When I was chatting to the Caretaker I also discovered that on each floor there was a different tiled colour scheme in the bathrooms.
I know the bottom floor was black and cream and the third floor is a great deco green and cream. But no one on my level has any original bathroom features. Fortunately my bathroom has just been painted over and still has it's old brick shaped 1930s tiles (and bath, sink, loo roll holder and soap shelf!)
I know the bottom floor was black and cream and the third floor is a great deco green and cream. But no one on my level has any original bathroom features. Fortunately my bathroom has just been painted over and still has it's old brick shaped 1930s tiles (and bath, sink, loo roll holder and soap shelf!)
The painted bathroom at present
Chris and I decided to have a delve and strip some paint to discover the original colours...
His Lordship chipping away at 80 years of paint
We have ochre yellow and cream tiles. They are beautiful, and I can't wait to see them all paint free and gleaming!
G x
6 comments:
Ooow its sooo exciting and it’s not even my home! It’s like watching an episode of house detective -now that’s going back a while!
Ahhh, it would be great to let them or that Nick Knowles chap into my house and let them run wild, deco me up!
how exciting! We've just stripped our bathroom of its unfortunately completely unusable 40s tiles and fixtures to make room for my 30s deco dream bathroom (our floor tiles just arrived, which is exciting!!). Can't wait to see how your bathroom reveal ends up looking!
makes me sad that I live in a slighty crappy if beautifully spacious 60s house!
We have begun to strip the tiles back in our 40s house.At present the previous fools had painted the beautiful tiles dark blue!
Baroness... have you seen Eltham palace's bathroom? If not go look! ARGH!
Straight Talking Mama, I'm envious of all house space, really need to put up a pic of the living room... it's a junk room at present and is making fidgety even thinking about it!
And Gingyginge... it's amazing how fashions change isn't it? Have you got layers of paint like tree rings... it's like you can see all the decades changes in taste after a small scrape at some paint. I have white, then blue,then white, then GREEN (it's a horrid green!)
Thank you for all your comments, it makes blogging worthwhile knowing folk are reading :D
G x
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