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Welcome to all our stories about retro style bathroom products. We are always on the lookout for bathroom products that may have good potential for your bathroom remodel. This archive section shows all my bathroom resources in reverse chronological order. If you are looking for something specific, you can make your job easier by going through the SUB-CATEGORY pages shown in ORANGE navigation, above.

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That time you buy a 1959 house with three bathrooms built by a plumber and his brother, a tiler

What happens in 1959 when you are building a house, and you are a plumber, and your brother, a tiler. You end up with three..

More fun with atomic starburst decals — Leila keeps family tradition going with her bathroom decorating project

Baby in vintage bathroom on board! I “met” Leila on our Facebook page and was entranced by her bathroom makeover, which was driven by her..

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..

A bunch of New Old Stock Kohler and Elger bathroom fixtures including color bath tubs

Our community is The Best, when it comes to sharing info about where-to-find the hard-to-find — and New Old Stock, even better! In this story..

Crane vintage bathrooms sinks, tubs and toilets — catalog from 1954

My stacks of vintage kitchen and bathroom brochures have been taunting me lately, so Ms. Scan I Am. This 1954 brochure from Crane is a..

Update: Where to find pink bathtubs and other color bathtubs

Update in January 2019 — I added another source for vintage colored bathtubs that I discovered in 2018 along with additional information and streamlining. Cindy..

Formica blue Nassau laminate — which color tile — blue or aqua — to go with?

Julie wants our help: Which blue … or aqua … bathroom tile should she choose to go with the vintage Formica Nassau countertop laminate she’s..

Creating a 1936 bathroom from scratch — Graham and Monika tackle another remodel

It’s kind of thrilling to see a “before” photo like the one above, don’t you agree? Because you know: A Retro Renovation reader has been..

New Old Stock hardware store — full of kitchen and bathroom faucets, Hall-Mack bathroom accessories, and more

New Old Stock bathroom faucets >> See the ENTIRE STASH right here with just one click <<Sink drains (maybe 5.5s?) >> For vintage NOS Crane stock click..

Toothbrush holders — chrome metal, wall mount — for midcentury homes and where to to find them

Where to find retro metal toothbrush holders? I have two sources for Hall-Mack designs that were everywhere Kimberly wrote this week to ask: CategoriesAccessories, hardware..

Kathi paints and stencils her bathroom walls to look like midcentury wallpaper

So many great reader opinions on our story asking whether to paint or wallpaper Laura’s 1957 bathroom, but here’s an idea I forgot to mention,..

Vintage wallpaper — or paint? — for Laura’s 1957 bathroom

Should Laura paint or wallpaper the walls in her 1957 bathroom? Her bathroom is so densely patterned, I say: Just go with the flow and add more pattern -- add wallpaper. You ain't ever gonna "downplay" that mosaic tile on the wall. Play it UP!

Pattern on pattern on pattern: Laura’s fabulous 1957 bathroom

Glitter laminate cabinets … patterned laminate countertops … tiny metallic random mosaic tile on the walls… and terrazzo-like vinyl on the floor! Laura’s 1957 bathroom..

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..

Another random block mosaic floor tile good for a midcentury modern bathroom

Based on lots of reader questions coming in recently, I’ve been on a bender researching bathroom floor tiles. These random block porcelain mosaic floor tiles..

Octagon and dot floor tiles with 11 dot colors + a second source

I have been getting a lot of email questions lately about bathroom floor and wall tile replacement tiles. Octagon-and-dot tile had some measure of popularity..

Jamie’s custom-design Daltile mosaic bathroom floor — and Hall-Mack Relaxation Unit and recessed scale, too!

It’s so great that readers are still able to design their own mosaic tile patterns and colors using Daltile’s Mosaic Pattern Designer. I keep thinking,..

Pink Gracelyn sink with the hard-to-find vanity take center stage in Amy’s bathroom

A house with a Naughty Pine err Pecky Cedar Lounge downstairs surely has a pink bathroom upstairs, wouldn’t you think? Yes, Amy of newfound Polkaholic..

Apron-front bathroom sinks — with metal hudee rings or to tile in

When these rare(ish) vintage bathroom sinks show up in old advertisements or actual bathrooms, I often get questions about them. What are they, exactly, and..

12 vintage bathroom sinks from American Standard in 1955

Do you have a vintage American Standard sink? If it’s from around 1955, this story might help you identify the name of your design. It’s..

Pomona Tile Oklahoma series tiles — in Steven’s 1958 bathroom

Who made the decorative tiles in Steven’s 1958 bathroom, he asks? I launched a sleuth and in a flash found: They are Pomona’s Oklahoma design...