And within the last few days after making a few minor purchases at not exorbitant prices from Home Depot we were ready. Actually, three glass tile 12 inch sheets @ $5.97 each, usually there is a number one before the five, but the saleswoman Bobbi said that they were placed far in the back away from the other tiles of similar quality and therefore appeared not to be popular, and so when something doesn’t sell in a certain period of time they mark it down! What luck for us; since one of the sheets of four different boxes and styles of glass tile coordinated beautifully with our Sea-mist paint that Hubby had already put on the bead-board and installed.
We had gone to the home store for chair-molding and to see if the glass tile was a cost effective decorating possibility. My concept was to create a spa affect, and get rid of the only two bright colors in the room my two frames with fun women ideas, one was ugly gals during prohibition talking about drinking, saying that if you drink your lips will never touch ours, sent by an old friend as a joke via email quite a while ago and the other was a rather Victorian looking woman, but really a modern gal dressed that way from the cover of the local Harbor Style magazine discussing/entitled something about successful women, both copied in black and white on card stock placed into those brilliant green frames, but they are both now behind the new pictures that I this time utilized my clip art but again copied onto card stock and this time I repainted the frames more subdued in the sea-mist made paler by adding white, which just so happens to be an exact match to one of the tiles in the new glass back splash: Here is the before and after
A plain white wall before!
My seashell art are in the two soothing mellow sea-mist colored recycled framed pieces, the one in between is a shadowbox with real seashells that has been there for the entire seven years this bath was gutted and redone after the hurricane, by Hubby. And above the clapboard storage unit on the tippity top of it are two bears and a sailboat. The one bear is wearing swimming attire including a life preserver, and the other is adorned in a sailor suit, and the moisture in the room causes the smelly bears to exude a scent of bubble gum, weird, I know, but that’s me. I acquired the pair at a craft fair a few years back at the Cultural Center towards the end of the show, if I recall correctly; they were about five bucks for both or each I can’t seem to remember that, oh well.
Since I do believe I have shown the tub surround before and that it is all white subway tiles, eh what the heck I will show it again:
All done a few years ago after the original medium failed brutally, vinyl sheeting, and a very big mistake! Mold had to be removed cautiously and a real big yuck, not worth saving the bucks! The new tile installed by Hubby and our neighbor helped with the underportions at the time,he, an out of work contractor and since with Habitat for Humanity, cement waterproof cement 2’X 2’ by ¼ inch thick was first reinstalled when the yuck was removed and then the tile done wonderfully by my Hubby! Actually, his first wall, but he had been doing all our floors since the early 1970’s!
This is what we have been up to for the last couple of days, plus a few dips in the pool for me Sunday and today, have to work with my body sensors and weather too!
Moving on…
The last part of this is rather odd and silly on my part since I have been dealing with this slight inconvenience for months, the latch to this desk that I love does not stay closed when I bid it good night…It was also an after hurricane purchase and bought at Office Depot, an item from the Shore Collection of Christopher Lowell, the credenza, hutch and matching file cabinet, all antique white distressed with a cherry wood top on the credenza and the file. Here’s another picture:
Yep, this is where my semi-greatness, pearls of wise-cracking-dumb comes from nightly, if you believe that one I got some swampland in the Everglades, kidding, if only! As you can see the latch was not closed there then either…hmm, since February!
Any-who, so Hubby checked with Home Depot, Ace and Lowe’s and no one had the lovely latch of full disclosure…and so my odd but accurate idea was to try from whence it came, Office Depot, and voila almost… they had a toll free number to their office who had an email address that I sent them our dug out from the matching file across the room, doubling as a TV stand, the original December 2004 sales receipt including the lot number of the credenza! See that is what they needed and I emailed the all important number with the PIC of the latch, and the next day received and emailed back stating that they do not take care of the product parts the manufacturer does, duh, of course they do!
But you see I was Googling the designer not the manufacturer of Sauder, and they included the toll free number too, wow!
And so I called that little ole sucker and you know what, within
three to four days it will be arriving at no charge! Hip, hip, hooray! You see, after waiting so darn long I was willing to pay…and so I asked and they said it is covered forever or some other such marvelous policy!
On that note of quite a bit of note allow me to be the first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
PS that bath is mine, Hubby’s is all masculine with oak and fish etc., just saying.
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