“Before and After Bathroom Makeovers”, by Christine Barnes

Barnes, Christine. Before & after Bathroom Makeovers. Menlo Park, CA: Sunset, 2006. Print.

I got this off the shelf at my local library, suspecting – correctly, as it turned out – that I would get some good ideas from the ‘before’ pictures, and mostly dislike the ‘after’ pictures.  Our new summer place is a 1913 farmhouse, and I wanted to see examples of old bathrooms.  They did turn out to have the one picture I needed – a 1914 bathroom with white subway tile on the walls, hexagonal tiles on the floor, a free-standing (but not clawfoot) tub and a pedestal sink.  Great stuff.

There were a few nice, traditionally-styled bathrooms too, but nothing I liked well enough to scan a picture of for reference later on.

I was actually surprised that more of the old baths weren’t, well, old.  Quite a few were fairly recent renovations that the owners didn’t like, and re-renovated.  I would really like to get mine right the first time.

There are some floor plans.  Besides the main before-and-after part of the book, there are sections dealing with topics such as flooring, storage, and what-not.  There is an index.