Colorful Inspiration for the Laundry Room Counter Top
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.
2 thoughts on “Colorful Inspiration for the Laundry Room Counter Top”
“A cute beige and minty blue 1940s vintage kitchen with an antique stove.”
that is the kitchen from lorelei and rory’s house in Gilmore Girls.
Im writing this in November of 2018 – I don’t see this kitchen in the post. Where did it go? I’d love to see it!