It feels like we are in suspended animation here in NY. We have pretty strict measures in place and hopefully that will help, but it seems like it wasn’t quite enough. Here upstate there are cases in our hospital and one nurse has tested positive. When I had my hysterectomy last year, my nurses were so great and I worry for them. Testing in our area is only available now for health care workers or those admitted to the hospital. They only did about 600 tests in our area before they stopped (a week ago) and it has taken more than a week for results to come in with 200 results still pending. Ugh! So, we are all just kind of waiting to see what happens as everything kind of rolls upstate. There are people from the city who have second summer homes here and they are now coming up here to get out of the city. Hopefully they will self quarantine as they are supposed to, but who knows.

Anyway, back to our alternate reality…

All the wainscot wallpaper went up,and then baseboard and chair rail.

We had plenty of wallpaper with two rolls, so we extended that into the new linen closet.

That is the “new” mirror for the room. It was actually a mirror that was in the hallway. In our first house in Illinois, this mirror was over our fireplace. In Casa Radiance, it was on the wall as we had no fireplace. In Radiance manor, we have a fireplace, but our ceilings are too low for the mirror to fit over the mantel, so we just put it in the hallway. I realized it was a great fit over the vanity, so I painted the frame and voila!

Our new faucet.

As I mentioned before, we are going with an oil-rubbed bronze finish on everything, which also meant having to paint the new toilet handle since it was silver LOL

This was the vanity test fit. No backsplash on it yet and no chair rail on the wall. The backsplash top comes to the exact height of the wallpaper

I painted the vanity drawer pulls because they were nickel. We would like to change them out at some point, but for budget reasons right now, paint it is.

I *love* this vanity! It’s so pretty and it even has soft close doors! It is 48 inches wide. We ordered it from Lowe’s and it was 50{967bf23b37ec6a673a83041540b3f904a815b4119ddf673afb961c1e7592ebdd} off. It’s still on sale through April 8th, FYI. We would have liked to build a custom one, but time issues and finding a piece to work with just wasn’t really happening. With this vanity being 50{967bf23b37ec6a673a83041540b3f904a815b4119ddf673afb961c1e7592ebdd} off, that made an easy decision with it having a marble top.

Next I’ll show the finished walls and the linen closet (yay!!).