Jane was attentive to every details in her new vintage style bathroom — including installing a medicine cabinet with rounded framed edges trimmed in metal. It looks like it’s always been there — sans rust — and it’s affordable, too.
The source: Ketcham Medicine Cabinets and Accessories. According to Ketcham’s website, these rounded corner mirrored medicine cabinets are available in 16″ x 22″ or 16″ x 28″ sizes with left or right handed swings.
Jane purchased her Ketcham mirrored cabinet at zoro.com, though they can also be purchased by calling Ketcham directly.
Ketcham also has a variety of other styles of affordable medicine cabinets which you can see in their online catalog.
Thanks, Jane, for the awesome research!
Mary Elizabeth says
I love revisiting Jane’s bathroom and the story behind it. She and her mother Jennifer are very strong women, and Eric sounds like a peach of a DH. I only vaguely regret, however, that the medicine cabinet she found came too late for the completion of my own pink bathroom renovation My DH had already made a recessed cabinet of wood, which matches the vanity he made for the pink sink. It’s also the right size for the existing hole where the old rusty cabinet with weak light and suspicious wiring sat. There is an open cubby beneath it that is lined with the leftover laminate pieces from the vanity top. From 1950s ranch house photos, I think a wood cabinet is also period appropriate. Anyway, I love it.
hyla9 says
Thanks for this article. My favourite, from the Ketcham medicine cabinets link, is the recessed sliding glass medicine cabinet with the integral light above.
http://www.ketchamcabinets.com/products/sliding-door-medicine-cabinets
Joe Felice says
Jane’s bathroom is exactly as I remember them from the middle of the century!
Janicew says
My 1939 bathroom has its original medicine cabinet, just like this one but with glass shelves like Katie’s, and with etching at the top. I love it.
Carol says
This is one of my favorite “new” baths featured here. I just found a listing on Ebay for an entire pink bathroom in Philly. It’s just too far for me to drive. It’s spectacular and with all the accessories. $500 buy now and no one has bid. I’m dying!!!! Somebody here will save this bathroom, I just know it! Item # is 171956984082, “vintage retro pink bathroom”. Sorry it won’t let me copy and paste and I’m too excited to make a file. I hope Pam forgives me if I broke a rule, but it’s an “ENTIRE PINK BATHROOM”.
ineffablespace says
I wish someone would make a version of the integrated shaded light valence version with higher end lighting and non-polycarbonate shades. But there’s probably not much of a market for it.
Katie says
Looks almost identical to the original one in my bathroom. The only difference is that mine has glass shelves instead of acrylic. Good to know there are replacements just in case.
Kathy in San Leandro says
Jane,
I also have some of the green porcelain Rejuvenation accessories in my stash. To my amateur eye, they look yellower than the B&W kiwi tile. Do you find that they work well together?
I actually prefer the spring green of the Rejuvenation pieces, as that shade is closer to the 1930s shade that will suit my 1931 house. But I find that the bluer and grayer greens are more readily available in field tile. The “wash” effect of the kiwi glaze is exactly the effect I’m looking for.
Thank you for sharing your lovely bathroom.
Kathy
TLK says
I noticed the light too!
Chris says
What a great light, too! Love this bathroom!
pam kueber says
Yes, as mentioned in the original story, the light is from Rejuvenation, it’s new.
Moira says
We just moved into a place with vintage pink appliances! And blue/purple 2″ tiles around the tub. Can I paint the tiles?
Ps I’m also a Kueber
pam kueber says
Well hello Kueber — we are ALL related! Are you a North Dakota Kueber or a Canada Kueber?
If you just moved in, I recommend: Do not change anything major until you research it and understand it. Maybe your blue/purple 2″ tiles are wonderful and you just don’t know it yet!