-"Baby Makes 3" is funded in part by... -Dear baby, if you can't tell by the bump, you'll be here soon.

To be honest, I'm freaking out a bit.

There's still so much to do -- A lot of organizing, name-picking, decorating, and cleaning, all while lugging around 25 or so extra pounds.

I guess I'm feeling a little bit crazy, but I'm allowed to be, right?

I'm your mom, and I want everything to be perfect for you.

I'll see you soon.

Love, Mom.

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so their new baby will always be reminded of his roots.

-Kentucky!

-It'll be great in the nursery.

♪ -Bryan, keeping with the Kentucky theme, and found some barn wood from Kentucky.

and cut out the state.

-Okay.

♪ -Today, we're back in the home of Katherine and Bryan, our two Kentucky natives who now live out of state, and they want their baby to know their bluegrass roots, which is a challenge for a lot of young couples who want to stay connected to their childhood homes far away.

When you say Kentucky, most folks think of horses and the Derby, but for our couple, it's a lot more.

They're reminded of music, old barns, and rolling hills.

All become elements in our Kentucky-themed nursery today on "Baby Makes 3."

-This is amazing.

-That moment when you go from couple to family, everything changes.

When you bring the baby home, you want to create a warm, comfortable, and safe environment for them.

Step one -- the nursery.

♪ -I'm Katherine.

-And I'm Bryan.

-And we are expecting our first baby on January 2nd.

-And we're naming him Bennett.

-We are thinking about having a Kentucky-themed nursery, so for us, that means having something that reminds us of rolling hills and farmhouses and quilts, music.

-Bringing a bit of our home with us so that the baby can grow up in that same environment.

-We're excited.

The thought of putting together and designing a nursery was really overwhelming, but being on "Baby Makes 3," we're just really appreciative of the help and all the great ideas and safety tips you're gonna give us.

-Yeah.

-Last time on "Baby Makes 3," we introduced our couple to a nursery that would have lots of reminders of home.

We started with an accent wall behind the crib and added touches of music and heritage along the way.

Outside, we planted rose bushes so that a Run for the Roses is never far away.

Every project adds another memory so their new baby will always be reminded of his roots.

-That's great.

-Very nice.

-Kentucky!

-It'll be great in the nursery.

♪ -Bryan, keeping with the Kentucky theme, we've actually gone out and found some barn wood from Kentucky.

-Nice.

-We're going to do a stencil and cut out the state.

-Okay.

-And gonna put a little luck right in the heart of the state.

-Sure.

We'll put the horseshoe here, right between, I guess, where we're both from.

-That's awesome.

-Nice.

-It's a good spread.

-That's excellent.

-Dylan, you want to show us how you did this?

-Yeah, sure.

This is gonna be pretty easy.

We've taken the barn wood and we've glued it to a piece of plywood so everything's gonna be really sturdy.

We've gone ahead and created this template that's the size of the board here.

Basically, jigsaws are gonna be cutting from the bottom of the material up, so to make sure that we don't mess up the top edge that we want to look nice, we're gonna flip this over.

So, as you can see on this test cut, this surface is real smooth.

-Mm-hmm.

-The other surface is a little bit more jagged.

-Okay.

-Flipping it over, it'll make it a little easier for us to cut it out.

-Sure.

-Yeah.

-Sounds good.

-Cool, you ready to trace it out?

-Yeah.

Let's do it.

-All right.

So, we want to make sure that this stays in the same orientation when we flip it... -Mm-hmm.

-So you're gonna flip this over, and then if you want to grab that... -Mm-hmm.

-Yep.

Just like that.

-Okay.

-So, yeah, if you guys want to just hold the map flat, then we'll trace it out with this paint marker.

-This would have been much easier if I was from Colorado.

[ Laughter ] -Maybe Oklahoma, or something.

-Yeah.

-Simple square state.

-All right.

-Cool.

Let's see what we got.

-Very nice.

-Yeah, it looks good.

-Yeah.

-Great.

-All right.

You guys ready to cut it out?

-Let's cut it out!

-Yep.

