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February 26, 2008
Vintage Bathroom Reno - Where to find deco tile
Updating a basement bathroom due to a water issue from the exterior (that's another story). Gutting all except the original showerstall which is done in the classic mint green and black deco 4x4 tile and is in great condition. Want to keep the same vintage look in the bathroom but need to find more of this mint green tile. Does anyone know who carries these - or, a maufacturer that produces similar tile I can use for the walls and floor?
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I wish you good luck. We lost a great old bathroom because we could not find matching tile.
Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 12:17 PM
There are numerous vintage artifact stores that sell old tiles-try Olde Good Things on 24 th St. They also have a web site that might show some others. There is a vintage place on 125 th St that is loaded with vintage items but expensive. You might get lucky and find something at Build It Green, it's worth a trip.
Posted by: bergenbabe at February 26, 2008 12:42 PM
The south stuy reno blog people on this site are doing their bath in similar tiles - take a look at the reno section. Best of luck.
Posted by: Park Place at February 26, 2008 12:43 PM
Google "vintage tile". There are more and more companies making all kinds of replacement tiles for all periods of rooms.
Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:17 PM
A bit far away but worth a call. There is a place in South Jersey called "Recyling the Past" that has an entire barn full of old tiles.
Posted by: Mrs. Limestone at February 26, 2008 1:24 PM
It will be difficult to find an exact match, so why not try something in a similar style but not matchy matchy?
Posted by: nosleeptil at February 26, 2008 1:57 PM
I don't know what their prices are like, but this place has a lot of green colors. . .
http://www.handmadetile.com/colors.php
Posted by: Heatherie at February 26, 2008 2:39 PM
If they are the green that is in the pics recently on one renovation blogger's posts here, I think you will not find anybody making them now. At least not the square ones - I tried diligently to find some for a friend who was patching her bathroom after a flood, with no luck (online vintage makers, and the stores who sell all styles). (She eventually found some in the basement that someone else in her building had left for others, after renovating them out in their bath - and no, my friend is not likely to want to part with them, given the propensity of their old plumbing to burst.) So you will likely need to find someone renovating and disposing of them. Not as hard as it sounds, given how common these tiles were, and the many bathrooms being renovated these days - it would seem that contractors might be your best source. Good luck.
Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:54 PM
Hi,
www.lesperancetileworks.com is my company. We specialize in tile reproduction. Can probably make your tiles for you.
Our shop is in the Saratoga Springs area, but we are very comfortable working with submittals back and forth.
Send me an email and we can start the process.
Don Shore
518-884-2814
PS if you have ever seen the Danny DeVito movie starring Ben Stiller - "DUPLEX" - The upstairs bathroom tile... that's ours!
Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:36 PM
Ignore this post this guy is a time waster with nothing to do. If you really wanted help you would post a photo moron.
Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 9:24 PM
As mentioned above, Recycling the Past is awesome. I wish I'd found them earlier as I previously paid $5 plus shipping per antique subway tile, and they ask $3.75 I think. Some of their tile stock is on line:
http://www.recyclingthepast.com/
Also in NJ, and closer to NYC is World of Tile. This is a store that opened in the last 50s or early 60s, and they still have a lot of new old stock from then. I got a reasonable match for a floor tile in a 1939 late Deco bathroom:
Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 10:56 AM
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