Rehabbing a 90 Year old House --Jack & Jill Baths

One of the things we loved about this house was the Jack & Jill bath with the original porcelain tub.  We still have to get the tub re-glazed, but this room turned out fantastic.  This room was the main bathroom being used in the house.  We found peeling original bead board ceilings, a 1970s Hollywood Markup mirror medicine cabinet, and 1982 Dusty Rose and Cream linoleum along with the glass shower enclosure.

We found that the shower enclosure was really too small for us to comfortably use.  That is now a  mop storage/clothes hamper closet hidden behind a curtain that brings a pop of color and pattern to the room.

We painted this a "custom" sea green.  I call it custom because we had partial gallons of different shades of green Sherwin Williams Flat SuperPaint including SeaSalt and Waterscape.  I mixed them all together and got this oh so beautiful color that reminds of sea glass and paired that with Ice Cube semi gloss trim & ceiling paint. 

Unfortunately, we found that due to past settling of the house, the lineolum was covering up a HUGE crack in the original penny tile that had been patched with grout.  (insert crying sad face emoji here!)  It proved to be too big a job for what we need to do now.  Thankfully a bit of research led us to find a wonderful sheet vinyl product from Mannington that mimics the tile patterns from the 20s and 30s.  Lee picked on the tile pattern of Penny Lane Gray on Gray.  It turned out fabulous.  We used the same sheet vinyl in the kitchen, breakfast, and laundry rooms.  

We replaced the Hollyweird mirror and lights with a recessed medicine cabinet and a more appropriate to the period style vanity light. 

The bathtub had a WHOLE lot of stuff going on--multiple curtain rods, window shades & curtains at the windows, multiple hooks and towel rods, peeling paint on the wood trimmed cubby, hand rails, and no shower.

Since Lee was too tall to fit in either of the existing shower stalls we added an exposed pipe rainshower head to this tub and paired that with a D-ring shower curtain rod to allow a big ole boy to comfortably shower.  We took down the hooks and hangers in the tub area.  We did leave 1 glass shelf to hold shampoo and soap.  Even though it isn't exactly a period component--it's handy. 

The shades, sheers, and curtains in a wet area that will be used daily had to go, but we had to do something to ensure privacy since that window faces the street.  Amazon Prime to the rescue with this wonderful Craftsman patterned stain glass window film.  It was easy to apply and looks amazing.  The little blue-green squares appear almost the exact shade of green as the walls.

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