-Always safety first, so eye glasses, and then this is gonna produce quite a bit of sound, so these ear buds are just some polyurethane ear buds that are easily -- just squeeze 'em... ...And then they go right in your ear canal.

And then go up to 31 decibels, so basically... -It's appropriate for power tools.

-It's appropriate for power tools.

-Right.

[ Jigsaw whirring ] -Great, so we got about half of this cut out now.

So you can kind of see how it works.

-Yeah.

-A few tips about using the saw like this is really when you get into some of these curves where they're tight, if you kind of cut past the corners... -Sure.

-...Then you can come back and you can keep cutting in at an angle that keeps getting closer, so you're kind of making some room for the blade to turn.

-Sure.

-If you force it too much, you can break the blade off.

♪ -Nice.

-All right!

-Great job, Bryan.

So the only thing we've got left is we're gonna sand up the edges.

-Okay.

-And then we'll put your lucky horseshoe.

-Horseshoe right in the middle.

-That's right.

-Sounds great.

♪ -All right.

-Nice.

-What do you think?

-Perfect.

Wonderful, yeah.

-Yeah, I think it looks pretty good.

-It looks good.

-Absolutely.

♪ -So, the Kentucky Derby obviously is a big part of Kentucky, and we're gonna try to do the closest thing that we can do to get to that, and it's a rocking horse.

-Perfect.

-Right?

So sometimes rocking horses can get very difficult to build.

A lot of different options.

But Dylan has come up with a really simple way, and I'm gonna let him explain to you how he created this and how to put it together.

-You know, I was looking around for some different designs and came up with this one.

It's pretty simple.

Basically we've assembled part of it, and then the rest of it's gonna go together.

It's just about five pieces.

We put some blocking in underneath here.

So this horse head is really sturdy.

And then this is gonna be the handle for baby.

-Okay.

-Yeah, he's gonna love it.

So, basically, we're gonna use some wood glue to put all these panels together.

We're gonna clamp it and make some lines on here so then we can put in some staples to really sure it up.

Then the last few things that we'll do -- We use some wood filler to fill in any of the places that we put in staples.

We'll get it all sanded down, and then it's gonna get a coat of paint.

-Okay.

-Yeah.

-Great.

-Nice.

-You guys ready to put it together?

-Yeah.

Yeah, let's do it.

-Yes.

-Cool.

♪ ♪ -The pieces on the end here serve a purpose.

So, he can only get back about this far.

-Okay.

-Or forward about this far, so... -Nice.

-It should keep him to be a little bit safer.

-I like the little safety stops that they had at the end just in case he was a rambunctious little one.

-Yeah.

-He's not gonna get bucked off his bronco.

And, uh... No, it's a unique design, and think that's what we like about it, too.

♪ -It's looking pretty good.

-Yeah, this is fun.

-I think he's ready to go.

-It looks great.

What should you we do about some of these divots from the nails?

-Yeah, sure.

It's very easy to get rid of those.

We'll just put in a little bit of wood filler, and then when we go to sand it, they'll basically completely go away.

So let's go put some finishing touches and paint on this.

♪ -Our next project is going to end up looking like this.

-Mm!

Yeah!

-This is our barn door.

-Cool.

-It's gonna go on either side of the changing table.

-Yes.

Awesome.

-That looks great.

-Yeah.

-So, y ready to try it?

-Sure.

-Yes.

-Okay.

So, what we've already done is we took a piece of pine and we used a dark stain and stained it, and now we're gonna add this red paint.

It looks a little pink, but it's actually red.

This red paint.

And we're gonna put a thick layer of paint on this, and then we're gonna wipe a little bit of it away.

-Okay.

-I'll do the first one, and then I'll have you do it.

-So, basically, just paint on a solid coat.

-All right.

Here, go for it.

-You want to do it?

-Yeah.

-And then we'll wipe it away.

You can slather it on there 'cause we're gonna wipe it, so... -Okay.

-There you go.

So, now what we're gonna do is we're gonna take our wet rag and we're gonna wipe it.

-And why do you wipe it after you've painted?

-It just gives it that weathered look.

