Bathrooms and Starbucks!
Coconut creme frappuccino - meh. I don't see what the big deal is, and I'm a total coconut lover. I never even go to Starbucks, because it's shitty and overpriced and I don't even like coffee - but sooo many people have been raving about this frapp.. I decided to see what the fuss was about. What a colossal waste of $5. Hot on the heels of dropping $1500 on my SIXTEEN year old car. I swear if this car doesn't last me another 5 years.. there's going to be hell to pay.
In other news, the day after tomorrow is exactly one year since we closed on our house. Ha........ and I still haven't posted about it. That's typical. :) Monday marks one year since we finished painting and moved in and actually lived here! We're getting some estimates Saturday on fixing/updating our master bathroom. Last winter we had a major problem with the pipes in our shower freezing right behind the knob.
Anyway, we couldn't figure out how the fuck the people before us lived with it, because it's not like last year was the first winter it was ever cold. We live in Illinois, winters here are terrible. So what we did to handle the problem until spring, which got pushed into late summer as you can see, was to take the knob off and run a space heater in the bathroom whenever it got below 12 degrees to keep the pipes from freezing. And sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, and then when it didn't we got to use the blow dryer to unfreeze the pipes. Which really sucked at 6 am. Actually, it sucked all the time. but anyway, I digress.
I just realized I should have posted this from my computer upstairs that has all the pictures on it, not my husband's downstairs. I'll just swipe some from my facebook. So, when we moved in, the bathroom looked like this:
Oh, the WHOLE HOUSE had white walls. And not freshly painted, clean slate for the new buyers white walls. The same boring ass white walls from when it was built in 1998. And both bathrooms came WITH FLORAL BORDER. What the fff. Our bathroom also boasts the same oak cabinets in the vanity with horrible brass and fake oak handles that match the fake oak trim and the fake oak doors that are in the whole rest of the house, and what's not pictured is a massive 3 doored mirrored medicine cabinet, and the kind of lights that no one needs in a bathroom unless you're doing stage make-up. Plus, ugh @ shower doors. First things first, we took the doors out, then we painted the bathroom a light blue. We also got a rain shower head and one of those shower curtain rods that curves outward to give you a little more breathing room in the shower without being all on top of the curtain. So after it looked like this:
I love that shower curtain. So anyway, the rest of the bathroom stayed the same, same vanity, toilet, tile floor, mirror, and lights. So now when the guys come to give us estimates, they have to rip out the shower/tub insert to get into the wall to move/insulate the pipes. We're going to have them do a walk in shower (we never take baths, we just aren't the bubble bath types) after they finish up the insulating, and repaint the bathroom and retile the floors. We've decided to keep the vanity, toilet and medicine cabinet, because we have a lot of bathroom stuff and while the cute fancy streamlined bathroom setups make me drool, there's no way we could live without storage. We do plan to get different lighting tho, less in your face brightness, and to change the hardware on the drawers and doors. Brass makes me kinda gag. We'll see how the estimates go, we aren't looking to spend a whole lot. I think our best shot is my best friend's ex-husband, who does really nice work but she just told me today that after months of being out of work, he got a job in Chicago, so I'm not sure how his availability will be. Fingers crossed!
In other news, the day after tomorrow is exactly one year since we closed on our house. Ha........ and I still haven't posted about it. That's typical. :) Monday marks one year since we finished painting and moved in and actually lived here! We're getting some estimates Saturday on fixing/updating our master bathroom. Last winter we had a major problem with the pipes in our shower freezing right behind the knob.
Anyway, we couldn't figure out how the fuck the people before us lived with it, because it's not like last year was the first winter it was ever cold. We live in Illinois, winters here are terrible. So what we did to handle the problem until spring, which got pushed into late summer as you can see, was to take the knob off and run a space heater in the bathroom whenever it got below 12 degrees to keep the pipes from freezing. And sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, and then when it didn't we got to use the blow dryer to unfreeze the pipes. Which really sucked at 6 am. Actually, it sucked all the time. but anyway, I digress.
I just realized I should have posted this from my computer upstairs that has all the pictures on it, not my husband's downstairs. I'll just swipe some from my facebook. So, when we moved in, the bathroom looked like this:
Oh, the WHOLE HOUSE had white walls. And not freshly painted, clean slate for the new buyers white walls. The same boring ass white walls from when it was built in 1998. And both bathrooms came WITH FLORAL BORDER. What the fff. Our bathroom also boasts the same oak cabinets in the vanity with horrible brass and fake oak handles that match the fake oak trim and the fake oak doors that are in the whole rest of the house, and what's not pictured is a massive 3 doored mirrored medicine cabinet, and the kind of lights that no one needs in a bathroom unless you're doing stage make-up. Plus, ugh @ shower doors. First things first, we took the doors out, then we painted the bathroom a light blue. We also got a rain shower head and one of those shower curtain rods that curves outward to give you a little more breathing room in the shower without being all on top of the curtain. So after it looked like this:
I love that shower curtain. So anyway, the rest of the bathroom stayed the same, same vanity, toilet, tile floor, mirror, and lights. So now when the guys come to give us estimates, they have to rip out the shower/tub insert to get into the wall to move/insulate the pipes. We're going to have them do a walk in shower (we never take baths, we just aren't the bubble bath types) after they finish up the insulating, and repaint the bathroom and retile the floors. We've decided to keep the vanity, toilet and medicine cabinet, because we have a lot of bathroom stuff and while the cute fancy streamlined bathroom setups make me drool, there's no way we could live without storage. We do plan to get different lighting tho, less in your face brightness, and to change the hardware on the drawers and doors. Brass makes me kinda gag. We'll see how the estimates go, we aren't looking to spend a whole lot. I think our best shot is my best friend's ex-husband, who does really nice work but she just told me today that after months of being out of work, he got a job in Chicago, so I'm not sure how his availability will be. Fingers crossed!