Out and proud: the vintage bathroom lovers

It’s time to confess. This 1950s bathroom story began as something entirely different.  The feature I pitched to the Sunday paper was: Vintage bathrooms – should they stay or should they go? But as soon as we put out a call for examples of some beautiful old Tucson bathrooms to illustrate the piece, I began to feel [...]

Vintage bathroom geeks rule

I’m tickled by how popular this vintage bathroom series has become. Thought it was just me who oohed and aahed over the fabbo color combos of tile that the 1950s gave us. Works of art, they were. I am officially a vintage bathroom geek. It came to me yesterday when I stood in a tiny loo [...]

Madder and madder

I feel a little like the naughty dinner party guest who makes excuses to visit the bathroom just to have a nose around. But I’m not searching for dust bunnies or sneering at the state of the tile grout. Honest I’m not. This little detour of mine into the world of 1950s bathrooms – culminating in [...]

Penny pinching with the stars

One of the great things about having 55-year-old bathrooms that still look (I think) pretty cool is that it gives you fewer rooms to remodel – in my case three less. Hubby says he’d like to rip them out (yegads!) and have slate and natural stone and walk-in showers with glass block and all that [...]

In the pink

I’m caught in the middle of giant gooey glob of pink bubblegum. I would say I’m drowning or suffocating but that would imply it’s unpleasant, and it’s not. It tastes sweet and it looks midcentury marvellous. What’s with all the pink in this 1950s bathrooms fest I’m having? Pink predominates with the homeowners who came forward [...]