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5 Phases of every DIY project

1 Oct 0

5 Phases of every DIY project

5 Phases of every DIY project

Always go through these 5 phases for your next DIY project! Skipping one can sound tempting to save time, but it is usually never af good idea!

1.Inspiration research

First phase is the research phase. Use Pintrest, Instagram, Facebook, websites and go to stores to come up with great ideas and see how other people have designed their projects.

2. Actual planing

When the overall idea is finalized, start the actual planning. Start measuring and drawing your design, either in a drawing program, free hand og using a 3D software. Also make sure to go through what materials you need, and where the building proces stats and ends.

3. Go shopping

Now it’s time to go get all the stuff you need. From furniture, paint, tools and everything else you need for your project. The better planning you have done, the easier it’s gonna be.

4. Raw building

Now the actual building process starts. First all the bigger raw building should be done. Make sure you have thought the process through, and do the right things at the right time.

5. Fixing details

Now it’s time to fix all the smaller details. Apply paint, fix small mistakes in the raw build, and make everything look smooth and nice!

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Planning your DIY Project

13 Feb 0

Planning your DIY Project

Planning your DIY Project

Planning your DIY Project before starting building can both save you time and money, and in the end give you a much better result! Here is how the planning phase could be done!

1) Inspiration research

Use Pintrest, Instagram, Facebook, websites and go to stores to come up with great ideas and see how other people have designed their projects.

Are you happy with your design?
Yes: Move to next step
No: Restart step 1

2) Measure and draw

Start measuring and drawing your design, either in a drawing program, free hand og using a 3D software. Also make sure to go through what mateirals you need.

Does your idea fit how you want it?
Yes: Move to next step
No: Restart step 1

3) Calculate price

With the drawings created you should know what kind of furniture / materials you need. Try and calculate the price.

Are you okay with the price?
Yes: Move to next step
No: Restart step 1

4) Go through the building procces

Figure out in which order the different things should be build. This should be very detailed and should be down to every single screw, since it can make it or break it if you get it wrong.

Is your project possible to build??
Yes: Move to next step
No: Restart step 1

5) Start building!

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How much to build a walk in closet-notext

13 Feb 0

How much to build a walk in closet

How much to build a walk in closet

Have you every wanted to build a walk in closet, but dont know the cost of it?
Its your lucky day, because here is a breakdown of all of our expenses from the walk in closet we built. You can see the full build by reading the article: Building a walk in closet in basement – step by step

The Budget

We already had all important tools for both preparation, building and painting

Prices are given in both Danish (dkk) and US dollars ($)

Paint

Floor paint: 2 x 2,5 liters for 160,- each = 320 ,- (49$)

Wall and ceiling paint: 5 liters for 500,- (76$)

Paint for closet: 800,- (122$)

Base layer for closet: 300,- (46$)

1920,- (293$)

Furniture

4 x Ivar Drawers for 600,- each = 2400,- (366$)

6 x wooden shelves from Bauhaus (Paulownia Limtræ Bauhaus) 2200 x 500 x 18mm for 240,- each = 1440,- (220$)

3840,- (586$)

Building material

Round log for hangers – 4 meters = 300,- (46$)

3 pieces of 12 mm MDF-plate 2440 x 1220 mm for 270,- each = 810,- (124$)

15 meters of Woods Squar Dowel Rod – 15,- kr pr meter = 225,- (35$)

1335,- (205$)

IKEA light system – Skydrag LED light

5 x 40 cm long for 80,- each = 200,- (30$)

5 x 80 cm long for 150,- each = 750,- (115$)

2 x Wireless driver for 119,- each = 238,- (36$)

1 x wireless switch = 99,- (15$)

Package with 2 led spots = 99,- (15$)

Plastic trays to hide wires from light system = 99,- (15$)

1485,- (226$)

Extras

Screws, wall plugs and iron angles: 300,- (46$)

Multi filler: 60,- (7$)

360,- (53$)

Total Price: 8940,- (1363$)

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Planning, Walk-in closet

Floor Plan

10 Feb 0

Apartment Floor Plan

Apartment Floor Plan

The apartment we are currently renovating, has a very funky layout. If you check the floor plan underneath, you can see what we mean.

