I remember when Brady and I were looking at our house as a potential home to purchase. It was the perfect location right on the farm and it had three acres complete with a woods and a barn. Brady was is hog heaven...I on the other hand couldn't get past the wallpaper, shag carpet, funeral home curtains, and old person smell. We ended up buying it and we have done a ton of work, our house really is a home and I love it! I have learned that the work is never done on an old farm house and a year later the remodeling continues!
When we bought the house we were very pleased with the large guest bathroom. It was complete with a large vanity, double sink, linen closet, and nice shower and bathtub. It also was complete with celery green shag carpet (yes...in a bathroom!), an old person shower sprayer (you know, the one on a long hose so you can wash all your nooks and crannies...like under your saggy boobs or your wrinkly balls), a light fixture that hung from the ceiling by a long chain, and both sinks had that really modern metal ring around them (insert sarcasm here), oh and of course there was a nice white countertop with celery green swirls on it to match the carpet.
We didn't have a ton of money to gut the bathroom and start over, and we really did like the layout...we just wanted to make it a little more modern and a little less hippie. We painted the walls a high gloss chocolate brown, replaced the light fixture, installed tile flooring, and put up a new shower curtain and it looked so much better. We still had the same vanity, sinks, and top...but all the other wonderfulness in the bathroom took away from those things and it wasn't a big deal to us at all.
In January I noticed some humps in the floor...great. Turns out that there was a sneaky little leak behind one of the sinks and it was constantly dripping behind the wall, in turn getting soaked up by the sponge-like particle board. We tore out the flooring and found out that the subfloor was sopping wet, we then tore that out, and tore out the vanity and found mold. So of course that led to tearing out drywall and spraying bleach water on everything.
We since have gotten the floor replaced and now we are going to install a new vanity. Brady and I went to Lowe's last night and picked everything out. It is a custom size vanity so everything had to be special ordered but it should be here in 2 weeks! I can't wait!
Where we saved a ton of money on this remodel though, is that we are going to use a custom Formica countertop with two drop in sinks. If we would have gotten a custom order bathroom vanity top with the two sinks built in, it would have cost us between $570 and $827 depending on the material. And there were only about 20 choices. Using a kitchen countertop gave us hundreds of choices, and it was so much cheaper. We upgraded the standard Formica by adding a high gloss finish and a custom edge on the front and it still only cost $143.49. But of course we didn't pay that...hello do you know me? I had a 10% off coupon for Lowe's so our bathroom countertop only cost $129.14 before tax! We had to buy two sinks then since they weren't built into the countertop but those were fairly inexpensive and we still came out way ahead!
Our bathroom upgrade will end up costing a grand total of just under $1000, but with payment from our homeowners insurance Brady and I will pay substantially less than that.
This whole bathroom remodel could have been super stressful...and it was at times. Especially when we found out we needed a "custom size", but everything has turned out wonderfully and I can't wait till everything arrives in a couple weeks and get it all installed!
Here is everything we bought at Lowe's...all for 10% off BABY!
When we bought the house we were very pleased with the large guest bathroom. It was complete with a large vanity, double sink, linen closet, and nice shower and bathtub. It also was complete with celery green shag carpet (yes...in a bathroom!), an old person shower sprayer (you know, the one on a long hose so you can wash all your nooks and crannies...like under your saggy boobs or your wrinkly balls), a light fixture that hung from the ceiling by a long chain, and both sinks had that really modern metal ring around them (insert sarcasm here), oh and of course there was a nice white countertop with celery green swirls on it to match the carpet.
We didn't have a ton of money to gut the bathroom and start over, and we really did like the layout...we just wanted to make it a little more modern and a little less hippie. We painted the walls a high gloss chocolate brown, replaced the light fixture, installed tile flooring, and put up a new shower curtain and it looked so much better. We still had the same vanity, sinks, and top...but all the other wonderfulness in the bathroom took away from those things and it wasn't a big deal to us at all.
In January I noticed some humps in the floor...great. Turns out that there was a sneaky little leak behind one of the sinks and it was constantly dripping behind the wall, in turn getting soaked up by the sponge-like particle board. We tore out the flooring and found out that the subfloor was sopping wet, we then tore that out, and tore out the vanity and found mold. So of course that led to tearing out drywall and spraying bleach water on everything.
We since have gotten the floor replaced and now we are going to install a new vanity. Brady and I went to Lowe's last night and picked everything out. It is a custom size vanity so everything had to be special ordered but it should be here in 2 weeks! I can't wait!
Where we saved a ton of money on this remodel though, is that we are going to use a custom Formica countertop with two drop in sinks. If we would have gotten a custom order bathroom vanity top with the two sinks built in, it would have cost us between $570 and $827 depending on the material. And there were only about 20 choices. Using a kitchen countertop gave us hundreds of choices, and it was so much cheaper. We upgraded the standard Formica by adding a high gloss finish and a custom edge on the front and it still only cost $143.49. But of course we didn't pay that...hello do you know me? I had a 10% off coupon for Lowe's so our bathroom countertop only cost $129.14 before tax! We had to buy two sinks then since they weren't built into the countertop but those were fairly inexpensive and we still came out way ahead!
Our bathroom upgrade will end up costing a grand total of just under $1000, but with payment from our homeowners insurance Brady and I will pay substantially less than that.
This whole bathroom remodel could have been super stressful...and it was at times. Especially when we found out we needed a "custom size", but everything has turned out wonderfully and I can't wait till everything arrives in a couple weeks and get it all installed!
Here is everything we bought at Lowe's...all for 10% off BABY!
Our new vanity...I love the dark wood and how it looks kind of like a dresser with the drawers.
This is the countertop that we ordered...isn't it so gorgeous!?
We ordered two of these sinks.
And 2 of these faucets will top everything off!
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