Thinking about Haiti

Just reading this article by on cholera in Haiti by Victoria Fan at the Center for Global Development.  If you want to learn more about how Cholera spreads and what the UN and donor community can do about it, you should take a look. These pictures are from a road flooded by Hurricane Sandy in les Nippes, Haiti.

I'm sorry I couldn't resist posting this. Via Miss Moss.

3/4 bath inspiration - fun white bathrooms, bargains and Ikea sinks

In line with my remarks yesterday about keeping our finishes simple, I thought I would show you some bathrooms of the style we are looking at, and the products that we would use for these looks.

This is possibly my favorite use of white tiles. Yellow Grout! This could be really fun in a powder room or family bathroom.  Also, this cute little Ikea Ann sink is a bargain at $79.99. Image from Ideas to Steal.

Subway tiles like this can be found at Home Depot for $2 a square foot! Image from Ideas to Steal.

Here's another one from the Design Files with a very similar style.  The glass shower door is also great.

This bathroom is from Mark and Raina's farmhouse makeover on Apartment Therapy. This is an Ikea Lillangen sink and cabinet.  Both for $349!

 Here an ikea double sink was put on a bright green table.  I am not sure which sink - maybe this one?  Or two of these Talleviken sinks could also do the trick. Of course we probably couldn't afford marble, but maybe we could fake the look with Corian or Quartz.

This is not an Ikea sink, and I am not sure we could fake it, but I love the mirror and the rim of black tiles around the top. Image from Ideas to Steal.

Finally, while this may not be the most exciting bathroom - it is very similar in layout to what we will be doing with our 3/4 bath. It also shows how far a dog and some plants can go towards punching up a room. From Rock and Rock Problems.

Hidden gem

Here it is! The kitchen of our dreams!

OK, so we're not quite there yet, but today was a pretty awesome day.  We got rid of that awful, random powder room that was sitting in the middle of our future kitchen.  What was left behind (besides dust) was this beautiful, old, almost-intact archway.  If you use your imagination, can you picture our stove and hood in there, flanked by two giant pantries?