Anthony Leake

We shopped through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri this month, and found ourselves surprised, finding complete sets of antique doors and rare high quality vitreous China.  As time goes on we’re more and more appreciative of finding architectural elements that have retained the function and form of their era and solid enough to do their job beautifully for another generation.

Unpacked and ready for sale! Two raised panel pine doors dating back to the 1920’s. Originally pocket doors taken from their original home in St Joseph, Missouri which sectioned off the dining room from sitting room. These can be installed as hinged, pocket or sliders. Each door is 8’5” tall and 50” wide.

We’re excited to offload these and make them available! Seven sets of turn of the century solid wood interior doors with frames and transoms removed from a building on Main St in Denison, TX.  Finding seven matching doors and transoms is not common and to have all in their original frames is rare!  The doors themselves are 36”x83” and the over all height of the frames are approximately 112”.

This find was happy moment! Eight identical 48” vintage American Standard cast iron porcelain trough sinks in original condition, purchased out of an old factory in Greenville, TX. All cleaned up, in very good original condition, and installation ready! The faucets for these sinks are still made and sold by Kohler and other major plumbing outfitters.

Just now in our possession!! Standard Castleton Ming green vitreous China wall mount sink with solid brass chrome plated Queen Ann legs.  This beautiful sink was removed from the bathroom where it was originally purchased new and installed around 1930 in a pristinely maintained turn-of-the-century home in Coffeyville, KS. This sink’s catalog list price in 1930 was  $425.  That’s $8000 in today’s money and would have offered the finest look and function of its time!

Sorting, picturing and listing a huge newly acquired load of vintage and antique hardware! We have a virtually endless inventory of faucets, fittings, accessories and miscellaneous plumbing parts dating back as far as the late 1800’s! Keep an eye on our website as we add new items weekly!

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We have from the past your future new old house happiness!

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Thank you, Scott in Dallas, for including our vintage fixtures and resurfacing services in your prize winning (family home) heritage restoration! 

And thank you for sharing these great pictures! A++ for authenticity and design!

Claw-foot bathtub resurfacing provided by Beautiful Bathtub!

Wall-hanger bathroom sink sold and resurfaced by Bathtub Beautiful!

Another vintage wall-hanger bathroom sink sold and resurfaced by Beautiful Bathtub!

Antique toilet bowl sold by Beautiful Bathtub!

Kitchen farm sink sold and resurfaced by Beautiful Bathtub! Near Perfection!!

Two energetic design terms dancing around the home building and remodeling community are “new old house build” and “un-flipping”.

The “new/old house build” is new construction designed to replicate the charm and style of an historical home while “un-flipping” is the dedication to an historically accurate restoration, typically after years of multiple trend updates or budget remodels.

The “new/old house build” is an architectural design commitment to historical authenticity and “un-flipping” is a labor of love and duty to era, family and community; marrying renovation and historic restoration.

Both are passionate architectural pursuits and both are compelling builders and homeowners alike to source vintage and antique building materials and fixtures, often times spending months hunting “treasures” to create or revive with historical accuracy.

We here at Beautiful Bathtub are privileged and honored to part of your treasure hunt and appreciate beyond words the wonderful after-pictures we receive!  We have fixtures to authenticate virtually every era from turn-of-the-century to mid-century. We have a great inventory of new old stock (unused fixtures and hardware with some items still in their original crates)!

Watch for new inventory of antique and vintage toilets as well as sinks, bathtubs and vintage plumbing fixtures being added weekly to our website.

We offer professional resurfacing services for our fixtures or yours and can bring just about any cast iron, ceramic, or steel fixture back to life!

Beautiful Bathtub is a 3rd generation resurfacing specialist with over 50 years in the restoration industry– service and sales!

Persevere and enjoy your new/old or old/new space with our help!

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We are really enjoying this rare find! This pair of 8 ft tall, solid oak doors were taken from a by-gone department store in downtown Waco, Texas, dating back to the 1920’s to 30’s!

These swinging doors are 42 inches wide, 96 inches tall, have their original brass hardware and hinges and their original beveled glazing! We love finding a set of doors bearing all its original elements!

These door can be framed to hang separately or as a pair. They can be installed as swingers, hinged, pockets, or sliders! The wood framing is solid and has the constitution and dimension to reverse the hinges.

The options are many and exciting! These doors are solid, stately, original and grand! Beyond vintage and Texas!

Ideal for a wide variety of applications from a new house build to a historic restoration to restaurant or cafe redesign!

We have from the past your future design happiness!

For more information and pricing call or text Beautiful Bathtub at 830-385-1721.

The Round Top Antique Show, for those unfamiliar, is a miles-long market from flea to high end merchandise with vendors from all over the world. Ongoing twice a year for over 50 years, this Texas phenomenon engulfs Round Top, TX, along with its highway frontage stretching 40 miles from Brenham to La Grange. 

