EchoClarke's Profile

What a great house! Love your aesthetic and your boundless creativity and sense of humor! I hope to get out of my apartment and into a home I can customize top to bottom with the same personlized spirit someday.

As for the writing of the home tour intros, does AT have an editor? These things are consistently awful.

Like AmieB., I recently gave my 70s bathroom (in my cheap apartment) a big upgrade for a total of $200. For my brothers and sisters who live on this kind of budget, here's what I did:

I replaced the sink and vanity with a lightly-used Ikea sink and vanity from the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store (around $70), found a 1960s chrome medicine cabinet there too ($10), scored a major deal on a nickel antique t.p. holder for $10, covered the textured linoleum with Armstrong industrial tiles (that cool flecked kind, about $40), repainted the bathroom in oil paint ($35), removed the vinyl baseboard and installed and painted wood baseboard ($5), and removed the shower door and replaced it with a rod ($20) and a clear $3 dollar curtain.

I did all the work myself over a few weekends and it was SO worth it. The plumbing was a first for me, but was suprisingly easy.

Keep the faith, visionary penny pinchers!