Oh, Snap.

I'm feeling a bit snappy.. (if you know me, you know how I love to yell out a good, OH SNAP! when something great happens).   Not saved the world great, or Rick Santorum won the primary, great.. but great as in I just figured out how to get the Pottery Barn look for way less money in my bathroom, Great.  Any woman who likes design will understand.  (Or at least my sisters will). 

In my search to revamp my bathroom, I fell in love with a way too expensive, supposedly "reclaimed" wood ladder/ towel rack.  Sold at Pottery Barn for around $270 big ones.  And because my towels, and my bathroom, for that matter, do not in any way call for such lavish accommodations, I thought my luck had run out, and the dream had died. 

But with a renewed determination that I could, in fact, create a rustic ladder of my own, I picked up the phone, called every antique store within a 10 mile radius (it's a small town.. that about covers it).. and found my treasure.  When it passed the,  My Grandpa would call me crazy for paying them for this piece of  junk, test... I knew it was perfect, and it was coming home with me.  

And after stuffing it in the car with four car seats, some questions on whether or not Mommy was going to climb it, and a bit of sanding and staining; this $38, genuine, reclaimed ladder is a spitting image, yet far cry from the over priced Pottery Barn one that we all know was manufactured in a warehouse and scuffed up by some minimum wage factory dude. 

So here's the comparison pictures.  I don't have the gorgeous stand alone tub like the magazine.. but now we do at least have the same old wood to hang our towels on.  And mine leaves me extra money to buy soap.  Oh, Snap.  

Pottery Barn

 Mitchell's  

 One more for good measure.