Proud Owners of a New Dishwasher!

R called Sears Corporate last week to discuss the issues we had trying to buy our dishwasher. The woman he spoke with was appalled at everything that happened. She said she would contact the manager of the store, who would put us in touch with his best salesperson. The next day we had a call from Al.

We went in tonight to see Al. As we turned the corner to the appliances section, there's our dear friend Laurie, plus 2 other salesmen. One of them is slightly apart from the other two, and I see that luckily, this is Al. I mention that he called us and we were here to buy our dishwasher. We walked toward the computers. Suddenly, guess who comes running around the corner toward us (but on the other side of the register) and stands right across from us, and starts telling another salesman that we were "those" people. So professional Laurie. So professional.

Luckily for us, Al was really nice. We walked over to double check that we had the correct dishwasher model number.. then back to the register, where we were happy to see that Laurie had left. Al entered in the model number, our $25 discount from Steve, plus another 5% discount. He then told me that Sears offered free shipping for any appliance over $499 (gee thanks Laurie). We could have it delivered on Monday. Umm.. yes please! He then asked for our phone number, and all of our correct information showed up. When he asked for an email address, I gladly gave it to him. Then it was rewards card time. He knew how to use it (scan it), and even better, asked me if I wanted to use my points. I said that I wasn't exactly sure what the card was, so he explained that you get points every time you use it, and those points translate into money off. So we were able to get an additional $7.86 off our order. May not seem like much, but I was definitely a lot happier than last time!

In the end, we brought the $799.99 dishwasher down to $546.24. Discount of $253.75. Not bad... not bad. Plus, did I mention the free shipping?? We also bought the installation kit (Al knew exactly what was in it... so we bought it). He also rang it up separately and we got another $5.39 by using our points from the dishwasher!

When we were all done, he apologized for our bad experience (and Steve came over and apologized too) and asked me who we dealt with last time. I whispered "Laurie" and he was like "ohh.... yea... sorry about that". Like it wasn't the first time he'd heard that.. Ugh.

We got in the car 15 minutes after we got out of the car. NICE!

Another Goal, Checked Off

I completed another one of my 2011 Goals. While it may not seem like much, it was one that meant a lot to me.

"Figure out lighting solutions for the Living Room.. it's way too dark in there."

Our Living Room is in the Northwest corner of the house. It is dark in there all day long (unless you want to watch TV... then you get a weird glare on the TV in the afternoon). We had 2 lamps in there, which we received as wedding gifts and had in our Living Room in our apartment. They weren't cutting it. So I bought a lamp for my bookcase, thinking that might help. It helped at night, because it's hooked up to a switch, so at least we didn't have to walk through the room in the dark anymore. But other than that, no big difference (looks pretty though). We go out to church/dinner/shopping with my parents every Saturday night and while I was waiting for R to get ready, I flipped through the Bed, Bath and Beyond catalog that came in the mail that day. And there was a set of 3 lamps, one floor lamp, two table lamps. They were exactly what I was looking for! And all three for only $59.99! Add my 20% off coupon into the mix and you get three large lamps for $47! Not bad! I unpacked the lamps first thing in the morning on Sunday (R joked that it was like Christmas morning... Styrofoam/boxes everywhere and me with a big grin on my face). I put the floor lamp in the corner by the door/DVDs/fireplace and the table lamps on either side of the love seat. It was so bright in there!! Even with just the floor lamp on it makes a huge difference! It's amazing! It also makes the room look a lot more grown-up and nicer (the mess and clutter in the house is really starting to get to me, the neat freak...). I haven't taken a picture of them yet, because the room is a mess with paint removal supplies, so this picture is from the BBB website.

Bedroom Closet Before/After

Total Cost:

$0 - Everything we already had... paint, hooks, shelves, hangers, boxes... I like this kind of project :)

Tag Sale Scores

Today my mom and I went around to a bunch of local tag sales. I love tag sales. Always have. But I think I love them even more now that I have a big old house to fill up. 

