If you are visiting from another blog, I’m so glad that you are here and welcome!! Myself and 8 other bloggers have teamed up for a Winter Home Tour. We are showcasing some of our favorite winter decorating ideas and how we are using them in our own homes. {links at the end of this post}
Over the summer we decided to put our tax return towards a 10 yr dream…new kitchen countertops!!!! We wanted to cut down a stepped up bar top, that was absolutely useless, and make it a counter height peninsula. Much work went into that process but that is a story for another day. There is still much to be done like the subway tile back splash as you can see in the following pics. When I was making my decision I couldn’t find any information on these counters. I love to read reviews, I won’t buy something if I can’t read a review and yet I never write them. I am changing that with this post. I hope that it helps someone making this same decision.
We still needed to be frugal as we didn’t have enough of the green stuff to make an extravagant choice. While marble or another light colored stone was my first choice, there were reasons why that wouldn’t work…. Read more
The builder’s grade bathroom in our tract house was in dire need of a makeover, but we didn’t have very much money to spend. We had already taken out the carpet and added tile. Ewwww, why do they put carpet in bathrooms??? We needed to keep it simple and just work with the vanity that we had. It had a giant mirror and a light fixture that was sufficient for open heart surgery, you know the kind. The MDF cabinet doors were swollen from water damage. To sum it up…. it was gag and vomit!! Here is the before…. Read more
I needed to fix these MDF cabinet doors. Once the finish is gone and they get wet the area swells up and disintegrates. When you paint them it swells up again. I needed a solution. Here is the before… Read more
When we updated our bathroom I wanted to do something to make the vanity look like furniture. We added these wood feet from Lowe’s Shop this link
They were a little too wide for the depth of the toe kick recess. The fix was to add a piece of quarter round to the bottom of the cabinet face and trim a litte off the back side of the feet. Read more