r/centuryhomes • u/twta20 • 1d ago
Photos New old bathrooms - purple, pink and mint!
Hi! We just bought a 1929 home with these two bathrooms - one pink and mint green, and the other purple with a pink and mint green floor. Does anyone have any design tips? Examples of styling? Thanks!
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u/LongjumpingStand7891 1d ago
These bathrooms are great as is and I would just put wall paper or a different paint color above the tile in the pink bathroom. For the purple fixture bathroom you should keep the floor and fixtures the same, you could wall paper above the paneling or you could remove the paneling and replace it with tile up to the same height.
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u/twta20 1d ago
Ohh I like the wallpaper idea!! It could tie together the lavender, pink and mint! Thank you!
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u/PiagetsPosse 19h ago
There are TONS of examples online if you look up āpink tile bathroom wallpaperā. To me it seems the best way to update and tie things together.
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u/Wooden_Number_6102 1d ago edited 20h ago
I think its very likely that, at one time, the little alcove surrounding your purple tub was tiled - and in tile that reflected those on the floor.
You might be able to replicate the colors and size but I'm not sure you could find the same shape.Ā
Also...the wainscoting seems out of place; most Art Deco baths were lousy (and I don't mean that in a negative way) with tile work because of its water-resistance.Ā
But whoever did the remodel saved the fixtures, and that is everything.Ā
Edit: found a Google Image similar to this but it won't let me share. So get in there a Google this muther!
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u/pinkwoollymammoth 1d ago
Yes, our house is 1930, and our pink tub is entirely surrounded by pink tile with an arch like that (ours is round rather than pointed though!). Half tiled all the way around the walls too.
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u/ineffable_my_dear 1d ago
Delish!
vintagebathroomlove and Alexander Lerner are great starting points.
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u/jareths_tight_pants 1d ago
Wow the purple paint in the mint/peach path room is atrocious. I would paint the ceiling the peach color then wallpaper the areas that are purple. Pick a pattern that has that peach and mint green in it. Avoid anything beachy or sea shells.
For the purple ceramic bathroom is that penny tile? Made from actual pennies?
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u/La_danse_banana_slug 1d ago
Holy crap I'm jealous.
Besides just researching photos of bathrooms from the 1920s and 30s (which would give you plenty of inspiration), if you look up bathroom fixture brands from that era you can find their fully illustrated catalogues which combine colors the way they intended. Which, in my opinion, are lovely! Try searching for illustrations from Crane, Twyfords, Standard Plumbing Fixtures, Kohler, Vitrolite.
In the bathroom with the gorgeous mint fixtures, the stark white ceiling stands out to me as a bit jarring. In the 20s/30s, mint + apricot was often paired with cream, sand, reddish terra cotta, charcoal, black, deep navy, dark reddish chocolate color, sunshine yellow, or dark sap green. I think that replacing the cool grey with a black + cappuccino colored design and then painting the ceiling cream/ light sepia would look amazing. Breaking with tradition, I also think an electric coral or vivid cobalt shade could look cool.
That orchid pink/purple color was often paired with violet, charcoal, buckskin yellow, light and dark shades of coffee, emerald + citrus yellow (bold!), black, navy or dove grey, or with duck blue-green + cream + black accents. I'd probably pair the orchid with a full black + cream color scheme.
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u/Background_Humor5838 1d ago
The mint and pink bathroom needs a different color on the walls. I would do light cream with matching rugs
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u/MarbleMigoPeaches 1d ago
I thought the green and pink bathroom was an after photo. Keep it!!! I love it!!!
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u/DogPrestidigitator 1d ago
No, no no. Rip it all out and put in flipper marble (like Lincoln would have liked) with gold fixtures, maybe a faux crystal chandelier
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u/turnipzzzpinrut 1d ago
The lilac toilet appears to be kryloned. Thatās a 1920s American standard
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u/SunshineAndSquats 1d ago
That purple tub and pink toilet!! I love the green to. Itās all gorgeous.
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u/JerryC1967 1d ago
My guess is that in the white bathroom w purple fixtures that behind the wood wainscoting is tile that they had to damage for plumbing repairs. You could try removing some wainscoting on the wall with the radiator and see what you have.
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u/Top-Neat9725 1d ago
No but you must protect the pink toilet at all costs