Every summer during colllege, whenever I came home, my mom would hand me a bucket of paint and a brush. What future chemist does not enjoy the smell of paint fumes? 
Painting those old wood windows was a major pain!
Just a thought, CB. If the owners want to have more blue in that bathroom (to match the streaks in the vanity), then maybe that can be achieved with blue-ish paint? Hope they agreed to the neutral tile.
Took a look at the photos. Nice progress on the living room! The 12 ft window… yikes. The only way to get our similarly large widow up to the MB was to carry it around the house to the back deck and hoist it up to the upper deck. I knew better and chose to not be present during that operation. 
If they want more blue you could go with this.
https://www.atrafloor.com/floors/pool-ii/ Alas a six week lead time.
Those bathroom vanities look worse and worse every time I look at them.
Agree! They look sad and depressing.
The white vanity isn’t as bad as the other one… but both counter tops are awful…just awful.
I tried painting in our first house…never again. I have asthma and even now that supposed fume free paint still causes me problems. I always hire a painter and stay out of the house for the day.
I’ve painted every room in the house except our MBR/MBA and laundry room. Did some wallpaper, too. One day I will have to reckon with my rookie mistake – filling in the wood paneling! I wallpapered over it (it’s waist-high with a chair rail) and noone will have any idea until the paper gets stripped.
OTOH, I figured out in painting other rooms that previous owners painted over heavy wallpaper. No way to strip it without having to replace drywall, which is beyond my capabilities and way, way beyond my DH’s tolerance for repairs/upgrades.
I used to do all my painting but now I live in a house with really high ceilings and I don’t want to become a ladder victim. I do go up there to clean the chandeliers but that’s enough for me.
The best paining tool for walls with high ceilings is a really long and sturdy roller stick.
My neck hurts just thinking about that!
Love the typo on post 408!!!
Speaking of the ugly plastic resin countertops. Last week my lead called me into the hall bathroom and pointed out two big chips out of the countertop. We have no idea whether the work caused new chips or the chips have been there forever. But, we know that we haven’t had any big tools in that bathroom and the tile was not laid until after chips discovered.
The only answer is they have been there forever or the dang electrician knocked into the counter with the ladder when installing the new bath exhaust fans. But really?? A ladder causes the countertop to chip off? Ugggh…
I loaded some new pictures. We have a domino effect on the outside of the house where we installed the new living room window. Because the window could not be retrofit into existing window frame, we had to pull out the aluminum framing of prior window and this caused stucco damage. The stucco has been patched up, but now we have a painting dilemna. Previous paint is not available and the house has not been painted in over 10 years. The whole house is very dirty since I don’t think it has been washed in a thousand years. We will never be able to match the paint (although I am going to try) and the owners are not repainting the house. Not sure which is worse… stucco patch or bad paint touchup job.
@coralbrook I hope after this project you have a mini get away with a drink in hand; you deserve it!
I had to fix a red wine on stucco accident. After sealing the stain I sponge painted the area with a couple of ‘close enough’ colors. The uneven surface is your friend when you have to repaint just a small area.
The only way I can imagine such an accident is someone tripping outside while bringing you a bottle of wine!
In a photo cb uploaded on 9/11, you can see both chips in the countertop.
When did the electrician install the fans?
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Unfortunately, in a photo uploaded on 8/30 I don’t see the chips:
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@notrichenough
Thank you for the detective work. It’s obvious that we caused the chips during our work somehow. Yikes! My lead wants me to try to find some kind of repair goo and get them repaired. I cannot imagine that they will not look like obvious repairs. But, I can see that I have a search and rescue mission ahead of me and a lot of wasted hours trying to repair the chips. Here is a case where I will never ever be able to match that aged yellowish color
Thinking back, it may have been our new young guy that was in charge of scraping out the old linoleum off the floor and the big crow bar thing smashed the counter. Chalk it up to another good reason why old vanities and countertops have to be removed… it’s impossible to keep half a bathroom intact while you demolish the other half!
If this was a ceramic tile counter, chips would have been easy to fix. We replaced the shower glass, and there were leftover holes from the screws holding the old enclosure. I patched them up with a product I bought on Amazon. Can’t even see a thing. It came with different colors that could be mixed in to match the whater tile you were patching. Not sure it would work on that shiny plastic material…
Interesting subject for me. We need to do some work on my father’s house in order to sell it for his estate. Where to begin, where to end…
How much does a new counter top cost? I am just wondering if it might be cheaper for you to just eat the cost instead of spending hours trying to find a fix.