Our 1950s home has a retro bathroom that reliably gets a strong love or hate reaction. I mean, everybody has an opinion about those green tiles. We’re keeping them and running with the black/white/mint combo. (Listen, the bathroom is the least of our worries).
One of the first things I did after we bought our house was run out and buy a new white shower curtain for this bathroom. (What’s cheaper and more satisfying than a new shower curtain? Not much). But when I climbed into the tub to hang the shower curtain, the bottom of the tub was kind of squishy. I’m not gonna lie, my first thought was, “Oh, a gel bathtub. I could get use to that, I guess.” And then I squished around a little more and realized that was sploshing water I was hearing under my feet. And I started to panic, just a little. A few google searches later (“my bathtub is gellin”) and my husband and I learned that we were standing on a plastic bathtub liner (below), which probably cost upwards of $1000 and covered the original porcelain tub.
So I called a tub refinishing company who came out and gave us a super reasonable estimate ($450) for removing the liner and refinishing the tub underneath.
(Above, what was underneath the liner, after some serious scrubbing. Gross. Below, freshly fixed and painted).
Isn’t the shape great?! The only bummer was that we learned that underneath the broken white floor tiles in our bathroom, there is another layer of green floor tiles. Who puts floor tiles on top of floor tiles? Sigh.
For now our bathroom is getting put on the back burner. I’m just happy to be able to take a hot bath again!
