Nancy is the official reader representative on the Save the Pink Bathrooms website. I really needed a reader to help me illustrate our quest… I remembered her great bathroom from the post a year ago (exactly one year about today, actually!) and asked her if she were game to help with another photo showing off a quintessential pink bathroom. Thank you so much, Nancy! Nancy wholeheartedly embraced her pink bathroom way before I even had the blog. She writes: “My husband and I are restoring a 1959 split-level home back to its original midcentury glory. Luckily, most of the original fixtures and features were never updated – including a pink bathroom! In fact, our pink hall bathroom is part of what sold us on the house.” Nancy found the vintage plastic poodle curtains, left, just last week. Her poodle accessorizing is now complete, she says, so you won’t be competing with her if you go after this MIB inventory heading forward.
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I LOVE that shower curtain! How has a shower curtain survived in such fabulous condition?
Love everything about it, off to dream about moving to US and owning a fab 50’s home with a pink bathroom
Fiona
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That is fabulous! I like the pink poodle theme. I’ve always had flamingos until my current home which has no pink bathroom
I just LOVE that bathroom! ( I have seen the other pics!) That is my other most favorite pink bathroom ever besides my Mom’s, I am crazy about poodles too! Just a perfect job!
Hello,
If I see this right, the toilet seat color is a bit off from the porcelain.
I notice because I am almost sure that the porcelain is the same color of my mothers in her master bath. I am sure it is the same toilet. They bought the house in 1973 and it had a white toilet seat and my dad went to one of those have old color item plumbing stores and got one that was a exact match. However, it had a workmanship flaw but that wasn’t too noticeable and that was in 1973.
Since, over the years that seat succomed and we have never been able to get that exact match in one.
Where to go to get that exact match?
Off subject but out of necessity, my mother is going to assisted living next week so within a year our ownership of that property will be no longer. Of course it is a big change and move for my mother so please keep her in your thoughts.
If I can, when it gets vacated, I will try to snap a picture or two of the bathrooms. The main one is gray.
Regards,
Robert
Oh that bathroom is just perfect! I too am in awe at how that curtain survived, it looks brand new!!!
Hi Robert – I have done a single post with all the toilet seat resources, it’s on the main Fast & Easy Bathrooms page: http://retrorenovation.com/bathroom-hardware/
Thanks for all the nice comments everyone!!! i sorta wish our bathroom had even more pink (tile up the wall, etc.), but I think in ‘59 they were trying to “stream-line” a bit.
Robert – You are correct… the toilet seat is a replacement. I ordered one from “Color Direct Toilet Seats”. They send you a kit with color chips, and you match it to your toilet, then send them a form with the color you want. I’m fairly satisfied with the match, however it would be nice to find a real vintage one!
Gretchen – Can’t even remember why I initially picked poodles for this bathroom – ha, ha! I have flamingos in our basement half-bath, which is all white. So, you could work your flamingos in with any color =)
Again, thanks Pam and everyone for making my bathroom famous!
Nancy
Great job Nancy! I think the poodle shower curtain is the finishing touch!