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We're in the midst of an extreme vanity makeover. Let me show you what I mean. They say an eco-friendly
house can't be built in 150 days for $150,000, and I say it can. I'm Allen Smith, join me
as I push the limits with time, budget and creativity with the Garden Home Challenge,
exclusively on eHow Home. Alright, so what we're doing here is we're taking a vanity,
which cost right at $100. I got it at a surplus lumberyard. And we're doing an upgrade. Tony
is taking the doors, which are really simple, and applying this 3/8 inch board by 2 inch
board all the around it to give it a very simple profile. It was simple in the beginning,
but it was a just a little too simple. So we're bumping it up just a bit. And this will
match the cabinet doors in the kitchen. And also doing the same with these drawers here.
This vanity came with four drawers and two doors. We're gonna have sink over each one
of these two cabinet doors of the piece itself. The other thing that we did is that I found
some finials that go on the top of fence posts, and we turned them upside down. The problem
was they were a little long, from here to here, for underneath the counter. What I wanna
do is make these finials look like legs on this piece of furniture. So it's gonna from
a basic box to a piece of furniture. So what we had to do is raise the vanity by 3/4 of
an inch. So Tony applied this little board at the bottom. We put board up under here,
so these feet would have something to be attached to. And without having to cut these finials,
he attached them with some wood screws, and now they're really secure. I was walking through
Lumber 1, which is a local lumberyard and hardware store, I noticed these finials in
the fence department, and thought, you know, those would make great feet. And so we got
these that were already turned. And I think they're gonna turn out really well. So when
I got them, they were just untreated, unpainted, and we put a primer coat on them. And this
whole piece has now been primed, except for these little pieces of poplar here. Once those
get primed, they'll be ready to go, and we'll get the whole thing painted with its final
coat. There will be a little sanding in between, but I think it's gonna look really great.
Now, these finials cost about $5 a piece, so I got $20 in the feet of this thing, a
little bit in some material. But I think for about 30 bucks, we really upgraded it substantially.
Now there are some other things that's really gonna help upgrade this and give it a different
look: One of them is gonna be the hardware. Once we get the knobs and the pulls, for the
drawers and the doors, that's gonna help. We're gonna put the countertop, which is a
manmade stone, and we drop the sinks in -- this thing is gonna look great. Looking good, Tony,
thanks a lot. You see, if you just take something that's basic, add a little imagination to
it, you can transform something that's ordinary into something extraordinary. If you're enjoying
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