How to put up IKEA Hoppvals blind - review

How do you put up or take down IKEA Hoppvals blinds?

And why are they currently the biggest security risk in my garden office?

It's been 5 years since the Happy Hut went up! In this video, I share how the office went up and try to improve the safety of my garden pod by moving the Ikea blinds a bit closer to the window so you can't see inside..

My blinds are protection! Or... How to put up IKEA Hoppvals blind - review



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

hello welcome back to the happy hut and this video is about the happy hut because today I’m going to be putting up this! 

it's the IKEA Hoppvals retractable blind it's like a cellular blind 

I’m not actually putting it up 

I’ve already put them up in the hut - they're fantastic - all I’m doing is just moving them five centimetres closer to the window

[ACCORDION MUSIC]

never had one lesson! 

in reality I don't think this video is about the IKEA blind but I will show you how they work 

this video might be about the hut itself or even maybe the security that I have for the hut 

I’ve got a problem with the happy hut and it's this 

I’m not sure this footage does it justice 

you can see into the blind - the blinds kind of block out what's inside and just for security it just doesn't feel right that you can see through the cracks at the side 

I’m not sure that moving the blind from here to here a bit closer to the window is going to stop someone who wants to break in 

If someone wants to do badness to the hut, they're going to do it, aren't they?

I’m doing this course - this filmmaking course at monthly.com (studio.com) 

it's the Casey Neistat filmmaking course 

you don't need to focus on your private life to tell a story with depth so as you're searching for this more premeditated idea for our next movie, know that ultimately you should choose a story that's compelling to you 

you're supposed to share something a bit more personal about yourself and I feel a bit awkward about that because this hut is incredibly personal to me 

even though I’ve shared it with hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and this is I think this is why I love the place 

you and I get to experience this through videos like this 

there's a difference between sharing the hut publicly and feeling like someone might come here and do something bad to it or break into it 

the first thing I realised was that this hut is literally five years old - almost to the day when this hut was put up in the garden 

I’ve got some shots of it here 

it took a day for a team of men to put up that took six months after we actually saw the thing 

here's our visit to I think it was the grand designs conference or exhibition 

there were huts there, but this one kind of leapt out 

this is a hut that doesn't look right 

the windows just look all wrong 

there's just something about the feng shui - the shape of it 

I don't know what it is 

these huts didn't look good but this hut looked amazing 

and here it is in... in... in real life! 

it's actually a... it's a barbecue hut from Finland and actually if I tilt the camera up I can do this - can you see there's a... there's a chimney at the at the top there 

it's actually designed to do barbecuing in it but I didn't need it for a barbecue 

I just needed a space to do some work when we... when we moved here 

I was thinking I’d love to be on YouTube 

but how could I compete with Californian blondes reviewing Gopros beside their swimming pool dressed in a bikini?

I had this thought I think about two years and then I realized I’ve got a place as I’ve sat in there going “I’ve got nothing to show or share with YouTube” and I was literally sat right there when I was thinking it 

let's get these blinds moved and I’ll get rid of that gap and I’ll show you how it's looking at the moment 

let's go inside

so let the camera adjust 

this is how the hut looks today five years on 

I’ve got an IKEA standing desk that is adjustable look 

you can get the handle out and raise it 

I think I’ve raised it about twice and they were both to make videos 

I haven't really worked much standing up but I like the idea of it 

I’ve got my drill my special drill but... dusty... but let me show you the problem 

it's over here so I am going to move this hook all the way from here to over here and that will fix all of the security issues here in the happy hut

removing the IKEA Hoppvals blind is really easy 

you just push this button here 

it's like a catch and that releases it on this side and you can kind of twist it off 

so if I push the button there it just releases it like that 

oh it's a bit of dust there 

we've also got a few neighbours in here 

that is a huge spider just under that gap there 

wonder if he’ll come out 

I think that's his exoskeleton there

[MUSIC]

Uggh gotta get rid of this

[MUSIC]

I think I need just a proper screwdriver

[MUSIC]

Do you like these running shots? 

gives it a sense of urgency 

right here is my precious toolbox - angelic chord - there is the screwdriver back to the hut

[MUSIC]

so let's try the screwdriver on this really tough bit of wood 

this is just in as a pilot hole and now I’ve got something to drill into 

all I need to do now is to hook the Hoppvals onto the clips and then just push them up so they click 

there we go job done 

oh that's perfect 

and now I need to do exactly the same but on this side 

we're in a really special week at the moment 

this is the one week of the year where it's the end of the cold winter and it's just the start of the super hot summer so the temperature in here is just right 

I’ve got to do this today 

and now I can clip this one on

[MUSIC]

It works! it works 

so let's now see how much I can see down the side of these blinds from the outside 

I don't know if I can do this in daylight but I... I can see already whoa...

can't see a thing 

you cannot see a thing 

let's take a look on the other window 

oh that's fantastic 

you can't see my printer gobbling up ink 

I really appreciate you being here for me waffling on about this building 

I’ve had to do this to break the drought

I haven't put a video up on this channel for I think six months now and it feels good to finally get some stuff out of my head and to finally fix those blinds 

and obviously if you want to see what happens next 

there's a subscribe button and here's what YouTube thinks you should be watching next 

can you please help my daddy get 10000 subscribers 

just click on his face, thanks bye! 

right this is going to be the proper one right

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