Pink tile bathroom makeover

4 ways I'd give a retro 20's pink tile bathroom a makeover without removing the original character. Wallpaper that looks good with pink and peach tile. No demo, budget friendly bathroom remodel ideas. | Nadine Stay #bathroommakeover #bathroomremodel #retrobathroom #pinktile

Some things need to be protected at all costs: endangered species, Dame Maggie Smith, and the Doomsday Seed Vault, to name a few. Something else worth preserving? Time capsule houses. I love walking into a home and experiencing that surreal feeling of being transported back in time. And apparently, I’m not alone!

Modern and farmhouse bathrooms have been wildly popular as of late, but if you’re feeling a little burnt out by clean lines, rustic beams, and super sleek materials, a retro bathroom might be a worthy style contender for your home. So forget the shiplap and shiny chrome finishes and instead set your sights on throwback design ideas that’ll make your bathroom unique and vintage-inspired — yet still fitting for a more updated home.

What do you do with a Pepto-Bismol pink bathroom? Lean into it. Modern accents and funky wallpaper liven things up with spending major money.

We constantly get questions from readers who want help decorating their pink bathroom (Pam estimates there were 10 million built, hence the need), so we’ve set a new, epic goal: to create 99 mood boards to decorate a pink bathroom. And part of this project: For each of six pink bathroom color combinations, we’ll give YOU the basic photo so…

We’re just gonna go ahead and stick this one in the “WHY THE HECK DIDN’T I DO THIS SOONER???” column. I mean, seriously people. I’ve been living with this for a DECADE…

Owner Sean Lewis loved his pink art deco bathroom, but failing fixtures and leaky plumbing forced him to renovate. The goal was to preserve the pink wall tile, vintage bathtub, and existing layout while adding storage and new fixtures. The bathroom would be used by his son so a bit of masculine character was encouraged. After removing the floor and replacing all of the plumbing, wood-look floor tile was laid to add warmth and texture. New wallpaper matches the pink tile and adds blue…

As soon as I saw this bathroom, I felt an immediate urge to show the world how lovely a pink bathroom could be. Is it ideal to have a room full of pink tile? Well, not exactly. But it’s easier to decorate around pink tiles than you think if you lean into the fun nostalgia.

Our house is old. Like, built in the 1950's old. So needless to say, there are some parts of this house that have likely NEVER been updated. Our hall bath was one of those places. We have been dying to remodel it, but weren't looking to spend $5,000+ to do so. So, we found a way to make it LOOK as if we completely remodeled it, but the only thing we tiled was the floor. The rest of the tile was "painted" with a substance called amorpoxy. It's basically a super heavy-duty paint that won't…