Coloured Bathroom suites

Not my house, but a friend had a brown 1970s original suite and retro tiles, along with a sunken bath and separate shower.

It was gorgeous. She hadn't replaced it because it was in pristine condition, but honestly, it was fabulous. Retro is very in and I'd have loved that bathroom. Helped that it was a large and luxurious room of course.

We bought a new house that came with a primrose yellow suite in the bathroom and avocado in the en-suite shower room. We were only in the house 4 years before we moved on so never changed it, but my preference would always be white.

Our first house when we married, a new house, had 'whisper grey' bathrooms which wasn't too hideous to be fair. Mum and Dad's new house bought in the late 80s had avocado bathrooms, and I remember in our childhood home, the very austere and cold white bathroom with a black high rise cistern, being ripped out and replaced with a pale turquoise one.

Do you remember when everyone of the 80s bathrooms were accompanied by the matching vein tiles? My first bought flat had a soft tan coloured bathroom, and when I had a shower installed i continued the tiling further up the walls, a vein tile of course. There was a time when I would turn my hand to anything and thought nothing of tiling a bathroom or painting doors after doing a day's work too!

Oreo, don't forget beige

look how lovely these look

www.oakceramicsstore.com/product-page/56cm-victorian-wash-basin-2th-coloured-gold-wash-stand?gclid=Cj0KCQiAo-yfBhD_ARIsANr56g4blKRc8NN-7zjP28VzJShi3gSOfBOPkghFj7GS21iz2lEhghZGjw4aAnSIEALw_wcB

Oooh I had forgotten beige, and maybe just as well?😄

We inherited blue bathroom suites both times we moved. When we changed the first one, we had a champagne suite installed, which I loved. In the next house we had a cream suite to replace the blue one, which I’ve also loved. When we change this in the next year or so, we’ll go for white, I think.

We've recently had a couple of bathrooms refurbished and although we went for white there's definitely a trend back to colour. I fell in love with a built in sink and top in a beautiful pale sea green glass (it looked like glass but wasn't) that was until I saw the price. In the end I played safe and added colour with towels and accessories. I had an avocado suite in the 70's + cork flooring and was extremely proud of it. How times change!

Oreo

Why has the world gone white and grey and black?

Neutral, clean, matches everything, timeless. However, white is the colour we've ever had - so really, I'm no judge for others.

Like a cork floor me😊

Our first house had a blue bathroom suite with matching blue tiles completely covering all the walls. It always felt so cold when you went in there!

JaneJudge

Suedonim that hilarious. Why did you have a noddy mural on the wall?

I had only come on to say my Mum had a pink cloakroom suite with green and black tiling to the walls and it was incredibly stylish.

The previous owners had had it done for their children. It was a train & track running round two walls with Noddy on the train and Big Ears in his car. I made Dh paint over it asap because I simply couldn’t bear to take a bath with Big Ears leering at me from his car! 👀

It was a talking point, though. The house had been rented out for some years before we bought it and over time we met a number of people who’d briefly lived there. Without fail, everyone asked ‘Have you still got the Noddy mural in the bathroom?’ 🤣🤣

HousePlantQueen

Our first house when we married, a new house, had 'whisper grey' bathrooms which wasn't too hideous to be fair. Mum and Dad's new house bought in the late 80s had avocado bathrooms, and I remember in our childhood home, the very austere and cold white bathroom with a black high rise cistern, being ripped out and replaced with a pale turquoise one.

Do you remember when everyone of the 80s bathrooms were accompanied by the matching vein tiles? My first bought flat had a soft tan coloured bathroom, and when I had a shower installed i continued the tiling further up the walls, a vein tile of course. There was a time when I would turn my hand to anything and thought nothing of tiling a bathroom or painting doors after doing a day's work too!

Uh yes! The veined tiles which to my eyes contained a bird sitting on a rock! They were in kitchens and bathrooms everywhere. In our old pampas bathroom they were supposed to be positioned randomly, but had some single and some runs the same way up, but not always the same way IYSWIM. I love symmetry so they drove me mad! I count my present bathroom tiles every time I have a bath !

Suedonim that has really made me laugh! and big ears does look like a dirty old man, for sure

Our first house in 1972 was a new build and we picked a turquoise suite with those veined tiles. The second house had such a scruffy bathroom, we replaced it with a whisper grey one. I remember MiL had primrose yellow and my parents picked a Royal Dalton suite in chocolate brown - it looked very impressive in a converted, big bedroom.
All the bathrooms here are white, although the family bathroom still has a bidet!

