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This is making me irrationally happy...


HerNameIsBuffy

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This is the exact floor tile we had in the house I grew up.  Exactly.

The title was "actual tile from somebody's actual pink bathroom."  Like this wasn't a perfectly normal choice.

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And you know what, it held up; 39 years and not a chipped tile.  

How on earth did this go out of fashion?  

I am rivaling Rick Arndt for the most nostaligic person every...but I miss that!

That's it - I need a time my time machine. 

 

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blessalessi

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It is lovely!

(That is a lot of grout to clean though, once the dirt shows against the pinkness. :my_blush:)

 

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PreciousPantsofDoom

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We had a very similar pattern on our kitchen floor, although it was a 1970s linoleum number in shades of brown and orange.  Actually, I have run into it in tile in this exact pink in an elementary school bathroom near me very recently.   And yes, there is something strangely satisfying about this arrangement of colored squares and rectangles.  Very geometric Fibonacci sequency. 

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OnceUponATime

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I feel sorry for the person installing that tile. Unless the pattern came on those larger mats which it most likely did.

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ClaraOswin

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My parents have a similar tile, in green, on their bathroom floor. :)

@PreciousPantsofDoom Is this the lino you're talking about? It's the one my grandparents had in their kitchen. Or least very similar.

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Did the bathroom have a pink tub, a pink toilet, and a pink sink too?

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clueliss

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Okay that orange only in browns could be the lino. in the mobile home we lived in during the late 1970's (the trailer was from the early 70's).  

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PreciousPantsofDoom

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@ClaraOswin That is the right pattern, but ours was a bit browner and sort of smoother looking. My Parents replaced it with vinyl flooring in a snazzy 70s explosion of yellow sunflowers against some sort of cream and green trellis effect. You know, to coordinate (not match because so modern not to) with the wallpaper which was covered with pictures of wine bottles and grapes. And if I remember correctly, that was also the house where we had puke green shag carpet in the bathroom, which my Dad still says he misses (warm and soft under his feet.)  Yeah, a nice warm bacteria filled rug to catch all the pee sprinkles. Ew. Although, in his defense, it was washable ( sort of a wall to wall version of a rubber backed bath mat.)  Still,  you would have to wash that thing daily to satisfy Adult me (Kid me didn't care.)

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HerNameIsBuffy

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2 hours ago, PreciousPantsofDoom said:

@ClaraOswin That is the right pattern, but ours was a bit browner and sort of smoother looking. My Parents replaced it with vinyl flooring in a snazzy 70s explosion of yellow sunflowers against some sort of cream and green trellis effect. You know, to coordinate (not match because so modern not to) with the wallpaper which was covered with pictures of wine bottles and grapes. And if I remember correctly, that was also the house where we had puke green shag carpet in the bathroom, which my Dad still says he misses (warm and soft under his feet.)  Yeah, a nice warm bacteria filled rug to catch all the pee sprinkles. Ew. Although, in his defense, it was washable ( sort of a wall to wall version of a rubber backed bath mat.)  Still,  you would have to wash that thing daily to satisfy Adult me (Kid me didn't care.)

Carpet in bathrooms and kitchens always make me feel like the worlds messiest person since no way could I keep that nice for even a day...unless I just cordoned off the room with crime scene tape.

5 hours ago, Ali said:

Did the bathroom have a pink tub, a pink toilet, and a pink sink too?

they were a deeper pink - almost a mauve.  this may be the exact tub (sink and toilet to match)...but our tiles were a paler pink.  The vanity was this huge monstrosity covered with some kind of pink pattered ...not plastic...but not granite or anything fancy.  I miss having that much cabinet space, though.  even with the large laundry chute dead center that vanity had more storage than any bathroom I've ever had.

When I was in college my mom replaced the pink tile with preformed shower walls and put in a new tub - those were white.  

Our house was never going to win a contest for best decorated, that's for sure.  And it's so weird because style wise my dad was the most neutral kind of guy and he bought the house new - looking back the color scheme is an odd choice unless it was already in when he bought and didn't care enough to change.  

Sign of the times though that I didn't think it was weird at all as a kid.

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HerNameIsBuffy

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14 hours ago, OnceUponATime said:

I feel sorry for the person installing that tile. Unless the pattern came on those larger mats which it most likely did.

I've seen similar in DIY stores...there is some kind of webbing on the backing so it's like sheets of the mosaic and they somehow grout it.  

Glad they didn't use white grout or I'd still be cleaning it. :) 

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