-Okay.

-Yeah.

Kind of go back and forth, and you can see the grain coming through.

-Sure.

Yeah.

-Mm-hmm.

Very nice.

-How's that looking?

-Looks good.

-Yeah, you can really start to see the grain.

-Yeah.

-I would do smaller little back-and-forths so don't you have a pattern.

Then we can take some of that excess paint that's on the rag and we'll just touch up the sides.

-On the sides?

-Yeah.

-So just run along the edge?

-Yep.

Exactly.

That looks great.

So this is a just a way to distress wood, give it that old barn look.

-Mm-hmm.

-And all we used was dark stain and some paint.

-Yeah.

Very simple.

-Easy.

-Butood results.

♪ [ Drill whirring ] ♪ -We're back with our barn doors, and we're gonna add some storage.

-Sure.

-The first idea was I have these beautiful baskets, and we were gonna hang them over here.

But as with a lot of DIY projects -- trial and error.

I don't really like the way that they lay.

But there is always a solution.

Our solution are these great Mason jars.

They're like farmhouse Mason jars.

That's what it reminds me of.

So I actually like these better.

We're gonna put one on each side.

-Okay.

-Great.

-How are gonna attach it, Jonathan?

-It's a pretty simple process.

We basically have taken a couple of hose clamps.

-Right.

-We have drilled a pilot hole in the back.

In order to allow for us to put a screw through it, we're going to find placement where you want to actually put the Mason jars in each location, and then we're gonna drill it in.

-Okay.

-Once we have that secure, we're going to take the Mason jar, slide it in... -And then just tighten it.

-Yep.

And it'll hold anything you need to.

-Sounds great.

-Yep.

You got it, you got it.

-Putting together the barn doors was really great.

I would have never had that idea, and it was pretty easy to make the barn doors, and then to put the Mason jars on it was just a great last finishing touch.

-All right, we have our hose clamps clamped and secure.

So we're gonna take our Mason jars and then we're going to tighten here.

You can tighten it by hand, but I like to make it extra secure, so we're gonna use our screwdrivers to do that.

-Okay.

♪ -Those seem to be all secure, and we can come back and snip those all the way up here just to kind of get those out of the way.

-Okay.

-Okay.

All right, well, great job, you guys.

It looks really good.

-Yeah.

Thanks so much.

That was easy.

-Done.

♪ -So, Melissa was telling me that you guys have a lot of books.

With any nursery, right, you're gonna have problems with storage.

And one of the solutions we came up with in design patterns is by using apple crates as storage shelves.

Really easy to work with, extremely cheap.

Just something that could really be a nice little fit to your nursery.

They're gonna fit in well with the Kentucky theme.

-Absolutely.

-Okay, so first of all, let's try to get the pattern that we're going to do.

-Okay.

-I'll move some of these over a little bit.

We're gonna do a longway... ...and then like that, right?

-Mm-hmm.

-When you're drilling into wood, you would drill in from the thin edge to the thicker piece.

-Sure.

-And what would happen is that when the screw goes through, the threads are gonna anchor more securely with the thicker piece and just create a more solid bond.

-Sure.

-Okay?

So we're gonna drill a couple of pilot holes on these back slats back here.

-Sure.

-So, to make it easier to work, we're just gonna lay it on its side.

-All right.

-Help us level it easy, as well.

All right, I got you here.

-Like that, and drill through?

-Yep, drill through.

Go straight.

And then when you're pulling back out, keep that drill going.

Go ahead.

There you go.

And move down that same slat.

-About right here?

-Sure.

-All right, second one.

-Let's go.

And you got to be careful with drill bits that thin because they will break on you if you don't go in level.

-Definitely.

-All right, so that should be good.

And then I will get you a screw.

Let's go ahead and sink a screw.

-All right.

-Find your hole.

-First one's going in.

-Yep.

-And... [ Drill whirring ] All the way in?

-All the way in.

It should go flush.

There we go.

All right.

-That's pretty good, right?

-That worked well.

-All right.

-Let's try this next one.

-Second one.

-Very good.

