Coloured Bathroom suites

always had white, probably as the first houses no one had bothered to change the original. Just one house had a pale blue bath but a white sink and loo.
My current house is all white with a bidet already there which is a first and simply wonderful...and yes I wash my feet in there too.

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

Yes, I believe that was the reason given.

We had one described as Willow Green and one light brown like Dairy Milk chocolate 😫 Not our choice!

Now it's white with grey and black (sorry, Oreo) but with coloured towels to brighten it all up.

Oreo

Why has the world gone white and grey and black?

Old thread, sorry!

But still interesting. 😀

Matte white is so lovely, reminds me of gorgeous sky today!

Clean, crisp, special.

pably15

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

You've reminded me of my starter house - that I finally managed to buy in the mid-1980s. There was carpet in the bathroom and it even went up the side of the bath!!!

The cheeky wotname seller (ie he got up to several "tricks" in the course of selling me the house) even tried to charge me for the bathroom carpet!! Huh! It was already an old-fashioned idea to do that "cover the bath side with carpet" and the carpet was the worse for wear as well.

But he was indeed a cheeky wotname all round - he tried to charge me £350 for the (secondhand) garden shed (new ones were £150 at the time), stole precisely one shelf, stole my 1950s freestanding kitchen cabinet we'd agreed was included in the price and even stole the bathroom door bolt. The nerve of the guy all round was gobsmacking - especially as I stood outside that house evaluating it as a potential buy for myself two days before it went out on the market for sale and no sign whatsoever it was literally on the verge of going for sale....so he didn't have to have any viewings at all (given that I was in there viewing it the day before the estate agent sent out the details to people).

I moved into my current flat back at end f 2019. The flat had been empty for sometime, since previous owner had died, and had needed to wait for probate. Those owners had moved in around the turn of the millenium, and had obviously spent a lot of money doing things.
When I came, with one of my daughters to have the final viewing just prior to actually moving, I discovered (what I had not noticed in previous viewings), that where it was described as 'carpeted throughout' - it meant just that - what had been obviously very good quality expensive carpet twenty years earlier - throughout including the bathroom and en-suite.

Daughter lifted part of carpet in both those rooms and told me there was some sort of vinyl tiles underneath and she said she would get rid of carpets in both those rooms on moving day (she was going to be the one collecting keys, etc. as I was moving from 150 miles away).

This she did, but that vinyl had obviously been put down when both these rooms had different layouts, so it did not completely cover the flooring. Never mind, bathroom was my first change out as this had a corner bath, which looked wonderful, but I discovered (when I tried to use it), was not long enough to be able to lie down in it.

Covid delayed this work being carried out, but did finally get new proper sized bath in there. Then just two years ago had ensuite re-done. Cost of that alone, was nearly double what hubbie and i had paid for our first end of terrace, Victorian house we had purchased in East London back in 1964!!!! Both rooms with white suites, particularly love the 'comfort' height loo I had put into ensute.

I don’t remember the colour of their suite, but one thing I still remember about the bathroom of a boy I used to play with - I was no more than 9 - was a ‘cutesy’ sort of sign that read,

‘If you sprinkle
When you tinkle
Please be neat
And wipe the seat!’
😂

Norah

Matte white is so lovely, reminds me of gorgeous sky today!

Clean, crisp, special.

The skies are grey and black here!

Misty grey here again....yet again.....here in Wales.

....and it was windy and very rainy yesterday

....and the day before

How to tell it's winter in Wales - what I spend on taxifares goes up - as I decide to walk to somewhere walking distance away, look out the window (as I've learnt to do first here) and sigh resignedly and reach for my phone to phone the local taxi firm. One of the things I had clicked to before moving was "More people in need of a diet than I'm used to seeing" - and I hadn't thought to ask why.....ie one of the reasons would be "Rain again - right ...where's a vehicle?"

Back to baths - and the colour I used to lust after back in that era was a chocolate brown bathroom suite. Cue for one of the houses currently for sale here has still got one - and it looks awful.

So yep...I still check the "houses for sale" pages regularly and it's surprising how many coloured bathroom suites there still are here and/or "Where's a shower - there doesn't seem to be one?"

Part of my "How many illogical things can I spot today then?" when checking out these houses. Mine had a lot that was illogical when I bought it - and there's no way to deal with "The electric line to house is hanging from a pole!!!!" and, on the other hand "The phone line to house is buried underground - and no it's not Virgin cable...as we don't have that here".

Years ago, I had an avocado bathroom suite and do recall the bath, which wasn’t porcelain like the basin and loo, was notoriously difficult to clean! The soap scum just clung to it and of course you couldn’t use an abrasive cleaner for fear of scratching it!

Oreo

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.

My sister went on a school holiday to Belgium in the eatly seventies. She was about 13

The hotel they stayed in had a bidet in their bathrooms.

Some of the girls washed their feet in it. And a couple of them washed their hair. Thats teenage girls for you

WithNobsOnIt, in the mid 60s I did a French exchange trip at 14, and on the journey (train and boat) a couple of the girls alarmed us with stories of ‘Turkish toilets’, i.e. holes in the ground which you had to squat to use.

So I was very relieved that my exchange girl’s flat had a ‘proper’ loo, only issue was no lock on the door! 😱
So once I had Monsieur barging in, clad only in his baggy old Y fronts - luckily I was fully dressed at the time, and not mid wee.
At some point there was a postcard from one of the other girls, ending with, ‘PS, we haven’t got Turkish toilets!’