Kitchen & Bathroom Earthbag Addition
Episode 18
Shower Wall with Porthole & Bottle Flower
Wow, the bathroom is looking classy! We've installed the toilet and Dad is hard at work to complete the shower. I'm excited for you to see what we've done with the porthole windows we bought a few months back! Over on the kitchen expansion, the gals have been stucco-ing and Mom decided it's time to put her bottle flower in! Garen and Ellie's wedding in coming up so there won't be a video next week but no worries, we'll be back in 2 weeks :P
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Shae
July 27, 2018
Video Transcript
last week we prepped for the sky lights
by making what I call a porthole
shingled the kitchen roof and begin
planning for the bathroom shower walls
stay tuned as we continue with the
additions to the main house
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I'm gonna go look in here
see if we have the walls in yet
and nothing yet but we're gonna put a
wall in there and a wall in there
we're getting ready to set in our new
windows in our new little holes here
little portholes
putting in a gasket to
put the glass in
so the glass isn't just
setting in there loose
yep
this is the porthole we're gonna
have to trim off the edges but that's
for the most part the circle and how I'm
going to get this to stay inside here is -
I've rounded off the edges a little bit
so that it'll slip slightly into the
porthole itself and then I've put on
this spacer
the spacer is gonna be
halfway in between and then when I put
the next one that's also the same roundness, I'll sandwich it right in here
it'll come out to almost the width of what I
need to have
I'm gonna make one
side permanent and the other side, I'm going to bolt in
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all right guys what are we doing?
we are cobbing our kitchen edition today
I have a little helper
sometimes he pulls on my glove
tries to guide my hand a little bit
I'm not doing that right now but he has
a bean to keep them occupied
he has a bean-kie
bean-kie
[giggles]
are you being real helpful?
you're so photogenic
when your standing still
doesn't happen very often
but it happens
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ah here we are
hi little guy
alright I got the bottles for the flower
alright
they got a little dusty, we might have to dust them off
maybe Diesel will lick them off
can you clean them?
Gizzy is doing it for you, look at that
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I got seven pedals
if you remember the bottle
flower that we designed, it's now time to
get that installed in the kitchen wall
so I need to have seven equally spaced
petals
not sure exactly how we're gonna do
that
petals go like this
I'm gonna start with these first two on the bottom
I'm gonna have to do these in sections
because if I put it in too quickly the
bottle is gonna sag so I need to
come in every day and do a little bit
more on it
everything has to point to
the center so those will be the next
ones and I think that this is all I'm
gonna do for right now
I'll let that
settle and then I'll add it tomorrow
we picked up this bench real cheap and now
we're gonna doll it up for our courtyard
yesterday
Bryson sanded up this bench real nice
and mom put this coat of paint on it for
a base for some sunflowers I'm gonna be
painting today
pretty excited
I'm
thinking like maybe little thing of
sunflowers across the top
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I have seven petals of this flower and I
looked out the window this morning - out of
my kitchen window and I saw that I've
already filled half the circle and only
have two bottles and this isn't good
well let's see we got two going here
one and then two more right there
one two three four - I would have to do three
more there and would that look weird?
all right mom
I got a couple more rows on
like that and then I got the centerpiece
in
looks so good
why don't you just do this
do we have to have seven?
well no we don't but I thought an odd number of
petals is -
mom it's like cutting a pizza
how hard is it?
I don't know
straight lines
okay well I'm gonna
keep going and I don't know if I should
reduce it to just six but everything's
symmetrical then and that's kind of boring
it's a flower so it's organic
you can
get away with whatever you want
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we have some parts and pieces we have to stick on it
of a toilet
toileto
unboxing a toilet is really hard to
do
that's right you have assembled these things
toilet seat
we've got some guests
coming in here next week
we're all excited about getting an extra bathroom
all right first time test - here we go dad
please no leaks
and quiet
boom shutoff
hey we're done
let's get the wet towels out of here
ready
what do we got going on over here guys?
I think I
might be able to just get them all in
today
ah, that looks so cute
I wonder if that one should be lifted up a little more
Mom, that looks great
all 7 in right?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
ace
that great looks like
and then you're over here slapping the flat
stuff hey
you should of seen the flowers I did earlier
I gotta go see that
ahhhh, those look cute
the whole bench looks so cute
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you can see Max has chosen a place very
close to us and the result of laying
here, left his fur all dirty
this is
what happens when you spend time with us
huh Max?
oh oh you're gonna even tuck in
more
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it's not like we're trying to
drop anything on them but you know stuff
drops because we're working and they
decide to go right underneath us
between
you and me, I think they just like to
be next to us
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one thing I wanted to do
was to be able to see through the
bottles
it looks like that's working
I
could have been a little more careful
about getting dirt in between the
bottles by wrapping that tape a little
tighter
you could see a little bit of
the dirt through there but you can
definitely see through them
I'm really happy
about that
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cool, what goes on the outside then?
our siding
this is the the coolest shower wall I have ever seen
how fun is it gonna be showering
well that wraps up this
week, stay tuned as we continue more on
the bathroom with the kitchen additions
we aren't gonna be back next week
because Garen and Ellie are getting
married but we are gonna be back in two
weeks
thank you so much for watching
now
if I ever need to have a serious
conversation with you and I need to look
at your face
I'll just be like
I wanted to tell you about something awesome
I can
still have serious conversations and
look at your face
I think I need a...
[laughter]
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over here
this is what Shae did
dun dun dun dun
dun dun
look at that
seeing if I can clean the spot
perfect
I feel like I could of done better
look how beautiful they look on camera
well cameras all it matters
exactly
what's on your nose Bree?
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it's just
gonna look like this - Bam Bam and then puuuuuurrrrrr
that's okay
it's look like a sunshine
it is a person
with a body, legs and a beautiful sombrero
okay
I like this train of thought
okay
you seriously on my leg
yikes
dude
Bryson!
please tell me you're not on my leg
okay dude
do you have to get off my leg
no, yikes!
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