The first sale we went to was an estate sale that happened to be on my street. It was an early 1800's house, and everything in the house was basically from the late 1800's to mid 1900's. They had a really cool barn with a lot of old tools and farm equipment, but I mainly focused on everything inside the house. I spent only $40 and got: 

Two pewter dishes, one copper dish and a pack of old sewing pins

 A big envelope of old, unused stamps

An early 1900's Winnie the Pooh book

A Presidential Inauguration invitation for Ronald Reagan

 A beautiful Hitchcock arm chair and matching side table (which folds up) 

We then drove up to Wethersfield and went to an "estate sale" in the historic part of town. I had looked up the address and saw that it was a center chimney house like ours, so I was really interested in seeing it. When we got there, it wasn't an estate sale in the true sense of the word. It was just a regular tag sale, with not that much stuff. I spent $2 and got a small metal tin full of cotter pins and a small glass jar that is empty but is from Keene, NH, so that made me want it. But the best part was that when my mom asked if this was it and there wasn't anything in the house, we brought up how I live in a center chimney and one thing lead to another and pretty soon we were given a tour of the house. It was about 25 years older than house, but was in pretty good shape. Not as wide (deep?) as our house, the funeral door had been removed, a couple small additions were added and the fireplaces weren't as tall, but it's still cool to be in another center chimney!

Next door to the center chimney was a tiny tiny little tag sale, but we actually ended up buying a lot. The owner of the house home schools, so my mom bought a ton of books for her classroom. I spent $1.75 and bought:

Two barbecue cookbooks for Ryan

A patriotic wooden tray that I had to have for my Kitchen as soon as I saw it!

A workbook to learn French for when we have kids someday (It was too cute to pass up!)

A little bit further down the street was another old house having a huge tag sale to support the local softball team. There I spent $2.25 and got:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

A Dairy-Free Cookbook

 The Green Mile by Stephen King

A double boiler for melting chocolate (I got the apothecary jars at a consignment shop later in the day for $3.50)

Then we were off to Farmington for the tag sale that started this whole idea. My mom heard on the radio that a condo complex was having a huge tag sale and so she really wanted to go (and then I found all of the other ones online). Out of all of the tag sales all day, the condo complex was kind of a disappointment.. but we still got a couple good things.

This old map of New England for $5 (which I thought was pretty overpriced compared to my other deals of the day.. but whatever. It'll look nice matted and framed in my Living Room).

The only other thing I got was this bag of organic stuffing/batting for $1. My mom bought a couple things... but like I said, overall, not as great as we thought it was going to be. (I got the mandolin slicer at a later tag sale for $0.50 (or free because my mom paid for it).)

After a quick break for lunch (tag sales end at 2 or 3.. we only had time for the drive thru!), we headed back to Berlin. The first tag sale we saw what we wanted before we even parked the car.

A rocking chair that matched the arm chair I bought earlier in the day! It had two really ugly cushions on it, covering up how pretty it is, which is probably how it lasted so long at the sale! It was sitting right by the road too. I don't even think I looked at anything else these people were selling. I got the chair for $25 (and the guy even threw in the cushions!). We actually ended up needing the cushions though because the chair was too big to fit in my mom's trunk or back seat, so we had the trunk open and I used the strings on the cushions to tie it down (it still scared me though and my mom drove really slow). Luckily we were close to my house at this point. We went to one more tag sale the next street over before heading back to my house to drop the chair off.

This tag sale had a huge blanket filled with Beanie Babies. I used to be obsessed with Beanie Babies (ok.. maybe I still am.. but not as in I buy them constantly.. just as in I can't get rid of them!). A quick glance told me that there were a lot of Beanies on this blanket that were worth some money, so I quickly grabbed them up.

Patti, Cubbie, Quackers, Peanut, Mystic, Happy and Chocolate. All for $1.50. Well, technically I guess $0.50 because my mom gave me $1.

Also got Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King for $0.25.

After dropping off the chair it was only 2:00 and we weren't ready to stop yet. So we decided to just drive around and find tag sales based on signs. We drove to Middletown and finally found what my mom had been looking for all day: a cheap ($7) playpen (for the chicks because they're too big for their cage now). For $2, I got:

A cute mason jar with a bicentennial (1776-1976) logo on it

A cast iron skillet (I've always wanted one to cook with but this one might only be for decoration.. unless I can clean it really well) (This skillet, by the way, is worth about $80. And I got it for $1.)

And my mom got me this for my office for $2. It looks similar to one I've been eying at Pottery Barn..

One more to go. This one had a ton of stuff.. and since it was toward the end of the day the lady was basically giving it all away (once she heard my mom was a teacher she gave her basically all of the holiday decorations for free).. For $5 I got...

