Coloured Bathroom suites

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 !

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?’ 🤣🤣

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!

Like a cork floor me😊

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.

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!

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.

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

look how lovely these look

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Oreo, don't forget beige

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!

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.

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.

Why has the world gone white and grey and black?

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.

Witzend I was told that a relative’s bidet was for feet washing.I was very impressed.😄

Mum (80) still has a pale pink bathroom suite, she loves it.There is a pink carpet as well.

SueDonim

Our previous house had ‘Sun King’ (aka Baby Poo ) in the cloakroom, Pacific Blue (with a horrendous Noddy and Big Ears mural on the walls) in the main bathroom and a deep burgundy in the en suite. We gradually replaced them with white.

😂😂😂

In the early 60s, my folks replaced our ancient white bathroom suite with a turquoise one - the lovely colour (not that I’d ever seen such a thing then) of a shallow, tropical sea. I’ve never seen one anything like the same since.

My mother complemented it with some bathroom wallpaper, white, with a big splashy, blue and green floral pattern.
We thought it was the bees’ knees.

At the showroom where they chose it, all four of us kids were in hysterics when the saleswoman explained the function of a bidet - ‘a bottom washer’ 😂

We had one called Pompadour Pink!

Pampas here as well, when we moved in - all white, grey and dark grey now ….

House viewing in 1982 we saw every colour under the sun. The dark burgundy and navy blue suites were awful for showing scum, so any houses with dirty baths were rejected from our pile.
The dark coloured suites did sort of work in country piles at that time, especially against thr wood cladding and exotic wallpaper.
In the end we had a new champagne coloured suite installed anyway.

When I moved into this house, the en suite was in pampas and the main bathroom in avocado. Now both white!

We moved in 1992 to a house with a chocolate brown bathroom suite. I hated it! It was the first thing we replaced. We moved again in 2002 to our current house. It has a swirly cream/yellow whirlpool bath and matching cream toilet bidet and basin. Downstairs the toilet and sink are avocado. I'm not keen on either but I'm putting up with them.

I've had lemon, pink (twice) mustard and a nondescript sort of apricot. Now I'm going to have the choice of my next bathroom and it has to be white!

We had a Pampas suite, a beige/green colour.

The house I now live in still has the off-white colour. In artificial light (there is no window) it is acceptable to me, not worth the upheaval of replacing it.