What do you love/hate about the bathroom? Do you want to embrace the vintage style or replace with modern?

Tile is great! So often it is peach or pink! You lucked out! Keep tile. Use tile as your inspiration. Replace toilet and tub faucets, shower head, soap holder etc. The grip is probably standard size. If you replace it with new you won't have holes in tiles if u take it out. Is the swan thing original? Is that a separate shower? I'd like to see a modern glass door to make it clean. Ditch the too big blinds ASAP! Floor needs to go too. Think retro floor design.

You guys have made me give my bathroom a second look. I did want a more modern look.

With your budget you can really get a cool vintage bathroom with modern conveniences that looks clean and appealing. it is really beautiful and truly in good shape. post pis of the vanity frontal, mirror and any light fixtures.

BTW i do think your floor is fine and you might destroy the trim tile if you take it out. I would leave the shower door......so cool.

you willl probably spend some money on the faucets, mirror ,counter top, fixtures, and replacements for the bar, etc.

I know a lot of people here love the vintage tile, but man, don't count me in that group. However, taking it out means changing a lot of things at once, which could add up.

My question would be about the enclosed shower -- is it as tiny as it looks? Because I think I'd want to open that up, at least visually if not more substantially. Maybe you could replace part of the wall with glass brick just to let more light in, if the size is ok. If it were my bathroom, though, I'd want to pair that with removing all of the vintage tile and replacing only that in the actual shower and tub areas. If you can get some nice neutrals to make the most of your current vanity, your money might go farther than you think.

Good luck!

with a budget of 4K and some plumbing issues to take care of, and vintage tile in good shape the only solution is embrace the vintage and make things nice. if later the owner has a more ample budget the things that have been updated: vanity top, mirror, fixtures, faucets can always be reused.

Not to mention that is 10 years a;; the grey bathrooms with huge tiles will be all over and be considered outdated. a classic is a classic

Don't forget the very important lighting! :)

Could you re-grout to a dark grout and then paint(?) the red tiles black? That would give it a cool modern edge. Also, I read about how you can upgrade windows with contact paper or etching spray (frosting spray). Perhaps you can use one of those on your shower door to cover the swan. unless you're a fan of the swan. A quick fix is the window covering. You should do a roman shade. Also, you could frame the window making it more of a focal point. I like the floor tile - it just might need to be re-grouted to clean it up a bit.

You say there are plumbing issues. Get thoat squared away befor you start thinking about cosmetics. Plumbing can really eat into the budget.

I had a contractor come out and look at it, and he gave me a pretty good quote, which included pluming, and electric work. When I get home from work, I will post more pictures of my bathroom. Also, the stand alone shower is tiny, but the contractor stated that the tile is taking up a lot of room. The bathroom is really long, but as soon as I get home, I will take more pictures. I really appreciate you guys.

If you end up gutting the shower to make it bigger and loose the tile - here is an inexpensive idea I did on my first home which had beat up tile from the 50's - double yuk. I left the tile intact (it was only on the walls and not wrapped around shower/bathtub) and covered it with bead board. It was really inexpensive. The current vanity would have would look great against white bead board. If you gut shower, though, you provably will have to replace tub too...? So here is my final thought. If you gut shower and tub - why not combine shower and tub. There are some neat half glass permanent doors out there that really update a space that work with small bathrooms. Make the current shower a nice linen closet.

I sort of love your bathroom-swan shower door and tiles are great! I agree with previous posts-remove blinds, re-grout if needed and maybe replace vanity top. Embrace the vintage!

As promised, more pictures of my bathroom.

And the tile is on the ceiling of the bathtub and stand alone shower.

so nice vanity and mirror. how about lights. save your money and when you have a bigger budget you can do a whole new thing

I really like the vintage look, so I would absolutely keep all the tile if they are still in good shape. (Walls and floor too). I would however replace the swan door (that to me looks old, and in not a good way), with new glass. I will also venture that while I don't have anything agains the vanity per se, I also don't think it matches well with a vintage look. I'd replace that with a more vintage looking sink. You'll loose all storage so I'd probably also add tall storage where the smaller vanity desk is now.

Love your tile and your floor!

I would make plumbing issue first priority.
Then I would work to unify the vintage dressing table and the sink vanity with same finishes and hardware. Paint both the same light color.
If you want to remove the burgundy bullnose, it would be cheap to DIY replace it with white. The thin pinstripe tile would hard to remove but could be "whited out" with epoxy paint for appliances. I have only done this with a pale yellow tile so it may not work as well on a dark color. It may be best to embrace the vintage tile if it is all good and doesn't get ripped up for plumbing issues. Just add a few burgundy accents like trimming a white roman shade and shower curtain with a burgundy ribbon.
I like the idea of changing to a shower over tub and making shower stall a closet. It would give you more elbow room especially if you got one of those curve shower curtain rods. With a few rods and racks the old shower could a place to drop dry things. Good luck.

Good idea about unifying the vanity and sink. I would paint them in the color of the tile. PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE BORDER.

Oh my goodness. I'm sure you've found your solutions by now, so I'm only commenting because, on a search similar to yours, I came across this photo of your bathroom. It is exactly like my 1954 bathroom except toilet is on the other side of the vanity - closer to the door than window. I bet the window is identical in size. My bathroom is a mint green, which I love, but the undermounted sink is corroded beyond repair and can't be removed without removing the vanity top, so I have to give up that fresh shiny green experience -at least there. My present consideration is about whether to tile that vanity wall with a cream tile and edge it with some salvaged green at top (assuming I can salvage some) or whether to use beadboard on that wall perhaps painting pale green above. Did you finish your bathroom? I think we got the post war GI dream homes. Mine is very small by today's standards and I've seen it called on one site, "mid-century modest."