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If you’re looking for a bathroom vanity your search is over

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

What a coincidence. I made a post earlier this evening saying that Chris and I had sat down earlier today to talk about how we were going to finish our current renovation project and to talk about renovations that we’d like to do in the future and then I come across a website with a great selection of bathroom vanities. Perhaps we will have a beautiful bathroom in our basement one day.

The website is called Premiere Vanities and they carry a wide selection of single bathroom vanities and double bathroom vanities, as well as linen cabinets.

As I said earlier, our basement is unfinished except for having a roughed in basic bathroom and laundry area. The only other bathroom we have in our house is upstairs and it’s a very tiny bathroom. It would be a major undertaking to make our upstairs bathroom larger, but we might do that at some point. So if we want to have a really nice bathroom – a good sized one – it will have to be the basement bathroom.

We also don’t think we’ll be in this house forever and with that in mind finishing our current renovation projects and having two very nice bathrooms in the house will make our home more attractive to potential buyers.

Since our upstairs bathroom is tiny we need to have a small sink area.

Actually the vanity has to be small simply because the plumbing is located just inside the door, and then the toilet is right behind the sink at the back wall of the bathroom. The bathtub/shower runs alongside the opposite wall from the vanity and toilet with only about a foot and a half of space in between. So we have just enough room to swing the door open and then a narrow space to walk between the vanity and the tub to get to the toilet. The entire bathroom is perhaps 9 feet long by 5 or 6 feet wide. It’s small!

g-208_mahagony_300_300.jpg A wall mounted basin vanity would be perfect. The vanity to the right is made of mahogany and it’s has a sleek modern design. Not only that – it’s quite small. It’s only 18 7/8″w x 14 5/8″d in size and that would be perfect for our tiny upstairs bathroom.

vanity.jpg Another single vanity that would be great for a small bathroom is this Birch Wall Mount Vanity with Cherry Finish. It’s dimensions are larger at 35.5″w x 19.75″d x 15″h but since it’s wall mounted it would give the illusion of not taking up much space and would help make a small bathroom look larger.

We can make our basement bathroom quite large if we want to and since it could very well turn into our main bathroom it’s possible that we’d want to put in a double vanity.

Perhaps one like this beautiful Double Porcelain Sink Vanity:

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There are just so many vanities to choose from! As you can see I’m partial to modern and basin style vanities. However, if you happen to be looking for a bathroom vanity to either spruce up the look of your current bathroom or perhaps you are totally renovating your bathroom and you’d like to take a look at the selection at Premiere Vanities you’ll be pleased to discover that they have vanities to suit just about any decor. They have wood, antique, contemporary and traditional bathroom vanities.

Naturally before I got too excited about a particular vanity I checked to see if Premiere Vanities shipped to Canada and it appears that they do. I think it’s safe to say that they probably have clients throughout the USA and Canada.

I think I’ll be spending some time taking a good look at their selection of vanities and linen cabinets. Feel free to visit PremiereVanities.com yourself if you’re in the market for a new bathroom vanity.





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It’s well past time to finish our renovation projects

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

Since it’s so cold out today Chris and I spent some time talking about the renovations we’d like to do to our home.

Since our Living room / Dining room renovation project stalled three years ago we’ve been living with a ceiling that’s ready to have it’s tin ceiling installed, and walls that need floor and ceiling molding and quarter round done. We’ve got all the materials … it’s just as I said since we both went through periods of severe health problems we stalled. Big time.

So number one on our list is to finish the living room dining room renovations. Then we’ll move on to renovate our basement. We’ve got a bathroom and laundry area down there right now, but other wise it’s an unfinished basement.

The bathroom is really just a roughed in bathroom with a tiny shower stall and toilet. The sink is outside the washroom in the laundry area. So yeah, a really nice bathroom downstairs would be very nice. I definitely want to have a bathtub shower, a sink and some probably Grohe faucets to complete the look.

