Craigslist for the Win

We have a tiny, tiny sink in the basement bathroom.

It has to be that tiny in order to fit past the awkwardly placed door.

However, once we remodel this bathroom (spoiler alert) that door is going to move about 3 feet farther away from the tiny sink. We’ll still need a narrow sink, but at least we can have a full depth one!

Kohler Bancroft Pedestal Sinks would make a good fit. These are $225, and we could pair it with a Kohler Fairfax faucet ($106) for a good quality, compact sink at $331. That same setup would work perfectly in the half bath that we want to install later. Despite how well pedestal sinks would work, Michael and I don’t like them much, so we wouldn’t spend $662 on them.

Luckily for us, someone listed three of them on Craigslist for $125 each. We landed two for $100 a piece. Here they are in their previous house;

We’re planning to get the basement ready for us to live in while we tear to shreds remodel the upstairs, so the  basement bathroom will be one of our first projects, but we’re still on Phase 1 of the remodel (pay the mortgage down to 80%… boring!) so they’ll be sitting pretty in a shed for a few months. In fact, I shouldn’t even be thinking about this bathroom yet 🙂

However, the sink has kicked me off into full-on planning mode… In fact, the plan (I really want to have a solid plan before kicking off any of these projects) is 90% done. I may have even picked up two mirrors, the vanity light fixture, the new vent fan, and some glass shelves for above the toilet already 🙂

I’ll be back on here with the basement bathroom plan in a few months (or weeks?) when we can legitimately start a new project. Until then, I’ll be agonizing over paint colors.