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When you are looking at buying a home there are a few things you don’t see in your “virgin home buying excited eyes”.   For us there weren’t too many things, but one unnoticed item was Bathroom Hardware.

See here. This is what happens when I ask Stephen “which one looks the classiest?”  His eyes get large and almost pop out of his head!  It’s actually pretty funny to see, which is why I snapped a picture of that exact expression.

We narrowed it down to Option Left and Option Right. Also known as “nickel  or brass”

We have handles similar to the left option in our kitchen, but the guest bath has more of a dark color to the vanity, so we decided to go with the one of the right.

As an end note: We got these things last week and they are still sitting in the bag waiting to be installed. Stephen is waiting to get the correct sized drill bit (which may or may not be wrapped and under the Christmas tree…)

So it’s been 1 week since we closed on the house and we have been busy!  Yesterday I shared with you about our bathroom shade experience, and now I’m gonna take you on a tour of how the rest of the house got some much-needed security.  We had a total of 8 windows to cover in the living room, den, and bedrooms.  After researching what type we wanted we decided to go with some simple white vinyls. My first choice were some great looking white compressed wood blinds, but with Christmas being 2 weeks away and just closing on the house we decided we could “upgrade” down the road and go with something more thrifty, some simple light filtering vinyls. Now if we had a pet or  kids I wouldn’t go the vinyl route, but since it’s just the two of us we don’t have to worry about anyone snapping or damaging them.  Plenty of time to upgrade later :)

After taking multiple measurements we made our first ‘Home Update’ purchase and got ourselves some much needed window-hugging blinds.

So with that said I’m gonna show you how it all went down.

Step 1:  Buy yourself some blinds!

Next:  Mark your spot – nothings worst than an unexpected Re-Do !

Then:  Take TONS of pictures…

This is what happens when I get too camera snappy.  hehe

Don’t Forget to catch those moments they aren’t expecting

Then:  Use those suckers!  When it’s dark outside you’re offering a free show

Most Importantly:  Don’t forget to let the wife install the last one so she can get a super savy picture of her hard work ;)

Well there ya have it.  A personalized blind installation, straight from the Ringl House!   Now, it’s time to get back to watching ‘Christmas Vacation’.  Stephen told me to watch something other than ‘Elf’, which I don’t understand one bit… but I’ll comply like a good wife anyway  ;)

On one of our recent Home Depot runs I was left with an important decision. A decision that would alter our very lives. Stephen asked me to decide, you ready for this … our bathroom window blinds.  Crazy right?!  Such a big decision to make for such a small’ish person. These blinds will grace my eyes every single day in our home!  When I brush my teeth in the morning and then again when I brush my teeth before bed.  When you think about it, the bathroom is a pretty regular-visited spot.  I mean we all have to  shower, check the scale, tweeze our eyebrows – you know, that sorta stuff.

So on yet another rainy-night visit… Oh, by the way,  it has seriously rained EVERYDAY since we moved.  I haven’t been able to walk around our new huge yard yet!   How are we supposed to have an awesomely-fun bonfire if it won’t quit drizzling drops from the sky?!?!  Okay, back to the story… it was yet another rainy night and we were in need of our last set of blinds, or BB as I call them (you know, bathroom blinds). After all,  no one wants a peeping tom through that window,  Yikes!  We are looking around and decide that we want to go with a ‘shade’ instead of the normal horizontal blind. Then comes the next question: What  type or color?!   Well, we are keeping with our bathrooms brown theme and are stuck between two.  We tested them for the usual blind needs: light transparency, durability, speed of closure – you know, the usual.  So after what seemed like 2 minutes to me and 20 years to Stephen we made a decision.

Which do you think we chose:  Option A (the top)  or Option B  (the bottom) ?!?!

Well if you said Option A you are absolutely WRONG!  Haha, got ya didn’t I?!?!  We actually decided to go with Option B, the bottom shade you see in the picture there.  It’s a great color and we are loving the look it adds to our #1, or is it #2, room?!?!   Hey-O   Just kidding people – I couldn’t resist myself  :)

So there ya have it, you now know that we spent more time on our bathroom window covering than ALL the other windows in our house.

Now we just need to work on making Home Depot ‘lists’.  Stephen would be so happy if we would cut it down to a weekly trip.  Heck, what can I say, we are LOVING every second of  homeownership.  Plus, let’s be honest,  I would go to Home Depot every night if  he would let me :)