Help me with my pink bathroom

[Anonymous]

Walls are white and pink tile, floor is pink and white tile. Vanity is white. Very small with no window and a shower. I feel like I need to somehow embrace the pink. Looking to get new towels, shower curtain and wall art. hat colors go with pepto bismal pink? grey? Lime green? Turquoiise? Help!

This bathroom is downstairs off of our office and family room so not heavily used.

[Anonymous]

Either go with Lilly Pulitzer style lime green and patterns or go more sophisticated with chocolate brown. I've seen both kinds of bathrooms with pink tile and they were lovely. I used to have a main hallway bathroom with a pink tub and shower tile, but we replaced the floor, toilet, and sink and painted the walls a muted lilac....it worked.

[Anonymous]

We moved into a60s rambler w 3 bathrooms: pink, blue and yellow. For the pink one, we had a white toilet, so all we did was reglaze the tub and surrounding tile white. For about $1000, it looks good as new. We replaced the floor with new tiles, for about $500 installed. T looks like a completely new place. This was about 4 years ago and it has held up great, with our two kids bathing in it almost daily.

We used Bathroom Magic but there are other companies.

[Anonymous]

Also check out pbteen for some coordinating shower curtains, etc.

[Anonymous]

Careful with reglazing. It will start to peel and fall apart in a handful of years. The previous owners of our 80s home reglazed before we bought in, and five years later it began peeling.

[Anonymous]

Www.savethepinkbathrooms.com

They have some good ideas.

[Anonymous]

I LOVE pink bathrooms. Go glitzy vintage.

[Anonymous]

I just updated mine very cheaply with new ikea fixtures and it looks great. I painted the walls a contrasting beige (a little boy and girl share the bathroom), ordered a cool shower curtain (beige and white chevron stripes from cafepress) and put in new mirrored cabinets (more ikea). I used the Vitviken sink with in the oak stain and it neutralized the walls well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Careful with reglazing. It will start to peel and fall apart in a handful of years. The previous owners of our 80s home reglazed before we bought in, and five years later it began peeling.

Our reglazing has held up well. We did four walls and the tub all white (was originally white with black accents) and it looks mucjph more modern and the only chipping has been in the tub, which was already white so not very noticeable. White walls allowed ipus to choose a natural stone floor and dark wood vanity which we thought was more modern than the 1940s black and white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Www.savethepinkbathrooms.com

They have some good ideas.

Thank you for posting. Now I feel slightly better about my 50's pink bathroom, but I still want to get rid of it all togher some day.

[Anonymous]

I would go with black or dark gray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Www.savethepinkbathrooms.com

They have some good ideas.

This is an awesome site-- thanks for posting. I'm not personally a particular fan of pink bathrooms or even 1940-1960s homes, but I do think it's important to maintain original details so the home's character is preserved.

[Anonymous]

Wow, thanks everyone! I like the lilly pulitzer idea and the dark grey idea. Thinking dh would like the grey idea better. I saw garnet hill is having a sale on towels so maybe I will take a look. keep the ideas coming!

[Anonymous]

Good ideas! Our's is more peach-y than pink-y but it's the same era. We have a white tub and fixtures.

It's our guest bathroom and will be the girls' bathroom. I'd been thinking about reglazing, but maybe just go for a garden look with green and flowers?

[Anonymous]

How about something like this:






I know you don't have grey fixtures, but you can see here how grey paint really helps to tone all the pink down.