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Should I keep this sink?

19 years ago

Remember the Ugliest Bathroom thread a few months ago? I started that one thinking I had the ugliest bath in my Florida vacation cottage. Several of you showed came up with ones worse than mine - I got a kick out of the photos and stories.

Anyway, husband and I bought the cottage sight unseen except for a few photos emailed by our realtor. House was secondary to location, location, location. Well we closed on the place and drove down from IL with a trailer filled to the brim with furniture and goodies for our cottage. We knew we'd have a lot of work just cleaning up the garbage and neglect from the previous owner and his renters. WOW! We underestimated how slovenly some people can live. So now 3 weeks into our project, all the trash and filth is gone - we bought the garbage men lunch one day so they'd haul everything oversized away. Worth every penny of our $10.

Here's what the bathroom looked like when we got here:

And here's what it looks like clean and tidied up:

Husband wants to keep the yellow sink and put a fabric skirt around it. I'm leaning toward a white pedestal sink because the toilet is white. We decided to keep the original wall tiles for now because there is so much other work to get done before we head back to IL. The sheet vinyl on the floor is getting pulled up because the original terrazzo floor under it is a nice light color. The shower area has the same orangey tile on the top and tannish tile on the bottom where the last guy took out the tub and made it a shower stall. Doesn't really match anything else but with the curtain pulled, you can't see much. For now it'll have to stay. Oh yeah, there is a small ceiling fan in there. I never saw a fan in the bath but neighbors say it's the thing to do in these cottages that have window a/c. Keeps you cool while you get ready. Eventually we'll go central a/c and that will be gone.

Opinions please - keep the yellow sink or go to white pedestal?

BTW: What a treat when we got here and saw what we bought for the first time. THere is a concrete pond about 6' x 10' x 24" deep in a very tropical and jungley backyard. I checked for alligators before I cleaned it out and refilled it with clean water. Another small preformed pond in the gazebo had about 6 baby koi surviving in 2" of water for 2 months. These are tiny guys that must have just hatched a month or so ago. I'll fish them out and take them back to my pond in IL. Hope they enjoy hibernating this winter.

Comments (4)

  • 19 years ago

    I guess if you were going to do a major renovation of that room in the future, I'd just live with it for now. Otherwise I'd ditch the sink and it's matching soap holders for white. I hate mixtures of colors in bathroom fixtures.

  • 19 years ago

    I could live w/ that for an awfully long time, esp. since I'd be ditching the brick-colored wall tiles eventually.

    I'd either do it all, or nothing.

    The sink looks pretty clean and in good shape--is it? If so, then my vote is to live with it.

    If I absolutely couldn't stand it, I'd get a sink as close to the same size, in white, as I could, so I didn't have to worry whether I was going to have problems w/ breaking up the tile where the sink is mounted. Bcs if you take that sink off and put on a pedestal sink, won't you have a different shaped hole in the tile?

    That's another reason to just stick w/ this sink until you're ready to deal w/ the entire wall of tile.

  • 19 years ago

    Hi,
    It would depend on what color the floor will be. Does it tie in the yellow in any way? Can you find a shower curtain to tie in the colors you have?
    I think once the floor that is shown goes, you will have taken out the blue. That simplifies what is left and makes it better, IMHO.
    BTW - if you did take out the sink, I'd think you would have to remove all the other yellow accessories or they'd look out of place.
    I'd also hesitate to use a white apron for the sink as the toilet is the only true white in the room. I would imagine a color similar to the wall tile or floor would blend in better.
    HTH

  • 19 years ago

    If you like the yellow sink, start contacting salvage yards and post on salvageweb.com - betcha you can find a matching yellow toidy!

    I agree that taking out those wall tiles would be quite an endeavor, and removing the wall-mount sink may necessitate removing the wall tiles due to the hole left by the sink mounting. If you can live with it, leave well enough alone until it's time to deal with the whole room at once.

    If you do take it out, along with the other yellow ceramic accessories, patch the holes with whatever tile you can find to fit the holes and paint the whole tiled wall with epoxy paint or ceramic paint. Here's one how-to and here's another. It's a temporary fix but it'll hold you over until you deal with the rest of the bathroom. And take out those yellow fixtures VERY carefully, they're worth something these days. Mid-century houses are finally getting some respect and being considered worth restoring to their former funky glory, and people are often looking for those great colored fixtures.

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