We renovated our upstairs bathroom in a rush pre-moving in. This basically consisted of us holding my dad hostage for two weeks while he demo'd, re-plumbed every fixture, re-framed the floor and one wall, and tiled our bathroom. I was in charge of ordering stuff.
I splurged on the Kohler purist faucet, but cheaped out on everything else. I just could not bring myself to spend $500 on a clawfoot shower surround, +$900 on a nice clawfoot faucet and showerhead, $115 on a tp holder, and $274 on two towel bars. Marc gave me crap for it back then.
Well, I hate it when he is right but the shower surround falls apart sometimes, the faucet is annoying, and the tp holder broke after one enthusiastic two year old unspooled a whole roll by hand. Le sigh.
So this time, I at least let Marc pick the new tp holder.
Guess who is in charge of ordering everything for the new downstairs bathroom? Hint: Not me.
Lesson learned.
It does totally suck to spend $50 on a TP holder and $200 plus on towel bars though. Swallowing the cost is tough, I hate it, but it is one of those things that end up breaking when you don't buy quality.
ReplyDeleteExactly! Better to spend $50 now rather than $20 now and $50 later to replace the cheap one!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, you get what you pay for! Can't wait to see what little Ash does to our fixtures someday....ha!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, in most projects you get what you pay for.
ReplyDeleteIt depends upon the project. Quality will always reflect upon the pricing.
ReplyDeleteOh no! Yeah that is why I'm doing the buying for all of our home projects but at least FM is on board. The previous owners were the definition of cheap and after having fixture after fixture fall apart and/or leak we decided to just go ahead and get the good stuff the first time around. It's our forever home so we're sure to reap the rewards of doing that.
ReplyDeleteHave you ordered that tp holder yet? We ended up having to get one that held the roll in. When it's open like that.....a two year old has much better access to the roll. Can do more things with it than just unroll it... ;)
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