Retro Renovation

Hi Pam, Since discovering RetroRenovation.com it has become a “must go to site” each morning! Thanks for all the information and enthusiasm you provide.
I am about to update some aspects of my 1960s bathroom and two of your posts this week caught my eye - I never thought much about my shower base and was [...]

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These terrazzo shower bases from Crane look like the real deal. The website says that they truly are marble chips embedded in concrete, then polished to a high gloss. I have shower bases in two of my three bathrooms, and when I renovated about 5 years ago, I went with simple white Swanstone solid surface. [...]

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Today, some haute haute haute Italian bathroom accessories. My google search says that Fontanta Arte is a ‘legendary’ designer of mid century lighting. These 1960 bathroom pieces certainly would make a statement in any of our postwar jewel boxes $$. Tempting, anyone?

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Since we’ve been on a bathroom roll, I thought that spotlighting these 1959 Kohler sinks - “lavatory sinks” with chrome legs and towel bars — would be fun. Aren’t the colors and designs just beautiful?

Here’s an entire suite (below). For those of you trepidatious about going too colorful with the fixtures and tile, this [...]

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Today’s ebay pick is particularly yummy. This excellent vanity was spotted by regular reader Retroppo — who is from Australia. Our Australian correspondent! …Who also teaches all us non-Aussies a new word: “the tip”! Read on:
Hi Pam,
I happened to find the exact vanity unity that I grieve
over, on ebay! (the one we pulled out when [...]

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If you are re-doing your bathroom and want true vintage chrome towel bars, etc., these look like a great find. Four mint-in-box Hall-Mack Coronado sets available. Even at $65 Buy It Now for the set — a deal considering how hard it is to find big matching sets… Be sure also to see my Franklin [...]

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I believe that bathroom scales are morally objectionable except when used as decorative devices. This one takes the cake (if you haven’t eaten it already.)
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American-Standard, an absolutely great name in postwar bathroom fixtures, continues to make several porcelain sinks that would look great in a 50s or 60s bathroom.
Isn’t the Hexalyn model at the top fabulous? So much fun to wake up to every morning. Set it into a countertop of retro laminate with steel edging, install one of [...]

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