Two years of planning. Six months and six days of brain-bending, back-breaking, tedious and careful work. From demo on day #1 until the final pieces were put into place, the epic journey to transform my tired old bathroom into the pretty pink potty room of my dreams has been nothing short of a renovation marathon. But here I am — having just crossed the finish line and now enjoying the spoils of victory. There will be many stories detailing all the details in the days and weeks to come. For now, take the video tour and bask in the warm “glowy” pink of my finished retro pink bathroom remodel. Can you tell I’m super excited?
Kate’s Mamie pink master bathroom is finished — video
Two years of planning. Six months and six days of brain-bending, back-breaking, tedious and careful work. From demo on day #1 until the final pieces were put into place, the epic journey to transform my tired old bathroom into the pretty pink potty room of my dreams has been nothing short of a renovation marathon. But here I am — having just crossed the finish line and now enjoying the spoils of victory. There will be many stories detailing all the details in the days and weeks to come. For now, take the video tour and bask in the warm “glowy” pink of my finished retro pink bathroom remodel. Can you tell I’m super excited?
Ranger Smith says
Kate – You are amazingly talented! You’ve not only created a great design, but you are skilled and handy enough to execute and build it. The sunbursts on the medicine cabinet doors are really a great feature. You should be very proud of yourself.
Amy Battiste says
Kate, simply amazing!!! Im sooooo jealous, be proud, this is such an accomplishment! Esp loving the starburst towel racks
Allison says
it’s beautiful! I love it, can you come do mine now?
Kelly Wittenauer says
Wonderful! Congratulations, Kate – well done.
Patchy Fog says
Congratulations. Very nice work.
We have the same circa 1963 medicine cabinet in our bath. It originally came with aqua-marine plastic doors — which would look great with pink BTW — but when we remodeled last year we switched to a patterned glass. Anyway, it lasted about 2 months before it broke it where the handle attaches — I assume from the rear piece knocking the front one.
So, be careful with those beautiful mirrored doors!
Kate says
Thanks for the advice! They are the original mirrored doors…I’m thinking about having some new ones made, but not sure if I should keep them mirrors or try something else…
Nancy says
I’ve seen some with textured frosted plastic that looked pretty good.
Mary Elizabeth says
Brava, Kate! So absolutely stunning! The starburst fixtures really take it up to the next level. Congratulations for measuring twice and drilling once to get the door to just miss the towel rack. If you don’t already have one, you should put in a rubber bumper doorstop to keep the door handle from smashing into the tile. I guess you don’t have any wee bitties around, but you do have potentially clumsy guests and Leo. Also, did you polyurethane the wood in the vanity?
My pink bathroom is finally finished also, as DH built the recessed medicine cabinet and shelf to match the vanity. Before Christmas, I will make the little quilted covers for the TP and tissue box. And I found little white holiday guest towels in white with pink and blue embroidered snowmen.
I hope you find, as I have done, that cleaning your beautiful pink bathroom is no longer a chore but a kind of gloating delight. It’s more like polishing silver–you have something beautiful you can restore to its shiny newness once a week.
Kate says
You are right Mary E — cleaning the bathroom used to be my least favorite task…now I ENJOY doing it (at least in my pink bathroom). Imagine that!
Since this is our master bathroom, we are the only ones who use it. Guests have the hall bath or laundry room bath to use. The only time people come in to the pink bathroom is to admire it! 🙂
Ima Pam says
All that work, and it still looks 50-60 years old 😉
Congratulations, this is just bee-yoo-tee-fulll!!! What an inspiration you are!
Ky says
After looking at your original post, I think your new bathroom looks even more appropriate than the original one in the house! Great job!
Kate says
WOW — thanks for the huge compliment Ky! 🙂
Gilliano says
wow how fab is this what a great job you have done. can I be cheeky and ask where you found the brilliant atomic cabinet handles and towels rails from
Its all stunning
Kate says
I’ll have a story coming up with all my sources — but to satisfy your curiousity — those were all found on Ebay.
Amber Rhea says
It looks absolutely amazing… congrats!!!