I am sorry to report, we still haven’t completed our laundry room/ mudroom remodel.  It is usable, just not finished.  Home improvement projects around here kind of take a back seat to other more important things, like family, the kids’ extra curricular activities, the garden, or just the daily running of our home.  However, I am slowing moving ahead on the tile counter top. (Project update was added at the bottom of this post)

As you probably noticed from my other posts, I am a big fan of homes that still retain their original retro, vintage, or mid-century design elements.  Due to the many tile factories around the Southern California area, a large number of West Coast homes from the 1930’s through the 1960’s originally had tile counter tops in the kitchens and/ or bathrooms.  Most of these vintage kitchen tile counter tops pictures come from California real estate listings or home rental websites like Home Away and VRBO.  I recently showed this folder of photos that I collected to my DH, hoping to convince him that colorful vintage tile is totally awesome and white or beige counters are just plain boring.

Update Late Spring 2013: We installed the counter top shortly after this post was published, but I was too busy to post about it at the time. We settled on Jadite green and black with a black liner detail. One day, I hope to redo the kitchen counter tops to compliment it, but that is much further down the priority list. Our plain white tile is functional for now.