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Post by ronruble on Aug 12, 2017 14:52:25 GMT -5
Sorry I have not been on line or working to get Chamber Stove PDF files on the internet but I have been very busy trying to sell my cabin and find a new place I can afford. Whole looking for a new home I stumbled across a circa 1900 2-story cinderblock home for $20,000. If I was 30 or 40 years younger I would buy it but it is TOO MUCH work for me now. The house has not be chopped up / modernized and still has most of the original style from 1900. I’m posting a photo of the bathroom so that someone might use it as an idea for remodeling a bath into an early style. FYI - My cabin of Cherokee Lake in Tennessee for sale Listing of Zillow
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Post by nana on Aug 16, 2017 6:44:12 GMT -5
I looked at this picture and thought the same thing. TOO MUCH WORK. But artistically, that is a wonderful picture to me. There is something very poignant and evocative of better days in it. The paint scheme, the fancy window...and now it is probably destined for oblivion. It's like the picture of the last passenger pigeon, if that makes any sense.
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Post by pooka on Aug 16, 2017 7:59:04 GMT -5
Imagine, this was probably a state of the art bathroom at the time. It was most likely a step up from a chamber pot, a wash basin & pitcher on a wash stand & heating water on a stove to bath in a wash tub. I like the wainscoting & the window. I had a tub & sink just like this in one old run down apartment I lived in years ago. I've got the lower part of a toilet like that right now that I saved from the dump thinking I could rehab it to use in the garage. It's from the very earliest part of the 1900s. The u-bend in it bends toward the front, rather the towards the back like later, & more modern toilets. It gives it an almost sculptural quality.
I like that tubs. The corner sink, not so much though. Someone would have to be willing to put in a lot of work to redo this one. But as ronruble said, this is great inspiration of how to put some vintage style into a bathroom remodel. My 1939 bathroom has plaster walls that are scribbled to look like tile on the lower wall, topped with a high chair rail to divide the simulated tile bellow & the plain wall above, not unlike this bead-board seen here.
This look would be cool with the white or off white& bead-board, with a contrasting color like a pale or medium color like green, blue or even a yellow on the upper wall & tub exterior. Accessorize it with bolder items for some dollops of interesting eye catchers. The floor would have to be maybe hex or one inch square mosaic tile in white with a band of color or a scattering of color tile in the field.
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Post by nana on Aug 17, 2017 7:55:12 GMT -5
That's what I was thinking, hex tile. If I could wave a magic wand and have everything scraped and painted and cleaned and fixed, I would put hex tile on the floor, and tile around the tub, and add a shower head and one of those circular type shower curtains to go around it. A corner medicine cabinet above the sink, and some shelves to hold the necessary sink top items that there is no room for on that sink, and it could be really charming. As it is now though, most people will look at it and say it all has to go.
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Post by evangeline on Aug 19, 2017 9:27:39 GMT -5
Looks like a job for young folk. BTW I'm waaaay to old to desire a mirror next to my tub. Whose idea was that I wonder??
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Post by mach12 on Aug 19, 2017 9:55:10 GMT -5
Looks like a job for young folk. BTW I'm waaaay to old to desire a mirror next to my tub. Whose idea was that I wonder?? Wow, I could have written that same comment! Mirrors are too darned honest. My brain thinks I'm forty-something but the aches and pains keep telling it how wrong it is. A mirror removes all doubt. I'd prefer to keep fooling myself as long as I'm able to.
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Post by pooka on Aug 19, 2017 11:12:12 GMT -5
Unless your older with a pot of cash to pay someone else to do the remodeling, that bathroom alone would be a chore to whip into shape. Imagine what the rest of the house looks like. I'd agree this is a project for younger folks. That is a strange place for a mirror in any bathroom. It looks like it reflect the door, but from the waist down. I'm not so vain to think I'm such a prize to look at myself. All I need a mirror for is to shave, & make sure I comb my hair straight. I can count the mirrors in my house on less than one hand. They do say mirrors lighten up & make small rooms visually look bigger, so there's that. But unless your the vain sort, mirrors for gazing are kinda lost on us older crowd.