We still haven’t decided if we’ll put in a spare bedroom or just keep the majority of the space open and use it as a den/rec room. I’d like to have the spare bedroom, but as I’ve said many times our house is very small and even in the basement we don’t have a lot of space to fool around with. I guess we’ll have to think on things a bit more before we get started. Luckily we have that other project to finish first!

Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Recreation Tagged With: basement, bath, bathroom, bedroom, ceiling, Chris, cold out, Decor, dining room, faucet, home, house, install, living room, molding, problems, rec room, recreation room, renovate, renovation, shower, sink, small, spare bedroom, tin ceiling, toilet, tub

Our neighbors can’t sell their house!

January 8, 2008 by Tricia

Our neighbors who were trying to sell their home since late September finally took their house off the market. No one was interested in buying it.

We heard from one of the home owners that they had trouble selling because they have oil heating and their tank is very old and new owners won’t be able to get home insurance because of it … or something to that effect. So they’ve taken their home off the market until spring.

In the meantime they are replacing their oil heating with gas. They actually had the gas heating installed on Monday. Surprisingly it wasn’t all that noisy! Lucky for me.

We have oil heating as well and I guess we’ll either have to replace our tank in the near future or switch to gas heating. When we first bought our house I’d planned on switching to gas. I knew our oil tank was almost empty when we bought the house … unfortunately I didn’t know that the old owners were obligated to sell the home with a full oil tank and the tank was filled up the day we got the house I think! That kind of derailed my plans to switch over to gas since emptying the tank is supposed to be a pain.

Did you know that when we first bought this house the house beside us became vacant just a few months later? The former home owner had cancer and she passed away. At that time we considered buying our neighbors house as a second home that we could rent out for a few years and then eventually renovate both semi-detached homes to make them one home.

I guess now that I know what bad shape our neighbors home is in it’s a good thing we didn’t buy it five years ago!

I just hope that when they do sell their house that we get good quiet neighbors!

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Moving or Organizing, Real Estate, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: buy, buying, changing to gas heating, gas, gas heating, heat, home, home insurance, house, install, Insurance, neighbor, neighbors, noisy, off the market, oil heating, oil tank, renovate, second home, selling house, spring

Thinking of redecorating our middle bedroom

December 10, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been thinking of redecorating what I call our middle bedroom. We have three bedrooms upstairs – a small by modern standards master bedroom, a very tiny bedroom at the top of the stairs that’s just a little bigger than a really nice sized washroom and then there’s the middle bedroom which is just big enough to fit a double bed, a bedside table and a dresser with a little space to walk around.

Yeah, when I said we have small bedrooms I meant it!

Right now we’ve got our old double bed that we used when we lived in an apartment in that room. It’s nice but it’s a little outdated. I was thinking of either getting a Murphy bed that folds up against the wall – something nice that folds into a cabinet to give the room the look of a study when not being used as a bedroom or perhaps one of those modern platform beds. I’ve always loved the look of platform beds. Perhaps it would be better suited to our slightly larger master bedroom though.

If you were about to redo a small bedroom that wasn’t used often which way would you go? Murphy bed to give the room more function and space, or a platform bed?

Filed Under: Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: bedroom, Decor, decorating, middle bedroom, modern, murphy bed, platform bed, redecorating, small, small bedroom, spare bedroom, study

Maybe we’ll have a ceiling over our heads this weekend

September 28, 2007 by Tricia

Well if I’m really really really lucky sometime this weekend I might finally get my tin ceiling put up in the living room dining room. Hey, I’ve only been waiting three years!

Gosh I hope we have enough tin ceiling tiles!

We have a good friend who’s a carpenter. He’s going to be bringing over all his special tools like his Ingersoll Rand air tools, and laser leveler and I’m sure that the ceiling will be up in no time. We’ve already got the 1 x 2″ up and leveled so it should be easy to put up the ceiling tiles.

Wow, I can’t wait. The whole room will look different! All we’ll have to do to complete the living room will be put the baseboards and molding on after that.

Maybe I will be able to decorate for Christmas this year.

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation Tagged With: ceiling, ceiling tiles, Chris, christmas, Decor, decorate, dining room, laser, living room, look, molding, tin ceiling, weekend

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