Bathroom fiasco, etc,

Things have been going pretty well overall. We ordered a vanity and counter top for the guest bathroom. That order was going to take a month, so in the meantime, we did a few other things. We installed the new washer and dryer we bought when we first got the house; they work great. We also did the part of the roof over the garage (since we had the materials, we decided to do that now rather than wait for the fall; I took a day off work to help get it done). We also finished the peaks and valleys, so the roof is 100% done now. Tile has been installed on the floor of the bathroom, but not the walls (we wanted the vanity and counter top in first so we could tile around them).

So the vanity and counter top arrived. The vanity is great shape; we're happy with that. The counter top, on the other hand, had at least 3 major problems. First, it was the wrong size. It should have been an inch deeper. (Note, the people at the store did the sizing for us to fit the vanity, so not our fault). We could potentially work around this by putting a block of wood between the backsplash and the wall and painting or tiling it. Second, the left edge should have been unfinished so it would go flush against the wall, but it was finished and thus slightly rounded, so it didn't go in properly. That is unfixable. Finally, the left side backsplash (a separate piece) was the wrong height, and the edges were finished when they shouldn't have been, so there was no way to join it with the countertop.









This all may actually have worked out for the best, though. The counter top just didn't look very good, especially considering how much it cost. The color combined with the matte finish came out pretty cheap-looking. So for the replacement, we'll be getting a Corian counter instead. It's a bit more expensive, but hopefully we'll be happier with it.

Finally, there was a sale on Anderson windows, so we ordered replacement windows for the whole house (probably won't arrive for a month). Windows are expensive; it'll be almost $11k. But the house desperately needs them, and it will allow us to fix the rotted framing under many of the existing windows. With that stuff fixed, we may even start painting.