Comments on: Let’s help Catherine retro-renovate her 1948 Ohio ranch

By: Colleen

Colleen — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:20:06 +0000

Hey Catherine,

If you happen to change that tile in the bathroom, I’ll buy some from you. I have the pink tiled walls in my bathroom, prob from the 20’s and had to have some plumbing done and unfortunately they had to break the tile to get to it. I happened upon the pic of your bathroom and those pink tiles look exactly the same as the tiles in mine!

Good luck with your remodel!
Colleen
Fitchfan1@aol.com

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By: Retro Renovation » Ideas for Catherine’s 1948 retro kitchen

Retro Renovation » Ideas for Catherine’s 1948 retro kitchen — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:02:42 +0000

[...] On Thursday we looked at Catherine’s 1948 Ohio kitchen and bathroom. She wants decorating ideas that will bring these firmly into the modern era and to complement her growing collection of Drexel and Heywood Wakefield furniture — along with her young family’s needs. With this post, I will start with the kitchen. [...]

By: catherine

catherine — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:43:57 +0000

Thanks for all the tips and support! I will check out Construction Junction, Jen. Pittsburgh is about 3 hours from me and it looks like a blast!
And I’m glad I could help, Amy! My husband wasn’t so keen on the colors but I know there is a way to make that tile work! Good luck!

By: San Diego Amy

San Diego Amy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:51:17 +0000

thank you so much for sharing! I love the tile on your kitchen and bathroom! In fact, I think that your kitchen tile has finally given me the inspiration I’ve needed to finish my own kitchen - I love the look of yours! I have been trying to find something that would work in mine and I think that this might fit the bill!

By: iluvretro

iluvretro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:42 +0000

Gosh that bathroom! YOu don’t see many nowadays in the same colours and condition.

By: jen

jen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:12:49 +0000

Great house, Catherine! It’s darling, and I can see why you don’t want (or need) to do a lot of heavy-duty work…

If you’re in NE Ohio, you may not be far from Pittsburgh. If that is the case, and you want period replacements for the bathroom, you MUST visit Construction Junction (http://www.constructionjunction.org/) in
Pittsburgh. It…oh. It’s marvellous. The multi-coloured sinks and
toilets all sitting on shelves and in the floor are something akin to
a candy store or confectionery. Yellow, pink, blue, aqua, even a pale
orange sherbet sink once (wouldn’t you have loved to see THAT
bathroom?). It’s fabulous.

Frankly, CJ has all sorts of great salvage stuff from older (and
sometimes newer) homes, and is well worth a visit, so much so that I
bring my camera every time we go to document what we see (like marble fireplaces, lighting fixtures, church pews, 10-foot-high doors, etc.).

Unfortunately, none of my bathroom fixture shots have turned out, but we’re due for a visit soon…

Just a tip for those in the area!

By: catherine

catherine — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:26:36 +0000

Thank you! I do agree with you, sleepingbee, wallpaper is what that bathroom needs. I’ll go back now and check out that post, I remember seeing the one you are talking about.
I am absolutely addicted to this site!

By: maddy123

maddy123 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:22 +0000

Catherine, I really like your house! It’s amazing that so many original aspects still remain. I am so glad that you “get” the value of what you have. So many people would not. Good luck with your retro reno.

By: sleepingbee

sleepingbee — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:19:39 +0000

Catherine what a great house! You’re going to have fun bringing it’s retro aspects back to life!

Starting with your cute pink and black bath, I would recommend some of the great retro wallpapers reviewed by this site…I think I even saw one that had an overall them of pink and black with tiny little flamingos on it…very clean and sweet looking.

Stick with this site…you’re going to get great ideas!