DIY Under Staircase Makeover | Mini Bar and Storage 

The best part of this video.. besides his commentary AND the cool vibes music, was the fact he wore flip-flops for this entire renovation!! 👏😂 a-mazing 💪🏼🏆

The "flip flop knee pad" technique is brilliant 👏🏾🤣

I think basic DIY, electrical safety, should be teach in high school, with the use of mechanical tools for carpentry… as well as basic computing ( excel, web creation/design), basic cooking, basic tax return, basic job interview/negotiation skills…), meditation/ self care, basic car maintenance, how to create a budget/avoid debts, basic investment skills, how to project yourself/take risks, how to navigate medical healthcare/insurance…

I’m surprised that whole closet didn’t have storage access under the stairs. This project was next level. Beginner project could’ve been knocking down the drywall inside the storage closet to claim the whole space under the stairs.

Looks great. Those are not self supporting stairs. That's why the wall was there. I hope the stringer doesn't split. Just don't carry anything really heavy up the stairs. Cheers!

😱I'm not sure why this is called DIY! This is a professional build. 👏👏👏👏

It’s amazing how this family prepared for a simple diy and discovered a few errors the previous construction crew made to their house 👀 ☕️ Also, I absolutely love seeing couples work on projects together to accomplish something. Goals! Great build and teamwork. 😊👍🏽

Man making his wife so happy with this, melts my heart.

Great Job!! And everything done while wearing sandals!... lol. I know someone that would've had on a Hard head, Steel toe boots, full tool pouch around the waist and safety glasses.... lol.

The amount of NEC violations in this video is inconceivable! Looks good though!

This looks great! If I had to do a project like this, I'd make a tiny little room for a secretly magical British orphan to live in

Doing it all in flip flops . You the man

I watched this video two years ago and watched it again just now. Great work.

It’s YOUR house. It looks smashing! It’s lovely to see young couples working together like this ; )

Looks so beautiful before and after! Accepting challenge is so easy but to make it full fill is another story! Joint effort is always a great idea in my opinion.

Awesome job man, try putting a mirror or a poster or painting on that wall on the left… you can get something cool also, maybe cnc cut some personal message related to your family and just glue it there… maybe over a small mirror… what you did is awesome!

Looks great. I would be interested in seeing how the staircase holds up over time. In my opinion that knee wall under the stairs is structural. I guess it depends on if youve got kids running up the stairs 100 times a day, which will loosen any staircase.

Great!. We have to take advantage of every single space.

I'm watching this on 06.18.2023.. I loved it, thanks. OneLove ❣️

Nice job. You can tell you’re a real handy man because you do this in flip flops. 😂 that’s someone confident in their skills

You are da man! I could do what you did if I had 1000 years to practice. LOL!

Construction and building must be your profession. There is no way a regular person (me) would be able to do a DIY project like that. That work is impeccable and looks like it was done during the homes construction.

Balvenie peat week. Great choice! Oh... and the transforming if amazing!

What a lovely room for a budding wizard

Home project in flip flops, can’t have it any other way. Turned out great!!

Looks great, although the 70's called and they'd like their wallpaper back.

Very talented carpenter.

Its always awesome when RU-vidrs film videos in the dark.

Very nice job with help of wife too! That is married! I wished to had more deeper space, good decision for your wish! Congratulación, great works from you! ❤👍😃

Oh wow!! This is such a great idea, very very nice!! Your wife is blessed to have such a hands on and talented husband!! I'll have to hire someone to do this but thanks to you guys for the awesome idea!!

Wow you and your wife did excellent work! Great job🤩!

He is such a diligent worker. Very detailed and neat work.

I love it!!! I'm showing this to my friend that has stairs. She doesn't drink, but she could switch the cooler for desk space. The options are limitless...

A good electrician never hides a junction box in the wall. You should always add a junction box as if you were adding a receptacle. Just use a blank cover. That way years down the road an electrician won't have a nightmare trying to find an electrical issue that could be hidden in the wall. You won't always own that house.

Love how you do the makeover in your sandals.

That's phenomenal work. Wish me luck convincing my wife to forgo the storage project and do this instead.

Great job. Good use of would be wasted space under the stairs. Like always your wife was correct.. Have a beautiful day.

Well done! It's beautiful. ❤️ My husband is a contractor, I enjoy watching the progress and the fruits of the labor. I help where and when I can. God bless 🙏

got to give this guy some credit in doing all the work in either his bare feet or slippers!!

I'm with the wife on clean up as you go along 😂

Wonder moving heavy furniture like beds and dressers would be safe on those stairs now with the edge supports gone

Damn good job! I got lazy and just put in bookshelves under ours. A wine bar would have been much better... but because of covid-19 I'm working from home maybe a wine bar would have been a bad idea 🍺🍺

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that projects with flip flops on.

Great job! We reclaimed the area below our stairs for storage. It was a switchback stair and had crazy framing below it.

I was thinking to myself that’s a bloody nice bar. Then I seen the Balvenie 14yr old malt and it became an excellent bar slainte Mhath 🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Brazilian style those flipflops…great video👍🏼 congrats 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Wow. So much respect and admiration for handy and skilled people!

Lol, it came out beautiful. I made my husband sit down and watch it twice so he'd know what to do.😍🤣

Very stylish reno! Thank you for sharing all the details in the process :)

You have an amazing husband!! The women like me that have to do it ourselves are very jealous 🥰🥰

Even little projects aren’t so little. Great job!

