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My husband is the most amazing, great talented person in the world! Thanks for being so awesome Phil 
Sarah
I hope that you caught my earlier post on “Our Bathroom” and today I would like to tell you all how the bathroom project really got started. Phil and I needed some storage in the bathroom in the worst way. We also needed to change the layout of the bathroom a bit so that Phil and I could get ready in the morning without bumping into each other and bruising ourselves, again, on the bathroom fixtures.
We decided to hire a plumber to cap off where our original pedestal sink was attached to the wall and to move the sink into an alcove that was previously empty in the bathroom. This (along with a vanity from Lowe’s) gave us a sweet new sink but left a gaping hole in the wall where the old one was.
So, one evening while I was at my work’s graduation, Phil got to thinking that we needed a recessed medicine cabinet:
You can imagine my delight when I got home:
This was only the beginning of the transformation. We planned to add two cabinets near the toilet and to put up some bead board around the lower parts of the wall to cover the giant hole. This started with more cutting holes into our house.
Cabinet 1
Cabinet 2
Sarah
Living in a house that Phil and I own is freakin’ awesome. Living in a house that has a bathroom from 1919 is not freakin’ awesome. We are talking no storage. That is right. A bunch of wire shelves have been the storage in our bathroom since October when we moved in. That meant all of our lovely personal items were on display for anyone who felt the call of nature to spend some time examining. 
Here is the pedestal sink: cool in the guest bath, not in the everyday bath. Also, note the strangely off center toilet. Why is it like that? I don’t know!
Here is what is on the other side of where the toilet, shower and sink are crammed together. Nothing. No shelves, cabinets, nada.
Lucky for me and my friends who feel the call of nature, I am married to Phil. And Phil is freakin’ awesome. Stay tuned for Our Bathroom: After. Coming soon.
Sarah
So Phil and I have this backyard porch that came with the house we bought in September and moved into in October. At first we thought, “Wow, that porch’ll be nice.” Friends and relations, it is not just nice. Our porch is totally sweet! I am currently writing to you from said porch after eating some fine cheese, drinking some delicious wine (7 Deadly Zins Old Vine Red Zinfindel), with husband and my dog. As of today, Phil and I actually have something to sit on too. We got some low-design and high comfort plastic adirondack chairs from Target. I highly recommend them. They really have facilitated my porch-sitting today and I look forward to continued porch-sitting in the near future. In just a short two weeks, it will be summer.
Sarah