The entrance, toilet, kitchen, bedroom and dinning room is in one leve, the living room is about 70 centimeters lower than the entrance floor. Since the living room is more than 4 meters from the floor to the top ceiling, and to utilize that room the best, the previous owners had build a loft area, the give the impression of the living room actually being 2 different floors, where the loft floor is about 1 mete higher than the entrance floor.

From the living room floor we have a basement of around 15 sqm.

The easiest way to get the feel of the funky layout, is to watch this video below, that we took the day that we saw the place first.

Pictures from day 1

Entrance

Bathroom

Bedroom

Kitchen

Entrance to living room from dinning room

Stairs to loft and into dinning room

Loft area

Stairs to loft and dinning room form living room

Stairs down to basement from living room

Stairs from living room to basement

Basement

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Home Redesign App - RoomSketcher

10 Feb 0

Best Home Redesign App = Roomsketcher

Best Home Redesign App = RoomSketcher

Are you the visual type that would love to SEE your redesign ideas before build them? You are not alone, and luckily we've found the Best Home Redesign App!

Before we start any of our projects, we find it very important to be able to test out different ideas and visualize them, before actually building it in the real world. Therefor we had to find the best Home Redesign App.

We tested different 3D softwares out, and landede on a program called RoomSketcher.

A free version of the program is available, but to get more customizations options, we bought the VIP version for only 49$ / year. It has been worth any penny and way more!

The overall UI is not super tricky to undestand. After a few hours of playing around, it is very easy to create whatever design you want. Start out by creating the floorplan, with walls, windows, doors and the different rooms.

You can have different projects, and under each project you can have many different floors (or the same floor but different versions of your design, we had probably 20 different versions of the basement saved)

For each floorplan you can specify the rooms measurements (wall height, type etc)

When you have the rooms set, you can start playing around with adding furniture. There a quite some options, and if you buy the VIP version of the software there will be even more. WE think you can even buy furniture bundles to upgrade your furniture library. But for us the library in the pro-version of the saftware was good enough.

You also get to choose all kind of different materials, for both furnitures and walls/ceilings/floors. By one click you can change the floor in the whole apartment, and see how it looks, so smart.

And whenever you have created a room that you want to visualize, you just click 3D, and a 3D world appers of the room. You can navigate around in the room, look in all directions and place yourself wherever you want.

The program also offers to show this 3D look in a browser version so you can sent a link to friends and family and get their opinion.

And if you want to see how big a room is relative to a human being, in the browser version you can actually walk around int he apartment with an avatar, and check how the different dimensions works with a human being in the room. Almost like the game SIMS 🙂

We love RoomSketcher and for our needs this is the Best Home Redesign App we have been able to find, for an affordable price.

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Planning, Tools

Final-design-diy-small-walk-in-closet

7 Feb 0

DIY Small Walk In Closet

9 DIY Small Walk In Closet Designs

During the design process of our DIY Small Walk In Closet, we had many different design ideas. Here is 9 of them! In the bottom you can see how the final result turned out in real life!

The original room

This is a 3D model of our basement, created with the software RoomSketcher (read our full article on RoomSketcher here: Best Home Redesign App)

Design 1

First we thought we could move the washing machine and tumble-dryer wherever we wanted in the room. But pipes for the water made it a big project, and therefor this design was skipped.

Design 2

Another design before we figured we could’nt move the washing machine and tumble dryer. This time we add a little chair in the middle to have a spot to sit down and change shoes etc.

Design 3

With this design we wanted to build a closet around the washing machine and tumble dyer. That is the brown box you see on the left side.

Design 4

Similar to design 3, but different colors on the shelves and drawers.

Design 5

This was a very different ideas, with more cupboards and closets instead of drawers. We felt like it looked a bit massive with all of those high closets.

Design 6

Pretty close to the design we ended up with, but with very different wood that we used in the final project.

Design 7

Complete change in wood-color. After inspecting the light in the room we wanted lighter colors of wood.

Design 8

Similar do design 7, but with different drawer setup.

Design 9 - The final design

And the final design! We figured that we have pipes running along the right wall, and therefor it would be very tricky to have drawers against that wall.

Watch the video from the final design

And here is how our DIY Small Walk In Closet turned out in real life

See the full article about the final build by clicking here

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