Vintage Home: Planning & Remodling Bathrooms 1975

A sunken Copper Bath, Hanging Ferns and stunning hand built wood framed Windows as featured in the 1975 book Planning and Remodeling bathrooms

I am a total vintage interior design book junkie and am slowly building up my collection and today scored a copy of Sunset books, 1975 book Planning and Remodeling Bathrooms for £2 . It is full of wooden and copper bathrooms, huge ferns and dreamy views. Definitely worth a share!!

Earth Ship and Cob house Bathrooms

John Wild's Bathroom

Flower Mandala: Finley Jordan for Aniela Parys

Flower mandala

There are good things about social media and bad. The bad is when people save photos with no links (i have been guilty in the past) but the best is when you put a picture up and invite people to tell you about it. This happened yesterday with the picture above... woo hoo!

I discovered flower mandala's a few years ago and often make them with my little boy (well i make and he destroys) but this outdoor bath scene with a flower mandala really took my breath away.

I quickly learnt that the mandala is the work of Finley Jordan for Aniela Parys's elegant lingerie collection/label and had to share with you guys.

I am sure not many of us would have time for such an elaborate bath time ritual but it is a good reminder for us to take time to relax and treat ourselves every once in a while... especially in the presence of natural bath products.

Aniela Parys Look book

Flower mandala: Finley Jordan for Aniela Parys

Rugs in Bathrooms....

Rugs in Bathrooms

Bathroom Rug in this dreamy bathroom

I personally don't have a bathroom big enough for a rug, and to be honest with my family it would probably get soggy, damp and smelly quite quickly.... hmmmm, not really selling the idea am I?

Regardless, they don't half look pretty do they?

Current Obsession: Popham Design's Hexagon Star Tiles

Popham Designs Star Hex Tiles in Blue.

Love at first sight!!

These awesome ' Star Hex' tiles are from Popham Design, and are my new obsession. I have always wanted a starry ceiling but now I want a starry bathroom, or bedroom floor.... or maybe just the whole house!

What do you guys recon?

Popham Design also have a wide range of other stunning tiles, seriously you should check them out.

Images 2,3 and 4 from Popham Design Website
Image 1 from Charles Tashima Architecture

12 Surprising things to add to your bath.....

I love this little chart I found over at Picklee of 12 surprising things to add to your bath...... A combination of ginger, cinnamon , honey and tea would be great.... like bathing in a mug of Chai Tea!!!

Quick Fix Bathroom Updates....

Purple shower curtain

Shower Curtain : Anthopologie on eBay

Pebble shower curtain

If like me you plan to re-do your bathroom but always seem to have something more important to spend your hard earnt money on then you may be in need of a quick fix bathroom update!!

One way to dramatically improve and update your bathroom is with a new Shower curtain... you can even have a few on rotation ....

For more quick fix bathroom ideas visit my guide here

Bathroom: Blue, White and Green

Blue and white bathroom.  photography Studio Oink

Anne Potters bathroom via Design Sponge

Dark Blue walls and house plants

Isn't this combination of Blue, White and copious amounts of houseplants great? I would have thought that dark blue was a bit too.... dark... for a bathroom but it actually work really well doesn't it?

This would work perfectly in my little bathroom and would only cost the price of a pot of paint. I also  really like the copper and terracotta pots in the second picture, they works really well with the petrol blue.

If like me you would like a bathroom update, a can of paint can do wonders! Visit my Bathroom Guide here for more quickfix Bathroom update ideas.

Creating a Relaxing Bohemian Bathroom

Bohemian Bali Bathroom

White Bathroom with Pink Sink

Bathroom details via Shop Millie

Love that vintage Mirror via Elle Decoration

Beautiful bohemian bathroom with Shell Chandelier

Bright, calm and relaxing. These white bathrooms look anything but cold and boring. ....

As I have mentioned before having a 7 month old baby means that bath time and my Yoga lessons are the only chance I get to be 'off duty' and relax. As bath time now means more to me than ever I am dreaming of creating myself a perfectly relaxing bohemian bathroom, but sadly I don't have a luxury budget to match.

A bathroom transformation doesn't have to cost the earth, A few well chosen accessories, the odd splash of colour and a couple of houseplants are all that are needed to turn a lifeless white box of a bathroom, like mine, into a relaxing retreat.

Replacing taps (faucets), adding some new towels (or dying your existing towels) and finding an unusual shaped mirror from eBay or a thrift find will achieve a more personal feel to a generic bathroom.

Blissful Bathrooms...

Calm relaxing Bohemian Bathroom

Kristin Perer's Bathroom. Anthology Issue No. 15.  Photographed by Catherine Gratwicke

Lauren and Chads Bohemian bathroom

Wooden bath pannel and tiled floor in this Ubud home

Claw Foot Bathtub in Ballyvolane House

Bath time has always been my chill out time at the end of a busy 12 hour shift at work. Lighting my candles, locking the door, climbing into the warm water and breathing a sigh of relief that I made it through the day/night....

......recently though my bath time has been Ernie singing rubber ducky, plastic bath toys and more than once having to jump out to dodge the baby sick... yummy! This is not relaxing but (apart from the latter), it is actually just as enjoyable....

However, when I go back to work in the Spring, and Alex is fully able to sit in the bath unsupported,  I am reclaiming my bath time and bathroom. To mark the occasion I am decorating. I have a huge secret board on Pinterest full of bathrooms that I am dreaming of relaxing in. I am sure the plastic bath toys are here to stay, and will in fact multiply, but some bath room cupboards will sort that little problem....

Cant wait!!

Dreaming of a bath under the stars....

Hot tub on top of the world (? Japan)

Mickey Muennig Pheiffer Ridge House IV, Big Sur

Hot tub via Emily Katz

wooden hot tub

Bath under the stars

I first published the bottom image some years ago and it has been my absolute favourite bathroom since. Imagine a bath under the stars surrounded by a private forest.... Heaven!!

Of course any of these beautiful bathtubs would be awesome... which is your favorite?