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For Your Home – Sinks and Vanities

February 14, 2010 By

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 bathroom sinks had to be white. A glass bowl sitting on a sheet of tempered glass, with just the faucet and pipes to indicate that it’s a sink and not a piece of modern sculpture? Way cool.

So, if you’re looking to update your bathroom, one of the ways you can really bring your decor into this century is with one of the modern bathroom vanities from UniqueVanities. Unfortunately they did not offer to send me one to review personally, so all I have to go on is the photos on their website, but what I see is pretty darn cool. The site strives to provide the “Best Customer Service in the World”, so they encourage phone calls or emails if you have questions. Reviewing the site has opened my eyes to the possibilities – now I want to redecorate my bathroom!

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I have the COOLEST BATHROOM MIRROR EVER

June 2, 2008 By

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 where he can see a piece of furniture in his head, and BUILD IT.

So, fast forward back to the bathroom makeover. The mirror in that bathroom is a huge square, and on the bottom edge, the reflective coating had worn off somehow leaving an ugly black slash. While discussing the bathroom decor, I lamented that I didn’t want to have to buy a new mirror when we had a perfectly good one, but that I hated that huge black scratch. Chris says, let me think about it.
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A few days later, we go to Home Depot. He says, I had an idea for the mirror. What if we bought some …and I…and then I…? How would that look? I say gee, I don’t know about that. So we went and looked at the…and found something really unique, and he said, I could… I said really? Go for it!
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It took him a few evenings and this past weekend to finish. See if you can guess based on this list of items that were involved:

  • Two pieces of 1 1/2 inch wood trim
  • A can of polyurethane wood stain
  • A Miter saw
  • A small paintbrush
  • Acrylic paint in dark green and red

Have you guessed yet? Let me give you another hint:

When he showed me the final result, I was ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY. I mean people, honestly. I challenge you to show me another person you know that has a bathroom mirror that looks like this:

Again, let me stress, made completely by hand by MY HUSBAND. He sat in the garage for hours dabbing paint onto those leaves and dotting each little depression in the wood with red paint. This man has MAD CRAFT SKILLZ, YO.

And I have the COOLEST BATHROOM MIRROR EVER.

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

May 27, 2008 By

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. falling and breaking myself. But I did it:

After the corners dried I did the first coat and then after about three hours, Chris did the second coat. I was so surprised at how much lighter the color looked with that second coat, and now I’m really happy with the color.

BEFORE:

The lighting is bad because it’s such a small room and the main lights are the vanity bulbs above the sink, but this is AFTER, you should hopefully be able to see the difference:

I’m still trying to decide what to do with this wall, I looked for some kind of multiple-towel-holder thingy at Home Depot, but all they had was ones that hang over the door, which doesn’t work in this bathroom because it’s a pocket door, the kind that slides open and closed. So, I’m still looking.

I’m SO glad we did this! Now we’ve caught the home improvement bug. We had to restrain ourselves from redoing every room in the house while we were at Home Depot! I’ve got plans for the kitchen, OH, do I have PLANS for that ugly white kitchen, and now I’m not afraid to try it, either! GO ME!!

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