Conceal Screws, Sand, and Select Finish

Pottery Barn stuff. So, let's see what we can figure out about stain. Almost forgot to mention a couple of things for you. All the holes, we plug them up with these pocket hole plugs. They're very easy. You just put glue inside there, glue on here. They only go one way and they practically just slide in place. So that conceals it. I got them here. I got them in the back. I got them underneath here. No holes. Also, the holes that we drilled on top here, I just actually found out this little hack. If you cut off this little bevel here, you can pound in into a counter sunk hole and then use a flush little saw right there. Cut it off, sand it, and you have no holes here as well. Looking phenomenal. One added bonus feature. We're going to have to put a little triangle in here. A little coral if you will, just over time to make sure that this doesn't get to be the weakest point just in terms of bend. That's all. But enough about that. Why don't we get to staining and see if the stain that we got is absolute dog or actually decent. I don't like the looks of this already. It's pure primer white. But a lot of times the sediments kind of settles towards the bottom. So, you really got to mix these things in order to get a true feel for what you're dealing with. Also, I sanded this with uh up to 220. So, 220 grit is what we're looking at right now. Silky smooth, may I add. We're dealing with the bear stain. First time using stain from Bear. Didn't know they make it. It's called white wash pickling. And we just got it at Home Depot. >> So, we're at no other than the Home Depot. We got to pick up whatever stain they have. Uh based off of the pictures that we saw from Pottery Barn, it looked like a white wash but had a lot of natural tones. So, uh, we might have to be a little bit of artistic on the stain job. All right, what do we got here? We have gel stains. These are natural colors. This looks light classic gray, but don't let these colors deceive you. They almost never look the way they do on these samples. These are urethanes. We're going to need some urethane for sure, but I'm not liking a lot of these selections. Oh, I think we found it. It's light. It's white washy. It's got the natural tones. Bear. Bear makes stains now. I have never seen this. Let's see what else we need. We got to find some kind of clear coat. We don't want to use polyurethane cuz the UV rays are going to break it down. I don't like any of these options. This one says interior exterior.…