
John at deabath.com reports that they remain hard at work on saving the 50′s fixtures. He recently pulled this vintage blue set of 1956 Standard Sanitary Works fixtures out of a home doing a remodel. Isn’t the blue just luminously lovely?
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John at deabath.com reports that they remain hard at work on saving the 50′s fixtures. He recently pulled this vintage blue set of 1956 Standard Sanitary Works fixtures out of a home doing a remodel. Isn’t the blue just luminously lovely?
Here’s a great retro bathroom in Chile, courtesy Nebulaskin/Pilar Castro E on flickr. 70s, I think — but timeless, don’t you agree? And look at the cute teeny tub! Thank you, Pilar, for permission!
If I had a 60s house and needed to update the master bathroom, I would buy these in a heartbeat. I love the greco-roman graphics. Dated 1965, Buy It Now of $350 – a great deal even at this price. From Crane, a great company. I know the vintage style floor tile to go perfectly with it – below. So incredibly, wonderfully retro, I can hardly contain myself.

My local Re-Store was offering some maple flooring from bowling alley – and some handy homeowner re-purposed it into the most excellent countertop. Isn’t it great?! …Right up there with the Teacups Chandelier we looked at a while ago.

“…Eliminates the final telltale sign of laminate – the brown line.” I am a big believer in the idea that the most significant design shifts tend to come from technological breakthroughs. The advance of laminate kitchen countertops — replacing linoleum and wood in most kitchens in the 1950s — came as a result of the [...]

I’ve written before about the Ralph Sr. and Sunny Wilson House in Temple, Texas – an amazing showcase of the innovative use of laminate that was built by the head of Wilsonart in the 1950s. The Wilson House is the the first and only home that has ever been named to the National Register of [...]

Several readers have asked me how to install the stainless steel countertop edging from New York Metals. In this post, I’ll take you step-by-step through the process that we used to install the metal edging in my kitchen.
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