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January 15, 2006

One Trip to Home Depot Later

We have the floor on order at home depot. I have no idea how long it will take to come in but I am anxious for it to! It?s actually a type of slate and it?s called Copper Fire or just Copper. I said it was green, but it?s actually a light rust color (bad memory of mine) but it has a hint of green streaks in it. Here is a photo I took of it at home depot,

And here is a photo I found on a website of the same slate

Then before leaving we browsed through the lighting department to figure out what two wall lights would go in the tub room. Well I honestly was not up to spending $40 dollars for one light that I liked so-so. We continued browsing and went onto the exterior lights. There the styles began to appeal more and I finally found my lights. They were $7 dollars each which I can totally handle that!. Right now they are white and have a hideous yellow back piece that the light is supposed to reflect. However, we are going to replace that with a mirror and also change the finish to a rich aged coppery brown. Then they will be perfect & classy. And the funny thing is they even included the light bulbs! Not even the $40 dollar lights would do that lol!

These will add a subtle colonial element to the room.
Then after having a photo of the floor, I was able to choose the glass that the bathroom windows would hold. Surprisingly it?s not nearly as expensive as I thought it was going to be, which is always a good thing lol! Here is the glass by itself, and you can click on it to see the website we will be ordering it from if all goes well

And this will give you an idea of how we intend to use it

Oh and we also decided to put one of these windows where the wall-cupboard is right now.

So now we have to scrub down the outside of the clawfoot tub & its feet. Then we have to get some white enamel paint for repainting the outside of the tub. I plan on doing the feet in a dark copper brown for contrast. We have a couple of chip repairs to make to the lip of the tub too. We found this site that has a kit for just such things. I have no idea how good they are but we are going to give them a shot. The inside just needs a good cleaning and buffing. Then we can start on the bathroom remodel, of course once we get the glass & flooring too.