Welcome to our bathroom in it's 1950 glory. It's full of chrome- chrome shower doors on the tub, chrome medicine cabinet, chrome (okay, plastic pretending to be chrome) light above the medicine cabinet, even the inside door knob is chrome (all the others in the house are brass). It also has nice creamy white wall tiles with matching fixtures. And octagon and dot floor tile in faun/suntan. And bright blue with black outline wallpaper... which does not go with the floor... at all... After hunting through many, many wallpapers, I found one that matches the not quite pink, not quite beige floor- one from Thibaut (taped over the blue fun). Just need Mom to come show us how to hang wallpaper!
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| Photo from RetroRenovation.com |
Our bathroom contains the one fixture that was upgraded since the house was built- the sink. Unfortunately when they decided to spiff the place up a bit to prepare it for sale, they took out the original (no doubt chrome-aplenty) wall hung sink with a big moose of a modern pedestal sink. It's way too big for our modest room and still doesn't help the fact that the only storage in the room is the medicine cabinet! So at a pilgrimage to New England Demolition and Salvage, we picked up a NOS 50s tile-in sink. I'm going to build it a cabinet inspired by this American Standard ad... and we'll probably add some chrome or glass shelves on either side of the medicine cabinet to hold spare towels. We also found this fabulous vintage NuTone exhaust fan with light to round out our chrome collection. Just need to find a nicer vanity light for above the medicine cabinet to round it all out.
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