{"id":247,"date":"2003-01-12T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-12T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=247"},"modified":"2003-01-12T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-12T23:23:00","slug":"while-youre-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/247-while-youre-at-it","title":{"rendered":"While you&#8217;re at it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font COLOR=\"FF0000\"><b>Lesson Number One:<\/b><\/font> In Home Renovations, watch out for the <i>while you&#8217;re at it<\/i>s! They&#8217;ll get you every time!<\/p>\n<p><font COLOR=\"FF0000\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/font> This weekend, I decided I&#8217;m going to do a &#8220;little more work&#8221; in the bathroom, and <b>replace the sink, faucet, and vanity<\/b> after all! After looking at it for a few days, it just wasn&#8217;t right to leave the crappy thing there! Maybe the new sink will be the one thing I can leave in place if\/when I completely redo the bathroom after the upstairs renovations are complete?<\/p>\n<p>I did some shopping today, and found I can get a pre-fab (49.5 wide x 22.5 deep, with backsplash) countertop at Rona\/Lansing for about $50, a drop-in sink for about the same, and faucets from $20 to $160 depending on how fancy. The only think I haven&#8217;t figured out or priced is the vanity base. <\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Vanity Base&#8230; the Beagle has landed!&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson Number One: In Home Renovations, watch out for the while you&#8217;re at its! They&#8217;ll get you every time! Example: This weekend, I decided I&#8217;m going to do a &#8220;little more work&#8221; in the bathroom, and replace the sink, faucet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/247-while-youre-at-it\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}