Our new favorite place

We are getting ready for a renovation on our master bath and have been plotting and planning our method of attack. I have driven by this store several times, called the Restore, run and managed by Habitat for Humanity, and always wanted to stop in. So today, we went to scope it out. It was awesome! There were dozens and dozens of windows and doors, shutters, bathroom fixtures, cabinets, furniture, bricks, light fixtures, etc. The window assortment was the most amazing. There were all sorts of custom shapes and styles, many of them still in their original packaging. The worker folks old us that the stock came from a variety of places - some was recycled and was not new, other stuff was slightly damaged and a lot of it was new overstocked items from home imrprovement stores. There was also some cool old stuff - one door was like the old doors in the middle school I went to, with windows on the top half and made of old, heavy wood. It was $20 - if 'd had a place to keep it, I would've bought it for sentimental value. There were some cool, angled-type windows and some really neat french door ensembles.

We ended up buying a window for the bathroom that matches the other windows in the bedroom - it was brand new - for $40! Then, we got a new marble vanity top with 2 underneath-mounted sinks for $99! (It is still in the truck - we will need some big friends to help us get it out!) We also got a solid cherry kitchen table with the leaf that folds down into the table for $65 - granted, it doesn't have any legs, but Rick is already remedying that in the garage! We cut a lot off our bathroom budget and everything in the store is tax-free too, with the proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity, so it was a winner all around. We will definately be hitting that store again frequently.

Anyway, that was the cool thing for the day! We will have to post some before and after pics of the bathroom whenever we get started. There are some details we are still working out but we hope to get started in the next few weeks. If you have nothing else to do, you are welcome to come demo with us! It should be fun...