most of a bathroom!

... because an entire bathroom would apparently be pushing it.


Anyway: we have a vanity and sink! And medicine cabinet! And light sconces!

All of these things were put in last night. Granted, the plumbing is not yet hooked up (more on that later) and so the faucet (not pictured) is not actually functional, and I have yet to unpack the bathroom box so the medicine cabinet is empty, but ... the lights work. That's something.

Anyway, I took this picture last night to share the excitement of having an actual bathroom sink with you, but when I looked at it just now I realized that ... the wall is not actually that colour. It's actually the colour of this hallway, so you might want to mentally colour-correct:


Much nicer, don't you think? You may remember that I mentioned that the bathroom was going to be painted "Cool Sky." After two weeks of staring at medium-blue drywall (bathroom drywall is a special moisture-resistant kind that comes in either blue or green), I decided that the bathroom could take a darker blue and went with the same paint as the hallway. Literally the same paint: there was a lot left over so I used the same can.

You may notice that the vanity is a bit on the large side, considering the size of the bathroom. It's 40 inches across. We had originally ordered the 32" one, but they're backordered until the end of May because the Chinese government diverted the electricity from the factory that makes them. Seriously. So the manufacturer offered to ship the 40" instead (as we had already paid) and, given the choice between having a sink or brushing my teeth in the kitchen for another two months ... I decided that my bathroom could handle a 40" vanity perfectly.

The long wait explains the following conversation Pierre and I had last night, immediately after installing the vanity:

Me: Hey,didn't we specifically order the one without the drawers on the bottom?
Pierre: (looking up for the briefest of moments) I don't care.

So now we have a vanity with drawers. And we need to go back to the Home Depot to get a smaller P-trap or ... something. It's a non-standard sink (much wider, and shallower), so the standard fittings that came with the faucet don't actually fit. It would have been helpful to have known this earlier. Then again, earlier we didn't know we have a vanity with drawers, either. The one with the shelf sits lower.

Meanwhile, I have some Deadline Knitting to do, which luckily I've become obsessed with (luckily because obsession may be the only thing that will drive me to get done in time):


Noro Chirimen in shades of blue and grey (and some brown). I told you I had a thing for blue.