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IrelandDanie builds hobby storage, with mixed feelings about building cabinets
Vanessa helps move four custom cabinet boxes upstairs as DIY In Progress tackles its overflowing studio.
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how i created custom storage for ALL my hobbies
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- 1:22Four double-door cabinets are planned to match the knee wall, with a countertop and possible open cubbies.
- 5:18A plywood cut map organizes the pieces to reduce waste from full sheets.
- 8:36Pocket-hole cabinet construction leaves backs and tops open for outlet access and reduced weight.
- 13:07Specialized jigs guide the hinge cups and adjustable shelf-pin holes.
- 14:23Danie and Vanessa move the boxes upstairs, where they are leveled and secured to the base.
- 17:55Heavy lumber planks are prepared, joined and sanded for the countertop.
"I don't think I enjoy building cabinets," Danie admits midway through a project designed to make her creative life easier. The hobbies aren't going anywhere, so the storage has to change.
DIY In Progress's only new upload, "how i created custom storage for ALL my hobbies", reached roughly 44,000 views in its first fourteen hours. Danie starts with a sketch for cabinets fitted to the studio's knee wall, then gets into the less glamorous business of mapping plywood cuts and assembling boxes with pocket screws. Open backs leave access to outlets and save some weight, a useful consideration when Vanessa joins her to carry everything upstairs.
There's a substantial lumber countertop to make, too. This is storage built around the room rather than another container squeezed into it. The video includes a sponsored personal-finance segment.
Viewers have turned the unfinished design decisions into a lively workshop conversation. Several prefer floating shelves to cubbies; others want to leave breathing room above the counter. Cabinet-door suggestions range from a four-season scene to a continuous nerdy mural, while some ask for a separate craft-supply purge and organizing video. Apparently, building the storage is only half the hobby.
The new build is the channel's busiest video right now. Vanessa's renter-friendly entryway makeover is also drawing viewers, followed by the English cabin-style office and library made for Danie and her husband, Geoff.
Subscribers held steady across the week, while the channel added nearly 100,000 views. Its daily viewing is currently below its usual level. Among nearby home-and-DIY channels, Chris Garage78 had a much larger viewing week and Dainty Diaries also drew a substantial audience. Back in Danie's studio, the immediate question is more practical: shelves, cubbies, or enough empty counter space for a coffee break?
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Four cabinets automatically had me thinking using either a scene or colour schemes that tie in with Spring, Summer, Autumn/Fall and Winter, and so symbolising how Creativity is a year round thing.
@MRPandoraHartDRSee it on YouTubeSo pumped for this. The "it might be useful one day" speaks to my soul as well as my ancestors.
@stellamantikou4978See it on YouTubeYes. The organization system that works for crafters is probably mythical
@SLorraineESee it on YouTube
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I would totally watch a video of you purging and organising all your craft supplies
@hannahl610See it on YouTubeI like the breath of open space above the cabinet. It also makes a nice "bar height" resting spot for a coffee break. Maybe no storage above, just something beautiful and creative.
@amylyons4529See it on YouTubeIdea for the cabinet fronts: funky, nerdy mural. Like artsy R2D2 hanging out in a forest with Gandalf on one side and things of that nature spread throughout.
@lucyw3270See it on YouTubeYou know the flower mural you did as a background in your old studio space? Do another one of those! Make it a call back!
@sewthernbelleSee it on YouTubeI vote shelves and not cubbies!
@kathleenkaleookalanismith8724See it on YouTubeGreat job so far. I would suggest something that reaches across the whole unit, otherwise it is liable to look too busy. Pick a theme and unite the cabinets around that. Looks like once you are done with this cabinet, a decluttering and reorganizing video may be next - that's a lot of stuff in that green cabinet.
@sharonknorr1106See it on YouTubeOmit the cubbies idea and even the shelves. It's good to have an uncluttered space above. The cabinets turned out great. I like the idea of a design that goes across all the cabinet doors.
@MadonnaoftheGinkoLeavesSee it on YouTube
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Who helps Danie move the cabinet boxes upstairs?
Vanessa joins Danie to carry the assembled cabinet boxes into the studio.