Definitely brought up the value of your home with that Beautiful project ❤

Superb, I love such DIYs, although I don’t do them myself other than assembling IKEA furniture😄, this sure was fun to watch. Enjoy your new space.

I like the Buffalo Trace behind the scotch 👍🏻

Bonjour superbe travail cordialement Philippe

That was a GREAT use of wasted space!!!! LOOKS AMAZING

Tells a lot abt shoddy construction wrk (stairway)coverup, u did awesome kudos, perfection, shower curtain solution great idea, love a handy hubby. Beautiful job enjoy it😘 cheers🥂

Very nice detail And your can make a music mix tape foe me any day. I was jamming to the sounds of this video.... Lol

i think that came up amazing and good job on giving it a go!

OH YEAH THIS MOST DEFINITELY DESERVES A LIKE 👍🏻 WELL DONE!

Not bad. Only thing you shouldn't of done was bury an electrical junction point in the wall. Not sure why you didn't go straight to the fridge outlet. Jump out to the light switch, and up to the light?

The wires that you ran in the metal junction box needs to have cable clamp connectors on them. Otherwise as the wires move, the insulation on them will wear down and could potentially lead to a short and the bare wire being exposed. Also it would be advisable to use plywood or drywall to keep the existing insulation in place because it will probably fall out over time.

Great job! You should totally create something for on the wall to showcase all your shot glasses - that would look really neat.

Great job, and you still have all 10 toes.......

5:42 I learned that flipflops are great knee pads when crouch on a project. Thank you I I can use that on all DIY projects

It's funny how so many are "concerned". Yes, the buried electrical box violates code. The cable should have been run directly from the other outlet box to the new outlet box, but is it going to spontaneously combust like many are saying? Probably not. Then there are all of the structural engineers here talking about the stairs not going to be strong enough on the edge. As and engineer, I would say that in a commercial building, more support would be needed, in a residential setting like this, with the existing and new structure, this will also likely be perfectly fine for the life of the home. These videos are edited down and we all likely didn't see every detail. The project looks nice and gives some good ideas for people, most of whom would never tackle it themselves. For those that do, do it how you need to do it.

Amazing work, I’m sure your wife will be super happy with 💐

Really great idea! Beautiful design!

I had a few ideas for utilizing the uder staircase space, Yet this came out BEAUTIFULLY DONE

Great idea, and great work! You both make a wonderful team! God bless. 🙏🏽🤍🙌🏽

Love this!!! Looking for ideas and this tops all mine! CHEERS! Love all the shot glasses 😃. ❤️ Kristy in Missouri 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This turned out really nice! I would love to repurpose the space under our stairs!

That is a great use of space, looks BEAUTIFUL and very usefull FANTASTIC job👍👍

Good job, great functional use of space. Ignore the few negative people commenting and be proud of your work!

Bravo! Nice job I learned a ton!!!

Dry cool. I have a similar situation, but mine is a full cupboard under the stairs. Very tempting to open it up and use it in some other way, but it is full of storage.. 😀 inspiring colour scheme too.. perhaps I’ll just paint.. 😁

Nice work. It adds to the space.

Great job. Love the casual attire.

Your wife is a genius high key. Halleluyah.

that's an excellent job, very impressive

Wow! It looks fabulous! You did a great job. 👍👍

Nicely done!

Not a wine drinker myself, but that's a nice setup

Bold doing demo in a Sunday afternoon relaxation outfit with the flip flops and all

Some one. could walk through those walls, a wood house here in Mexico is like a toy house we are used to solid structures, but you know what fits best to what you are used

Beautiful! Enjoyed every minute. ❤️🇨🇦

Looks great. I enjoyed your imagination. Much thanks for showing me your work and process.

This is amazing. I wish you lived near us so we could hire Rafa! You are incredibly talented.

It looks so so so beautiful. You are so talented.

Great use of empty space. Nice!

That looks spectacular!!

Excellent! Step by step explanation.

Amazing how you are able to do everything so easily. Came out great. Of course the easiest use of under stairs space would be to increase the depth of the closet, Sheetrock, built in cabinet, or a safe, and add lighting, for more storage. What you created was challenging but beautiful.

Don’t get me wrong it looks really nice! Looks are a 9.5/10! That electrical work is scary though. Highly illegal no mater what state you live in; 2 hidden junctions with no access and no one will ever know they are there since you sealed them behind a closet and a bar. Also no clamps on a metal box with non protected romex is a fire waiting to happen. Those wires will rub on the sharp edges of the metal box as people go up and down the stairs, if that arcs there is the start of a house fire. Sad that all that nice finish work is ruined by electrical issues. I know after you decorated it you regretted putting the switch where you did, since it’s blocked cuz it’s too far back but hey it is what it is. Oh and I Lol’d every time I saw you working in flip flops! I was like, “my man is just chillin” no need for safety Lol. Looks like a very nice upgrade overall though.

Another awesome video!! Thank you!!

Wow amazing job! Now an awesome space that is useful.

Definitely reinforcing it with 2 x 4 was more ideal than 2 x 2 !!!

WoW! This gives your space a completely different look. Beautiful! Now I wonder what else has the potential hidden behind walls 🤔

Good use of space!

What a fun video! And I love your OSHA-approved footwear! ;)