Meredith, you HAVE to post pics when you're done!! What color is the sink, toilet, etc? Did you get rid of those pesky spiders under the sink, or will they be painted turquoise too?

Turquoise; the color fo caribic. You'll never leave that bathroom. Samba Samba!

Meredith,
Your bathroom sounds gorgeous. I hope to see pictures when you get it completed.

I hope you aren't having to take out old tile. We did that and what a job. I'm still cleaning mortar dust out of stuff.

Laurel

Taking a short break here...

Primer finished. Started edging color. Stopped for dinner.

Sink and toilet are boring white. Shower tiles are boring white. I'm really not up to removing existing tiles, so they'll stay until further notice. There are other things I'd like to do in here, but I'm painting and tiling one more bathroom later this summer, and won't have funds to do much else.

I'd really like to replace the mirror, old and flaking around the edges. I'd also LOOOVVVE to replace the counter tops, but again, can't afford construction people to do that work. Speaking of counter tops -- does anyone have any ideas how I can de-uglify faux (formica?) marble? -- Short of plastic explosives, or covering it with a blue tarp. -- The ugly isn't from old age; it's from the previous owners having really hideous taste. The counter top is glued solid into the counters.

Kathy, the spiders have run away and hidden. They probably smelled the paint and decided to relocate to another area of the house. Orange County real estate is pretty steep, even for spiders, so now that they're vested, I doubt they'd move out.

What about contact paper? Remember that from the 70s? We put it on the panels of our bedroom doors, covered our trash can, dresser tops, etc. Mom and Dad weren't real happy but we did it anyway.

Dotsie, contac paper is ...not...quite...me.

Mitzkity, fixtures are white. Cabinets are painted vanilla. Death-ugly faux marble countertops are swirly beige tones. What kind of paint would you use?

I was hoping to finish Saturday but I got a migraine, probably from the combined straining my neck back to do the ceiling, and staring into the light fixtures too much.

http://www.gardenandhearth.com/PaintandWallpaper.htm

Meredith,
If you go to the site I've posted above and click on one of the recent discussion' linkstowards the bottom of the page, you will be in a discussion forum for the paint and wallpaper lady at Garden and Hearth. I'd start a new topic there about the formica. (I don't think she has an article for that one yet) Anyway, she is a professional painter and she is just wonderful. Her name is Carina and she has helped me out many times before. It may take her a day or two to get back to you if she's busy but if there's a way to paint formica, I know she will know how to do it.

You can also post a question at the bottom of any page, at the questions link but that may take a bit longer as it has to process through the site editors before being published.

For anyone with paint problems or questions, check out her articles. She's really good!

My next door neighbors painted their bathroom countertops. They sanded them down, then painted them, then put a sealer of some sort down. You couldn't tell it was painted either. They did a nice job. The hubby was a painter anyway so he knew what he was doing.

Thanks Robin and JJ. I don't even know if I want to paint the counters, but I'm not sure if there are many options. I submitted a question to the paint lady at Garden and Hearth. If I do decide to paint the counter, it would have to be something creative, not just a flat color.

Even knowing the price of the floor tile, Hubbo still wants to buy a new big mirror. One less piece of ugly YAYYYYY!

And as of 1:30pm today, the painting in this bathroom is DONE!

At least until we buy the new mirror, and then I'll have to paint behind the old one, but that's pretty minor.