 Two Better Homes and Gardens Cookbooks (Casseroles and Hamburger/Ground Meat Recipes)

 A cute basket (tall, like for magazines)

 Some apple/pinecone garland (hard to see in the picture, but I love it! Very country!)

 Three Beanie Babies

A cute chicken box I love chickens!

An interesting box that she said is at least 100 years old. It definitely looks at least that old. And it has a really cool old leather handle. I'm planning on using it somewhere in my Kitchen I think. She wanted $5 for the box, so basically I got everything else for free.

All of my tag sale purchases (plus the jars from the consignment shop) totaled $88.25. Not bad for 3 pieces of furniture, 5 cookbooks, 2 regular books, and a bunch of other treasures (and stuff I can re-sell online for even more!)

Craigslist Finds

Since we bought the house I have been searching through Craigslist every couple days... looking for antiques or other old items that would fit in the house, or maybe some cheap furniture I could restore. My first find happened the day before we closed on the house. I found the coffee table that matches our Living Room set (which Ikea discontinued). When we moved into our apartment I bought a Markor bookcase, 1 end table and the TV stand. Without any notice, Ikea discontinued the series.. one day it was there, the next, gone. I was pretty upset because I was planning on buying more bookcases, the coffee table and 1 more end table once we moved. They're traditional looking and made of real wood, not particleboard, like some Ikea stuff.

Anyways.. I found the coffee table listed for $100. I got it for $75. It was originally $225 I believe. And it was in perfect condition... I love it! It has a drawer in front, which is awesome for storing random stuff.

(Not my picture)

My next great Craigslist find was this past weekend. Sunday night I was bored and was playing around on Craigslist while R was watching the Bruins game. I like looking through the "Free" section.. it's amazing what some people try to pass off on other people for free. I found a listing for a free sheet of drywall. In our town. The ad was about a week and a half old, but I emailed the guy just in case. I heard back from him the next morning (Memorial Day). Turns out it was still available. My dad's friend was already at our house letting us use his big pickup truck and he didn't mind making one more little side trip. Best part? Turns out Mr. Free Drywall lives on our street!! PERFECT! And the drywall is almost enough for the little project in the Kitchen (We've decided to drywall over the wood posts in the Kitchen that are destroyed). YAY! And the sheet is in pretty good condition too. Score one for Craigslist!

Fabric Bulletin Board

Have a bulletin board that needs a quick remodel? We had two. When we were young, my mom made bulletin boards for my sister and me. She bought just your average bulletin board and painted them with our name and some pictures (I had hearts and my sister had flowers). As amazing as the bulletin board is, it just didn't fit in our new house. Plus, R had a plain (boring) bulletin board from his room at home. It looks, well, like it lived in a boy's room for 20-odd years. It was not pretty. But I can't just throw stuff away. So from apartment to apartment it sat in the closet. Then when I remodeled my office, I realized that the two walls on either side of the windows would be perfect for matching bulletin boards. But they'd need to match. And both be hung horizontally (the one my mom made had to be hung vertically). So in about an hour I transformed them.

The first step was to fine something to cover the cork with. To save some money, I first decided to look through fabric I already had and hope to God that I had something that not only matched the walls but also would fit both boards. I tried a couple different colors, but eventually settled on this pink. Not only did the color look perfect with the white trim and blue-ish walls, but it kinda sort matches my new Ikea lamps!

The next step was to take the frame off of the bulletin boards. Seems simple enough, right? WRONG. The frame is held together by these crazy looking zig-zag pieces of metal which do not want to come out! Nothing I did made them budge a millimeter! I tried a hammer (in many different ways), pliers, a staple remover... Eventually I got just a little frustrated and just started hammering away on the thing. I broke off a chunk of the back of the frame, just enough so that I could get the hammer in there and smack that stupid zig-zag out of there!

Because I was worried about breaking the frame beyond all repair, this is as much as I took apart. I gently slid the cork out of the frame and left the rest of the frame corners intact. Then I painted the frame front and sides using two coats of white paint.

While the paint was drying, I ironed the fabric like crazy. I cut each piece about 2 or 3 inches larger than the front of the board. I started at a shorter side and after making sure that the fabric was centered (to be sure I'd have enough overhand on each side), I stapled it to the back of the board. I put a staple every 3 or 4 inches or so. I then moved on to the other short side, then the two longer sides, making sure to pull the fabric as tightly as possible before stapling. This is very important because it would be very noticeable if the fabric isn't straight or tight.

