Archive for July, 2007

The bathroom is further along, but I’m afraid I’ve deviated a bit from the original plan! I hated the lights above the medicine cabinet, so I bought a new fixture for $30 from Lowes. We had to take the cabinet down to install the new light, and then realized that we couldn’t put it back [...]

I painted the bathroom a few days ago. It looks much more blue than I thought it would. Oops. Here’s what the bathroom looks like so far… That’s “Antiguan Sky” from Benjamin Moore. It’s a pretty blue/green color that I pulled from the shower curtain, but it’s much brighter than I was expecting. It doesn’t [...]

Julieta asked how I would finish her (already lovely) kitchen in the comments of my last post. I do already have an idea of her style because we’ve been working on a web project together over at Smart & Lovely, and hey – I was up for a fun distraction. She’s already transformed her bland, [...]

No, exactly the same size! Ba dum bum. There was a breadbox in the kitchen at the family lake house, and I really liked it. When we returned home, I started searching on eBay for something similar. I lost the first one that I bid on (it ended up going for $125!), but I won [...]

A few years ago, my mother-in-law (thanks, Helen!) gave me a little stainless steel set that I believe was her mother’s. It had a little tray with salt and pepper shakers, and a sugar bowl. Well, I thought it was a sugar bowl. I was cleaning it today, and I decided to google the manufacturer’s [...]