It’s all done I think. I’m content.
Now to do the bathroom.
So I've been working on the bathroom - not really MCM or Danish, though it does have some vintage stuff. But it's been enough of a transformation that I'll share it in here. The house itself is still fully MCM being built in the late 50s so I'll include it under that technicality. LOL
When the owner was first showing me this house prior to me signing the lease, we did a walkthrough. When we got to the bathroom, he was gesturing and talking about the sink "...and here we have the sink, it's got a cabinet below it for storage..." You know, a typical sink/cabinet combo. But when he opened the door to show me the undersink storage, it crumbled and came off in his hands because for the years this house sat vacant, the termites had gotten in and devoured the wood core. LOL "Oh, I see we'll need to fix that" he said.
His idea of 'fix' was to drill two pilot holes on the fake marble backsplash of the sinktop, drive self tapping concrete bolts through it straight into the wall, then yank the disintegrating cabinet out from under it, leaving the sinktop dangling off the wall with newly exposed plumbing. I believe that's referred to now as 'shabby-chic'.
It's been sitting outside for a couple weeks, but that's about as clean as it would get, even with scrubbing with bleach. I've since learned that a mild acid would've at least removed the hard water deposits and rusty limescale.
I needed the house. Rent was cheap, it had a fenced in yard for my puppy, and it was strategically located minutes from school - I wasn't about to make a fuss over the sink. I'd just fix it myself once I get around to it sometime in the future...
That future was these past couple weeks.
I found a sink/pedestal combo at HD for $45 total, and decided it was time to 'do' the bathroom. Bought some fresh white paint, since you'll see in the next photo remnants of the original color - Does being painted WWII battleship grey-green count as MCM?
That area surrounding the faucet is the original color. I had since started the first coats of white around. Here is the test mount of the sink portion to the wall to check for plumbing issues and correct height for the pedestal. I did end up getting a new faucet while I was at it.
Ok enough of the before photos. Now the after:
The medicine cabinet is what was here - it's in decent enough shape so I'm not buying a new one. But all of the accessories (towel ring/bars/shelf/, cup/toothbrush holder, soapdish, roll holder, etc are all new, replacing the flaking, corroded "chrome" dollar store set that perfectly accented the prior bathroom 'look'. LMAO
There's still some touch up to do down by the newer pvc water pipe and I've been applying paint stripper to the matching tile baseboards to get the decades of paint buildup off. If this was my house, I'd figure out how to actually remove the obsolete original plumbing down to the left of the toilet, but that's all thick metal, and the concrete wall would need to be chipped away and yank it through to do it properly, and that's beyond what I feel comfortable doing to a rental.
Vintage 1970s geometric fabric made the shower curtain and valance (there's my MCM) - kinda mimics the open cube shape of the modern pendant lamp though neither was bought with the other in mind. That lamp was a new cheapie from China I picked up on eBay for a lone 99 cent bid with free shipping! LOL I was originally going to strip the wiring and rebuild it as a desk lamp for back here in the office, but once I recognized the similarities with the fabric, I decided to try and work it all together.
Now for the kitchen. Ugh will this ever end! LOL Goodnight folks