All that's left is to reattach the frame, which is much much easier than removing the frame. Time start to finish? Including waiting for the paint to dry, about 2 hours. I love the new bulletin boards! They look perfect in the room! Now I just need to find stuff to hang on them! Total cost? $0.00!

 

See it next to the lamp? I love it!!

 

The new bulletin boards also inspired me to clean up my desk and bit and unpack some more office boxes.

Kitchen Cabinet Hardware

Like lighting, choosing cabinet hardware could take years. There are so many companies out there, so many designs, finishes, price ranges... it's overwhelming!

We've been living with "contractor hardware" in our Kitchen for 3 months now (well, for the first month and a half there was nothing at all and you'd scrape up your fingers just trying to get a cabinet open. But almost every time R opens a cabinet he manages to rip the tape and break it.. So they're not really as strong as they used to be (he definitely does not have a gentle touch!). So I was tasked with the job of FINALLY finding us some cabinet hardware. The reason it kept getting put off was because every time I was in Lowe's or Home Depot I'd check out their selection, and never liked anything. I know I want oil-rubbed bronze to match everything else in the house, and Lowe's and HD would have maybe one option. Add to that that I wanted cup pulls for the drawers, and you're really narrowing down your cheap box store options. Whenever I'd look online I'd find tons of beautiful options (think Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware...), but for those beauties you're paying $15 a knob. Totally not in our budget.

But now I was down to the wire. We're having a party in about a week and a half, and while it is obvious the house is no where near being done, for some reason we both feel like we NEED that hardware before the party. It had to happen. So I went on amazon.com and decided to just go with the first 4 options I found and choose one. I got lucky.

I found these cup pulls by Amerock.

Love love love! They're exactly what I wanted... traditional, but not too glopped up with extra lines and details. They don't come in ORB, just a matte black finish, which is okay, because all of the ORB options I found on amazon were too bronze... wouldn't match the faucet and door latches. Amazon Price? $2.18 each. A STEAL! That's even cheaper than the ugly ones I was finding in HD and Lowe's!

The wonderfulness that is amazon provided me with some complementary hardware.. and the knob they suggested is gorgeous!

Also by Amerock, this knob costs a whopping $1.75. I think we can afford that! 

I was shocked at how lucky I was... I guess it's a little early birthday luck sneaking up on me! I figured out how many knobs and pulls I needed (16 knobs, 7 pulls), and dumped everything in my shopping cart, entered in my info, and was presented with the final screen. 

Total Purchase: $43.26

Total Shipping: $67.83

Total: $111.09

Whhhaaaaattt?!?! My shipping is almost DOUBLE the price of the knobs? For shipping tiny little knobs that weigh what a half a pound each?!?!? Unacceptable. I was so happy with my $43.26, but I just could not justify $68 for shipping these tiny things.

So I did what every good internet shopper does... I took the model numbers and did a google search. That's when I found hardware heaven. www.usknobs.com They're a site that claims "warehouse direct prices"... and I tell ya... they're amazing. I found my cup pulls and knobs, FOR CHEAPER THAN AMAZON, and was a happy girl. My final price on usknobs.com, including shipping? $44.77. Heaven :) Oh, and did I mention that they not only shipped today, about 2 hours after my order was submitted, but according to the tracking number they'll be here Friday morning?

Kitchen Hardware Specifics:

Manufacturer: Amerock

Retailer: www.usknobs.com

Model: Allison Metal Finishes Cup Pull (Model BP53010-FB)

Finish: Flat Black

Price: $1.96 each

Manufacturer: Amerock

Retailer: www.usknobs.com

Model: Allison Black 1 1/4" FLT Traditional Knob (Model BP53012-FB)

Finish: Flat Black

Price: $1.22 each

Our $250 Total Room Remodel

That almost sounds impossible. Especially when you remember what we were dealing with. But we made it happen. 


Toilet - $179
Faucets - $20/ea ($40 total)
Countertop - $2
Floor - $25 (vinyl tiles and luan)
Wall Paint - $0
Primer/White Paint - $5
Cabinet Knobs - $10

Kitchen Faucet

I haven't uploaded any new pictures of the half-complete Kitchen yet because it's so dark when I get home and the pictures just don't do the room justice. The best time of day in that part of the house is in the morning... it's just overflowing with sunlight. So the pictures will just have to wait until a weekend.


