Although we won’t be ready to rip into the bathroom for another couple of months, we’re already shopping around for a new bathroom sink. Currently, there’s a really big bathroom vanity (which at some point was painted black), counter top and sink in the Dream House’s one and only full bathroom. We want to rip out this big old sink and replace it with something smaller, lighter and perhaps more period friendly. Check out some of our top bathroom sink replacement choices below.
I’ve been struggling with a major design dilemma at the Dream House. While I have a fairly clear picture of how I want most of the rooms to look, I’m struggling with how to dress the windows. My usual approach to window coverings is to go high and wide. That is, hang long beautiful drapes that will reach the floor as high as you can get, just below the ceiling or crown molding, and much wider than the window itself. This treatment frames the window beautifully and often makes the room look taller.
By the time we finish renovating the Dream House, every single surface in it will have gotten a fresh coat of paint. Buoyed by the success of the freshly whitened wainscoting, I decided to tackle the stairs risers next. When we moved in, the risers were painted a dark, muddy brown. That brown may have worked when the walls in the stairway were painted a khaki color. Now that the walls are gray, however, the brown just wasn’t cutting it. Grab the roller and paint can – it’s time to lighted up the stairway!
Fueled by leftover roasted chicken and vegetables, we literally tore apart the bathroom cabinet. Let the bathroom renovation begin!
When I bought my Kindle Paperwhite more than a year ago, I had visions of cleaning out all of our dusty old books and enjoying a world of virtual book ownership. In reality, I downloaded just two books in my year as a Kindle owner. More often that not, I would pick up my neglected Kindle to find that it had sat idle so long that the battery was dead. I guess I’m just more of an old-fashioned book kind guy after all.
When I saw that I could trade my rarely used Kindle for a gift card to Amazon, it seemed like the perfect way to turn something old into something new. Here’s how the process works:
So how did it go? Well, I dropped my packaged Kindle at a UPS store last Saturday afternoon. I received an email letting me know that the gift card had been applied to my Amazon account yesterday (Thursday). Happily, the condition of my Kindle was upgraded to “like new.” I was given the $58.55 credit after all!
I originally paid $119 for the Kindle a little over a year ago. Being able to effortlessly sell it back was kind of a dream. Honestly, I wish I could do that with everything that I’ve bought and rarely used (side eye at all of the like new shoes in my closet). And with the $58 burning a hole in my virtual pocket, I’m already thinking about how I’ll spend it
Check out the Amazon Trade-In program for yourself*.
Image: Mr. and Mr. Blandings
*Full disclosure: If you follow the link and do actually sell something to the Amazon trade-in program, Mr. and Mr. Blandings will receive 4% of the value. We were not, however, compensated for this post.
Full disclosure part 2: Of the two books I downloaded to my Kindle, one was a silly novel about an actress and a directly falling in love. I just wanted to point that out in case you focus in on the words displayed on the Kindle in the photo above.
