How to Decorate With Vintage Thomas Crapper Toilets

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The reason that toilets are sometimes called crappers is because many of them were first manufactured around the turn of the century by Thomas Crapper and Company Ltd. The company first began making bathroom fittings in 1861.

Amazingly this company has been making these elaborate first toilets yet again. The style of the Thomas Crapper was a “high tank style. This meant that the toilet tank was connected by a long copper pipe to a porcelain tank fastened high up on the wall. The Toilet seat did not really have a back as a result. The original valve-less toilet has a cistern made out of marine quality aluminum.These types of toilets can be painted any color and look particularly fetchin in candy apple red or mint green. The kits that are sold by the company to install this vintage toilet in your home also comes with a very long pull for flushing the toilet.

However, this quite an expensive toilet that costs about two grand without the cost of the pull knob, brackets and the flush and fill tubes.
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he high cistern Thomas Crapper hung about eight feet above the seat of the toilet on the wall. They made another model called the low “beer engine” model that had a lower flush lever. The pipes for this model are available in brass or nickel and look quite enchanting. The company also sells iron brackets for supporting the cisterns that come with their toilets. They come in a black or a pink color. You can also paint them to match your own décor.

The company also makes very elegant, authentic reproduction basin sinks that hang on the wall. These are equipped with heavy Chrome, Brass or Nickel drains and large elaborate faucets. The bright red Thomas Crapper logo is also displayed prominently in the sink.

The pull chains that are sold separately for flushing the toilet can be had in ceramic, nickel or polished brass pulls and cost $235.00. As primitive as this toilet is, the things that go with it are not! However if you are looking for a sink and toilet combo to help enhance the original feel of a Victorian home then you do not have to look much further than this company which is excelling at reproducing it’s own retro designs.

1950s Kitchen Color Schemes

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If you own a mid-century home you might be wondering how you are going to renovate it to make it look authentic. Luckily lots of painting charts from major painting companies still exist and can actually help instruct you on making the most ideal color choices possible.

Here are a few absolutely authentic ideas as to how to use color to make the colors in your 1950s era home look authentic.

When painters approached a vintage kitchen years ago they often painted the bottom cabinets a different color than the upper ones. This is one indication that the décor is from the fifties (aside from the memories that the actual colors bring back to us as memories.

For instance one popular combination would be to have grey colored lower cabinets and white upper cabinets showcased against a celadon green backlash. The kitchen counters and the floor would both be a bright crimson red. Another combination might be both upper and lower cupboards in a misty forest green, a brown floor, a pearl grey counter and a pumpkin colored backsplash.

Montone combinations were popular too. The upper cupboards would be a light forest green and the lower cupboards would be a dark forest green. The counter would be a mustard yellow and the backsplash would have a green, red and cream patterned wallpapaer on it.

Gray and yellow combinations were also quite popular with bright yellow cupboards paired with floors, backsplashes and counters in dark reds and burgundy browns.

Pink and mint green were popular combinations for kitchens. It would be quite common to see a red or almost brown ceramic colored floor paired with mint green cupboards and an aspirin pink backplash. The counter itself would be a pearl white color.

Combining natural wood with painted wood is also a very fifties thing to do. It was quite common to leave all of the lower cupboards in their natural wood state and then paint all of the upper cupboards white or yellow. Mints and teal colors would serve for the backsplashes. All wood kitchen cupboards were not as common but they too would be paired with dark greens, mint greens and reds and sometimes teals, reds and pinks.

Once you have painted your kitchen cupboards don’t forget to update them by adding historically correct looking drawer pulls and cupboard knobs as that can make all the difference as to how authentic your kitchen restoration looks in the end too.