As I stood in perfect harmony with nature the silence was broken by the sound of rushing water as from the depths of the pond a great, black and white fronted house emerged. I could feel it piercing my soul with its essence, I could feel its compulsion to act, to change, to improve. It demanded release into the 21st Century and it was fast losing patience.
I exerted my will against its restless spirit. I insisted it required patience, that it needed to slumber for a few more weeks and then it could awake anew. It agreed to wait for a time, but it also demanded action.
I awoke and went shopping.
First stop was a bathroom display centre. It was interesting, but more of the same. It gave use the idea that maybe the bathroom benchtops would look good as black glass instead of stone. The idea lasted about 2 minutes.
Second was a bath store in Richmond that specialises in stone bath tubs and basins. Now that was inspirational. The baths were beautiful, amazingly comfortable, and hand made. There was an appropriate price-tag to accompany them.
Third, another bathroom store in Richmond that was quite rubbish.
Fourth, back to E&S Trading in Chadstone for another inspection of the bath we are thinking of buying. It paled in comparison to the stone bath and we snubbed the lesser bath with great contempt.
I slept soundly that night so I think the house was satisfied with my actions.
On Sunday we returned to the E&S Trading in Cheltenham for the 800th time. We needed to inspect the Gessi Goccia tapware to determine whether they would work with the Villaroy and Boch basin we want. Short answer, probably not. A long stand is required which would seriously increase the price.
We decided to finally wave down a sales rep and work out what is what. For about 45 minutes we asked our questions and our rep was wonderful. We feel must better positioned to buy toilets, basins, taps, showers, and kitchen sinks. We still don't know what we will buy, but we have a better idea of what we are looking at.
We were thinking about tiles and color combinations so headed down to a display home village south of Keysborough. Wow, those display homes are totally ass. Terrible floor plans, awful fixtures. A pox on all those project builders for being so craptacular.
But it did give us some ideas on colors and tile designs.
A final visit to a display home in Coburg confirmed the design of the walk-in-pantry for us.
More restful sleeps have provided me some assurance that the weekend of shopping has met the demands of my restless house.
-D
Example of amazing stone basin and bath:
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