Cork flooring, magic mirrors, and light bulbs

We are pretty sure we will be going with a cork flooring in the bathroom. We have to wait about two months before Josh can install it though. He needs to work his way around the bathroom first. The vanity area should be done in two weeks. Then, the bathtub needs to be refinished, the surround tiled and the new faucet and handles installed. Next is the shower enclosure which will be a lot of work since Josh is planning on removing the entire front wall and replacing it with a shower door, which was my request. It also needs to be tiled, and the showerhead and handles replaced. It will be so nice to have a more open shower instead of the cave it is now.

Josh found a local flooring store that is about two minutes away from our house, which is really nice. We already visited the store and brought home a sample book. Today I will be returning it and probably ordering a cork flooring that wasn't even in that sample book.

Mediterra Cork - This is the brand of cork flooring we will be using. Josh specifically likes the homogeneous patterns.

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I had the hardest time finding mirrors for the bathroom. Since this is an older home, a lot of the measurements are not standard. The medicine cabinet needed to be 14" wide and 24" high, which is nonstandard, which means not a lot of options. I also wanted a mirrored interior instead of the plastic (yes, I was being picky) The only place I was able to find a medicine cabinet exactly that size with the mirrored interior was Restoration Hardware. It was a little bit more expensive but it was on sale for $80 off plus it has the mirrored interior I was looking for. The medicine cabinet was delivered two days ago but it will be at least a week before Josh can install it. I did like the frameless medicine cabinet at Restoration Hardware more but the dimensions were just a half-inch off.

I also made the mistake of looking at their wall mirrors. And ended up buying two of those also. Ideally, we were looking for 15" by 24" wall mirrors for above the vanity, but those don't really exist. Once Josh hung the white cabinet on the wall I was able to measure how much space we have between the white cabinet and the side walls. An 18"x 24" would fit perfectly. I was originally going to go with two IKEA mirrors that were almost 20" in width (and a lot cheaper at $10 each) but the Classic Wall mirror at Restoration Hardware was so pretty that I fell in love with it. I was also able to get it in Satin Nickel, which matches all the rest of the hardware in our bathroom. The mirrors were $60 off regular price.

I ended up paying about $630 including shipping and taxes for the wall mirrors and the medicine cabinet. When I told Josh how much they were, he said that they must be magic mirrors. That is what happens when you don't use standard sizes though! It costs more.

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Once we had the counter in, we were able to see what it looked like with the current lighting. It seemed off-white in the light. I didn't like it that it was matching the floor in color. When Josh and his dad put up the ceiling above the vanity, they had to take down the pendant lights. So I got to see what the counter looked like in just the light from the LED ceiling light. It is funny how  light can change the color of a room. In the light from just the LED ceiling light, the counter looked whiter. So yesterday, when we were at Home Depot returning some things, we picked up some LED light bulbs for the pendant lights in "daylight." Hopefully, this will give us the white color we want in the counter. The pendant lights had LED bulbs in "warm white." The ceiling light is also "warm white," but I think it is far enough away that it doesn't affect the color of the counter. It is also diffused while the pendant lights are direct lighting.

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