So I've got a little bit of a problem.

I moved into this place.

It is a beautiful space, but I need storage.

Like I have boxes and boxes of stuff and and just know where to put it.

But I live in Tokyo, in the heart of Tokyo, And so large furniture at a reasonable price is kind of hard to come by.

I've been searching online for quite some time, but the issue is that there's nothing in these signs or design that I'm looking for.

So I have no choice but to make it.

And I can never find my tape measure.

Got it?

So what I want is something across this wall here.

It's about that big and about that at all.

So let's get started.

All right.

So the plan, what I want is like a five layer shelf with metal corners and dark wood.

So I'm really not an artist.

So we're just We're gonna try and all right, this is the rough and basic shape.

I think what I'm gonna end up doing is doing the entire thing out of angle brackets and pine.

But I'm going to stay in the pine.

So I think I'm basically just gonna support the entire shelf with brackets like this that have holes in them.

These will get bolted in right here on the board.

We'll get screwed and bolted in through there.

And I'm thinking for structural integrity.

I wanna add some zigs here and maybe some fire across the back just to hold the whole thing together.

This is really just more of a rough plan than anything else.

Now, some areas of Tokyo have a lot of hardware stores, mind not so much.

It's gonna be a little bit of a trek, but we should hopefully be able to find everything we need there.

Let's go.

Mhm.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh huh.

Huge.

Plus, they let you rent a little bit of the K truck, so long as you get it back in roughly an hour.

You're good.

And just like that e gonna take all this stuff home.

It's a neat little system they have, and it's one that I appreciate because there's absolutely no way I would be able to carry all of that wood and metal home.

It's just not happening.

Alright.

Dropped all the stuff off, and now since that home center didn't have all the parts I need that was shining on one part.

I'm using this car to drive to another home center.

Thio, grab that part on that.

Dropped this.

Got it.

Now it's time to go return the truck two minutes later.

All good.

Now to get home instead, build mhm.

All right, That wasn't well enough.

But I'm gonna need to clear this place out so that we can get it set up properly.

Mhm.

No, no, e.

Yeah.

Staining can be really messy, so e want to protect the place.

Speaking of which, things are probably going to get a little messy.

So you know what?

There.

You Yeah, this is gonna get warm.

Thank goodness for static.

Do you ever watch Dexter?

If you ever going to do a D.

I Y project in Japan?

My greatest piece of advice for you is, if at all possible, avoid craft shops like Tokyo hands, they will massively overcharge you for everything.

If you can grab everything either online or at a home center, obviously would would be better at home.

I should probably clean up as I go along.

Otherwise, this is gonna be terrible at the end.

There all honestly, just the pine and the black might look nice together.

I'm not a huge fan, and I want it slightly darker.

So first I'm gonna clean up thes boards and then staying This is really gonna take the longest out of everything.

Good.

See that?

This is why I wear the suit.

Doesn't have to be perfect, because I want to kind of keep that rustic imperfectly look to it, but just a little bit more to go, and then we can start standing.

I don't want to use liquid stain and get it all over the place, so I'm actually gonna use wax.

Just a old T shirt.

Probably should have won two gloves.

But But on the plus side, only 4.5 more boards to go.

So it's night now, straight up, dark outside.

Those are all staying.

I'm probably holding into do the one layer of staying.

Really need to wash my hand.

I'm just gonna leave those till tomorrow.

Smooth.

So we're onto what's hopefully going to be the final day of this?

Last night I took about an hour, so just toe wipe the wax off of all the boards and let them dry.

And then this morning, I went over them with a coat of spray.

Very thing, just to give them a bit of protection again.

It doesn't need to be perfect.

All in all, they look decent enough, and it doesn't come off on my fingers.

So I think we're ready.

Just thio just to put it all together, Come to think about I don't talk about it very much.

But my family actually raised me to build.

My father built, so did my grandfather.

And growing up, my family always made sure that I had access to tools in parts anytime that I wanted to build something.

I am by no means a master carpenter and this make I'm together terribly in the end.

But I like making stuff.

So back to it.

Step one is marking.

All right, so that is one roughly gun.

I don't want to start building the base.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Yeah, that's the top and bottom connected.

Now I just gotta figure out the middles and it's coming together.

It's coming together.

I'm not looking forward to putting the feet on.

That's that's just gonna be tedious and boards are all prepped.

I'm just gonna screw mall in the next.

I just had to put each one in its respective place, and each one is predetermined where it's going, all right, to look at that, you might even think that it's done.

But I need to take these bars here and crisscross them like this to give it a little more structural integrity.

And then just for the sake of going overboard, I'm gonna crisscross this in an X just like that.

I just can't believe we're almost done.

There.

We go with that e gonna clear out this plastic, then we're gonna stand it up a little bit of a secret.

I actually am missing two bolts from the leg still, but should be okay.

This'll be so much safer with two people who works, actually, moderately pleased that would turn to it.

But I gotta get this place cleaned up so we can fill this up also.

I'm gonna brace it between here So that of earthquake hits, the whole thing doesn't just come falling over, but let's get this place cleaned up.

Gets a lot darker in here.

That looks better.

Finally take that off.

And I'm telling you, if ever I have earned a nice hot cup of today, today is the day in case you're wondering about the black blankets across the window there.

Acoustic blankets.

It gets really noisy out in Tokyo, and it just helps manage the echo in the room as well.

Back.

I've got one right here so that the room is in all echoey and crazy, But the shelf, the shelf didn't turn out too bad.

I'm actually pretty happy with it.

I may actually end up making some adjustments to it, like adding more layers or stuff down in the middle just so it doesn't start to sag because the wood does have weight.

But I think hopefully this goes to show that you can put together a bit of a D.

I Y project right in your home, even in a place like Tokyo.

So go out and make something.