I don't feel so old, even though I'll be fifty nine in October. It's only when I look back down that long road behind me that It sinks in that the years have piled up on me, & now I've taken on a fare load. I've noticed the last couple of year I've written "I remember" countless times. It's a sign that as I look ahead, I'm more often looking back.
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Post by evangeline on Aug 19, 2017 17:37:29 GMT -5
I guess if you were a gangster and you wanted to take a long soak but still see the door behind you. . . ;-) Otherwise - this doesn't look like a House of Vanity.
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Post by cinnabar on Aug 21, 2017 19:11:32 GMT -5
Ya, some mirrors in bathrooms are poorly placed. Our half bath has one at the opposite end from the commode. When you stand up to re-assemble your clothing you get the full Monty. I put curtains over the glass, do not need to see that. The wall tile is large porcelain and pink so.. would have to redo the whole room to get rid of the mirror.
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Post by nana on Aug 22, 2017 7:36:25 GMT -5
It does kind of make you wonder why they did it. There was probably a reason. One of the smartest things I ever did was when we redid our bathroom, I tucked the toilet behind a little half wall about 3 or 4 feet high (or to be more truthful I had the carpenter tuck it there), so if someone opens the door and you happen to be communing with nature, all they see is your head and shoulders. The lock has never worked on the door, and when the kids were small that's how we liked it, and now we're just used to it. We know to knock if the door is closed. It's a little disconcerting to guests, though. I suppose I could fix the lock now, but eh. Why bother? So someone who buys my house in the future will wonder about me and how we could have lived like that. But it works for us!
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Post by dwayner2 on Sept 10, 2017 9:45:30 GMT -5
My thoughts exactly regarding the strange placement of mirrors in the bathroom. I've lived in a couple of apartments where the toilet was next to the vanity and the mirror went from wall-to-wall behind both. As a guy I never understood the reason why you would want to watch yourself (do that) while standing over the toilet in front of the mirror. Before I retired I gathered up all the supplies to redo the scary men's bathroom at the big cotton gin on TAMU campus, was going to have all the accessories made out of farm tools and such....very rustic. As a joke I wanted to place a wall mirror opposite the toilet and paint the outline of a girls head about where your face would be when sitting on "the thrown"....hair, earrings, crown. When you sat down you would see your face reflected in the outline with these words just below it..."Now don't you like a little Princess!" But, time ran out before I retired and never got the project started.
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Post by pooka on Sept 10, 2017 11:50:56 GMT -5
That bathroom redo sounds like it would have been a hoot. I guess some wouldn't think it so funny though. If you can't laugh at yourself, you need to check your attitude. For us older crowd, a mirror is a utilitarian thing for shaving, or maybe combing your hair for us guys. For the ladies, perhaps, putting on makeup or doing your hair. Definitely not for gazing, or admiring our looks.
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Post by nana on Sept 10, 2017 12:33:36 GMT -5
Maybe a soft focus, Elizabeth Taylor kind of mirror would be good. Towards the end of her life, she would only allow herself to be filmed through such a filter that it was like seeing her in a hazy dream. Actually, I couldn't care less about my wrinkles and smile lines and the beginnings of gray hair. I'm a grandma and I've lived a nice life so far. I should look a little worn! I've earned it! We all love antiques and vintage things. Why should ourselves be any different?
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Post by pooka on Sept 10, 2017 13:18:37 GMT -5
Antique mirrors are sort of like that. The ones where silvering is failing & discoloring from age.
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Post by mach12 on Sept 10, 2017 13:58:32 GMT -5
Maybe a soft focus, Elizabeth Taylor kind of mirror would be good. Towards the end of her life, she would only allow herself to be filmed through such a filter that it was like seeing her in a hazy dream. Actually, I couldn't care less about my wrinkles and smile lines and the beginnings of gray hair. I'm a grandma and I've lived a nice life so far. I should look a little worn! I've earned it! We all love antiques and vintage things. Why should ourselves be any different? If I could just do something about the aches and pains I wouldn't care about getting older but man does this hurting all the time slow me down. I should have had this kitchen finished a long time ago but all the climbing around in the attic and crawlspace, trips up and down ladders and so on just take me longer than it used to. On the other hand, it's quite a blessing to be in my 60's and still be able to do these things at all.
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