But....
Because I'm so excited about my new Kitchen, each day until then I'll share with you a part of my Kitchen. Today, it's the faucet.


The house has most of it's original door hardware, which is black. To match this, any new hardware we're adding is oil-rubbed bronze (ORB), which I just happen to love.  The new deadbolt and door knob in the Kitchen is oil-rubbed bronze, and I decided that the cabinet hardware will also be ORB. So when it came to looking at faucets, anything else just didn't look right. You'd be surprised how hard it is to find a reasonably priced ORB Kitchen faucet!


I found some at Home Depot and Lowe's that I really liked by Price Pfister. They were very simple, ORB, and had good prices. This one is the Avalon.

I had never heard of Price Pfister before, so I wanted to do some research on them. Couldn't come up with ONE GOOD REVIEW! They all said that they were cheaply made, broke all the time, the soap dispenser never worked, the sprayer has no pressure, it leaks constantly, etc. etc. etc. No way I'm spending $180 for a faucet in a brand new Kitchen that would break after using it once! But I did really like the color, and the option of a soap dispenser.


Long story short... couldn't find another reasonably priced colonial-looking ORB faucet with a pull-out spray or soap dispenser. But I did find this faucet both on the Home Depot website and Amazon. They didn't sell it in stores, which was a little upsetting because I like to see it in person and play with it before purchasing. But, we needed a faucet, so I bought it from Amazon for $125. This faucet is the Glacier Bay Lyndhurst Bridge.

The faucet arrived a couple days later via UPS. The box it was packaged in had the faucet laying down, in hardly any packaging (there was a plastic bottom shell it laid in, and the faucet itself was in a plastic bag). The box was completely beat up... holes, dents, tears, stains. Half a roll of packing tape had been wrapped around one half of the box, as if to repair these beatings. It took me 15 minutes to just get the box open. The faucet looked great! But as soon as I took it out of the box to show R I realized that the bottom piece of each base was cracked and broken. I was heartbroken. I couldn't install a broken faucet! And the granite company needed the faucet the following day for templating, so I couldn't even send it back!


R convinced me to give the broken faucet to the granite installer, telling them that it was being returned because it was broken. Then I ordered a new faucet from Home Depot this time, so that if it also arrived broken we could at least return it to the store easily. The faucet from HD arrived a couple days later in great shape. HD had the small white box inside a large thick cardboard box, which was delivered via FedEx in perfect condition. Kudos to HD on their great packing job! And on top of it all, I had $75 worth of HD gift cards, so the faucet only cost me approximately $58 including shipping!


It's no easy task to return a faucet to Amazon though... I have 2 options. I can return it myself and pay for shipping or I can request Amazon to set up a UPS pick-up. But it has to be picked up where it was delivered... so I can't have it picked up at work, where I am all day. It's a big pain in the butt... so the faucet is still sitting in our Living Room, waiting for deliberation.


I'm so glad I read those bad Price Pfister reviews... otherwise I would have bought/installed a faucet that didn't look nearly as nice as the one I ended up getting and was more than $50 more expensive.


Here's the specifics on the Kitchen Faucet:


Manufacturer: Glacier Bay
Retailer: Home Depot
Model: Lyndhurst Bridge Kitchen Faucet with Side Spray
Finish: Oil Rubbed Bronze
Price: $123
Review: Looks and works great! This faucet adds a perfect blend of colonial and modern aspects to our Kitchen. It was very simple to install. The faucet is raised very high, which is great for filling pots and washing large dishes, and also turns 180 degrees, which is great with a large sink. The sprayer has great pressure, and is not cheap at all! It is very heavy (both a good and bad thing), so I have no worries that it'll break or wear down over the years. I would definitely recommend this faucet. Gives the looks and feel of a very expensive faucet, without the high price tag. 

Second Bath Faucet

These faucets were actually one of the first purchases for the house. Immediately after closing we went to Home Depot to buy a bunch of things (most importantly, new locks/keys). While there, we bought these two faucets, intending to use them in the upstairs bathroom. However, once we got back to the house, we realized that the bathroom was in worse shape than we remembered while at the store. So for 2 1/2 months the faucet boxes were used as door stops. I kept meaning to return them... we weren't remodeling the bathroom, so why keep them?  I'm glad we didn't return them, because we decided to re-do this bathroom after all, and they look great! My only complaint about them is that to get the water coming out at a good pressure/decent amount, you need to turn them as far as the handle will go. I know that this is a problem with the faucet, not our plumbing, because this didn't happen with the old faucets. But for $20, I wasn't expecting the world.

