Thankful Ten on Tuesday

Things I'm thankful for today...

1. Towel bars. It's amazing how much you take these for granted. ;) Having had them off all of last week while we painted our bedroom and bathroom, though, I'm ridiculously thankful to have put up new towel bars over the weekend. It's the little things... ;)

2. Light fixtures. Ditto what I said about towel bars, lol.

3. Nathan. So glad that my lovely husband actually knows how to do all these things (and can reach them, lol).

4. Greg Mullins. So. Greg Mullins is the name of the guy who lived here before us. We fully understand that some of our home issues may have originated prior to him, but we know his name. ;) Therefore, folks, (and I mean this in the nicest way possible) Greg Mullins is Nathan's mortal enemy. Nathan actually stated this (in those words!) at one point during the renovations. Greg, you see, had a very different approach to home repairs from us...taking the more "just make it work regardless of how annoying it is and how mismatched things will be and how not-quite-right it might be and how difficult it will make things down the road" approach. This bothers us, especially Nathan. ;) 

Why does he make my list of things I'm thankful for, then? Well, first, gotta be thankful that it's not me who's Nathan's mortal enemy, right? ;) Also, though I fully agree with Nathan and am appreciative that we're on the same page there, Greg's way reminds me of my dad and makes me smile. :)

5. Space. Very, very thankful to have a garage and a basement where we can shuffle things to during this project. Whew.

6. Guest room. Thrilled, too, that we have a guest room where Nathan and I can bunk while this is happening. :) Our bed is actually on Asher's bedroom floor right now (we didn't want to figure out how to move that mattress down any stairs) and we threatened to just sleep there, but this works better, lol. 

7. Giving up on chrome. Our bathroom has this big tub that would require hiring people and making a huge mess to remove and replace. So. Until we win the lottery, it's probably stuck there. It's ugly, though. And that bothers us. :) In trying to accept that, we decided we'll just go with chrome (not brushed) fixtures in the bathroom to attempt to coordinate, even though that's not really what we'd have picked. Well, trying to find chrome towel bars and drapery rods and light fixtures and such proved too much for us. We simply couldn't do it. Especially couldn't find any light fixtures that we liked that were chrome that fit the space. 

So. We finally just gave up and decided to go with what we'd actually want and just let the tub be ugly (and the sinks and faucets for now, though we can replace those ourselves later). Whew. Finding oil-rubbed/antique bronze finished stuff was incredibly easier and we feel better. :)

8. My new bedroom light fixture. I love it. ;) Will post actual pictures in a bit, but here's what it looks like if you're curious. (Thankfully, we found one locally and had a coupon so paid a good bit less.) Also, Nathan put it on a dimmer switch that even has a motion sensor that Micah thinks is just plain awesome. I need to read the instructions, though, because I'm thinking that having the light turn on in the middle of the night if I get out of bed may be annoying, lol.

9. Our garbage service folks. Um, thank you so much for actually collecting all our garbage this week. We know it was annoying and a good bit more than normal. :)

10. The light at the end of the tunnel. We're down to pretty much just flooring now, folks, and Nathan has that well underway today. :) So. By this weekend, I should be able to move things back into our bedroom and start working on adding the finishing touches (and a few furniture pieces that we've picked out but need to actually acquire)...yay!