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Our House Project - Week Four

I'm so sorry I have been so out of touch this week - it's all been a bit too much to be honest and I am struggling a bit with the stress of decisions, budgets, builders etc. The woes of renovating as you would all know. I have been rather overwhelmed by everything this week, and felt like I could lose the plot on more that one occasion. I was made most aware of this when my four year old said he loved "Nina" the mad Scottish scientist on the kids' show "Nina and the Neurons". She's cute and quirky with lots of teeth and crazy hair. Then he said he wished he was her child, because she wouldn't get cross with him all the time like I do. It broke my heart and I went to bed that night and sobbed into my pillow, thinking that this renovation was already spiralling out of my control and I was causing permanent emotional damage to my kids by being a cranky, nagging, screaming shrew! Nothing that a bottle of sauv blanc can't help dull the pain of mind you....

I then rushed off to see my girlfriend's highly recommended homeopath and kinesiologist and after a lot of poking, touching, prodding and pressing I came home with freshly cleansed chakras, cleared Chinese meridians, unblocked adrenals and all manner of potions, pills and herbal sedatives (a mum's best friend I've since learned). It's all meant to make me feel more chilled, relaxed and in control, but I don't feel it can compare to the effects of that bottle of vino. Perhaps I'm not taking them the right way.....

Anyway, with our renovations hitting snags and obstacles at every turn and with every decision putting immense pressure on me to make the right choice re taps, basins, tiles, vanities and keep the budget down etc I have neglected my blog and all my lovely readers. So I do apologise for being so absent.

It seems likely that we are going way over our estimated budget, so I am having to do some serious rethinking when it comes to all the nice things I had hoped to have. I've been planning and dreaming this for years (admittedly with much concern for costs!), but now I have to go back to the drawing board and probably not get what I really want because of budget constraints. The pool man should be feeling very guilty about now!

We have a couple of dilemmas. Firstly, bathroom vanities. I have searched and searched but can't find anything ready-made that even resembles what I want. Actually I can find lots of things I want in America, but as we know that's another story! Here's what I'm looking for.....and found in Restoration Hardware.

Something simple like this for the powder room downstairs.

Or this would do, but similar things in Australia are thousands, and we can't afford that.

Something simple like this for the kid's bathroom

Or like this....

Something like this for the ensuite bathroom. 

I don't want a modern, wall hung vanity, rather something that looks more like furniture with a nice marble top. Now to have this kind of thing custom-made is looking like $3,500+ and we need at least two. Oh and that's without counter top, basin, taps etc. So I have been trying to be clever about ways of achieving the look I want. The best thing I can come up with is a select a piece of furniture and have it converted. Has anybody ever done this? It can't be that tricky.

So when we were at Ikea the other day I found this chest of drawers on sale for $299. And I thought, hey that could work for our vanity and go really well with the marble floor tiles and overall grey, silver, white theme I was thinking of. Actually I was going more down a blue path, but have had to rethink that to accommodated the grey.

So if we cut a hole in the top and put in the basin, I will lose some of the drawers to plumbing, but surely this can be done? I'm not trying to do the impossible? But we have come up with a roadblock already about why this can't or shouldn't be done. 

Anyway, I went back and bought the damn thing because for $299 it can be used as a chest of drawers if the whole idea goes pear shaped. Then I found these amazing marble tiles in a local shop, which I stumbled across accidentally but which turns out to have the most fabulous marble and travertine and at wholesale prices! This is the only basket-weave marble tile I have seen in Australia and it's a third of the price of other marble tiles I've found. I am so delighted to have found something that comes close to the beautiful marble tiles found at Waterworks in New York, that I've been pining for and something a little like Tina, from The Enchanted Home has all through her amazing new house.

This is a chest I found which could be good for the kids' bathroom.

So that's one dilemma. The other is what to do with the exterior of the house, but I'll save that for tomorrow. In the meantime, here's a few update photos. The pool was concreted on Friday.

We now have to water the concrete twice daily for at least 15 minutes for ten days to help cure the cement and prevent it cracking. That's something they didn't mention in the contract!

We had the old insulation in the ceiling sucked out in preparation for the new insulation. It was like a shredded, fibrous, paper material which they literally suck out with a huge vacuum. 

The ceiling sucker truck was like something out of the Beverly Hillbillies.

The old kitchen as been removed.

The last bits of this wall will go, when the new steel beam is ready to replace it.

This space is opening up really well and will be a great open plan living area.

So, can anyone offer any advice on converting furniture to a vanity? Have you done it? Do you recommend it? Or can you suggest anywhere that sells nice vanities like the ones I showed above? Even a nice pedestal basin for the powder room, but that doesn't cost upwards of $2000? Or a cheap cabinetmaker would even help?

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