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Drew Pow builds a Minecraft chest, one painted pixel at a time

His sons' playroom storage takes several days of painting, with a freely decorated back panel adding a family signature.

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Building a Minecraft Chest for my boys play room!

A sheet of plywood is the easy part. Drew Pow's Minecraft chest needs hundreds of hand-painted squares before it can take its place in his boys' playroom.

"Building a Minecraft Chest for my boys play room!" is his only new upload this week, reaching roughly 5,000 views in its first two hours. He cuts and assembles the box and lid, covers the plywood edges, fills the nail holes and primes everything white. Then comes the grid: 576 pixels on the front alone.

The painting gives Drew time to recall his own Minecraft obsession, including sneaking downstairs to play in the middle of the night. His son gets a less regimented assignment, painting freely on the back while Dad handles the other faces. "But hey, makes it more memorable," Drew says. The paintwork takes several days before a sprayed clear coat seals the project.

Viewers have practical thoughts about that opening lid, suggesting cabinet struts or slow-close hinges. Others stay in Minecraft mode, proposing a shulker-box build next or joking about filling this chest with dirt blocks.

Away from the workbench, the truck-transformation upload featuring @danielbachlet is drawing the channel's strongest daily audience, with two tile-choice videos also remaining active. Overall daily views are a little above Drew's usual pace, and the channel added 3,000 subscribers over the week. His weekly views were the highest among the nearby lifestyle channels here, while ClarawrXD and Irish Daily had quieter daily audiences than usual. The fresh project, though, brings the focus back home: game-inspired storage with a back panel no other chest will have.

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What viewers say

It needs 3,456 dirt blocks.
@CotiThompsonSee it on YouTube
Painting pixel by pixel seems tough; I probably would have just done a singular color for the interior border!
@Tazerboy_10See it on YouTube
Dude this is a Dad win!! Great work man.
@Quicksilver282See it on YouTube

2 more comments

Yo, that’s sick. You should somehow make a shulker box using a swivel for it to open like the actual one 👍
@Scotishman-okSee it on YouTube
I would put some hydraulic cabinet struts so the chest doesn’t slam and hit your children.
@ZimycSee it on YouTube

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