I totally had a pink bathroom once and after much searching and mulling for a solution, I went ahead and embraced it. I got deep green rugs, a white shower curtain with large colorful flowers and thankfully, since we had a window, it became a bright, floral space where the pink didn't look out of place or super 50's.

How I wish I had a pink bathroom!

http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/

Wow, beautiful job! I am in love with your bluejays, especially! I could almost stomach pink, with this approach. (But think of even how much more wonderful it would be with the painting AND a better color tile!!!)

I live in a rental with a really really bad backsplash in the kitchen. It was tan with flecks of gold, brown, and more tan. It was awful. So I used some leftover contact paper and covered it up. It was a bit of pain doing exact measurements for all the plugs, light switches, and light fixture. But the results are so worth it. And just because I'm paranoid, I've checked a few times; it is easy to peel off and leaves no sticky residue (so far, it has been up for a year and a few months). Think of it as wallpapering your tile, in a way that comes off whenever you want. Contact paper can be bought in bulk on amazon for pretty cheap. I also covered a wall with black chalkboard contact paper since I am not allowed to paint. Everyone thought we painted and were shocked to learn its just contact paper.

I had a pink bathroom once. Looooooooved it.

If you signed a long-term lease on a ugly rental and have no money, why is this the place to solve that problem?

I have the same pink/black bathroom as in the picture and painted the walls hi-gloss silvery blue - BM# 2067-70, and am also using green towels and a white shower curtain that has green embroidered greek key pattern. Despite that our bedroom adjacent is raging hot pink and tangerine orange with green accent (I call the style Bollywood Regency ), it does not look out of place.

Sorry, I don't like the wall mural accompanying this.

We have light grey wall tile with light pink border and a pink tile floor. It's begging for a poodle or elephant shower curtain. But instead I put in the Asian accents my mom has given me over the years from her travels in China and Korea. It has really worked to tone it down and not have the bathroom scream "50s America!"

I love the pink bathroom! I would embrace it and add cream, black and pink accesories to match the 50's vibe. You can also do a mint green instead of cream or black. The pink and mint works really well in my kitchen (I have a vinage formica table with a white top and pink vynal chairs) and I can't imagine that it wouldn't work in your bathroom.

i wish I had retro tiled bathroom. I'd want it to be lavender

Ok, I had this same problem and what I did was to paint bold turquoise and white vertical stripes above the tile and they helped detract from the pale pink. It turned out great! Maybe I should send my pics into apartment therapy? This seems like a common design problem for those of us with old houses.

I LOVE my pink bathroom.... and my mint green tiled kitchen :)

I, too, embraced a mauve (sort of pink...) bathroom once. There was a chairrail, below which was "painted" contractor white. Above the chairrail, there was the deepest (and most unevenly painted!) mauve... that extended up to and covered the popcorn ceiling. The saving grace was that my landlord had installed new, very white fixtures and an oval mirror, along with glass and brushed nickel finishes. The old almond colored shower/tub was hidden with this fantastic geometric mauve/pink/white shower curtain. The floor was white.

I was glad to move from that bathroom to a beige boring one, actually.

I love this. I agree with embracing the tile and making it work. While this may not be for everyone, I think it is one of many great solutions. And I never would have thought of this. It reminds me of great old 30's or 40's wallpaper which is probably the date of the tile.

I'm very new to this site, and I have some questions I would love to post but then I see remarks such as "If you signed a long-term lease on a ugly rental and have no money, why is this the place to solve that problem?" and I say never mind I will solve myself.

Love it. Pink tile is awesome and totally coming back. I think the landscape painting is cool!

@lac105323, agreed. What was that about? Guerilla, why so rude?

I had one once...I miss it! My boyfriend, though, hated it. For him, I ended up adding burgundy in a sort of Ralph Lauren masculine floral, if there is such a thing, with white rugs, towels and it really toned it down.

Why must every Color Therapy post feature an over-the-top wall mural?

If you don't like the pink, and think the room is small and dark - why would you go and add an extra layer of crazy over the whole thing?

I guess it's a matter of taste. I think it's awful.

I have a peach tiled half bathroom off my kitchen, and I was given the same advice as you just got. I painted it a slightly brighter shade of peachy coral (Ellen Kennon's Shrimp), and now I love the room. Although, I would have been very happy with a mural similar to the one pictured above as well!

Peaches and pinks are great colors for bathrooms because they give the skin a flattering glow, and who doesn't want to look more glowy?

Also, I wouldn't let a negative comment keep me from asking a question on this site. The person asking the question didn't say she didn't have money, just that she wasn't spending any on a rental--I wonder if the person making the snide remark even bothered to read the question?

I had a 1950's pink and baby blue tile bathroom in a rental once...and I did not do it well. I went sweet and it was bad. But the bathroom here is wonderful. I love it. Try something like that.

I have the same 50's pink tile in my bathroom. The previous owner went overboard and painted all the walls and cabinets pink. I toned it down by painting the walls and cabinets an off-white with a slight pink to it and then accessorized with dark brown. The brown rugs, curtains and towels complement the pink and make it less girly.

This post is confusing. This isn't the bathroom in question, right, but just an example of colortherapy work? If your advice is to paint it pink, why confuse things with a landscape mural?

Love the little birds! I would also love to have a retro pink tile bath.

I do like the murals here, but I really would go the route suggested by cherrybomb. In other words, use different colors of the same saturation.

