Love them!!! Especially the green subway. I just love green.

Each one is just perfect, IMO! I always dreamed we'd one day get around to redoing the bath in our 1940s house in sympathetic style, but we never did. The new owner loves all things vintage, so I'm hoping she'll be up for the challenge and will create something wonderful.

That blue shower's pretty wonderful. It's singing a sirene song I never heard from beige stone and frameless glass. :)

Fun!

I like all of the colors, especially the pink and turquoise, but I do not like the subway pattern or the running bond pattern on square tiles - I prefer to keep the square tiles lined up they way they were originally. But then I've never liked subway tiles and do not want to be reminded of being in a subway. The pattern reminds me a bit of brick, and I do not like brick either.

I do not care for vintage but I LOVE LOVE ALL these bathrooms!!! If I didn't have so much to do, I could sit here all day and drool over every one of them :) That blue shower...oh my word! I love what hamamelis said :) Thank you for the yummy eye candy writersblock!

Like OP, not crazy about showers as i would feel a little claustrophobic but do love these modern renditions of old bathrooms. My fave is one with green tub and sink, with all white subway tile. (Hope toilet is green also).

Just to clarify about the showers, at least the first two are actually gut renos of old baths, contrary to what the article says (at least according to the original article at HB). The shower doors are original; everything else is new. So they didn't set out to create little showers. They already had those spaces.

ETA and now that I've had time to think about it, I have some doubts about the one with the blue-green tile and white fixtures. I would love to know where you could get perfectly matching accessories like the cup and toothbrush holders, since the only place I know that still makes those has a fairly limited range of colors available. And that little recessed arched soap niche? If anyone knows where you can find something like that these days, please let me know!

Yeah when I looked at those pics I was like "that's it! That's the shower door of my dreams" -- then I read the article and saw that the shower doors were original to the house. So much for that.

I wonder if all those perfectly matching accessories were new old stock - I remember seeing quite a bit of unopened old odd-colored random fixtures like that on ebay when I was hunting for towel hooks and such. I think there's a whole cottage industry around bathroom salvage LOL!

There have been a few people here over the years wanting to update their pink or green baths and I love this extra cream/white tile with the black & white accent above the green.

Love the peach undertone of paint against green tile

I lived in an A-frame for three years with a tiny closet shower like that one. Except mine was fiberglass. If you're going to be a nose's distance from the shower wall, having it be pretty tile is a plus! :)

Edited to add that I swoon . . . I love ceramic tile. Especially the border patterns and the framing!

I think Art Deco tiles are timeless, and I have always liked them. When I joined the JCC in San Francisco (around 1975), the pool there was done in Art Deco tiles from 1932-4 that were gorgeous, but of course they were a bit more elaborate than what one would put in a bathroom. Since then they have moved to a new building, and so that pool no longer exists :(. There were lots women in the old pool with rubber swim caps with rubber flowers, and they could swim better than I could.

When my DH and I purchased our 1950s home, we thought of remodeling the bathroom...good thing we never got around to it. Last time we had it appraised, the appraiser said vintage is in demand. My paint color inspiration came from a Christopher Lowell (an HGTV designer from the past) decorating book that had a vintage pink tiled bathroom, which he painted a complimentary burgundy color.

When we re-do our hall bath, we will put the colored tile in. Not sure what color we'd do. Could I get DH on board with pink? Maybe yellow or aqua? Perhaps this summer we will do it. Of course, he said if we do it we are not moving because the first thing someone would do is rip it out.

RetroRenovation is very good for resources for vintage fixtures and modern lookalikes.

The Pepto-Bismol pink is a bit much for me, and I have never cared for black and pink together either. But, my neighbors had the original bath from 1942 up until 3 years ago, and the tiles were small pale pink squares. Much nicer!

I do like the various shades of green. And I adore those closet showers! I've been in many houses built in the 1920s-30s and never seen that.

My first house, built in 1929, still had the original classic black and white tile and fixtures (including the china X shaped handles on the shower and sink) .

I'm surprised at myself, but I really like that pink bathroom.

The showers with arches are neat, but on the practical side, if I ever dropped the soap, I'd have to open the shower door so I could bend over to pick it up.

We had a 1925 house that had the most beautiful teal/sea green tiles like the second example. I adored that bathroom.

Such delicious bathrooms! Thank you for sharing the link, writersblock.

I'm planning to "downdate" (the opposite of update) my hall bath with original 1968 shower tiles. They are so groovy; mottled yellow and white. The floor is vinyl and I want tile. Does anyone know where I can find the larger hex tiles in colors other than white, gray or black? I may just have to stick with 4" squares from Daltile.

Writer, here is a house with salmon and green baths in Lake Worth, walking distance to town. It needs work as it was divided into two units I think.

Thanks, justerrillyn. Those Ocean Breeze homes are way more than even Parrot Cove. There's one from about 1940 in Parrot Cove that I want to see, since the listing doesn't show the bathroom at all, which means it may be original but in bad shape. But for myself I want something that's only one story, thinking ahead. There are so many criminally bad bath renos in LW. Kitchens, too.

Writer, where is Parrot Cove?

Yes, I saw some scary stuff online today.

This house is cute but the parts that are remodeled don't go.

It has one original bath and one remodeled bath.

It's the area north of Lake and Lucerne, east of Federal, south of 13 Ave N--the most sought after neighborhood in LW.

http://parrotcove.org

I'm looking more in Mango Groves, the area just to the west of it. A couple of blocks east means an extra 100K on the price, very nearly, although all of LW east of Dixie is having a real estate frenzy right now. Prices are up nearly 50% in one year.

I love that area but didn't know it was called Parrot Cove.