For Your Home – Sinks and Vanities

Bathroom Vanity

UniqueVanities.com contacted me through Sponsored Reviews about reviewing their website, so I was thinking, how can I relate personally to a site that sells bathroom sinks and vanities? Then I remembered  - I was watching some TV  show really late the other night - one of the CSIs, probably - and they were looking in the victim's bathroom, and the sink looked exactly like the vessel sinks that UniqueVanities wanted me to check out. Have you seen these?   What I find so fascinating is that while traditional bathroom sinks are either square or round and are almost always made of marble or porcelain, vessel sinks can be glass, stone, metal, all kinds of different shapes and colors. Did you know that bathroom vanities can look like a piece of antique furniture or like something from a science fiction movie? They can have embossed inlays, sections of stamped metal, be made of tempered glass - I had no idea. I thought bathroom cabinets came in different shades of wood laminate and that … [Read more...]

I have the COOLEST BATHROOM MIRROR EVER

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You guys. Seriously. Remember just before Memorial Day weekend when I blogged about my upcoming bathroom makeover? How I was painting the boring white walls, and trying to figure out how to make the small bathroom look more interesting? Well. Just wait until you see. I have to backtrack a bit, not much, just enough to give you some background info on my husband. Regular readers know that my husband, in addition to being the best husband and Dad I could have ever imagined (I know, awwww), has this special talent. He builds furniture. Yes, furniture. Like, about six years ago, we needed a new coffee table really badly, so one Saturday morning he got up, sketched one out on a piece of paper, drove to Home Depot, came home, and in about five hours, we had a coffee table. The frame that our mattress and box springs sits on? Made by Chris in a couple of hours out in the driveway after another impromptu stop at Home Depot. My computer stand? Again, made by Chris. He just has this thing … [Read more...]

I did it! I painted a bathroom! Go me.

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You know, it seems like 41 is the age where I stop being afraid to try new things and just TRY them already, like figuring out Photoshop and changing blog themes, and this weekend, painting. I am so obsessive about things being just right, I was sure I would never be able to paint a room and be happy with the way it looks. So I was happy to prove myself wrong this past weekend when I, with a generous amount of help from my husband, painted our main bathroom! I picked a paint from Behr called "Sonata", a medium blue. The sample on the paint can lid looked like this: I was surprised how dark the first coat looked, we were worried we had chosen a color that was too dark. Compared to the paint on the brush, the wall looked SO dark: It was SUPER fun painting the wall above the shower, standing on the top step of a stepstool, because of course, shower floors aren't flat, they curve in towards the drain. So that was a fun few minutes for me, as I am afraid of 1. heights 2. … [Read more...]