I am doing the same thing to a rental property right now and I am using a greenoxen cove light. I have them in a few bathrooms here and love them.

Are you replacing all of the other tile ?? I would suggest lay in the new tile on the diagonal to make the room look larger and updated ,also it will help keep the lines from the other tile all from making the eye jump around

Look at glass paint at your local Michael's craft store ,you may can find something to paint over the blue with

Sorry the lighting is the least of the problems with this space I would save the money till you can gut the thing this could be a really awesome bathroom instead of a dated monstrosity.

Patricia! Monstrosity? I've seen far worse. :)

I would consider something like a long linear LED fixture from someplace like Edge Lighting. It is available in 2"-6" increments, I think, depending upon the fixture.

For a colored two tone tile bathroom I think the combo is kind of pleasant, the blue is kind of soothing. So often the combos could be garish.

I agree that you will want to consider the floor tile in the largest format that works and on a diagonal. I would also consider painting the vanity a pale blue to blend with the tile and fixtures.

Leave the blue/beige tile & sinks combo. The retro stuff is really popular now. Keep it! I think it looks cool & unique! The new tile choice with the black looks too busy, IMO. Something more neutral with small color accents that compliment the entire room. Combine some "now" accents. I'd take the large mirror down & look at 2 framed mirrors & then find light fixtures to work around the mirrors. Could be 1, 2, or 3 lights.

Just looking at your photos again - I would change the the entire cabinet, mirror, light, fixtures & wallpaper. You have a big space there. Maybe put in 2 sink stations & follow around that to move forward.

The tile is too cool! I like the two lights over the sink idea. If you like the retro tile, look for something in that era. I just happen to be doing that today.

Thanks, everyone! For clarification, we are mostly keeping the bathroom as is. The floors and paint need to be redone throughout the house and we just put in a new AC. Suffice it to say ripping out the bathtub tile, cabinets, etc. is not in the budget, and the look doesn't bother us at least for now. We plan to leave the wallpaper because it is actually very textured and gives it some nice character. (Other wallpaper in the house is a different story, hence the painting elsewhere.) This may or may not be clear in the picture, but the bathroom floor is currently carpet; we will replace it with tile. The tile sample is mounted on a black piece, and the only part that will be installed is the large sandy type square throughout the room, no black. I like the idea of installing it diagonally. I will ask the flooring people about that.

The question I posted about is lighting. We agree with suggestions that two light fixtures,one over each sink, make sense. The local lighting store gave us the same suggestion and mentioned to stay away from nickel because our fixtures are brass. Narrowing down which ones to get is the tough part. It sounds like people either 4 lights like Darzy, greenoxen cove (pics?), or an LED linear strip (pics?). These all sound interesting and we will look into them. Thanks everyone for all of your help, and while I look I will keep monitoring this in case more comments come in. We really appreciate it!

I have an idea! Since you want to keep the gold fixtures, I would just keep the fixture you have! But, replace the opaque white globes with clear bulbs and THEN, install a dimmer on the light switch. You'll be able to control the full light to bright for getting ready, or completely dim for mood lighting soaking in the tub.

i have found bathroom lighting to be the most difficult to find--it's all awful! I've given up and put in recessed/can lights, and completely mirrored

the wall over the vanity (to the ceiling). can't quite see in this photo but...anyway, that may not be in your budget right now.

All from Lowes

@BeverlyFLADeziner: We like those a lot! A simple nice look. Have you seen them in other background colors, e.g. bronze, copper, gold, white, etc. rather than nickel or chrome?

Brass is making a comeback! I just googled these on the Houzz site for brass bar vanity lights. They are all reasonably priced and could work.

If you use LED find a lower wattage; we tried them in our bathroom and they ended up looking very sodium vapor yellow; ie. sickly! So we switched back to GE Reveal lights for a nice daytime natural light! Good luck. Also Home Depot and Lowe's will allow you to order anything in the extensive lighting catalogue at all price points. I also think a lot of the display lights can be ordred in some brass tone! It is coming back!

thenome, I searched for them in chrome and nickel because that is currently in your bathroom, and you specifically said you didn't want to draw attention to the lights with everything else going on in the room.

If there is plain textured wallpaper over the mirror, you could replace the current fixtures with exactly the same thing for about $80 from ATG Lighting stores (2 8-bulb fixtures). This is if the backplate has no paper under it or it has marked the paper and you need to cover it back up.

Nuvo Lighting

https://www.atgstores.com/bathroom-lighting/nuvo-lighting-77-19-8-light-strip-bathroom-light_g488904.html

BeverlyFLADeziner, thanks for your response again. I am confused though. What do you mean that is currently in our bathroom? We went to a lighting store in town and they said that, based on our pictures, our lighting fixtures are brass. Consequently, we have been avoiding nickel and chrome because we were told that nickel and chrome would class with our current fixtures. Are we mistaken? If so that opens up a whole new world of possibilities for us!
You are correct we don't want to draw excess attention to the lights.

Sorry I just looked at your pics again and you do have brass.

Here are vanity lights where the face is mostly glass from Lowes. That might be the best way for you to go to avoid as much metal as possible.

Just have your wall tile, tub reglazed.