Big...blank...wall...in our newly remodeled basement.
How to fill it? A word or two, in big letters, rescued from signs from businesses gone by the wayside?
Sure, why not?
The local HOOTERS had closed and soon after we saw the sign posted on CL for sale for $2000 (no lie).
Ok, that was not an option...but somewhere, here in town, there's a frat house with some new wall art and some pledges eating only mac and cheese for a few weeks to pay for it. Enjoy, boys.
This time Craigslist didn't really come through, but eBay did. After we decided on our words, my husband got bidding. Metal letters, plastic, foam: it didn't matter. About $150 later, we had accumulated all the letters we needed. Then we repainted each of them with paint I already had.
What I learned from this project:
1. There are a ton of letters out there reasonably priced for a fun project like this.
2. Once we started looking for letters I couldn't stop lusting after signs all over town.
3. The "e" kept falling off the metal square we glued it to, so we switched to screwing it onto a piece of plywood.
4. The HOOTERS sign would have been too big for our wall anyway.
The first major project we undertook after we moved in was redoing the kitchen. The cabinets were dated and in poor condition and the countertop was turquoise ceramic tile...that's right, turquoise. No change in layout was planned, just replacing the cabinets, countertop, sink and faucet. The appliances were only a few years old, so they could stay. We wanted this project completed soon after we moved in so that it would cause the least amount of disruption.
That meant we really didn't have the luxury of time to look for Craigslist bargains for the big items, but we did find our white porcelain sink on CL. We found a brand new, never used Eljer sink for $65 that retailed for between $400 - 600. The price we paid was actually far less than a dollar a pound. (This sucker weighed over 100 lbs!) The same seller also had a brand new bathroom faucet for $25 that we snapped up to update the guestroom bath.
What I learned from this project:
1. It may not be sexy, but the sink was a super bargain.
2. There is no good reason ever for a kitchen countertop to be turquoise.
The local HOOTERS had closed and soon after we saw the sign posted on CL for sale for $2000 (no lie).
