Things are moving along so quickly and I am so busy, I can’t keep up with posting everything. The stonework and stucco have been done for a coupla weeks. Now we are working on getting the cabinets installed, putting the Trex on the deck, installing the final lighting and seeing if the electrical stuff all works (appears it does). Installing bathroom vanities and figuring out where to get a vanity top for a wierd sized bathroom vanity.
Home improvement stores are great for getting alot of things one needs for a house. You have to be careful not to get the cheapest thing, because then they don’t work, or they break, but if you are careful, you can furnish a lot of your house with stuff you can get there. We went to a fancy lighting place where they heaped us with catalogs to see if we could find anything we liked. We went to Home Depot and Lowes and found exactly what we wanted, and I’m sure it cost quite a bit less than what the fancy lighting store would charge us.
However, there are certain drawbacks. If you want something less expensive and right off the shelf, then you have to go with standard measurements. For example, bathroom vanities come in up to 5 sizes: 24 in., 30 in, 36 in, 48 in and sometimes even in 60 in widths. In the boys’ bathroom, the 60 in works great as the space is 60 1/2 ” wide. However, the vanity top comes in 61 in widths. To get it to fit just right we would either have to have one custom made (which the home improvement stores can also do, but at quite a cost) or improvise. We chose to improvise. We will cut out a piece of sheet rock on both walls, slide the vanity in the opening and then cover the cuts with side piece splash guards that one can also purchase. Problem solved there.
However, the problem is not so easily solved in the guest bathroom. The space for the vanity is 33.5″. Remember, one of the standard widths is 30″, and then it jumps to 36″. What to do? Well, we decided to get a 30″ vanity and put a face frame on either side to cover up the left over space. But then there is the issue of the vanity top. No 33.5″ tops. Ray had Lowe’s price out a custom top and it was somewhere in the $400 range for a 33.5″ top. We could have our granite guy who is doing our kitchen do one using left over granite from another job, but the room is blue and most granite is earth tones (browns, tans, reds, greens) Won’t exactly go. There’s always formica (ugh, cheap looking) and I don’t know that we would save that much.
Decisions, decisions. See, isn’t this fun!