I had a 30s art deco bathroom that was covered in fabulous jade green tiles. I painted the walls lavender, and the ceiling and built-ins yellow. It looked amazing! We sold the house shortly thereafter (after being on the market a week). The buyers' loved the bathroom.

If you paint everything pink, I think it will feel like a vagina.

I agree with alahoop. Pink is a flattering colour to most skin tones so embrace it! It could be waaaaay worse!

i agree, the easiest solutions to that pink tile (I have it in my bathroom as well) are browns, blues and greens. (together, or separately)
Greens can be tricky because you don't want to turn your bathroom into a watermelon.
The wrong blue can make it look like a nursery.
But if you can find the right shades- these colors make the pink seem purposeful.
A dark graphite gray also looks dynamic with pink. (although light gray can be a bit bunny-rabbit-y)

had a pink bathroom once. Our pink bathroom had a brownish red accent tile at the top of the tile patterns. We used that color in towels, mats, and the shower curtain. We made it work, and embraced the pink. It's a lot easier to do that than any other solution.

I love the mural with the pink and black tile! Very interesting and charming.

I like the idea of a mural too. There are interesting wallpaper murals at Anthropologie.com

I think their "Coral Forest" paper, would be nice with your pink and black tile, fluffy white towels and a shag bath mat in grey/lavender. Black pearl accents would be nice too.

Check out "Save the pink bathrooms" on the retro renovations site! The pink and black is very "grease" & "pink ladies" -- i like it. I mean, my retro apt bathroom was gutted and replaced with standard issue home depot crap. If you wanted to paint out the mural, i think a medium gray would look nice with the pink.

I love the mural, go with a charcoal set of towels and solid charcoal shower curtain (perhaps with some nice texture?). I bearly noticed the pink, adding more would make it worse! Perhaps the contact paper idea would work too?? Good luck!

I have an identical bathroom... as well a strange deep-rooted aversion to pink. I used gray for all my towels and bathmat. Then I found a white shower curtain with a modern gray and black floral print. It all came together nicely, and now the pink doesn't even bother me anymore.

Leave it alone. I hate pink too, but don't think of painting over that mural--it really looks chic with your lighting, weirdly enough the pink tile, and other stuff in your bathroom. Just like JeanieS, I too barely noticed the pink becuase, for me, of that damn mural. You also live in a rental. I know pink's a hideous color (because it IS), but I would totally be able to forgive the landlord's choice of pink for his/her choice in mural.

I didn't think I would like the combination of 50s tile and a Tuscan mural, but it's actually amazing! I love it!

I have the same tile but instead of pink and black (which I think is kind of a nice retro feel) mine is a light brown peachy color with dark brown trim (floors, tub and toilet all same light brown color). Currently have brown and white shower curtain, towels and rugs to try and accent but it is pretty awful.

I would paint whats left of the wall, dark brown, chocolate. I will accentuate with chocolate towels and a dash of red here and there.

lac105323/smellykelly,

Not trying to be rude; there are plenty of people who would like their legitimate questions answers and are actually looking to improve their environment and are even willing to spend their own hard-earned money.

The difference here, however, is this person has no desire to fix the problem they are lamenting about, and are really looking for someone to do it for them.

Hence, the attitude of "I’m not about to spend a nickel", deserves "I don't think you need an answer".

I love this! The mural painted over the tile is so much easier to bear than murals that take up a whole wall or room! I think the birds and balloon are charming and I love the trees. My boyfriend's parents have a Tuscan mural painted in their guest room. It's soothing, but because it's lifesize, it seems so MUCH. And then I feel slightly uncomfortable because I don't usually pee in the Tuscan countryside.

I might be slightly too literal, but I also find that things like doors and sinks in the middle of a lifesize field interrupt the verisimilitude of the mural. But I love this one!!

guerilla.....she said "pink tile. Pink, Miami-Beach-in-the-50s tile. I’m not about to spend a nickel removing it." the tile, she needs help with the rest of the room...
And it looks like the Mural was a suggestion, not what she has now in her bathroom. Pink, Black, how about gray to blend in. A light shad of gray on the walls and darker towels. I unfortunately live in an apt. that used the god awful tub surrounds and no tile whatsoever, what I wouldn't give for tile, any color.

I too have a pink tile bathroom, and I cannot emphasize this enough: DO NOT PAINT THE WALLS PINK!

Mine was painted like that when I bought it and it just looked like someone puked cotton candy everywhere. I would suggest turquoise and white (I think someone on here already said that) or black and white with bright yellow or chartreuse accents. Perhaps a black and white flocked or metallic removable wallpaper in lieu of the suggested mural?

My advice is working on the assumption that when you said "I’m not about to spend a nickel removing it" that you were in particular referring to not spending any $ to removing those gorgeous tiles (which I would expect you couldn't do if you were in a rental anyhow).

could be worse...I have a brown bathtub (that ugly UPS uniform brown. FUGLY). Must have been on sale when my cheap landlord found it.

I think this bathroom is darling!

Oh honey, leave it alone. That bathroom is amazing. It's so vintage and quirky. People would KILL for it. The mural is adorable.

When I saw the post I didn't think that it was going to be a question of how to change this room, I thought someone was showing off their eccentric design flair... It's cute... Leave it!

That is gorgeous! I wish I had pink tiles in my bathroom! Leave as is!

Darling! Titmice are my favorite.

bonivagscott,

who else would know that they really were titmice? you win...