Serendipity

Sigh...Don’t you just love when you find exactly what you wanted?

That’s what happened to me today at Home Goods.

You might have noticed that yesterday when I posted our bathroom reveal, I left out the corner to the right just as you enter the room. I did that on purpose because I hate the cheap KMart particle board storage unit we were hiding over there. I knew what I wanted, I just hadn’t been able to get my hands on it yet.

I’ve been in love with this ladder shelf from Pottery Barn for about a year. (Is that sad?)

But it costs $200, plus shipping.

Ana White has plans to build your own, and believe me, I wanted to, but all of the angles were just too out of my league. Poor Eddie already has about 70 million honey-do projects on his list, so he wasn’t going to be getting around to building me one any time soon. Plus, he said we needed to scale down the plans to fit in our half bath & it was going to be complicated. Blah.

Guess what I found at Home Goods today??? Do you hear a choir of angels singing, or is it just me?

They were only charging 35% of the PB price, I didn’t have to pay for shipping, it was already a smaller scale to fit our room and they offered to give me an extra 10% off because it is “damaged.” (One paint drip and there are some small gaps where the shelves meet the sides because the manufacturer didn’t use caulk.)

There were only two left and one actually was damaged. I literally yelped when I saw them, called Eddie, and proceeded to loop my arm through the top rung, and waddle around the store 6 months pregnant carrying this ladder and pushing the cart that was holding Abby and the baskets I originally walked in to buy. Nobody else was talking this puppy.

Mine.