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.
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By Dora de la Rosa Villanueva on
Found a one-owner 1964 house a year ago, with the original light pink bathroom intact! Pink tub, pink and white tiles, pink toilet, sink and countertops. Even pastel pink paint on the walls. The dark red carpet had to go and we replaced it with a light tan, linen-look vinyl. It softened the pink. We’re considering painting the amber wood cabinets, door and trim a cottage white, but that’s for another day…
By Mary Ann on
We have a 1960 home with one bathroom. It’s pink! We just finished the renovation and my goal was to save the pink and maroon tiles. The original toilet and sink were already replaced with white and the tub was a mess. So we had the tub resurfaced white but saved the tile and painted the walls a silver grey. I added a small chandelier with battery candles and a cool scalloped mirror. It looks great!
By John Eldridge on
I’m a 55 year old white straight male I bought my home 21 years ago. It has a pink tub pink sink and a pink toilet and pink tile flooring. It also has white and something close to pink on the walls.
I always thought it was a pretty nice bathroom but the color just wasn’t me. I was just ready to put vinyl plank flooring over the tile floor and had an appointment for bath fitter to come and give me an estimate on covering the pink tub.
Then I talked to a friend of mine and he told me about this little site. Now I look at my little pink bathroom a whole different way. I even just put a new toilet seat on the toilet, ordered a new pink bath rug a pin shower curtain rod and some pink hand towels.
By Dawn on
I just bought a Standard brand pink toilet and pink sink made in 1956 to go in my bathroom that was added onto my house in 1958.
By Peculiar Burns on
I just bought a 1950’s rancher, and all 3 original pink fixtures are present in the bathroom(plus a short tile backsplash).I cant wait to restore the rest of the bathroom!
By Joan English on
going on my third pink bathroom. the first was a salmon pink with broken sink and i went to resale lots until I found a match. Sigh. success. Current home has Mamie pink and i’m just about to paint it, I’ll have to send in photos!
By Lisa Nieman on
The house I grew up in had a peachy pink bathroom with pink tub, toilet and sinks. I have always wanted to find a house with another one. 6 years ago we finally bought an original 1850s farm house that had been added onto in the 1940s. It had one Ming green bathroom with original but well worn green fixtures and another bathroom that had a very unfortunate collision with the worst of the 80s remuddle. I personally imagine that it was once pink. There have never been any bathrooms on the second floor and we are finally going to be able to bump up the attic to make room for my very own, built from scratch pink bathroom. I’ve been collecting things for years to make my perfectly pink potty paradise. Does this count as saving a pink bathroom? I can’t wait until it’s done.
By Cate on
Save the goddamn pink bathrooms, I need more to cry in. Please
By Susan Leedy on
Purchased our home in 1992, it was built in 1958 and has the original pink, tile(with built in towel holder/toilet paper holder) tub, sink and toilet. The toilet had been broken and replaced with a white one. A plumber friend found a pink one! I also hated the pink, but with only one bathroom in the home I didn’t want to deal with a bath remodel. Now I LOVE it!!
By Rachel Vryhof on
My grandparents’ bathroom in the home they built in Michigan in the 50s was tiled in pink and grey. When I moved away to upstate NY and was looking for a home for myself, I found a 1955 ranch with a pink and grey tiled bathroom! I was initially outbid on the home, but financing fell through and the sellers came back and asked if I still wanted the house. I certainly did, and today I feel like the “caretaker and historian” of my classic bathroom!
By Jennifer T of Pasadena on
We’re about to move into my dad’s well-preserved condo at the glamorous San Pasqual Villas in Pasadena, CA. The toilet has been replaced in white, but the bathroom is still all kinds of pink and it’s going strong after 66 years!! I’ll be restoring the hardware, which was replaced in an attempt to “update” it 20 years ago. I’m a historic preservation professional, but this is the first 1950s place I’ve lived in. Very exciting.
By Jamie Poynter on
I vow that if I buy an older home with a pink bathroom, I will do all I can to save it!
By Laurie Smith on
We bought a house built in 1952 and the pink bathroom has the original pink tub and sink, original ceramic tile floor, and original counter top. The cabinets are original and currently white, but you can see traces of pink from their original color. The toilet was white when we bought the house, but we recently found a matching pink toilet at an estate sale and installed it. We are embracing and loving our pink bathroom!
By laurie Josephine bennett on
I moved into my house 20 years ago, had a pink bathroom, which at the time I hated. Painted over tiles, painted over floor, a lovely shade of boring beige, now 20 years later been removing the paint, slowly (ugh) because I so want that pink bathroom back!
By Marie on
Most of the row houses in northeast Philadelphia have pink tile bathrooms. That’s a LOT in a relatively small area!