We had some fun buying new fixtures for our place at Lowes this weekend. We got new lights for our loft, a faucet for our kitchen sink, and a faucet for our master bathroom too. I like how the new kitchen faucet spout is curved higher than our old faucet. The old one was cracked at the base and generally dingy, so it needed replacing. I suspect most, if not all, of the fixtures in our place are the originals from 15 years ago. While that isn’t all that old, replacing them gives the place a more updated look.
I really want to get a new vanity light for the master bathroom in the near future too. Lowes has this cool silver one where you buy the base and you can pick out different styles of “shades” for each light-bulb. Plus you can turn the bulbs to face in any direction you want.
I don’t get why people don’t make little changes around their homes. You don’t have to spend thousands to make it look a little nicer. Once we get a house we’ll probably splurge more, but for now we view our place as a temporary 5-year stop on our way to our dream home (or whatever we can afford that is close enough). That’s not to say we don’t like our place, we just don’t want to dump a ton of money into it, get it just how we like it, then sell it. That doesn’t make any sense. I’ll tell you this, though – the people who buy this place from us are going to be very lucky, because we take very good care of our things and even though the newest appliances will be five years old by that point, they will still be in top condition.
Speaking of appliances, we decided that when Joe gets his bonus at the end of the month, we’re going to buy a new stove. Our current one is dated and ugly, not to mention the oven doesn’t heat evenly, so anything I bake comes out half burnt and half under-cooked. The new one isn’t very fancy, but like I said before, I don’t want to go all-out in this place. Plus as long as it works and looks nice (I like the white w/gray combo), I’m happy. In fact, I’m just happy that there won’t be a ledge where the controls are located like on our old stove, because that’s where all the crumbs and drips seem to congregate. Also, the burner covers on the new stove will make clean-up a snap.
I agree! Scott and I totally splurged (within reason, can’t spend millions here!) on the new house because we plan on being there a very long time. It’s absolutely perfect, and as far as budgets are concerned, it is our dream home. We spent tons of money making the kitchen perfect because that’s the whole reason we bought the house. In the end we found that where we felt we could cut corners and get rid of some of the small things, it wasn’t too expensive to add nice touches everywhere to make it beautiful and fantastic to live in, so that’s just what we did.
Hey that’s the same stove we have! It came with our apartment. I love it. The only difference is ours does not have the built-in timer on top… which is OK cause our microwave and toaster oven each have a timer we can use.
I love this stove. It is very basic, but it’s also the first gas stove I’ve ever had in my whole life. I never want to go back to electric again if I can possibly avoid it.
My only complaint is that it doesn’t have a light to let you know when the oven is preheated. But we fixed that situation by buying a little oven thermometer that just stays in there at all times.
It is very easy to clean. Speaking of which, mine is a mess right now and I must go clean it…
Enjoy your new stove!
For all the money you’re spending at Lowes, let me know if you’d like to trade me cash for the $100 gift card I’m still stuck with that Santa brought me.
Please? ;)