Dan and I have embarked on not 1 but 2 bathroom renos. We knew when we started out that this was a house we planned to sell in a few years so we were looking to do a nice upgrade but still on the cheap. We ordered the two vanities, granite countertops, and tubs from Home Depot and about two days after we took delivery of them we found out that we're not moving in a few years. Instead we're moving in a few months! Probably around the July time-frame. I'm not stressed though because the bathrooms were something we looked at when we moved in that made us think twice about buying our house. They weren't in disrepair, just really outdated. We already upgraded the toilets with more water/energy efficient ones, which you can see here.
We shopped around for faucets that we liked but hadn't purchased anything before the holidays. We knew we wanted something 'square' looking for our master bath because the sink is actually square and the new lighting fixture has sort of 'square' lines also.
We had a little time on our hands over the holidays while we visited my family and friends in Newfoundland so we decided to shop around online and man oh man are we glad!
Here's what we're ordering (you'll see how much we will save at the end) from Factory Direct:
Master bath faucet in chrome - $189.91
Spare bath faucet in chrome - $80.34
Lavatory Valve with Chrome Drain Assembly - $58.62
(this was needed to install the master bath faucet)
I also found a random online discount code just by googling for Faucet Direct coupons and saved another 2% - $6.58. Faucet Direct has free shipping on orders over $99 and through some miracle there was also no tax! The total came to $322.29 USD, which works out to $331.41 CAD. Gotta love the near parity of the US and Cdn dollar these days.
Faucet Direct ships to Canada but Dan and I plan to be in the US next month anyway so we're having the items shipped to our friends in NYC and we'll pick it up at their house. We'll declare it at the border, of course, but it will be under our duty-free allowances when we travel back.
So how much did we save?? Let me break it down:
- The other faucet is available at Home Depot for $136.60 and the drain assembly goes for $90.29. Those would have definitely been subject to the Ontario HST of 13% bringing their total to $256.39.
Bringing the would-have-wasted-our-money-grand-total to $568.83 (and that's not including whatever tax and shipping we might of paid had we bought from delta.com).
We saved $237.42 shopping from the luxury of my mother's sofa. I love it.
How much have you saved shopping online for your home renos?
Dan has already gutted the spare bathroom as you can see:
here
and here!
The plumber has already been in and the new pretty white tub is installed. Still lots to do (there will be an entire post on that later). We're hoping to keep both bathroom renos down under $5000, which I think is pretty decent for 2 completely new bathrooms. So far we're very much on track. Fingers crossed it continues that way!
