{"id":62,"date":"2011-10-17T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/reluctant-diyer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:25","slug":"reluctant-diyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/reluctant-diyer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reluctant DIY\u2019er."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so I\u2019ve never been much of a DIY\u2019er (that\u2019s a \u201cDo it Yourself-er\u201d) \u2013 admittedly I probably don\u2019t give myself enough credit \u2013 you know, that I can actually carry out a project to completion.  Maybe I\u2019m just afraid to fail?  Yep, I bet that\u2019s it. My parents are amazing that way \u2013 they can seriously do anything they set their minds to.  Anything.  So it didn\u2019t surprise me that my Dad had yet another brilliant idea for increasing the value of our home.  There is a long closet in our garage that we keep seasonal decorations in, and it\u2019s kind of awkward \u2013 most of it isn\u2019t being used in an efficient way.  So one day we are standing in the garage and my Dad suggests we knock down the wall between the laundry room and garage closet, seal up the outer door and have it open from the inside \u2013 basically creating a second pantry that\u2019s accessible from the laundry room.  Sound confusing?  Maybe these pictures will help: Before. \"10-16-2011<\/a> Imagine that the garage closet is directly behind this wall.  Now see what it looked like when my Dad busted through the wall this past weekend: \"10-16-2011<\/a> See that walled up doorway on the right?  Yeah, my Dad moved the door and put it here: \"10-16-2011<\/a> I admit, I didn\u2019t know what the end result would be \u2013 but I knew he had a vision.  24 hours later, he put up tons of shelving and this is what it looks like now: \"10-16-2011<\/a> And in this picture, what you don\u2019t see to the left is the space underneath our back staircase \u2013 so plenty of room for all those seasonal decorations. \"10-16-2011<\/a> So this self-professed anti-DIY\u2019er is GEEKED OUT about this pantry.  Like, crazy pinning on Pinterest<\/a>, gearing up for a trip to the Container Store, already painting samples on the walls, ready to tape and get those brushes moving, GEEKED.  I\u2019ve seen some AMAZING pantry re-do\u2019s online and I am now SO excited to try my hand at this.  Our plan for Pantry, Part Deux is to be the overflow storage for Pantry, Part Un and the most stacked up office closet you\u2019ve ever seen.  And when Pantry, Part Un looks like this: \"10-16-2011<\/a> \u2026I know this is going to be a big job.  But I can\u2019t WAIT to share pictures along this DIY journey.  More pantry inspiration soon.  Wish me luck!!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so I\u2019ve never been much of a DIY\u2019er (that\u2019s a \u201cDo it Yourself-er\u201d) \u2013 admittedly I probably don\u2019t give myself enough credit \u2013 you know, that I can actually carry out a project to completion.  Maybe I\u2019m just afraid to fail?  Yep, I bet that\u2019s it. My parents are amazing that way \u2013 they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/10-16-20112520072_thumb255B1255D.jpg?fit=362%2C484&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}