Vanity

We've accepted the sad truth that we jumped the gun with our vanity and wound up with a plastic-y piece of crap in an fugly color and even worse handles. There is nothing redeeming about this impulse buy. Even the price tag isn’t as great as we thought 6 months ago.

The real salt in the wound came last Sunday. At the store where we bought our lovely mirrored medicine cabinet, we spotted the vanity that goes with it. It’s a gorgeous dark wood vanity with nice shiny handles that’s actually CHEAPER than the Ikea knockoff stinking up our garage. This resulted in an afternoon of soul searching as we debated long and hard over how to handle this dilemma.

Then, on a whim, Iain called Placemakers to see if they'd be willing to take it back for store credit.. a discount... anything! We didn’t have high hopes: it was a sale item purchased in June. We also put it up for auction online.

Amazingly, Placemakers agreed to a cash discount minus a 20% restocking fee. Yay!

Tomorrow we’re borrowing our friends' stationwagon to take it back, and the gorgeous new one (that goes perfectly with the cabinet) is ordered and ready!!