WE WON!

Yay!  Kammy from Kammy's Korner suggested I enter the upstairs vanity in her Tuesday trash-to-treasure contest last week.  After an hour of trying to figure out how to get the before and after pictures linked to her blog, I did it.  Since this Monday was a holiday, I thought today was Tues (it's Wed) and this morning when I got on her blog I was happy to see we won!  No prize, just the satisfaction of someone else liking the hard work that Cori and I have done.
I do want to mention that besides getting a lot of good deals at the Habitat Restore, one of my favorite places to find cooool stuff is at Second Chance Thrift Store in Laingsburg, MI.  Two sisters who grew up there opened it and will be celebrating their one year anniversary next week. Laingsburg is a little off the beaten path but worth it to visit.  After shopping at the thrift store, there are some good restaurants to get something to eat.  Whenever I stop by the store,  I always find unique or vintage furniture and great accesories.  Here are a few examples...

 

They get new things in daily and right now are working on different pieces of furniture with maps on them and vintage sewing machine tables made into game tables.  It is a good idea and they look great.

See ya..

The upstairs vanity before and after pictures

 

Something to add a little color to the winter landscape...

Cori brought this rebar tree with her from San Diego and we have been adding bottles since we have started working on the house.  (They all have been drunk for medicinal purposes only :)  )..  Even our neighbor has snuck over and added a few of her own!

It's the little things....

 The kitchen cabinets got put in this week. (beautiful!)  Waiting for the countertop.  In the meantime,  here's a picutre of the built in shelves behind the upstairs bathroom door.  What a difference paint makes...

Purple room no longer purple!

 

We liked the color of living room so much (and we had leftover paint) that we painted the purple room the same color.  Definitely more subtle.  We are going to get neutral carpet for all the upstairs bedrooms because we don't want to pull out the hundreds, maybe thousands, of nails that they used to hold down underlayment.

Finally got a picture..

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I finally got a picture taken today of the great bench that Cori made in the upstairs bath.  We took out the old vanity and mirrors and she built this instead.  It is awesome!

UPSTAIRS BATHROOM

Hello!  Happy 2012!  Except for little things, the upstairs bath is all done.  We are really proud of it.  After Cori made the bench with hooks for towels/robes, I made the old dressing table we got from Habitat into a vanity.  We used  the mirror that matched the downstairs bathroom dresser vanity for over the sink.  We were lucky one day at Lowes and found the exact size remnant we needed for the flooring and saved $50.  It looks like slate but is vinyl and cushiony to walk on.  The door is one of the coolest things.  We got it free when we went to buy another door for one of the bedrooms.  We decided to 'frost' the top window.  I happened to be on the internet and found that there was spray paint that frosted glass.  We thought we would try it since the door was free.  We found some vine-looking stencils that Cori stuck in the 4 corners and then she did the spray painting.  When it dried, in about 30 minutes, we removed the stencils and it came out great.  You can't see through it other than light.  It is pretty unique. 

  The plumbing was replaced in August in this corner in the bathroom and we put some planks on the wall that we had leftover from the ceiling in the downstairs bathroom.  We love the air compressor!

 I think I had posted a picture of the turquoise tub and sink before but wanted you to see the before/after side by side shots.  The new floor is more grayish than the picture shows.  We are pretty proud of this room.  We have to stop and stare at it whenever we walk by-ha!  I was going through my pictures and can't find the final project of Cori's bench.  I will take camera over there tomorrow and get one.  
Later...