The new bath looks terrific!

Big difference, looks so clean and modern now.

Nice job! I especially like your artwork that replaced the little towel rack. Personally I like vintage but agree the refreshed look will help your house sell.

Wow! Nice transformation!

$500? You’re a wizard! The room looks really nice.

I am sure the storage will be appreciated...but the original was a gem and I would have left it be.

Thanks all for the complements too on the original.

When we bought the house it had a circa 1988 home depot look going on: Two different kinds of blue and white wall paper divided by a third chair rail wall paper, a chipped laminate vanity, cheesy light fixtures, a small toilet, and crappy white square mirror.

We had the wallpaper removed, painted the walls, picked up the gold mirror from the trash, the Art Deco sink from craigslist for $100 (SCORE - found the same one in NYC Demolition Depot for $3,000!), the lights from a junk shop, TP holder from Etsy. And the best was our contractor accidentally cracked the toilet and paid to have it replaced with this nice Toto one! It was certainly unfortunate to go buy another Home Depot sink to stick in here before we put it on the market.

Did something similar when we sold our house in NY. Had a lot of bathrooms which we never did anything with. House was built in the 50's but was contemporary design. Huge windows, vaulted ceilings. We redid the powder rooms and the master bath but really skimped on the other two full baths.

One of those bathrooms had a green tub with green double sinks green toilet. The other bathroom had a blue tub with double blue sinks and blue toilet. Both had some sort of plastic sink countertops.

I hired a company who painted the tubs white. Changed out the toilets to white and put granite counter tops. We changed the sinks to white.

Painting the tubs was not very expensive and really looked good. I bought the countertops and sinks from a small store which was selling the top/sinks on sale as floor samples. I really got a good deal and had our handyman put them in. I painted the walls.

Both bathrooms had original floor tile which I left. sort of looked retro. The green bathroom had small green floor tile and the other had blue tile.

Bottom line, both bathrooms looked updated and really nice.

Jane

Beautifully updated!

The new look is so generic, it could be any house on HGTV. I would have preferred a new "old" look. New - not updated. A lovely 1850's house with the ubiquitous white vanity?

I think this sink would have been more interesting.

Having renovated and loved a couple of historic homes, the oldest was 1854, I have to opine that none of them had indoor plumbing when built. Every bathroom was an addition from another later era. Thus, there is no correct style.

I'm a lover of the American Sanitary Movement, white fixtures and subway style tile. I think the new bath works because it is generic, in good repair and doesn't scream I need to be fixed up to use. Nice job. The house will sell faster. If the new owner wants to go with a more vintage look, it won't take much to achieve it.

You did a great job, but I love the original! Remodeling a kitchen and powder bath right now and its a tug of war between traditional and modern. Our house is boring builder grade leaning traditional. Im smitten with traditional design (eg english cottage kitchen, etc.), but in the certain elements are going to br much more modern - stacked tile with floating vanity made from our quartzite countetop matetial in powder bath, etc.

There is no way that I would have put in this generic bathroom for our own use in this house! The bathroom needed to be redone so I went cheap with what most people these days like. Four offers in 48 hours. I think it did the job.