Vain Vain Vanity.

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We having been working off and on for quite some time on our Master bedroom/bathroom areas, starting now over 2 years ago. In a fit of maternal energy, whilst pregnant, I began concocting ideas for a neutral OASIS..different than the colorful offerings I have contrived throughout the rest of my house. If you haven't noticed, yeah- I love color!!! I wanted to make a quiet bedroom area with neutral colors....that would speak peace to my soul and be truly a comforting place to end up every night.

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Sooo, I did what every self respecting pregnant woman does...I grabbed a ladder, climbed on up and started painting a MURAL from the ceiling down to the floor in my bedroom!{That still is not complete, I freely admit...I mean, once a baby is BORN, who has time for all that? And then, said baby becomes this busy, adorable/high needs toddler...and who has time THEN? But eventually, it WILL get done. Hopefully before I decide it's time to re-do. I digress.}

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Where was I?

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Oh yeah, so anyWAY....you may recall like FOREVER ago me mentioning that I was searching for the perfect Vanity to replace the hideous 1980's pressed wood/cultured marble nightmare that had been plaguing my morning existence. You'd think with how ugly that thing was {and how nasty dirty I let it get...I mean c'mon, when somethings that ugly I just had NO motivation to scrub it.} I would have been more motivated to make a change. But change- as we all know- sometimes is DIFFICULT! And when choosing a vanity that fit all our criteria {read=was awesome yet affordable} was extremely difficult. I shopped, and searched, and looked and well, honestly everything that WASN"T a custom Amish-hand carved built-in piece of cabinetry {that was honestly more what I WISHED for...but $$!!} was a mdf piece of $2-$3 THOUSAND Dollar Crap. YES. So when I realized that no one makes a SOLID piece of furniture in the bathroom department for under like 10 million dollars, I decided to head to my fallback location. YES. Craig'slist.

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And true to form, I found the perfect thing. A shabby chic-looking vintage buffet, completely painted an almost perfect match to my wall!! Unbelievable. And even more awesome, it was only $250. YES. That's all.

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SO-- we swiped it up fast, and did our first Cabinet TO Vanity project!!

WE bought a sink and a faucet at Lowes, {the faucet I REALLY wanted, was online- and like $900, OF COURSE.} But the one we got was pretty and has a nice line to it.

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Now, I HAD taken all these pics documenting the process which is a reasonable project, that again, I pretty much only watched as my hubby did all the work. {Cutting a hole in the center..plumbing it..and lacquering the top for waterproofing} ...which we did back in May of this year....and since then my LAPTOP died, and I can't for the life of me find that file. Do you love that I use run-on sentences like forEVER? Just noticed that. Anyway.. SOO, I was searching for a great mirror to go on top and FINALLY was able to find one on CRAIGSLIST of course, just yesterday!!

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SO, without further ado, THIS is our LOVELY NEW {not SCARY} VANITY!!!