Argyle?! Whose @#$%& Idea Was This Anyway?!
My utility closet is tiny. This project was supposed to be so easy. I woke up Saturday morning, all excited and chipper and ready to get started. I thought to myself, ‘Since this closet is so small, this will be a quick job! I’...
My utility closet is tiny. This project was supposed to be so easy. I woke up Saturday morning, all excited and chipper and ready to get started. I thought to myself, ‘Since this closet is so small, this will be a quick job! I’ll get the argyle done, install the cabinets, and probably even have time to prime the cabinets!’ I should really know better by now. Whenever I think something is going to be simple and take just a little bit of my weekend, that project seems to overflow into my week, then the following weekend, and the week after that. After an entire weekend of working on my little closet, here’s what I got finished… Yep, that’s about a 24” x 32” section, and even it’s not finished. I still have to add the white stripes. Whenever this happens, I always think to myself, ‘How in the world do I get myself into these things?!’ In this case, there’s no need to wonder. I know exactly how I got myself into this. I f...
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