By Sara In AZ Oh my gosh, can you all believe I started writing about Mom’s condo renovation beginning last November?!? It has been 8 solid months of posting updates each and every Thursday on the renovation happenings over at Mom’s. It sure doesn’t seem like 8 months though. Where…
By Sara in AZ As soon as I saw the interior doors at Mom’s condo I knew I was in trouble. This was how the doors were left……..slathered with A LOT of junky latex paint that was completely peeling off and chipping in bunch of areas. It was SO not…
By Sara In AZ But first…….I had to show y’all this window cling that we used on the little window diamonds in the front door. Mom did not want anyone peering in through the little diamond windows, so we knew we needed something to cover the them. We weren’t sure…
By Sara In AZ I promise that this knob change happened by pure accident y’all! But here’s the story anyway. Here are the knobs that were in the condo when Mom bought it. They were retro looking Chrome Disc Knobs that we were completely fine with. This style of knob…
By Sara In AZ To be honest, I wasn’t really sure how I felt about replacing 2 windows in the condo – especially an original window. But it kind of had to be done. You’ll see why in a minute. Here is a view of the original window in the…
By Sara In AZ Soooooo, last week we saw the sink and vanity area final reveal in all of it’s Holiday Turquoise glory. Going from this……………………………………… To this………………ahhhhhhhhhhh, yes! Now, we all get to see the final reveal of the other side of the bathroom – the shower and tub…
By Sara In AZ Month and months and months have gone by on our little renovation project and it’s FINALLY time to see the bathroom in all it’s renovated retro glory! We will see all the final pictures of the vanity and sink area this Thursday and then next Thursday…
By Sara In AZ I sincerely wish that I knew what the original bathroom faucet looked like in Mom’s condo. I’m super sure that it was tons better than this off the shelf model from the big box stores. This faucet was just all wrong for the 1950s look…
By Sara In AZ OK, wow, so we are getting pretty far along in this bathroom renovation/restoration. In just a mere 3 more posts we will have the bathroom portion of this renovation all wrapped up! Can you believe after ALL these months it’s finally time to whip these cabinets…
By Sara In AZ Bad me! I should have taken a picture of the original chrome soap holder in the shower. Bad, bad me! I promise it was not much to see though. It was practically falling off of the wall anyway, so when the inspector was “inspecting” he just…
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