Maybe this thread isn't a troll after all... it reminds me of a foreclosure I looked at a couple of winters ago. The place had the original 1938 kitchen sink and wall/base cabinets along that wall. They were nice ones with glass windows and a big, farmhouse sink. I say "had" because now the kitchen has a bunch of generic big box cabinets. The original solid doors were replaced too, to put in hollow core prehung doors - I saw them at Habitat so the kitchen may have also made its was there as well. And of course... now they're having trouble selling it. This post was edited by schicksal on Thu, Apr 24, 14 at 8:33

Hate to say it, but I vote for the gut rehab if you can afford it. You would love it if you could pick everything out for yourself and update it. It's easy to splurge a bit on bathrooms because we don't need much in the way of volume of materials. So you could put in a really gorgeous slate floor, for instance. But if this is an "antique" house maybe this looks right for the house and is part of its charm? That's up to you. My inclination is if it's old subway tile it's priceless, so I'd work with it... but this... mmmm... not so much, sorry. If you decide to leave it for now, how about picking up some paint color chips at the store and holding them up to the picture to see how they look to you? Another choice is to beadboard over the wall tile, then redo your floor. You'd probably want to re-tile behind the tub in something neutral. You can also have a tub professionally resurfaced, and a bathroom remodel place can advise about the cost. It's undoubtedly cheaper than a new tub as I've seen them do it on HGTV's "Designed to Sell." You might want to take a photo to the hardware store and ask what they see as your possibilities and approximate costs for each thing. One word of warning... when you dig into old bathrooms there is often rot in the walls and floor from years of water, and mold. Subflooring may need to be replaced as well as wallboard. I'd just expect that. That's an added headache, but it's also a good reason to go for the gut rehab, to make sure it's structurally sound and mold-free. Do you have another bathroom in the house if you need to tear this one down? Whatever you do, please post before and aftef pics for us!

I can remember when my parents were building a house in 1968, and my parents had just built a small house for my dad's parents in 1966. (My mother was not about to move into a new house when her MIL lived in an old house without indoor plumbing, not out of magnanimity so much as self-preservation). Anyway, my grandmother picked turquoise for the bath fixtures and avocado for the kitchen appliances. And my sister, who is still a kind of fickle person when it comes to what she likes voted for avocado bathroom fixtures for the kids bath (being very "new" introduced in 1967) and I remember my mother dropping the pretense that we were going to actually be given a say in something so permanent, saying "Absolutely not, all the bathrooms are going to be all white and the kitchen is going to be all white". I was 4-6 when all this was taking place so obviously I was interested in design from a pretty young age. I still like all white bathrooms and all white kitchens. But I don't love bathrooms where the fixtures are white because white allegedly goes with everything and then they put all sorts of other colors and finishes in there that generally ignore the white fixtures and they look like the default because they are "supposed to be" white, and maybe something else would be better with all the other finishes.

Thanks everyone!! Today I am going to go get samples of a darker shade of green (to match outdoor aloe/agave), a couple shades of less saturated pink, light mint, lighter yellow. Maybe I will only do the back appliance cabs in white, but do the floating cabs in one color and the island in another. @rebunky thank you for that inspiration! Yes walnut is out. Plus, to be honest, I think it looks a little dark. I will look into a mint color. I do have another vanity in mint, but it’s too saturated a color for such a big space. @just_janni Yes I think I am starting to see that - maybe two colors - one for the floating cabs, one for the island. And then maybe white for the appliances with white miele. Great memory! I have a sorbet colored courtyard with pink planters. @User Unfortunately the original cabinets I had put in by another custom cabinet maker. They immediately faded. This cabinet maker does cabinets for 5+million dollar homes. If his cabinets hadnt faded, I wouldnt be in this mess. The new master bathroom cabs were put in by the current cabinet co. and they have all faded in two years. I went into a 5 million dollar mcm home with newer cabs and those also were turning orange. I don’t trust anyone to do walnut anymore, tbh. :(