Ensuite vanity project :)

One day I had this crazy idea about getting an old dresser and making a vanity out of it. Blame pinterest lol.

I hunted for a while and saw this one at a second hand furniture store. It was painted cream and had some awful lino stuck to the top. Initially I thought it was too low for what we wanted but after looking at a few vanities in stores, I realsied that it wasn't, so went back and bought it. The frame that held the mirror on had split the timber so we cut that off and the mirror will be mounted on the wall.

Today I started stripping the paint...

These handles are absolutely GORGEOUS! The detail was disguised under so much paint! They had painted blue at one stage too.


Sooooo anyhow now that they have been stripped back, I'm not sure if I want them timber coloured. Mostly because there isn't much contrast between the timber and the handles...I think I'll paint it white again lol but in my defence the paint job was really awful!

The trenches for the garage slab have been excavated. Now we have to wait for the rain to stop so we can box it up and pour the concrete.

After a bit of a delay due to some mis-placed paperwork, we finally have our gas meter!

Kitchen cupboard handles and the tap have been fitted also :)

Yet another catch up post!

Very busy couple of weeks at the house! Trev took holidays so we could get the tiling done and I'm very pleased to say that the bathrooms and laundry are done and it looks pretty fantastic!

Progressive shot of tiling in the bathroom...

Tiling in the laundry is done except for some flexible grout along the plinth...

...aaaand tiling in the ensuite!

J the carpenter has been putting on door knobs and doing the skirting and acrhitraves. They make SUCH a difference OMG!

We have doors!

They are mostly hung and to quickly show you one - this is the laundry door :)

Putting the cabinets in. Part 3 - kitchen wall cupboards and plinths!

I have a new respect for the contestants on Survivor who have to do those endurance tests where the person who holds something up in the air for the longest wins. I seriously struggled holding the wall cabinets up in position while they were being fixed. Really struggled to hold them straight. After taking a break and deciding it wasn't working, the man had an idea and made up a frame the height of the gap to rest them on. The frame sat on the cabinet and I just held it steady instead of trying to do that and help hold it up. It worked brilliantly and the wall cabinets were hung in minutes without any more burning arm pain for either of us!


Looking awesome with the doors attached :)

Next job was to get the plinths measured and cut, the edging ironed on then attach them to the legs. My iron hasn't seen this much action in years!

Paint fail :(

Among my googling and pinning inspiration marathons, I saw a great looking laundry room with similar tiles, cabinets and cabinet doors to what we planned for ours. I really liked how it had green walls so we decided to copy that and got some green paint. We looked and scrutinised samples and chose a colour. After one coat we decided it was awful lol.

The main mistake we made *I think* was doing the sample next to the door in the bright light. That area looked alright like it does in the photo but the darker areas, such as in the loo, were very unappealing. I still want green so Trev tipped a heap of ceiling white in and it is now more of a dark mint instead of flouro milo tin green and a lot kinder to the eyes. I'm sure that it will be less in your face with the doors, skirtings and tiles on too. One can hope lol and if not we can tip some more ceiling white in and do another coat ;) (will get photo soon as I have had a day off from housing due to the flu).

Putting the cabinets in. Part 2 - Kitchen!

Looking fabulous :)

The peninsula has been fixed to the wall next to the window and we might rig up some kind of timber frame to secure it to the floor ar the far end because it seems a bit unstable at the legs. Possibly we are being a bit paranoid and the weight of the stone bench tops will stop that movement, but I don't think you can over do that kind of stuff.

Because this is the first time we have ever installed a kitchen, we decided to fit the dishwasher so that we could make certain our bench was level and perfectly straight too. Because of the integrated door, we had to *****drumroll***** fit the very first handle. That really wasn't all that bad and now we look forward to drilling holes in all the other doors and drawers. I must add that the paranoia of messing it up was lessened somewhat by discovering that the door had been damaged somehow. There was a gauge out of the cardboard and it has a chip in the paint at the bottom :(