{"id":1731,"date":"2009-10-18T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T22:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/10\/ten-quid-cupboard\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T22:05:11","slug":"ten-quid-cupboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"Ten Quid Cupboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a particular space to fill next to the sofa in our new house, and wanted a low sideboard to house our extensive and exotic booze collection, which up until now has been gathering dust on the floor in a corner. However the space is only 82cm wide and most pieces of suitable furniture we&#8217;ve seen are at least a metre wide, and often too tall compared to the 69cm high sofa.<\/p>\n<p>We set off on Saturday with a medium length list of places to try in our grim search for just the right solution, but we struck lucky at our first stop: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmaus.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmaus<\/a> in St Albans. This place is basically a second hand furniture shop with fairly rapid turnover, but it&#8217;s more than just that, being run as a community to get homeless people back on their feet. We&#8217;ve been a couple of times before and not found anything for us, but this time round for <strong>just \u00a310<\/strong> we came away with an 84 cm wide cupboard that sits just perfectly in our previously empty space.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340120a5f2c692970b\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e5550e015888340120a5f2c692970b \" alt=\"EmmausCupboard\" title=\"EmmausCupboard\" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340120a5f2c692970b-800wi\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that 2cm too wide you may ask? Yes, so I had to remove the beading at the edge of the laminate floor to make enough room for a very snug fit.<\/p>\n<p>Our collection of exotic and nauseous booze will now reside within, perhaps lying undisturbed for decades until young teenagers nick it late at night. And so the cycle repeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a particular space to fill next to the sofa in our new house, and wanted a low sideboard to house our extensive and exotic booze collection, which up until now has been gathering dust on the floor in a corner. However the space is only 82cm wide and most pieces of suitable furniture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}