Manufacturer: Glacier Bay
Retailer: Home Depot
Model: Constructor 4 in. 2-Handle Low-Arc Bathroom Faucet
Finish: Brushed Nickel
Price: $20

Kitchen Demolition

Today with the help of my dad and uncle, we demolished our Kitchen. It felt great! I tell ya... if you're ever having a bad day and need to let off some steam, pick up a crowbar and tear down drywall! Great stress reliever! My uncle brought his saws-all and went a little crazy on the cabinets, so we had the nastiness out of the house in about an hour!

Of course, we found a couple unexpected things. The first being the open electrical box that was behind the dishwasher, with live wires sticking out of it. Lovely. Luckily we have an electrician coming in this week, so he'll take care of that for us. The dishwasher wasn't even hooked up to that.. it was hardwired through the floor (as was the stove). Again, it'll all be taken care of, thank God. Electrical stuff scares me.

Another minor problem we found was the floor beneath the sink cabinet. Not only was it disgusting and filled with dirt, acorns, toys, food wrappers, bottle caps, and BONES (mice and other larger somethings...), but the plywood was completely rotted. So we made our first Lowe's trip of the day and got some new plywood.

Next came tearing down the drywall. My dad kept trying to talk me out of it, but I'm glad I insisted on tearing it down. In all of the other rooms we've been leaving the plaster and/or drywall and just painting over it for now, due to our tight moving-in schedule. But in the Kitchen, the wallpaper was fused to the drywall and would not come off. No matter what we tried. And it was old and yucky, and I'm sorry, but Kitchens need to be clean (ok, according to me, everything needs to be clean, but Kitchens especially). There isn't a ton of drywall in the Kitchen because there are so many openings and the huge fireplace, so it wouldn't be that bad. As soon as all of the drywall was down and out of the house, everyone agreed with me. The horrible smell that had been in the Kitchen was now completely gone. The smell was probably a mixture of moldy drywall, mouse poop in the cabinets and the rotten floor. All of which are now in the backyard in a portable dumpster. And we got the pleasure of seeing what the walls in the Kitchen used to look like.... very very wide, very very detailed wood panels. Yet more proof of the Wilcox's wealth.

Old wallpaper, also showing where the original wall was (the back half of the house was originally split up into three rooms).

My backyard

And this is when we hit the major snag of the day. Electrical outlets. There weren't enough in the Kitchen, both for code requirements and for S's small appliance requirements.  So we had to call an electrician to run some new wires for a bunch of new GFCI outlets as well as outlets for the dishwasher, microwave/hood and stove. And why not throw in some new wall switches while we're at it. So here's the problem. It's the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. We're not going to get anyone in this weekend. So this ruins our plans. We had 3 days straight to work on the Kitchen and get it done, but now we have nothing we can do. We can't move forward with anything until the electrical is done (No drywall, no floor, no cabinets, no paint, no trim, etc, etc, etc).

So, you ask, what did we do? We found stuff to do (not hard to do in a 239 year old house). Today we decided to replace the one old window in the house. It was left, most likely, because it was a taller window, and the Kitchen cabinets had been installed right in front of it. Turns out, it was also open, letting in more smells and mice. Woohoo. Enter Lowe's trip #2 of the day. My dad and I went in search of a matching window, but in a shorter size, so that it would fit above the base cabinets. All we could find in that size were windows without an mullions, or with a 4/4 grid. I can't do that when the rest of the windows are 6/6 and it would be very very obvious if this one was different. So I set off wandering around the store looking for someone to help me (which never happened... one guy said the window guy was on his lunch break, and he'd send someone else over to help. No one ever showed up). On my way back to my dad I noticed a window on a cart in the back of the store. No label, but it appeared to be the correct size. After arguing over the windows some more, we decided to go look at doors instead (to replace the back door that is impossible to open). Now my dad sees the window, and discovers a tiny price tag on the top. It was a special order that was returned. Originally $239... we get it for $50! Now that's a great deal!

Before

After

The Kitchen at the end of the day