1930s bathroom

Baileys Home + Garden (alas, no relation), which is a British store I enjoy browsing online, sells a 1930s bathroom "kit" that contains the following items.

Not that I would order a new bathroom from England, but I thought it was fun.

I also liked the toilet brush stored in the terra cotta pot in the top photo. And you can just barely see a wicker basket (which I think must be full of pretend dirty towels) off to the side.  Cute, huh?  

It's kind of amusing to me that I am liking a 1930s bathroom online, because we have a 1930s bathroom in our house. 

Unfortunately, all the style of the 1930s has been removed from our bathroom over the years (thank you, early 1990s, for the gigantic beige plastic hot tub with jets), and only the inconvenience of having a bathroom counter at least five inches too low remains to remind us of a gentler, shorter era.

When I was growing up, my paternal grandparents had a pedestal sink with these same taps with the crisscross handles that had "hot" and "cold" on top, and so I think I may have some sentimental attachment to the style. (They also had an enameled clawfoot tub.)  

Bob always points out to me that washing your hands or face in a faucet with two taps is not terribly convenient because it will either be bracing or scalding, which is true, but I love how they look.  

And there you have our marriage in a nutshell: form v. function. Ha. :)