{"id":669,"date":"2007-06-26T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/necessity-is-the-mother-of-interior-decoration"},"modified":"2007-10-20T22:27:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:27:57","slug":"necessity-is-the-mother-of-interior-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/necessity-is-the-mother-of-interior-decoration","title":{"rendered":"Necessity is the mother of interior decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I thought about trying to do &#8220;against my nature&#8221;: not have the apartment completely furnished the day I move in, or even the next day. I&#8217;d like to move in with just the bare necessities and then add as I notice I need or, more likely, miss having something around (be it coffee or hooks for the bathroom). Just because something has been a certain way at home doesn&#8217;t mean it has to be like that at my home.<\/p>\n<p>The other day as I was listing things I should get at one point or another, I thought of a stand or a wall holder for the roll of kitchen towels &#8212; that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve always had at home. Then I thought, why do I need one? Paper rolls tend to stand on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Why get all kinds of pots and pans if I&#8217;m never going to use them? Of course, if the guests are due in an hour, it may not be the best time to go shopping for a pie pan&#8230; I&#8217;d survive with just one coffee mug that I&#8217;d use for everything from orange juice to coffee and wash it every now and then, but I assure you, I&#8217;ll keep a few spare mugs and other tableware for guests.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">(See, I&#8217;m trying to be optimistic and not think I&#8217;m going to become a hermit. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_razz.gif\" alt=\":razz:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> )<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I thought about trying to do &#8220;against my nature&#8221;: not have the apartment completely furnished the day I move in, or even the next day. I&#8217;d like to move in with just the bare necessities and then add as I notice I need or, more likely, miss having something around (be it coffee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}