Original 1940s Bathroom
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I live in a house that was built in 1948 with a 2003 addition. Two out of three of our bathrooms have had very little done to them. I love some of the 1940's detail, but they are SMALL and quirky. Our pink and black bathroom was once pink and burgundy. It also had beige Berber carpet…ick. That came up about 30 minutes after we closed on the house. The burgundy was very 40's, but not very me. The black tiles you see around the wall were burgundy, as was the floor. I laid a new sticky tile floor (yes, I did…very proud of myself) and painted (yes, painted) the tile black. That was 3 years ago and it still looks great. Another quirky thing is the "ballet bar"/banister in the right of the picture. I don't want to remove it because of the holes it will leave in the tile…not sure why someone put it there, but we'll live with it!
Behind the black checked curtains is our window to nowhere. Well, it looks at studs and insulation. I'm not sure why the previous owners didn't take it out, but they didn't seem very concerned with remodeling the original house. We actually have one other window to nowhere that's in our stairway.
I sewed a skirt for the sink out of black curtains with a lacy overlay made out of an antique petticoat. I finished it off with a black taffeta ribbon.
Some day we'll update the fixtures, but we were able to make this bathroom cute for about $75.00.
This is the upstairs bathroom…I really needed a wide angle or fish eye lens to be able to take good pictures of this, but I don't have one yet. We painted this bathroom an aqua and installed the cheap-o Wal-Mart over-the-toilet shelf over the radiator for storage. I made a skirt for the sink out of an old chenille bedspread and a patchwork shower curtain out of fabric remnants.
The medicine cabinet mirror was very smoky, so it needed to be replaced. When we tried to find one at Lowes or Home Depot we learned that they don't make medicine cabinets that small any more. One day at a yard sale I found the exact medicine cabinet (minus the smokey mirror) for $1.00 and it was 50% off. So, my new medicine cabinet cost me fifty cents. Nice!
We have plans to renovate these bathrooms, but these projects are very low on the list. I'm going to be working on our master bath soon. Sign up to follow me, so you don't miss the transformation!
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