Saturday, April 19, 2008

Wonderful find at Costco!


We do a majority of our shopping at Costco, I am willing to admit. Over the years we have found some awesome deals on furnishings for our bedroom, living room, and bathrooms. Recenty we moved to a new home that needed some updating. We have redone some of the floors with maple laminate flooring from... yes, Costco, replaced lighting fixtures, painted, and put in new baseboards and crown moulding. So far the house looks much better on the inside and because we have also done a good deal of landscaping, the outside is looking great as well. We still need to do the kitchen and bathrooms however. The master bath had been redone before we bought the house but they didn't do a very good job of it. The downstairs half bath has one of those really annoying countertops that covers the back of the toilet. You know the kind, right? Anything goes wrong inside the toilet tank and you have about three inches of space to reach in and try to fix it. The cabinet is outdated as well. So, now for our exciting find. While at Costco the other day, my husband and I found a beautiful bathroom cabinet. it looks like a piece of elegant furniture, has two sinks, and comes with a granite countertop, both sinks, and the granite backsplash. This cabinet would normally go for around $800 to $1000. We got it for $500! This one will go upstairs in the master bathroom and the cabinets in the master will go downstairs in the half bath. Now for the fun part. We get the cabinet home, all boxed up, in the back of the truck. This thing is HEAVY. I get the furniture dolly and we work the cabinet down off the back of the truck and onto the furniture dolly so we can roll it to the house. Brick walkways, and heavy furniture on wheels don't go too well together. It is rolling along pretty good when all of a sudden a wheel sticks on a brick, almost lost it. Caught it though. Work it over that spot, get closer to the door, and ****, it hits the overhang above the door! Now we are going to have to lay it down from there to get it in the house. Just inside the front door are the stairs. Our stairs are the kind that turn on their way up so we have about ten steps, a landing, three or four more steps, another landing, and another three or four steps, to the second floor. To the right inside the door is the living room. My husband says, I think we can slide it up stairs. I would rather put it in the living room until we have more help. His cousin is here as well and is helping move this beast too. We try the stairs. After a lot of fighting with it we get it to the first landing! Ah, hah! Almost there! One problem though. It is too big and we can't turn it on the landing, it is too wide the way it is sitting so we can't go up the way it is now. So now our options are to bring it back down or leave it there. Heck, who needs to go upstairs anyway right? In the end, we got it back down without any injuries and it is now unboxed and sitting in the living room until we have more help to get it up the stairs. It is going to look beautiful in the master bathroom once we get it up there. If not maybe we will hook up the sinks and have a nice bar in the living room! Sorry, I was too busy fighting with the cabinet to get any pictures of it being moved but here is a picture of the cabinet.

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