn't well thought and designed, so it had to be resolved during construction by a constructor that isn't a designer. Sometimes there are also mistakes, someone built something different, and it costs money to undo and redo it, sometimes it's not possible.

[johnnyho]

“Ohhhh CHRIS….FINALLY”. So classic, that’s how my wife says ‘thank you’ too.

[PotatoMunch]

Hey man. Just a heads up. Be careful about sharing the location of your home on the internet. I really hope that you showed a fake location. You just never know what kind of crazies could show up.

[andrewjonas]

I get asked by so many people, “how did you get into woodworking”…and I think it’s an ice breaker for woodworkers, but a sincere curiosity for most folks. I often tell them, it’s because I’m cheap, and I don’t like spending money on cheap built junk full of particle board and cam lock fasteners. Or if it’s someone closer to me, that already knows how cheap I can be, I’ll give them the line about how it’s been so great for my mental health. Having something create the need to hyper focus my attention on a positive thing instead of consuming bandwidth on the worries of life, kind of statement.

But the truth is, i started woodworking to witness that joy and excitement my wife has when the project is done. Her reactions brought me joy in the same way. Awesome!

[olandelarca]

This video is a prime example of the difference between a beginner and an expert is their ability to hide their mistakes

[jeshafew]

Chris: "yet they can't cure cancer"
Deloris: "oh Chris...no"

this absolutely sent me looolll

[footofafish]

I fully understand what you're talking about with the "renovations" it took 9 months to find a house almost every tour I went on was "newly renovated" but most of the time I would be paying more just to undo all their bad work

[HorizonMakes]

2:10 not sure how good it is to literally point out your house on a map, then follow it up with a zoom-out at 2:21

[onlyopenusername]

just gonna throw this out there, nothing against taking the sponsorship, but betterhelp has repeatedly been in court for violation of patient confidentiality, and literally selling medical record information.

[HomerSlated]

Yeah, the "old house" problem is simply that the weird, awkward space that doesn't make any sense, used to make perfect sense back when it was used for the now long outdated purpose that nobody alive even remembers any more.

And not just spaces, but utilities. For example, in my old house there are 2 completely unrelated water inlets. One of them feeds the water tank, central heating, kitchen, and the hot water in the bathroom. The other only feeds the cold water in the bathroom sink, bath and toilet. The main water inlet has the usual stopcock, but nobody has ever managed to find the stopcock for the other one, and we can't even trace where the inlet pipe leads to.

My guess is that this house used to not have a kitchen, water tank or central heating at all, and when the kitchen extension was built, probably in the 1920s, they couldn't figure out how to isolate the existing water inlet, so they just added another. I bet the original inlet leads straight to the lake at the back of our house. At some point we'll need to dig up the field in between to test that theory.

[grigalat]

English is not my first language. But i do really think, people are the same in every place on earth.

Because "Finaly!" was such a wife sound 😂. And the way, she was happy for the last fix... We're all the same😅.

Great video 💯!

[j]

30:08 “Finally!!” 😂 That’s the response my beautiful house projects always get, too. There’s gratitude, sure, but always in the context of my pacing being too slow.

[flemmingaaberg]

Awkward spaces can be GOLD - we built a pole and frame house with unusual walls and roof and while the house is spacious but with defined rooms we ended up with all sorts of odd spaces because it's not a standard boring suburban build. So many golden opportunities to in-build furniture with character - takes a lot more effort than the average tradie would be bothered with but so incredibly satisfying each time we complete another cupboard, shelf, wardrobe etc. But don't forget - not all spaces need to be filled!

[Goober_gobbler]

Our place is a 120 year old entirely wooden house. The floorplan if fine cause its been changed probably 20 times, but theres 2 shelves above the stairs that you cant access without putting a ladder ON THE STAIRS. There is some boxes that have been there for years that nobody is about to try and get

[gvsfdr]

0:12 "no one knows what it means, but it's provocative"

[bugman]

I know that you were likely using the "extra" plywood you had on hand. But, for the laundry baskets, Woodworker's Source also has Premcore Plus plywood. It's about half the weight of standard baltic birch ply. I made some custom cabinets for my kitchen out of the stuff and it worked great. By the way, the projects look fantastic! Love that your wife was guessing car or dog... but you really hit it home with the latch. Sometimes, it really is just the little things.