Coloured sanitary ware

My mum had a primrose suite with black tiles , when she moved she chose a horrible cold scummy cocoa colour , I think it was called Mocha ,
We moved to Husbands parents house with a bright blue suite ! It was replaced with white as soon as we could afford it
Actually I liked the primrose set

We had turquoise blue in our first new build - with matching veined tiles.
When we moved, there was a white suite, but well worn, so we replaced it with a pale grey.
In this house, it white sanitary ware throughout.
I can remember my parents having a Royal Doulton chocolate brown suite. DD2 picked Indian Ivory when we re-furnished her apartment.
My late friend was another with a burgundy suite - it wasn’t nice!
MinL had yellow, but the basin had been replaced at some point and really didn’t match the bath and loo.

When we moved to our forever home the bathroom suite was white. That was taken out as soon as we could afford and replaced with an aubergine coloured suite. When that went out of fashion, we replaced it with a turquoise coloured suite. We finally came to our senses many years later and put in a white suite, which what was here originally….. what a complete waste of money! 😂

I have only had white suites, but our first house had an old enamel bath, but so that I could make it look more modern we had a side panel and moulded shelf at the side that you could put your soap and shampoo ect. I think that was avocado. We painted the walls a similar colour too, when we replaced it we went for white suite again but the sink had a Grecian pattern around it and gold taps. Peach and cream tiles.

Having known nothing but white sanitary ware, we were keen to have something coloured in our first home when we did it up. Pale blue. Then in the next house it was avocado, all the rage. Next house - a really pretty shade of pink called rose - the builders merchants weren’t keen on having to get it in specially after I’d seen it in a magazine and nothing else would do. In the next house we chose pale grey. Now of course it is white - everything comes back into fashion eventually!

My childhood home being in Barrhead the home of Shanks, had ordinary white Shanks toilets, hand-basins, kitchen sinks and wash-tubs.

So did every other house I was ever in until I was 7, although most houses had a more modern version of Shanks than our Victorian water closets!

Aged 7, I was invited to the home of a school-friend, and even at that age, I realised that her father's salary must have been much larger than my father's. They had CENTRAL HEATING so their house was warm, unlike my home. My amazement knew no bounds when I was shown into a bathroom with custard coloured ware! Now why would anyone choose that ?

In rapid succession thereafter, I saw a horrible shade of pale green bathroom ware, pink with matching paper! and that fortunately was apparently the Scottish range of bathroom ware.

It all impressed me as being absolutely hideous, and I am happy to say that every flat or house I have ever lived in has had white sanitary fittings.

Green one here when we moved in, had to live with it for awhile until we saved up for white suite !

Rented properties thankfully were all white, it was only when buying we ended up with Avocado which I hated but could not afford to change. The next house was a pale shade of grey but thankfully my present abode is white although the bath is long gone.

We had all the colours of the rainbow in our last house, when we moved in. The cloakroom was Maw’s aforementioned Sun King yellow. That had to be replaced almost immediately as the cistern cracked. We were short of money and got someone to do a cheap and cheerful job. I didn’t notice until after it was installed that the loo and basin weren’t white but the palest mint green. I painted the walls a stronger mint green and had a voile curtain of a similar colour so the sanitary ware then looked white against it. It was a bit like being in an aquarium, though! 😂

The main bathroom was a dark Pacific blue and the ensuite was burgundy. I was more than happy to see the back of those.

In the 70s my then husband a plumber thought tan would be a good idea, it was awful then we had avocado also awful. Thank goodness mine are now sparkling white.

At one stage we had a pale blue bathroom suite which didn't match .
I saw many Avocado and Sunking bathroom suites when house hunting.
The one house that I particularly liked had a huge bathroom suite in maroon .
It was ghastly .
An aunt had a particularly lurid flat snd her pride and joy was a her pink bathroom suite -the basin being shell shaped .
She loved to crochet all sorts of toilet roll and loo seat covers with matching rugs .
But fashions change , don't they ?
White has been in for a long time .

can't stand that word 'sanitary' for bathrooms though I know it's correct term.

from title I thought it mean't sanitary pads which I do believe you can get coloured these days and where I feel the term sanitary belongs. odd aren't I

The difference between ware and wear

We had a pinky beige, think it is called champagne, it was a jacuzzi type corner bath, far too big for the room and took ages to fill.

We had a bath like that Theexwife when we moved into our current house 25 years ago except that it was navy blue and very difficult to clean!

I can remember my Mum and I 'swooning' over an avocado bathroom. We thought it was the height of luxury then! Late 60s early 70s I think

Moving into a brand new house I chose primrose for downstairs loo and avocado for the family bathroom. Someone who knew the buiders of our house asked me if I could see the outline of a chicken in the tiles ( white and avocado ) and I could. We viewed a house that had a dark blue bathroom suite. We hated it but DH asked the people who bought it how they lived the suite and they said they loved it .

Our first house had a pale yellow bath etc. That had to stay until we move and our next house had a pink suite. We changed that for a champagne and yes, we had gold taps.
We now have a white suites .

Avocado - remember them? Yes that was us 😂

Oh yes that's brought back memories we had a burgundy suite when the children were small. We were trying to sell the house and it was a nightmare to keep clean even water marks looked awful.
Progressed to mocha after that then turquoise, pale blue and thankfully white.

Mil loved her pink bathroom suite so had a shock when she moved to a newly built house and could only have white as coloured were no longer available. Then she wanted pink tiles. I must have gone to a dozen tile shops with her before finally finding a salmon colour that she settled on.

My mum and Dad had an avocado bathroom, when they died and I came to sell their house the property man assured me I d never sell it with an avocado bathroom so I had a new white bathroom put it We sold it and the first thing the new people did was take out all the lovely new pristine bath, washbasin and loo 😱☹️ my heart and bank account cried

An all pink bathroom with navy shag pile carpet (which went all the way up the side of the bath) upstairs and a pale blue downstairs. We lived with it, apart from the carpet, because we had no money. Next house white bathroom and avocado shower room. We changed them both. This house all white but in shocking condition so we had to renew anyway. I would not have anything but white by choice.

When we first moved to this house over 40 years ago we refurbished the bathroom. We had pink tiles, floor to ceiling and a pink bathroom suite. The colour of the suite was Pompadour Pink. I bought dark pink towel. I loved it. Yuk.