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Comments now closed — but so much fun over the years!

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Save the Pink Bathrooms
Our goal:
A gazillion people pledged to preserve vintage pink bathrooms.
Maybe you have a pink bathroom. Or you just love them.
All are welcome.
Your Comment is your Pledge…
and while you’re there, share your pink reveries.

2021 Update: After nearly 15 years of blogging about the retro, I have stepped back from posting regularly, and have closed comments. Enjoy all the wonderful comments over the years! Hooray for pink bathrooms!

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Comments

  1. I absolutely love pink bathrooms and kitschy decor from the 50’s and I collect chalkware/ceramic fish and mermaids, I’ve never had a house with an original pink bathroom but I recreated one in my bathroom I painted it mamie pink with turquoise trim and had all my fish on the wall

  5. We just bought a 1951 house with two bathrooms, one pink and one yellow. I am not so into the yellow so we will be updating it soon. The pink bathroom has pink tiles surrounding the bathtub walls, on the floor, and on the sink vanity. It is in great condition, I just painted the walls a creamy white color from Sherwin Williams. I plan on updating a few other things (bathroom faucet, shower head/tub faucet, and vanity knobs) but other than that I will keep and love my pink bathroom!

  6. We are closing on a 1956 ranch with two pink bathrooms. Not sure about the fixtures, but the tile is mostly intact. 🙂

  7. do you have a facebook page? I think this is awesome…. I have a pink bathroom c. 1950 (?) and love same… this is great

  8. We bought a house last year that has a pink and black tile bathroom. Originally I wanted to renovate it and go with something more modern, but I discovered this website and changed my mind. My husband and I are really into history and live in a historic town, so after finding out that our tile was a part of history, we have decided to keep the bathroom as is.

  9. Just purchased a home built in 1951 with it’s original bath in-tact (gray and pink tile; original pink sink and tub) and we are going to lovingly refurbish 🙂

  10. HA! Wow! I have a pink poodle bathroom! Gray and pink with poodle wallpaper. Bought an old house and its the one room we didn’t change because my daughter loves it so much. She was 9 when we moved into the house and today at 35 she still loves it! Of course she doesn’t live with us anymore but when she visits and I talk about redoing that bathroom she responds with “nooooooo”. OK we will keep it awhile longer.

  12. We hit the jackpot when we purchased our 1953 mid-century raised ranch home. The house was built and lived in by a woman (professor of textile art) who spent the majority of her time traveling and lecturing. After her passing in 1996, her only living relative, a nephew she hardly knew, inherited her estate. Getting this house sold was first on his list; it was listed on Saturday and we bought it the following Tuesday. Can I just say…MINT CONDITION??? The main bathroom is pink, glorious pink! The wall tiles, trim color tiles and fabulous tile floor are original to the home and PERFECT! The usual reaction we get is “A PINK bathroom?! I can’t believe you didn’t change it!” We wouldn’t change our delightful pink bathroom for the world! Power to the Pink Bathroom!

  13. Three years ago my husband and myself perches a 100 year old home. It had a immaculate pink and white bathroom. I fell in love with it! we have updated most of the home but the PINK bathroom.
    its staying the same . I think it has character.

  14. Just starting a retro remodeling project! Found the whole bathroom online cheap but it’s pink! At first I chose it because it’s price was low! Then I started looking into this save the pink deal!!

    So I found that I got really lucky with the deal I got! I got the toilet tub with wrap around shower walls and large counter with sink!! So I’m ripping out everything and going for it!!

    I do not even like pink but this is going to be awesome vintage coming back to life!!!

    Going into a old house I bought that needs a major make over!

    Can’t wait till it’s finished!

    Just did my first phase…. relocation and installed toilet!!!

  15. DON’T KILL THE PINK BATHROOMS PLEASE they are so awesome. I would kill to have one but alas my 1990s bathroom is cream *yawn*

  16. Hi, we bought a mostly original 1955 (concrete block) lake duplex in Austin still with pink bathroom fixtures and tile (it used to be 100% pink with paint, as well). As long as we can see, we plan to keep the 2 identical pink bathrooms and the original green formica/knotty pine kitchens! Just making a few decor changes to embrace the past while also making it more comfortable to us. This blog’s first post has updates coming, with following categories being written now! https://brodyhood.blogspot.com/2020/10/
    And…how can I buy one of those STPB’s shirts??

  17. I’m in the process of purchasing a “mid century modest” 1955 home and imagine my glee when I discovered that the bathroom is my favorite color–PINK! It needs some work, but there’s plenty of pink bathroom goodness to make my heart happy.