The Bathrooms and The Kitchen

I already told you about the tub.

The time we have spent at the local home improvement stores was very informative. We knew we wanted dual flush-high efficiency commodes (similar to Mom's). Both Lowe's and Home Depot told us they we a "special order" item and would cost about $200.

Gina (Russ's mom) and I were walking through Sam's about a month ago and found they had a one-time purchase of them. Russ and I went back about a week later and bought two for $99 each, one for each bathroom.

We have decided on vessel sinks that cost about $99 each for our bathroom. We are hoping to install them on an antique dresser.



Through a contact of Russ's dad Pat, who is a custom home builder, we contacted a custom cabinet maker. Russ took him a floor plan and told him what we were looking for. Southwest Cabinet Shop came through with a VERY reasonable bid.

We will have knotty hickory cabinets. My kitchen will have a lazy susan, an appliance garage, a large panty with drawers. All but one of the lower cabinets will be large drawers. They came through with a bid of $6500. Then Russ and I realized that we forgot about our kitchen island. So we assume that our cabinets will cost about $7000. This, unfortunately will have to wait. :-(