Comments on: Tile countertops for midcentury bathrooms http://retrorenovation.com/2009/06/09/tile-countertops-for-midcentury-bathrooms/ Products and ideas to remodel your mid century home in authentic vintage style Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Abigail Grotke http://retrorenovation.com/2009/06/09/tile-countertops-for-midcentury-bathrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-82397 Abigail Grotke Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:07:55 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=14400#comment-82397 Hi Pam, I'm doing some research as I ponder renovating my bathroom. It's a 1920s house but the bath was renovated by a previous owner who created this weird rounded sink cabinet with a tile countertop (all hand-done) which goes over the sink (I have pictures if you're curious :). I'm trying to decide what era to recreate when renovating (thinking of subway tiles and hexagon floors like your mom's new bath). With the tiny size of the bathroom and limited storage, the counter is actually pretty handy, but we'll probably move to a pedestal sink (hopefully a salvaged one). Trying to figure out if I should replace the tile counter with a new one (but that might be too odd with the pedestal floating out there). I'm a bit stumped, looking for inspiration here. Any ideas or other places to poke around on your site for ideas? Hi Pam,
I’m doing some research as I ponder renovating my bathroom. It’s a 1920s house but the bath was renovated by a previous owner who created this weird rounded sink cabinet with a tile countertop (all hand-done) which goes over the sink (I have pictures if you’re curious :) .

I’m trying to decide what era to recreate when renovating (thinking of subway tiles and hexagon floors like your mom’s new bath). With the tiny size of the bathroom and limited storage, the counter is actually pretty handy, but we’ll probably move to a pedestal sink (hopefully a salvaged one). Trying to figure out if I should replace the tile counter with a new one (but that might be too odd with the pedestal floating out there). I’m a bit stumped, looking for inspiration here. Any ideas or other places to poke around on your site for ideas?

]]> By: Culver City Bronwyn http://retrorenovation.com/2009/06/09/tile-countertops-for-midcentury-bathrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-38255 Culver City Bronwyn Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:59:28 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=14400#comment-38255 Hi! I'm the owner of that lovely green tile :) Regarding the grout thing, we've really had no problem keeping it clean. We had to do a serious clean-up on it when we bought the house in early 2005, but since then I don't do much than scrub it with Bon Ami for regular maintenance. We've got tile floors in that bathroom and since the super-cleaning they got in 2005, they haven't shown much dirt (or I'm more forgiving as to what constitutes dirt!) Also, we had to add tile in our bathroom/shower in order to be able to use the shower without saturating the walls (tile only went halfway up since it was originally just a tub). Not surprisingly, we had a heck of a time trying to match that tile and weren't able to do it, but we found a nice mintier-green in the exact same style at B&W tile in Gardena, CA (recommended by Pam): http://www.bwtile.com/ . It's a nice contrast and many people don't realize that the added tile is not original. Hi! I’m the owner of that lovely green tile :) Regarding the grout thing, we’ve really had no problem keeping it clean. We had to do a serious clean-up on it when we bought the house in early 2005, but since then I don’t do much than scrub it with Bon Ami for regular maintenance. We’ve got tile floors in that bathroom and since the super-cleaning they got in 2005, they haven’t shown much dirt (or I’m more forgiving as to what constitutes dirt!)

Also, we had to add tile in our bathroom/shower in order to be able to use the shower without saturating the walls (tile only went halfway up since it was originally just a tub). Not surprisingly, we had a heck of a time trying to match that tile and weren’t able to do it, but we found a nice mintier-green in the exact same style at B&W tile in Gardena, CA (recommended by Pam): http://www.bwtile.com/ . It’s a nice contrast and many people don’t realize that the added tile is not original.

]]> By: Eucritta http://retrorenovation.com/2009/06/09/tile-countertops-for-midcentury-bathrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-38215 Eucritta Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:50:37 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=14400#comment-38215 Wow, thank you! Wow, thank you!

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