sneak peek

"I'll make you a deal; you let me have our fantasy football draft party at our house, and I'll have the entire kitchen/bath finished before then."

Deal.

Well, back-up - It's not as if Shaun had to ask me if he could really have people over; I think he was just trying to make the notion of having our house taken over for an extended period of time; AKA - I would have to reside elsewhere for half the day, LOL, a little more appealing!

The next logical step? Menards.

Last weekend we made our way over to everyone's favorite DIY store in search of a vanity for the small bath. The vanity we currently have is fine (aside from it's size, but more concerning, it's ugly finish!), thus, we were looking for something small & updated (although not too modern or Ikea-ish).

We found it, we found the PERFECT vanity! It was half the depth of our current base & soooo pretty. In the cart it went...along with an additional $300 worth of stuff? Whaaaaat?

No, stop; this wasn't supposed to happen! We JUST wanted the vanity! But then we needed to get this, that, and everything else to make it work.

With the brink of student teaching on the near horizon; translation for: we'll be poor; we decided it's only smart to save the $500 worth of materials we had in our cart (sigh - yes, this also means putting back the beloved vanity), and work with the leftover material we have at home.

So here's a look see at what we're workin' with:

 

Now picture it; painting the vanity a light brown (left over paint), the walls the same color as our adjoining room (a light teal), clean up the trim with a fresh coat of white paint, and heck, I might even leave the ceiling white, too;)

Sneak peek of progress so far:

A little bit better, right? I guess it would have been nice if I took the same angle, but come on, it was just a sneak peek!!!

In closing; TGIF!!!!