-So, hold it tight.

[ Drill whirring ] A little trickier from this position.

[ Drill whirring continues ] There we go.

-All right, so that should be good.

So what we'll end up doing, too, now is we can see, there's a little gap.

-Mm-hmm -We'll put a couple more screws get one more.

-Sure.

Really seal it tight.

-Yep.

[ Drill whirring ] All right, so that was pretty easy, huh?

-Yeah.

Simple enough.

-All right, so maybe pass those other two boxes over here, and we'll show you what the finished product is going to look like.

-Sure.

-Put that up on there.

-Like this?

-There you go.

-I like it.

Clever design.

-Yep, and then what it'll do is it'll go against the wall back here.

We can put it together, do the exact same process for each of boxes, and then we should be done.

-Yeah, that sounds great.

-Cool.

[ Drill whirring ] -All right.

-All right, so all secure?

-Yep.

-That was pretty easy, huh?

-Yeah.

Simple as that.

-All right, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna slide it against the wall here.

All right, and we'll put some anchors back here so it won't pull out, right?

-Yeah.

That's important.

-One of the neat features of this is that you still have access to your outlet.

-Mm-hmm.

Nice.

-Yeah, so it does exactly what we need it to do.

It's got books but it doesn't actually eliminate an outlet for you in the room.

-Okay.

-And, you know, if you have more storage that you need, you can go buy another apple box and put it on top and connect it all the way up the wall if you want.

-Just keep building, right?

-Keep building.

-New parents tell us that it's always a dilemma finding the right wall anchor for the various things they want to hang in the nursery.

Here's Jonathan with some tips.

-All right, so if you've ever been into a home goods store looking for wall anchors in order to hang pictures or whatever it is on the wall that you might want to put up on there, you, probably like everybody else, has run into a problem of "Which anchor do I pick?"

And believe it or not, every single one of those anchors has a different purpose.

We're going to show you a couple different options with different wall anchors, but the best option if at all possible, any time you're hanging anything in Sheetrock would be to try to find a stud.

So, the first anchor that we're gonna use is just a typical anchor that most people are familiar with.

The first thing you want to do is you're gonna need to drill a pilot hole in order to allow your anchor to fit in.

All right.

And then you're going to push your anchor in.

Once the screw goes through here, it's going to expand this piece of plastic, not only internally inside the Sheetrock but also on the back side of this.

[ Drill whirring ] See how it opened up there?

[ Drill whirring continues ] That opening up, not only has it expanded inside the Sheetrock on the inside of this, but it's also now created like a little barb so that it gives you the additional support.

That's the reason such a small anchor and a screw in Sheetrock can hold such a large weight of around 40, 50 pounds.

This is a much larger anchor bolt that's gonna allow for more weight.

When you change the size of the anchor, you also need to change the size of the pilot hole that you're drilling into the Sheetrock.

[ Drill whirs ] And you're gonna see a similar reaction to the back of this, except for this one pulls snug.

So you see these anchors, these barbs actually pull against the Sheetrock.

These work really well for basically hollow walls.

So there's no insulation, there's nothing behind it.

Hollow walls are typically going to be your interior walls.

Your exterior wall, with your windows, that's where your insulation is gonna go, and it's gonna allow it to grip like that.

So we're gonna try a third option.

It's a little bit different, as you can see, not only in size but also in functionality and installation.

You're gonna screw it in a little bit, get it going, and then you're gonna get your Phillips screwdriver head and you just use that.

[ Drill whirs ] As you can see, this is in there, but there's one neat other additional feature that happens with this one.

And you'll see when we screw this in, it pushes out a little lever, and then tightening it down will bring that back to the Sheetrock.

[ Drill whirs ] It gives you a broader grip which also gives you more strength.

We're gonna show you two more options that really only truly work with hollow walls.

[ Drill whirs ] So, again, that screw caught it, pulled it in, and now it's created an additional bit of security and strength.

The last option is gonna be a toggle, and these come in all different shapes and sizes and links, and again, you want to make sure that if you are dealing with additional surface here that you want to make sure that when the bolt is closed, that you have enough room for it to open up.

