Thanks! I had looked at the big box stores for a replacement counter with sink but couldn’t find anything premade. I’ll keep looking around!

Don't just throw away the blue sink. Even if you give it away, some people look for vintage colored fixtures.

What palimpsest said! We've got a bathroom with an old pink sink that is damaged, but that DH and daughter can't bear to part with. I spent hours combing Ebay for a replacement pink sink for them. Someone will be ecstatic to get your blue sink.

If you wanted to keep the blue sink, I would go with a very clean, crisp white for everything else. Blue floor tiles could also work, and a few small blue accents--narrow blue frame around a new larger mirror, blue ledge shelf. Blue towels if you can find good ones, but that sink color is going to be hard to match closely.

I wouldn't. Easily replaceable on a shoestring budget if you shop Marketplace, etc. for used/ mis-measured new/ I changed my mind new vanities.

*I* would redo everything but the sink in white, ( or cream if thats *Your* colour). Keep blue sink as a pop of colour and have either solid blue towels and rug. OR solid bright towels and rug in yellow, green, orange or pink.

I love blue and vintage, but, sorry, not your vanity and sink. You could rip it out and put in a nice pedestal sink. It would look less crowded.

Geez the sink will be one of the cheapest items to replace.

I would keep the sink and replace your floor wit Merola tile from the 1960s and 1970s to match the sink! See:

Please clarify: are you planning to use a ceramic or porcelain tile floor or a vinyl tile floor? Please show photos of the bathtub/shower so we can make color-coordinated suggestions.

Is this a basement bathroom where vanity storage isn't necessary?

Ceramic or porcelain tile floor. This is a half bath, no tub/shower.

It’s on the first floor of a 1100 sq ft home. There is only one closet in the house. Storage is a must! We intend to put in some Ikea wall cabinets in addition to keeping a vanity with storage.

I think the vanity and sink are cute. Change the faucet and countertop.

Replacing a vanity is easy, much easier than a floor

Get a new vanity and if you post the size you need here maybe we can help There is IMO no way to salvage any of that vanity including the blue sink which is not even a color for vintage anything.

Haha fair enough. 43 inches

I love that cool sink. Reminds me of these vintage ads:

I’d embrace it if it’s in good shape, and just do a white scheme around it … but would find a retro floor tile.

But that’s just me. If you’re ready for a change, definitely sell or donate it, as mentioned. Retro bathrooms are popular and I’d imagine blue sinks are hard to find.

"blue sink which is not even a color for vintage anything."

Well, that's not really true, every manufacturer had some version of saturated bright blue in the 1960s and 1970s. It looks closest to Kohler New Orleans Blue

Leaving the vanity/sink will not result in bathroom feeling updated, even with other changes.

There are lots of 43” vanities out there with a sink. Suggest going on line, as stores don’t carry lots of choices on site. The vanity will have the biggest impact and if you have to save, stencil floor (there are endless patterns). Search Pintetest on ”how to” and for design ideas, if interested.

Want a marching toilet and tub along with a other sink? i’m getting ready to gut a second bathroom withnthise fixtures

Those sinks with the separate chrome rim like the photo OP posted....Those are just nasty. Grunge gets under both sides of the rim. If you must do a drop in sink, then a self rimming one is 50% better because you have to clean only one side of the rim.

Those vintage sinks with the separate rim are not charming in the least.

I don't degrease auto parts in my vanity sink, I just wash my hands and then dry off the rim of the sink when I am done.

After I degrease the auto parts in the garage, I do wash my hands in the sink. Or when I come in from the garden. Or after I use JB weld to fix something.

Having a more normal, genteel lifestyle growing up, growing up with rimmed sinks, I wore out more than a few toothbrushes cleaning around the rimmed stainless steel kitchen sink. And that is why I run away from having one in my house. They're nasty.

ETA: How did I forget those hard water sediments that collect around the rim ring?

I love the blue sink and the matching blue drawers on the vanity. I would do the rest of the bath in white and add a matching bright blue rug and towels. That makes the blue of the sink look intentional. That said, if you don't like the vintage sink, it's going to bug you every time you walk in the room and your other changes won't hide it, so swap it out.

Let it go and beautify the space.

New vanity with marble countertop and mirror for $369.00!

I bought my house BECAUSE it had the original bathrooms. the blue one has the original American standard regency blue fixtures. there are so many options. check out this page for decorating ideas.

https://retrorenovation.com/2016/06/03/vintage-blue-bathroom-colors-1927-1962/

also browse the entire site under ”bathrooms” for more decorating ideas. for my bathroom i have decorated with a cute shower curtain (see photo below, the blue matches perfectly). i still have the original floor and shower square tiles but for the floor you can use daltile mosaic builder (pricier) or vct tiles (cheaper) to get a color you want (Vct is perfect for a basement bathroom, which it looks like this may be?)

also look at painting the walls a lighter complementary shade of blue or very pale, or go with a nice pale spring green or light purple. or a matching color from a shower curtain.

i say embrace it!

