Vintage bathrooms 1940

Today: A reminder that if you are looking for tile-in towel bars, soap dishes, toilet paper holders, and the like for your 1920s, 1930s, 1940s or even early 1950s bathroom, remember to check out the Chandler collection from Rejuvenation. This is “streamline” design, and it’s available in three colors: Black, white, and even jadeite green…

Back in the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, a family friend’s grandma, Verna Mae, compiled a scrapbook full of clippings of home decorating ideas she liked from magazines, ads, and catalogs. She collected hundreds of old images, everything from kitchen nooks, to bathrooms, to living room furniture, to baby nurseries. Sadly, about 5 years ago, her mid century home was taken over by emanate domain and bulldozed to make way for a hospital expansion. Her grandson told me how it... Read More Read…

Throw out the design rule book when planning your own small W.C. and get the half bath you'll really love

Hello, my husband and I recently purchased a home that was built in 1958, and the bathrooms are horrendously in need of updating. One bathroom is a pink/peach-ish tile with light brown accents, the other is bright yellow tile with grey accents. The floors are both awful geometric mosaic patterns. Th...

This 1950 "time capsule" house in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, features SEVEN original vintage pastel bathrooms -- and much more.

Our 1950's pink and blue bathroom, we have a 1953 Ranch house and this is original and we opted to keep it.

Save the Pink Bathrooms Logo By B.D. Pettit

We are of the opinion that there's a special place in hell reserved for those who rip out a perfectly good vintage-tiled bathroom in an old LA house--especially if those tiles happen to be...

The Georgian building in Central Liverpool, was home to Edward Chambré Hardman and his wife Margaret who lived and worked there for 40 years.