'Cause if you don't do that, it's just gonna stay like that, and then it won't hold.

It'll pull in and it won't give you the security that you want.

So you got to make sure that you have the right size and length of bolt.

So when you install this one, it's a little tricky because, again, you see that there's some room.

So you have to make sure that it actually is connected to the wall.

[ Drill whirs ] So once you get it tight, it's nice and secure.

All of these should work well.

Again, they all have different weight capacities.

And always be aware of, you know, the type of wall -- interior, exterior, and ceiling.

A toggle bolt is gonna be your best option for a hollow wall, and an anchor bolt is gonna be your best option for an insulated wall.

Always make sure you check your packaging so that you have the correct bolt for the weight that you're trying to hang on the wall.

-We are nearing the finish line in our home away from home, Kentucky-themed nursery.

Our projects are complete.

Now it's time for finishing touches.

♪ [ Drill whirs ] ♪ [ Drill whirs ] ♪ [ Drill whirs ] ♪ Our nursery is complete.

Let's go get our couple.

So, I know it's been a long few days, but now you have a custom space for your baby.

-Yep.

-So, has that changed your outlook in any way?

-Definitely.

I mean, it just -- It makes it really real.

You know, obviously I know that's Bennett's coming... -Yeah.

-We can feel him.

-But just having a literal space for him in our home is just -- it's so exciting and it just makes it even more real and special.

And we're just so grateful to "Baby Makes 3" for doing this with us and for helping us along this process and really getting us to think about these DIY projects that we would have never considered or felt the courage to undertake.

-Well, it's ready.

-All right, and we are, too.

-You want to take a look?

-Yes.

-We do.

-All right.

Follow me.

-Definitely.

-Let's do it.

-[ Chuckles ] Oh.

-Oh, it's beautiful.

-Wow.

-It doesn't even look like the same room.

-Wow.

This is amazing.

[ Chuckles ] ♪ -Just like every little project.

And the valance, right?

-Oh, I didn't even see that.

-With the curtains.

-The banjo looks great.

Oh, my gosh.

-The Bennett banjo, right?

-Yep.

-Wow.

-This is gonna be such a wonderful place for him.

And it does feel like Kentucky.

-It does.

-In all the right ways.

-Yep.

♪ -I wonder what it would have been if we did it on our own.

[ Both laugh ] It would be like a crib and a table.

[ Both laugh ] -Basically.

-Right?

And Some pictures.

-What do you think?

Oh, look at you!

-We love it.

[ Laughter ] -Oh, good!

-Incredible.

-All your hard work paid off.

-Oh, my gosh.

It's perfect.

-Aww.

-It really is.

And these are great.

-I just threw in a couple little things, but you can change out whatever you want.

-This is awesome.

-It's nice to have a little extra storage up there.

-The essentials, right?

-Yeah.

-Nice paint job here.

Right?

With the white racing stripes.

-Yep.

-It's a little small for me.

-Yes.

-All right.

Here we go.

[ Laughter ] ♪ -And we feel ready, more ready than before.

-We thoroughly enjoyed preparing the nursery and helping you guys get ready for Bennett.

-Yeah, absolutely.

-Thank you.

-It's been a great process and a good learning experience in so many ways, you know?

-Definitely.

-Now you're ready.

-We are ready.

-As ready as we can be, right?

That's for sure.

-Well, I'm Melissa Lozoff for "Baby Makes 3," and it's time to put this one to bed.

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"Baby Makes 3" is funded in part by... -Dear baby, if you can't tell by the bump, you'll be here soon.

To be honest, I'm freaking out a bit.

There's still so much to do.

A lot of organizing, name-picking, decorating, and cleaning, all while lugging around 25 or so extra pounds.

I guess I'm feeling a little bit crazy, but I'm allowed to be, right?

I'm your mom, and I want everything to be perfect for you.

I'll see you soon.

Love, Mom.

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-"Baby Makes 3" nurseries are created for newborns.

Some projects may not be suitable for older children.

When in doubt, seek the help of a licensed contractor.

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