2021: Year of DIY Projects in Review

 

I swear to goodness, wasn't I just wrapping up 2020's project review?!  Seriously.  Where the hell did this year go?  Dear me.  So now it's already that time yet again, I swear, ridiculous, to review the DIY projects from 2021.  Sheesh.  Yes, I am shaking my head as I type.

Honestly, I do find these wrap-ups and round-ups of the year helpful, for me anyway, hopefully for you too in case you missed something useful, as it reminds me that despite feeling like not much got done, something did.  

Although this year was a bit different as, well, dumb pinchy things, a myriad of other things required my attention and my DIY-ing lingered on the backburner.

Therefore, it does definitely for sure feel not much got done this year....as I look around the house in my mind's eye at various unfinished, started, lingering projects about.  Hm.  Here's hoping 2022 is a productive one!

All right, let's see what we've got here:

Back at the beginning of the year, I constructed a wall hanging organizing unit for the pantry and ya know what, that darn thing has worked out very very well.  

What's extra remarkable is that this thing has remained this tidy and organized since then, never once coming undone or looking a mess.  That, my friends, is a design success.  It's the little things, amiright?!

Already the urge to purge has hit majorly hard; I merely require the time so stay tuned for more organizing.

Aw, the fun little Dollar Store Wood Dowel Vases, that was a nifty project!  Part of what I love about it is that it's a blank slate idea -- take the basic premise and run with your imagination into an open field of endless creativity.

The high fidelity zone finally came together for me.  Whew.  Finally.  Well, again, I should say for now as I'm quite apt to redo.  And redo.  And redo.  And redo.

But for now, here, this works for me.  Whew, right?!

Heh, Mike and I had some fun building a simple shelf unit for over the kitchen cabinets in the spring.

Heh, we did, see?!

Or, I thought it was fun despite my math being off again and the ceiling not being true nor square.  Either way, the shelf remedies that bizarro no man's land between the top of the cabinets and the ceiling.  Feeling a repaint on that wall behind it coming on in three, two, ....

What else, what other 2021 DIY projects to review.

Oh I finally wrapped up the master bathroom shower saga!  That was a huge one.  Here's the final post but if you want to learn some excellent, valuable tips on how to build a stand up shower in a budgetarily friendly way, start here.

 

Due to the breakage of my store-bought one, a handy dandy pot lid storage rack got built.  It only took scrap wood and fifteen minutes and it's been working out well.  The real issue at hand is how difficult these corner cabinets are to organize and maximize to the best of their tricky abilities without spending a quadrillion dollars.

There were multiple projects in the ol' hovel of a laundry room, including this fancy pants plywood waterfall counter which in itself has solely made The Most Tremendous Difference.  As has that wildly happy stencil-painted wall.

But too, the low-budget DIY laundry room project got started and whoa, finished!  Well, sans a few touch-up's and maybe some quite minor tweaks but overall, it is done and I truly love that lil' ol' room now.  Laundry?  Nah, not so much, but the room, yes.

So far so good on the freshly painted front metal stairs outside though then again, we have been atypically free of winter-related weather so far this season in Chicago.  Still, I'm hoping this paint job survives else I might take the damn stair out for recycling.

There were other projects and a tool rant and some other stuff so please feel free to click on the 2021 archive in the right sidebar under The Flipping Past title if you're so inclined.

Mmm, but, so yeah, it feels that not very much was accomplished this 2021 and that's a frustrating feeling.  Again though, hoping by the time I reach the DIY Projects in Review for 2022, the list will be beefier.  

And as you can see, I did not pick up any new camera skills.  Someday.  Although, my camera skills for food photography improved, so there is that.

But please DIY Gods, please let the stair and the master bathroom get wrapped up this year, if anything, please, I beg of you!  What about you, what projects do you have lined up ahead?

Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, exhilarating, fun, DIY-filled New Year!  May all your dreams come true!