I think I watch too much HGTV. It can get me into trouble. This time, it is leading to a mini-renovation of the master bathroom. I say "mini" because we're leaving the floor, tile and tub as-is-- eventually, I want to gut the place and go higher-end, but not until we finish wrestling with and conquering the BIG cost of last year's kitchen redo.
So where can you get a fun and funky, but not especially costly new look? Why, IKEA of course! Off we go on Sunday. Just to look. Who am I kidding? In situations such as these, "just looking" most often turns into "let's do it now." I'm pretty decisive when I see what I want. It's a line of their bath "furniture" with a very unpronounceable and equally unspellable Swedish name, so I'll just call it modern and sleek, with birch wood and aluminum. Oh yeah, and we got some of those yummy lemon cookies while we were there.
John successfully tore out the old sink, vanity, medicine cabinet/mirror, towel rod, and over-toilet cabinet on Sunday. Then we painted. Or rather, he painted. I'm not allowed to paint walls and ceilings because I make a mess (fine arts degrees be damned). I did do the trim, though, last night. Looks pretty good. The wall color is sort of a deep aqua and the trim is off-white.
Of course, the beauty of modular furniture from IKEA is that you can combine pieces for many unique and personal looks. The downside of modular furniture is when you forget to buy all the pieces you need for that unique, personal look. So John, bless his soul, will trek again to IKEA tomorrow to get a few more things. We're both slightly afraid of the sink install, but we'll have our contractor's number at the ready, just in case a bad thing happens. In any event, I'm looking forward to having a working bathroom again. For now, I trek downstairs and use the sink in the half bath-- I reluctantly shower in John's bathroom under the risk of catching a fatal disease. His bathroom, I think, was once featured in Squalor Today magazine.
Once everything is done, I'll post some pictures.
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