According to the New York Times,
the pink bathroom is hot again.
That may very well be, but this is one trend I just can't jump onto. We kept the pink tile in our bathroom during our recent renovations only when other aspects of the project ran over budget and we needed to reallocate funds. Granted, it looks a lot better than it did previously. (We gave it a little makeover instead of full-fledged reconstructive surgery.) But I'd still be a lot happier with natural slate instead of retro Pepto-Bismol colored ceramic tile.
If you're a fan of pink bathrooms, however, check out the blog mentioned in the above Times article:
Save the Pink Bathrooms.
Meanwhile, here are a few before and after photos of our own pink bathroom:
Before: Dingy texturized walls. Plastic faux brass medicine cabinet and light fixtures. And way too much pink tile for my taste. The only thing I really liked here was the sink, which I myself installed a year after we moved into the house. It replaced a tan faux-marble sink that sat atop a large, dark, composite-board cabinet.
Before: Don't ya love the blue, green, and red sailboat-themed wallpaper trim? We always thought it was an interesting choice to go with the pink and grey tile. And the wallpaper on the ceiling wasn't the smoothest move either. You can't see it in this photo, but it was curling away from the ceiling along each seam -- not surprising in a steamy bathroom environment.
After (almost): The almost-complete pink bathroom, post-makeover. (Just waiting on a little touch-up paint, as you can see by the post-it note in the corner.) We did our best to distract from the pink with the yellow paint, the grey accent wall, the gold towels and accessories, and the patterned shower curtain that incorporates pink without dwelling on it. But it's still a pink bathroom.
After: We removed one whole wall of pink tiles. This we actually had no choice about, as the contractor had to knock holes in the wall to put in supports for the new upstairs. But we were quite happy to replace them with this accent wall instead. With a lighter paint, it would have looked like something was missing here (it is! a bunch of pink tile!), but because of its visual weight, the grey accent wall helps ground the whole room and make a focal point of the sink and new Restoration Hardware inset medicine cabinet.