$150 on my local FB Marketplace.

$350

Despite above advice, I'm team replace it. But as someone who is stuck with a retro pink sink, I'd love to know where @Stephanie found that shower curtain!

"we will get floor

tile and paint for the vanity and the walls."

Heather said she will replace the floor and paint everything else. This is her room and her budget. Sinks may be inexpensive but paying someone to replace one runs up the cost. You could advise ME how I could replace the sink and vanity myself but all I would hear is "Blaa Blaa Waaaa" no way could I replace those items myself and maybe Heather is the same.

Color is personal - do you love that blue? is it very fitting with your house, with those in your house too?

If your budget is modest, this is a grey water resistant peel and stick vinyl tile from Lowe's (Floor Pops) and you could paint the vanity to match the sink, and paint the wall color. That glue or whatever on the seams of the vanity top should be able to be removed.

I am surprised no one has said "The entire bathroom needs to be gutted, this will cost $40K. Don't lift a finger to do anything now,

just save your money until then". That usually comes up, even if you ask for a paint color.

Money saving tweaks until you're ready to remodel:

--Leave sink, but paint the vanity all white and add modern black hardware.

--Black and white tile floor

--Black and white shower curtain, white towels, small blue hand towels. Some black and white photographic art or abstract watery/rain art work.

I was trying to post a different photo showing blue ad white with black and white floor, black and white shower curtain, but the photo wouldn't attach. Here's another image with that strong blue but with black and white floor, sink, etc. I do think black and white will set you up for a renovation or bigger update later on. That combo works very well with blue.

Also black and white water images could look wonderful in black, white, blue bathroom.

Shirlpp- love that white vanity you posted? Would love to know the source (if you remember) Thanks

The old faucet and the metal sink rims always remind me of gross roadside service station bathrooms. If it were my bathroom it would be the first thing I replaced. There are lots of affordable cabinets with a sink and so many great faucets.

It always depends on what a person has in the room, and what they like. I looked at palimpsest's nice blue changes... then I saw detail of lacy/ eyelet in your curtains --a look that might go casual... with blue vanity/sink.

H D....It is pretty nice!

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Style-Selections-36-5-in-White-Single-Sink-Bathroom-Vanity-with-White-Cultured-Marble-Top-Mirror-Included/1000896794

Thank you! Yes it is!

Is the vanity unusually low?

I think its around 30 inches tall. Is that low for a vanity?

Yes…visually it is not even as tall as the modern toilet…

Standard vanity height always used to be 30. This is because when you wash your hands if your elbows are higher than your hands water will run down into the sink instead of off the ends of your elbows, if they are parallel to the floor or lower than your wrists.

But people are a little taller and people don't like bending over so vanities have gotten taller over the years. I think 34" is fine but with 36" I get water around the sink and on the floor.

Altho you are being encouraged to embrace the retro look…i don’t think this sink is special enough to build a whole new concept around…

A moderately priced sink and cabinet …will allow you to do as much or as little with decor ..and still have a nice fresh bath

What material and condition is the floor in?…

Our bathrooms are custom..with 34” and 36”counters…i am 5’4” …my bath has the 36” counters…i love the height…

The taller cabinets have lots of reachable storage underneath…both baths have room for cleaning products…extra toilet paper and all the other lotions..etc…needed in the bathroom…even storage on the doors

It's not all about buying a cheap vanity somewhere. That's the easy part. Not everybody is good at disconnecting plumbing, removing cabinetry, repairing the wall surface if the vanity is a different size, installing the new vanity, leveling it, and reconnecting the plumbing.

Almost everybody in these forums acts like everybody is a competent plumber or contractor and can do all these things well or can get someone to do it for about $5.00.

It's. Not. Just. About. A. $99. Vanity. Replacement.

Being a “tidy bug” i like to keep countertops as clear as possible..for aesthetics and to make cleaning easier..

pal gave a reality check that the first step of a purchase isn't the whole job... not that houzzers think it's all easy, but the OP has the burden.

Idk how you'd place floor tile under the vanity!!!???

... here's your initial comment: "we will get floor tile and paint for the vanity and the walls."

Do shiplap wood walls fit the blue theme?

Magic Eraser, Comet, etc. etc... maybe then the polish/finish they sell, to renew it a bit...

maybe doing that could help decide.

Before YouTube, before the internet, even before This Old House on PBS, when we bought our first house, I bought one of these:

From back when you needed a faucet wrench to swap out faucets and Shark Bites had not been invented. I remember watching my dad connect cast iron sewer pipe with oakum & lead. Now we have Fernco's and PVC manufacturing improved and gained general acceptance. So many tasks are so much easier now because of innovations in products. But you have to want to, you need to have an 'attention to detail' mind set and a good amount of patience.

Or deep pockets, call someone and wait and, all too often, end up with a half-assed job done of it.