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World of Tile — vintage NOS sinks, mirrors, lighting, faucets &#...

1960s brochure about metal sink rim from vance industries

A short history of Hudee Rings from the president of Vance Industries....

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Retro bathroom faucets — Comparing Strom Plumbing’s Missis...

kohler fairfax faucet

Faucet, light and hardware for the black-and-white 1940s bathroom: The...

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Retro bathroom sink faucets from Chicago Faucets

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Where to find parts for your vintage bathroom faucets and toilets

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Mississippi bathroom faucets: My favorites

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How to fix Crane faucets

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Streamline style bathroom fixtures from Lefroy Brooks – includin...

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Replacement parts for a bathroom faucet or toilet

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Nathan approves of the retro style Gerber 4″ bathroom faucet

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How to clean and polish vintage chrome – cabinet pulls, table le...

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Four, 4″ faucets for your retro bathroom sink

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Retro bathroom faucet with shampoo sprayer

retro style tub and shower faucet from delta

Retro style tub and shower faucet by Delta

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Retro bathroom sinks, toilets — and a new choice for a current d...

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My two favorite bathroom faucets: Mississippi line

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    Many thanks to Whitney, who just tipped me that Wilsonart has introduced 11 new colors of boomerang laminate. There now are a total of 14 colorways — the most of any manufacturer. I am quite liking the “butterscotch” above — looks like you could use this in a kitchen with yellow kitchen cabinets. There is [...]

    retro-countertops-2

    I’ve written before about mixing countertop surfaces in your 40s 50s or 60s kitchen. But I recently came across these great photos and thought they would be very helpful. The photos show: How to lower cabinetry to create a place to roll out your pie dough (of course). Put a slab of marble here — [...]

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    Okay, this is the last day of my little fixation with retro laminates. (For now.) As you know, I am a devotee of the Sherwin Williams Suburban Modern palette, both interior and exterior.  So, I have gone through Arpa’s line of solid-colored laminates and for the most part, been able to line up 10 colors [...]

    3 styles, 14 colors boomerang laminates available today

    I have da boomerang laminates covered one-by-one in other stories, but here, I pull them into one place for those renovators to compare and constrast. According to my research, there are three laminate boomerang designs — with a total of 14 possible colorways — available today. Updated January 2011: Wilsonart ads 11 more colors of [...]

    banjo

    This week I heard from Jeff, who uses vintage speckled laminate for his banjo finger boards. I just think that is so cool… you know I am part Kentuckian. P.S. Can someone tell me how to get the accent mark over the ‘e’, as in lame’ … as I am dying to write lame’ laminate?

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