“Round Top” has evolved from a local provincial antique fare to a colossal celebrity event hosting oceans of both wholesale and retail shoppers!  Vendors from all over the United States convene to sell their wares, pleasing the crowds with just about anything antique and beyond!

Beautiful Bathtub thanks the vendors (of whom most) haul hundreds of thousands of pounds of merchandise across country two times a year and keep their tents up and doors open for days at a time to connect with and satisfy their dedicated clientele.

We usually spend two weeks, both spring and fall shows, shopping the entire stretch of the event and can count on acquiring a great selection of antique and vintage porcelain fixtures in any and every condition.  This spring was no exception!  We returned with farm sinks, claw-foot bathtubs, drinking fountains, vintage bathroom sinks and much more.

Most items will be restored and made available here on our site very soon! So stay tuned!  God bless… and thanks for taking a look!

We have from the past your bath and kitchen happiness!

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This highly unusual double bowl farm sink is a style we rarely see come through the shop! It is a compact 36 inches wide which defies the norm. These apron front farm sinks usually measure a minimum of 42 inches wide.

With its 36 inch wide footprint it can very easily translate into a standard kitchen remodel, accommodating a standard sink base width.

Another of its unique qualities is the combo deep-and-shallow double bowl which pushes this sink style ahead of its time, offering a wider range of kitchen prep tasks in one area at one sink! Amenities many of us might think are too smart for vintage design when in reality it proves smart function has always dictated style!

This compact functional apron sink is sporting an understated but well defined art-deco skirting.

Over all, this farm sink offers latitude in size and installation, variety in function, and flare in design.

Cleaned and matte in appearance for a new old house kitchen remodel or you can choose resurfacing for a highly polished “unused” look.

Dimensions: 36″x 23″x 16″ tall

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All original and ready to go! Standard brand 1944 all ceramic drop in sink!

Beautiful width and depth, offering breadth and scope of function and design!

This superior clean beyond-vintage drop in sink will make a small kitchen feel warm and inviting, a big kitchen island look stately and empowered or a private bathroom feel like a relaxing spa-space. The possibilities are many and this vintage sink is installation ready!

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Another rare claw foot bathtub find heading to restoration! Rectangular and uniquely styled with a European flare. Original side-mount plumbing is a perfectly natural configuration for wall-mount hardware, which is the most popular installation choice of today!

Don’t overlook the ultra deep reservoir which is designed for the ultimate fully submerged bathing experience. The side-mount hardware makes adding hot water easily within reach for an effortlessly relaxing bath.

Beautiful European spa-like flare in a farmhouse build or old world bath remodel.

The foot style is ornate and oversized making an immediate first impression and guaranteeing this tub will be the center of attention!

The buyer reserving this claw foot tub before restoration will have the opportunity to choose all colors!

We restore inside, outside surfaces and feet all to custom order.

Found, loaded, unpacked and ready for restoration! This one can be yours and detailed any way you please!

Stay tuned for restoration updates!

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Remember Me!

Nonco brand double drain board, single bowl, kitchen farm sink setting outside the first and only (very old) house it has ever occupied in the Piney Woods of Longview, TX! With its original legs and mounting brackets!

It’s not uncommon to find many of our vintage and antique fixtures setting outside just a matter of feet from where they were originally un-crated and installed decades before. This one takes the prize! Thanks to the outstanding durability of porcelain over cast iron, this sink only appears to be headed for the scrapyard!

What an outstanding reveal! No one would believe this farm sink was nearly junked!

This particular sink is up for sale and installation ready! AND has a couple of unique features. It is complete with all its original legs and mounting hardware. It’s length is a tight 54″ which is shorter than the typical double drainboard single bowl farm sink making it even more conveniently adaptable to modern kitchen layouts.

We have from the past your future bath and kitchen happiness!

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for more information and pricing!

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The Little things in life are often the best things in life! This little find is refreshment, beauty and beyond vintage in less than one square foot of space!

We’ve decided to call it a vintage micro drinking fountain and, in its day, it would occupy wall space in small offices or high traffic corridors.

This vitreous china drinking fountain dates back to the 1920’s, is in original condition, with well preserved and obvious original factory sheen.

Drinking fountains are making a strong come-back in residential and commercial applications such as garages, exercise and mud rooms, home offices, man-caves, coffee shops and neo-vintage cafes.

The possibilities are endless and a great way to keep quality drinking water in convenient accessible areas all while enjoying, on a small scale, the art and energy of vintage porcelain fixtures.

Here’s an “earthy” find! Unmarked and European earthenware wall mount vessel sink! Rustic, minimal and Old World!

