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Coloured Bathroom suites

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25Avalon Sun 26-Feb-23 10:30:44

I’ve had blue in the past and my current en-suite is cream. I remember when she moved to a new built house in 2004 mil was horrified that she couldn’t get a pink bath anymore. I had to scour every bathroom shop and catalogue before she accepted white was the only available colour.

Interesting if colours are coming back. I must look.

GrannyGravy13 Sun 26-Feb-23 10:24:32

Oh yes SueDonim when we moved into our present home the family bathroom was burgundy.

The downstairs cloakroom was avocado and our bathroom was a shade of beige.

They were gone PDQ replaced with white.

SueDonim Sun 26-Feb-23 10:14:00

Our previous house had ‘Sun King’ (aka Baby Poo grin) 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.

boheminan Sun 26-Feb-23 10:09:00

My 1970's Avocado bath/ basin/toilet have all pretty much died! so reluctantly next week they'll be going up to the Great Bathroom in the Sky and being replaced with white - but they've done well for 46 years (I wonder if the new white set will last as long? don't know, won't be here to see)

Yammy Sun 26-Feb-23 10:06:41

We've had avocado and lilac with purple walls all inherited, DH said the purple was like a migraine attack.
The next house had the original 1930s bathroom a mustard yellow bath etc. and green tiles that were rectangular like they are today. A friend said it looked like a public toilet. the upper part of the walls the decorator had never seen since he was an apprentice it was a varnished glaze.
Since then all white, we had had trouble selling MIL house with the avocado that she had thought so fashionable.

NotSpaghetti Sun 26-Feb-23 10:00:59

There are also very glamorous stone/marble ones and stunning fancy glazes.

www.lussostone.com/stone-resin-baths-c1/bolivian-blue-marble-muse-sodalite-freestanding-bath-1700mm-p3598/s5115?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=muse-pietra-sodalite-bolivian-blue-marble-bath-1700-mus17sbb&utm_campaign=product+listing+ads&cid=GBP&glCurrency=GBP&glCountry=GB&gclid=Cj0KCQiAo-yfBhD_ARIsANr56g4a4p5GVVh3eM6L2V-Ppcb37NHyFnPYFMtlIviaUGm3Ws8XQ41nCXoaAt5YEALw_wcB

These people will do bespoke colours too... 😍
www.oakceramicsstore.com/ideas

HeavenLeigh Sun 26-Feb-23 09:58:56

Yes we had a bidet too. Not spaghetti , we have for many years now had the lovely white bathroom suites

tanith Sun 26-Feb-23 09:55:26

We had a tan bathroom suite at one time not my choice it was awful but now i always go for white.

NotSpaghetti Sun 26-Feb-23 09:52:38

We have good friends who chose all the paler colours and had a bath, bidet, washbasin and WC in those (one each) pink, grey, blue and (?) Maybe honey? They were arty and inventive and the walls were tiled/painted to go with the fittings.
It was a joy to use their bathroom!

You may know this but there are new colours available and I love them.

BlueBelle Sun 26-Feb-23 09:44:44

My mum and dad had a lovely avocado bathroom after they died the estate agent assured me he would never be able to sell it with an advocado bathroom so I took his advice had a beautiful white bathroom put in and it sold, but their neighbours told he the first thing the buyers did was remove my beautiful white bathroom and wait for it buried it in the back garden !!!!
I could have cried honestly I could

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 26-Feb-23 09:43:09

Yes, we had grey too and I thought it was lovely at the time (90s). And avocado in the 70s, pink in the 80s (all different houses). Having grown up with white, I wanted anything but. Now, of course, it’s white!

AskAlice Sun 26-Feb-23 09:37:54

When we bought our house in 1982, it had an avocado bathroom suite. We couldn't afford to replace it and I learned to live with it for a good few years. I made a feature of the colour - painted one wall dark moss green, green blinds and lots of leafy plants. It was like bathing in the jungle! Come 2003, when we moved, it was still there - DH didn't see the problem at all and we never did get round to changing it...

HeavenLeigh Sun 26-Feb-23 09:30:47

We had an amitage shanks grey bathroom suite the colour was called silver fox loved it, that was early 80’s I clearly remember going into a showroom and choosing it we had just had our house built. Anyone had this colour or any other colours I bet most have