February 6, 2010: Shopping

When we bought the house, I thought we'd be able to spend most of our time working on it. Instead, we spend quite a bit of time shopping for it. We have a detailed plan for each room, and thankfully, we agree on a lot of these plans. So, when it's time to shop, we're looking for something very specific to meet our needs. We never impulse-buy the first thing we see; we price check and compare quality before we make up our minds. While successful in saving us money, finding the best product, and making us happy, it is time consuming.

We set out on our shopping journey:

First, we went to a fireplace store for research purposes. We want to use the wood-burning fireplace to heat as much as possible. At this point, we considered a wood-burning stove insert. We found one we liked in case we do end up going that route.

Next, we went to the Re-use Center to see what we could find. We found a lot of white crown moulding that could work in the basement.

Then, we went to Menards and found the sinks we want for our upstairs bathroom. Nate's all about a calm house - no loud, bright colors - just clean, relaxing, zen-feeling rooms.

The next stop was the Ashley furniture store to see what they have to offer for our living room in the basement.

Finally before returning home, we went to Lowe's and found a Bosch dryer on clearance. Apparently, it had been scratched, but not in any meaningful way from our inspection. It was a fantastic price, so we snatched that up.

This is about when my parents got into town!!! They are here for the week to help us work!

This is the bathroom that we want to look like a high-end hotel bathroom. Well, as much as space allows. We're getting rid of the wallpaper, any wallpaper in the whole house for that matter. Nate's going to gut the bathroom including the weird linoleum floor. We want double sinks and mirrors since there's plenty of space for it. This bathroom may be our pebble-tile bathroom - I'm very excited.