Imagine the possibilities and the impactful soulful impression of a primitive earthenware sink in your private bath, studio, greenhouse or cabin. This sink has simple lines with functional design, and semi-compact…occupying less than 2 linear feet of wall space. The absence of a backsplash gives it its vessel appearance and allows for endless design options with wall mount plumbing and fixtures.

Fixture hunting at its best! This picture popped up on our textline…a beyond vintage kitchen farm sink asking for a new home and we said “Yes”!

Here’s the backstory everyone is looking for in there future farm sink. Nonco brand double drain board, single bowl, kitchen farm sink setting outside the first and only (very old) house it has ever occupied in the Piney Woods of Longview, TX! With its original legs and mounting brackets! If you are a vintage fixture aficionado you know that it is rare to find these farm sinks with all the parts crated together from the factory!

Not ornate but unique! Just 54″ wide! Making it one of the smallest of its type that we’ve found in a long time. These kitchen sinks were originally manufactured well over 60″ for the kitchens of their day. With modern prep spaces now taking the lion-share of the kitchen floor space the demand for these shorter farm sinks is high!

Keep an eye out for more on the restoration of this “real deal” farm sink! It won’t be ours long and I suspect it will be sold before restoration is complete!

We have from the past your future bath and kitchen happiness!

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Bathtub Beautiful treasure hunting in Piney Woods of East Texas! Many of our finds are searched out one by one, town to town, person to person! AND we almost always discover a backstory to every piece we bring home!

This Diamond in the Rough is going to be a spectacular restoration!

Standard brand beyond vintage trough sink with it’s original pedestal legs.

Over 6 ft long!

Stay tuned for an unbelievable transformation!

Rare find! You feel like you’ve hit the mother-load when finding any antique or vintage fixture so clearly bearing their original manufacturing stamps after decades of exposure to the elements!

This trough sink was manufactured by the Sanitary Manufacturing Co., Louisville, KY, somewhere around the turn of the century…the 20th century that is!

The manufacturing stamp will be a valuable accessory to the finished restoration…and quite a conversation piece as well!

Selling point!!!

Notice the trough sink’s faucet holes are non-existent? This is an original design feature, making an incredible opportunity for “open highway” in overall design…style, number and placement of faucets!

All in-wall plumbing with wall mount faucets in just about any style to suit your decor! Nothing about this install locks you in!

We’ve restored a number of these for clients in a spectrum of applications, residential and commercial, from children’s bathrooms to cafe restrooms!

Here’s its cousin previously restored to give you a visual for the ultimate transformation. Our newly added trough sink going to restoration will outshine with its robust 3-leg pedestal and highly visible embossed manufacturing stamp as well as its smooth uninterrupted backsplash with plenty of faucet style options!

We have from the past your future bath happiness!

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Just in! Vintage cast iron trough sink coming to us from Independence, MO! Arriving with its original porcelain inside surface and an outstanding span of its original factory finish!

Some wear is visible in the bottom around the drain hole but only enough to give a rich authentic vintage look.

We’ve given the cast iron surface a protective black coating, prepping it to sell as is or with custom exterior color.

Call or text Beautiful Bathtub, 830-385-1721, for more information and pricing!

These amazing sinks make the bathroom come alive! Solidly on-trend! In real-time they are being installed in a variety of ways such as the drop-in application pictured above. Our customers are purchasing these for residential design in master baths, kitchens, mudrooms, outdoor kitchens, she-shacks and man-caves! We’ve sold and restored the same style for commercial clients installing them in event venues and coffee shops!

Basic wall-mount installation, as pictured below, is equally as eye-catching and is commonly how our clientele are installing. This allows the exterior to be resurfaced in colors to match decor and gives a smaller bathroom a more spacious feel.

Vintage trough sinks in children’s bathrooms are not only an iconic and visually interesting statement but makes a typically busy space fun and efficient.

This application is one of our personal favorites!

We have from the past your future bath happiness!

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Beautiful 1920’s coordinating virtuous China pedistal sinks with integral faucets and original hardware! Both in original condition with original factory shine!
Nearly untouched by time!
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Highest quality US made clawfoot bathtub of its time. Turn of the century. In original condition with its original hardware. Rare find!!
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Designing a bistro, coffee shop, restaurant or just need an awesome pantry door for your vintage renovation? This solid kitchen door reclaimed from the old Power and Light District in Kansas City is outstanding, historic and in original condition. One of a kind doesn’t even do it justice! Call or text 830-385-1721 for info and pricing.

Just arrived! Nine reclaimed antique solid wood panel doors. Matching sets of pocket and hinged doors all salvaged from the same house. Very little restoration needed. Exceptional, tall and ideal for barn style sliding doors. Call text 830-385-1721 for info, price and measurements.

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