This All-Blue-Tile Bathroom Now Feels Like a “Boutique Spa” After an Old-World Redo

While Bobby Ruocco’s apartment was built in the 1930s, the bathroom had been updated in the ’90s by the previous tenant. And the renovation “just hadn’t really stood the test of time very well,” he says.

After living with the all-blue bathroom for roughly four years, Bobby was finally tired of the worn features and dirty tiles that just wouldn’t get clean. Plus, because he had recently switched careers to gardening and “would come home every day very dirty,” it became very important to have a relaxing bathroom where he could “really enjoy getting cleaned up and feel relaxed.”

He Renovated the Entire Bathroom Instead of Replacing Only What Was Necessary

At first, Bobby thought about saving some of the blue tiles and only replacing what was necessary, like the flooring and fixtures. “But my imagination went too wild for that plan,” he shares.…