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Rustic and Southwestern furniture

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Spring is coming soon. Many people choose to look for a new home around that time, and others start renovation projects or decide to redecorate their homes.

If you are a fan of the Rustic look you should visit the Tres Amigos website and have a look around. They specialize in beautiful hand made Rustic Furniture. They also carry a lovely line of Spanish Colonial and Southwestern Furniture. I’m sure that you’ll find all of the furniture to be unique. Some pieces are actually one of a kind.

Tres Amigos are always bringing in new inventory so this is a site that should be visited frequently if you are searching for just the right piece for your home or perhaps even for your business. Since they buy inventory in large quantities they are able to offer their furniture at wholesale prices.

Along with Wholesale Furniture, you’ll find items such as rustic hardware, rustic hinges, switch plates, accessories for the home like tin and tile mirrors, wrought iron, candles, pottery, Corona bar accessories and even handmade jewelry.

Did I mention that almost every piece of furniture at Tres Amigos is 100% solid wood? You don’t find quality furniture such as this in department stores! Visit the site and take a look at their furniture lines and home accessories. I’m sure you’ll be pleased with the selection.





Starting to plan our bathroom renovation

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Speaking of our basement renovation. We’re going to put in a really nice bathroom downstairs. We have a bathroom down there but it’s just a roughed in bathroom with a tiny grungy dark shower and a toilet. Right now it’s the main bathroom that my husband uses. I hate going down there!

Our upstairs bathroom is really tiny. It has everything we need but it’s sooooo small. So … if we renovate the bathroom in the basement when we do our basement reno I want a really nice bathroom … one that I’d consider our main bathroom and one that I won’t mind using one tiny bit.

We haven’t decided exactly what we’ll do down there, but I’m picturing a whirlpool bathtub with an overhead shower, toilet, basin style sink with perhaps Danze faucets and nice lighting. Since the bathroom won’t have a window it will need to be bright, but I suppose we could put a dimmer on the lights or perhaps have two sets of lights controlled by different switches so the lights could be lower if one was having a relaxing bath and wanted to set the mood with low level lighting.

Did I tell you that my nephew is going to plumbing school? Uh huh. I’ve already talked to him about our bathroom renovation and he’s more than willing to help us out. He even said he might be able to get a discount on some of the things we’ll need.

I hope we can start our reno sometime this summer.

If you have any cool ideas for a bathroom reno I’d love to hear them.

Basement renovation ideas?

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I was watching one of those home shows on TV over the weekend, one of those ones where they totally renovate or redecorate one or two rooms of a house … Well, on the show I watched the renovated the living room so that it would be a home theater with theater seating, big screen TV, surround sound system and special lighting so that when you’re watching a film or something on the big screen the lighting is really low.

I’ve mentioned before that we hope to redo our basement. Well, no redo it, but finish the basement since it’s currently a raw unfinished space. We hope to make part of our basement a home theater room. Of course the rest of the plans include a really nice bathroom, perhaps hiding the laundry area and maybe a small spare bedroom.

I wonder if we can make a spare bedroom without closing off the space with walls? Perhaps just a half wall separating the bedroom area from the home theater room? Our basement is fairly small so I think the more open we keep the space the larger it will look. Yeah, I know, we can’t make it look bigger than it is, but if we start putting walls up all over the place it will look really small.

Any ideas for a basement renovation?

I have a plan to save money on our home renovations

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I was just saying on my other blog that Chris and I spent some time talking today about our various renovation projects .. the stalled ones that need finishing and future projects.

I didn’t mention that we might be able to get some really good prices on any materials that we need such as tile for the shower or other renovation and finishing products, furniture, electronics and more. We were contacted by DirectBuy a week or so ago, and we’re considering getting a membership.

It’s a member only club that offers merchandise at manufacture direct prices. The savings are huge! Since we have a lot of renovations to do, and then of course we’ll need to redecorate … well … it would be nice to save as much money as we can right? I think it would be worth it.

Are any of you members of DirectBuy?

Neighbors renovating

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Well our neighbors finally took their house off the market just before Christmas. They decided to try to sell again in the Spring. First however they are going to work on their home to make it more appealing.

This week they had gas connected to the house and earlier today there was a lot of drilling and banging going on as they had their new gas furnace installed. They’d had oil heating prior to this and I guess some of the noise I was hearing was their old oil tank being removed. We’ve got a oil heating as well and I suppose at some point we’ll have to change over to gas.

I think our neighbors might be renovating their bathroom too. I saw one of their old bathroom vanities sitting outside.

There house needs a lot of work. They should have never tried to sell their house before doing some basic repairs and fix ups!

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