We bought a house in the 80s with a four piece Avocado suit, brown tiles all over and green brown carpet that went up the side of the bath! Yuk!
We seem to be attracted to houses with awful bathrooms, DH is very good at replacing toilets, we’ve lost count of how many he’s done over the years. Even our DCs call on dad for toilet replacing.😂

JaneJudge

look how lovely these look

www.oakceramicsstore.com/product-page/56cm-victorian-wash-basin-2th-coloured-gold-wash-stand?gclid=Cj0KCQiAo-yfBhD_ARIsANr56g4blKRc8NN-7zjP28VzJShi3gSOfBOPkghFj7GS21iz2lEhghZGjw4aAnSIEALw_wcB

That's because they are ceramic.. and I agree they're fabulous

We had our bathroom completely refitted in 2000 with matte white ceramics and matte steel taps. Our shower fittings had to be replaced a couple of years ago and matte was no longer available - well, I think they said it would cost about €900 (just the shower head and the tap and temp regulator). So now we have chrome fittings in the shower and matte on the bath and washbasins.

I hate shiny, don't like chrome!

Also some years ago the toilet seats ( downstairs loo done at the same time in the same colour scheme) were going yellow and yucky. Matte white also no longer available. Both toilets also unusual shapes. We found one that sort of fitted the upstairs loo, albeit in white glossy finish, but the downstairs loo seat is getting yellower and yellower as no replacement available in the size shape or colour of the existing one.

So it's not only coloured bathroom suites that have gone out of fashion.

When we had a bathroom put in our cottage in 1979 I really wanted an avocado one. In the end I plumped for a cream coloured one (I think it was called Parchment) it turned out to be a much better choice. Since then I've always had white.

Our shower room is still a green one and I love it. It’s not avacado, it’s a nice soft colour.
Mum and dad had a pink suite and yes, they also had the veined tiles. We called them the chicken tiles.
It seems strange to think we thought they were gorgeous. A friend had a graduated bath, it was pale at the bottom and got darker near the top. Soooo posh!

Back in the 80's etc. when coloured bathroom suites were the fashion, I can remember going down the loo roll aisle at the supermarkets and it was like entering a rainbow. Toilet rolls were sold in all those colours, green, blue, yellow, pink, etc. etc. Nowadays, there is only WHITE!!!! Have not found anywhere that sells them in any colour anywhere.

Yep....I've not seen coloured loo rolls for quite some time. I guess they were originally "match the coloured bathroom suite" thing - but the dyes were found out to be bad for the ecosystem and so I'd always thought that that was why the coloured loo rolls vanished. Maybe I gave too much credence to thinking they'd vanished for the same reason I would never buy them - ie because of the dye....

I remember those bathroom tiles and it's not long since I last saw them - as my current house had them when I bought it (ie a 1970s house - so I presume they were here from the get-go). The thing that puzzled me most about the bathroom to start with was it looked as if the wall fire that was on the walls was probably 1970s too - eeek!!!! It looked most unsafe to me.
The bath was white - but that also looked unsafe - as, for some strange reason it was built up a bit at the base and I remember thinking "That feels like I'm having to clamber up a bit to get in it - because it's too high"...followed by remembering that there was a good chance the original owner at least of the house would have been a shortie (like I am these days). I'm supposed to be 5'4" - but have shrunk to 5'2" over the years (darn it) and hence it really did feel awkward and unsafe to me. I've gotten used to seeing a lot of people as short as me since moving here - so I can see being short is the norm here - at least apart from some of the younger people (who I'm occasionally looking up at).

One of the first things I did was rip out absolutely everything in the bathroom. Would have loved to have both a (suitable this time) bath and a modern-size shower - but the bathroom was too small for both (even if it had been an old-fashioned size shower). Cue for I had to settle for the shower only....

one of my neighbours house is on the market...It still has the avocado bathroom suite...along with carpet on the floor...

We bought a house with a rusty brown bathroom suite! Just think of the loo - yuck! And it was a very hard water area so there was lots of scale as well.

My last house had an avocado suite with matching vein tiles. I loathed both but could only afford to change the tiles.

My present house was 6 years old, also had a coloured suite. I now have the suite removed and a lovely shower with beautiful tiles in situ. A lovely white whb and slightly higher loo.