1950s bathroom decor

Modern and farmhouse bathrooms have been wildly popular as of late, but if you’re feeling a little burnt out by clean lines, rustic beams, and super sleek materials, a retro bathroom might be a worthy style contender for your home. So forget the shiplap and shiny chrome finishes and instead set your sights on throwback design ideas that’ll make your bathroom unique and vintage-inspired — yet still fitting for a more updated home.

The “after” keeps the pink!

Some things need to be protected at all costs: endangered species, Dame Maggie Smith, and the Doomsday Seed Vault, to name a few. Something else worth preserving? Time capsule houses. I love walking into a home and experiencing that surreal feeling of being transported back in time. And apparently, I’m not alone!

As soon as I saw this bathroom, I felt an immediate urge to show the world how lovely a pink bathroom could be. Is it ideal to have a room full of pink tile? Well, not exactly. But it’s easier to decorate around pink tiles than you think if you lean into the fun nostalgia.

What do you do with a Pepto-Bismol pink bathroom? Lean into it. Modern accents and funky wallpaper liven things up with spending major money.

Although tile was available in a range of hues, when it came to creating the vintage 1950s bathroom tile design ideas homeowners wanted, the most popular colors were the ones shown here.

Over three weeks, Shelbie and her boyfriend Eric were able to totally revamp the look of the bathroom without removing a single beloved wall tile. They started with the flooring, tearing up the old tiles and replacing them with wood-look vinyl. #beforeandafter

Hello, my husband and I recently purchased a home that was built in 1958, and the bathrooms are horrendously in need of updating. One bathroom is a pink/peach-ish tile with light brown accents, the other is bright yellow tile with grey accents. The floors are both awful geometric mosaic patterns. Th...

MCM Bathroom Fixtures, 20th Century Bathrooms

Light, Bright and Fun Bathroom Updates All of the sources we used to renovate our hall bathroom to make it lighter, brighter, and a lot more fun for our kids and guests! You can’t have a post about a bathroom remodel without including what it looked like before! This is how it looked when we closed […]