About two weeks ago, Andy dragged me to the Habitat for Humanity store…it’s kind of like the Reuse Center in AA, but not quite as cool. We were looking for an exterior door with windows to put in the living room. It’s too cold to leave the back door open, but we both really like the extra light. So, we thought, how about a door with windows? The only door we found that was the right size had a creepy doorknob that didn’t work and wouldn’t really come out too easily. We found another door we liked, but it was about an inch too wide. We walked around the store while we pondered if it was worth it to try and cut it down.
One of my favorite areas of the store is the tile room. We headed there next. They have tons of ceramic tiles, but most are white or off white or some nasty color. This time, though, we found some groovy green tiles…and then some groovy yellow tiles. They are sorta like lemon and lime colors. Not all the green ones match exactly, and the little tiles we found to go around the top definitely don’t all match, but it’s close enough. We managed to find enough to hopefully tile about halfway up the walls in the upstairs bathroom. We’ll paint above that. We also want to put in tile floors, but I think we’ll have to buy those from a real place because I have in mind what I want, and I doubt they’ll show up at the HforH store. Good thing the room has little floor space, so it shouldn’t be too pricey.
After we had paid (10 cents a tile, bay-bee!), we were headed out when we saw this:
If you look closely at the left front foot, you’ll see it’s broken. No problem. The vanity is sort of high, so noone will even notice when all the feet are taken off. Then, it’s good as new. The sink on top is a nice, heavy ceramic sink that sits into the top of the vanity. The vanity itself seems to be made fairly well; it is probably laminated particle board or something, but it’s very very nice. We should be able to use our old faucet on it for now, but eventually we’d like to get something a little more cool.
Then, last week, we were at Lowes and spotted the clearance shower curtain section. The shower curtain that was left in the upstairs bathroom was very girly and froofy and had roses in all phases of blooming on it. There were some that were sort of open that looked to me like giant monsters with gaping mouths. It was kinda scary. But hey, Lowes had shower curtains on clearance! Andy was really entranced with this one curtain: pink background with little purple crowns all over it. He was very excited that there were even matching purple crown hooks to hang the curtain. Then he noticed…the curtain had “Princess” written on it over and over and over again between the purple crowns. Even then, he hesitated putting the curtain back. Those purple crowns were really calling his name, I guess.
We ended up with this one. You can see Andy holding up some of the tiles in front of the curtain. Not sure if they go together, but the curtain will probably fall apart before we get around to putting the tile in.
