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Rare and wonderful: 1941 Standard brand Darlington Dressing Table — porcelain china bathroom side table

Our first woddity of 2021 and something I’ve never seen before: A vintage porcelain china bathroom side table made by Standard, aka the Standard Sanitary..

Dishmaster Bar Boy — a bar sink sold with a Dishmaster faucet, New Old Stock, yum!

We love our Dishmasters -- vintage and new -- and now, look at this rarity: A "Dishmaster Bar Boy", unused and still in its original box

New old stock vintage Dishmaster kitchen faucet — happy birthday to me!

*Someone* had a birthday recently and like, the day before, a New Old Stock Mint In Box vintage Dishmaster — the old kind, from the..

New Old Stock stunner! Raymond Loewy’s Tiara kitchen faucet for Elkay

If the father of American industrial design were design a kitchen faucet, what would it look like? This! Raymond Loewy’s Tiara kitchen faucet for Elkay...

8 nifty cubbies designed to stash your smokes in mid century bathrooms

There was a lot of cigarette smoking in the 1950s and 1960s, so much so that bathroom fixture designers were on a competitive rampage to..

12 vintage refrigerators — from rare to wacky to sublime!

In my recent guide to buying a retro refrigerator, buying vintage was tip #6. That prompted me to look through lots of stories in our archives..

Formica wall tiles — rare vintage Sequin and Nassau 10 inch wall tiles

Starting the week off with a major historical discovery that I have never seen nor heard of before: Formica wall tiles. And not only that,..

Laura’s mystery tile-in bathroom receptor holder thingy — what is it?

What is this mystery tiled-in bathroom receptor? Laura is stumped, and so am I. Do we have any experts out there who know for sure? ..

Nutone Concealed Bathroom Scale — this New Old Stock beauty recesses right into your wall

We love New Old Stock. We love woddities. We love vintage Nutone. We love things that are recessed into the bathroom walls. Voila: Get all four..

Vintage revolving concealed toilet paper holder — with ash tray inside!

New Old Stock revolving, concealed toilet paper holder — with Ferris wheel design ashtray inside — found at the late great World of Tile liquidation..

Rejuvenaire Electronic Odor Control for the Home — vintage woddity

Just when I get to thinking that, now in my 11th year of blogging about the retro, there can’t be many more woddities out there..

Kohler Habitat Masterbath Environmental Enclosure: $20,000 bathroom luxury c. 1978

Kohler’s Habitat Masterbath Environmental Enclosure introduced in the late 1970s was an indoor sauna-meets-sunning bed with three cycles: Sun, Steam and Rain. According to reader..

Is it a range or a dishwasher? Yes, it’s both: the 1954 Universal range + James dishwasher

That’s not any ordinary vintage range. It’s a Universal range — with a built-in portable James dishwasher. Those American industrial designers — they tried everything..

Vintage Masketeers optical sign eyeglasses wall hanging — great graphic appeal!

Put your eyeglasses on to see this up close: A vintage Masketeers eyeglasses wall hanging — used in an optical shop maybe? The whimsical graphic..

Versa-Tile by Universal Rundle — vitreous china counter top and sink combination — 7 colors

Just when I thought I’d seen everything: Stephanie discovers a stash of 1958 Universal Rundle Versa-Tiles — in seven delicious midcentury colors — in her..

My vintage lighted display clock from a Geneva kitchen cabinets store

My new hunka hunka: A vintage, lighted display clock that surely was used in a store that sold Geneva cabinets. I jumped on this Buy-It-Now the..

Five different brands — six designs — of “relaxation units” — places next to the toilet for your toilet paper, magazines — and smokes

Longtime readers surely know about “Relaxation Units” — recessed caddies for the bathroom situated next to the toilet to hold all your necessary supplies — toilet..

Crane 1937 Neuvogue sink by Henry Dreyfuss: The holy grail of pedestal sinks

My friends at DEA Bathroom Machineries aka deabath.com, longtime advertisers of the blog, let me know about this very rare find: A 1937 Crane Neuvogue..

Susan’s vintage wood doors with a sliding six-pane window

Did Grandpa make these interesting doors, or were they mass-produced? Here’s a woddity to wonder about and to ask — has anyone else ever seen..

Bassett Colorama bedroom set — featuring 4 interchangeable laminate inserts — from 1961-1963

One bedroom set — mix and match your trim color — that’s the rare Bassett Colorama, built from 1961 to 1963. The trick to this..

Family Hospitality Relaxation Unit — our third design of Relaxation Unit

First we discovered Hall-Mack Relaxation Units … Then, Satin Glide Relaxation Units … And now, what is likely a very rare vintage recessed bathroom accessory:..