The outside of our building looks like a forest green residential Pizza Hut circa 1970. Normally this doesn't bother me because I don't spend much time outside on the street staring at the building. The one area of exception to my general exterior apathy is the wall separating our deck from the neighbor's. Every time I go out on the deck it taunts me. "Look at me!" it says, "I somehow manage to embody both cheesy disco *and* incredible blandness!"
I didn't want to spend all summer staring at the Donny and Marie of walls.
Like any good
procrastinator urban gardening beginner I went online to look for potential solutions and discovered this
vertical pallet garden. Go ahead. Click through. Admire the photographic evidence of its awesomeness and check out the tutorial. I'll be right here when you get back.
Amazing right? Cheap, environmentally friendly, good use of vertical space, creative, will totally hide a wall. Everything I needed.
Here's what gave me pause, though: I found this project on
Pinterest. I love Pinterest but it's a
volatile sort of love. Partly because some of the projects are straight up ridiculous (just because you
can make
everything in creation out of mason jars doesn't mean you
should). Partly because knowing that there are people in this world who run fifteen miles before making their kids a themed organic breakfast on a daily basis gives me an inferiority complex. But mostly because a lot of the projects on Pinterest that look simple and doable are not at all simple and doable. At least for me. I am the type of pinner who would accidentally
take off half her eyebrow when trying a DIY facial.