Coloured sanitary ware

Rented flat had a turquoise suite, I think I thought it was alright at the time, back in the dim and distant late 70s, not a decade remembered for good taste. Have replaced several bathrooms over the years when we moved to a couple of our houses, they were from the time when avocado suites were vogue, complete with matching tiles that looked like varicose veins. New bathrooms installed were always white! white! white! as Humza is prone to utter in a rather derisory manner.

I was wrongly intrigued at the thought of colorful sanitary pads !

As for baths it's been white all the way. We've had original white enamel baths. I adore the old baths. So big and deep.

First one was a vast, white enamel bath that emptied the water tank just to half fill it. Within 5 minutes the water had gone cold so you had to be quick. Second was a cheap plastic avocado suite that the builder had apparently installed in every house on the new build estate. He must have got discount for bulk buying. 3rd was the worst. Chocolate brown suite which included a square toilet and a square washbasin and 4"x4" chocolate brown tiles on every inch of every wall. For good measure, all of the paintwork was also chocolate brown, as was the shag pile carpet. I have white sanitary ware now.

Oh yes - carpets in bathrooms! I’d forgotten about that! What a revolting idea that is now 🤢

Mum & Dad chose pink for their bathroom when they made the fourth bedroom into a bathroom meaning they didn’t have to come through mine and my sister’s room to go to the bathroom. Don’t ask! I have just had a new suite fitted. All white and lovely straight lines.

What was your worst colour?

Our flats (2) had white, rather old-fashioned sanitary ware
Our first house was all white and so it remained even when we changed it.
At our next house we extended and fitted the new downstairs loo with Sun King loo and basin. Unfortunately, the plumbers had left for the day leaving floorboards up and the basin not fixed properly, I walked in, went down the hole and to save myself held on to the basin which fell off the wall and broke 🌞

Then another rented property (can't remember) then a new house where the bathroom was a tasteful Kashmir beige. The downstairs loo was green.

It's all white again now

Theexwife

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 champagne ensuite when we moved in to a new house, it was a cream colour with cream tiles and wasn't too bad thank goodness.

You used to be able to get coloured toilet paper to match your multi-coloured bathroom suites. I was born in the mid-sixties so a child throughout the seventies. The first one my parents had was turquoise then blue when we moved house. One of my aunts had an avocado suite, another a yellow suite and yet another installed a downstairs toilet in chocolate brown. When I was first married, we had a thirties semi which had been completely modernised in the late sixties. We got married in 1989, so it was no longer the height of fashion to say the least. We had a separate bathroom and toilet and they were not too horrendous blue, but the tiles were black. It was not a good look. As soon as we could afford it, we changed it to a pale peach suite (mid-nineties). I loved it. When we moved, there was a peach suite in place and when it needed replacing, we had a white suite. We moved again last year - all sanitary ware is white. It is very nice - but I still liked the pale peach!

Our bathroom suite is cream. We inherited blue, but changed it as soon as we could afford to. When we next change it, we’ll go for white, I think.
The suite at out other house had also been blue when we moved in, but we changed it to champagne.

I liked it when we could buy the coloured toilet paper to match our sanitary ware.

Greenfinch

I liked it when we could buy the coloured toilet paper to match our sanitary ware.

Then we realised it was bad for the environment.

My first married home had an avocado suite. I loved it. We were given matching green towels as a wedding present. Although we moved out of the house a long time ago I have only just got rid of the last of the towels. Our second house had an apricot coloured suite. It had a fancy name but I can’t remember what it was. Coloured suites were the thing of the moment. Nothing intrinsically wrong with them, in fact some of them were quite appealing. They’re just out of fashion now. I wonder if they will ever come back.

This thread is going to give me nightmares 😱

When we moved into this house the children’s bathroom was burgundy. I spent hours trying to get boys to spit their toothpaste straight into the plug hole as opposed to the sides of the sink.

Downstairs cloakroom was avocado, our en-suite was champagne (actually beige) and a dodgy blue small bathroom.

Needless to say they are now all white.

Greenfinch

I liked it when we could buy the coloured toilet paper to match our sanitary ware.

Yes that was great too. Until I started letting my children choose the colour they wanted so it didn’t always match the suite.

I'm delighted to see that my Bali Brown washbasin is still available, although sadly currently of stock, and for only £275. If you fancy having a look to see if yours is still available have a look brokenbog.com, you'll be amazed at the prices!

Someone was offering a second-hand burgundy bathroom suite recently on FB and there were several people eager to buy it!

PuddyCat

I'm delighted to see that my Bali Brown washbasin is still available, although sadly currently of stock, and for only £275. If you fancy having a look to see if yours is still available have a look brokenbog.com, you'll be amazed at the prices!

You wouldn’t want the matching loo paper would you ? 🤣🤣🤣

No RosiesMaw, I definitely would not!

I didn’t realise coloured toilet paper was bad for the environment Callistemon. Thanks. But I don’t supposed that was why it was discontinued though , apart from the ivory colour

With my last grocery delivery I was offered scented loo paper as a substitute - no thanks.

I've always rather fancied the primrose yellow bathroom suites except that they remind me of British Rail train lavatories from the 1960s which were often that colour. There are still a few to be found on preserved steam railways.

The worst I ever saw was a sort of milk chocolate brown at a B&B in North Norfolk where the water was so hard it was little more than liquid limescale. Absolutely everything was covered in a white film; goodness only knows why anyone would have chosen that!

For me, it's white all the way.

Thank you PuddyCat, finally know the proper name of the brown colour of the suite in our first house. Had to put up with it for quite a few years before finally being able to replace with white. I also remember my Aunt having a rather peculiar shade of green, with matching green and black tiles. Hideous but thought to be the height of fashion then.

Oh yes - carpet in bathrooms!
Not only that, but we once had the carpet go up the side of the bath!

Bathrooms can be cold so it's important to choose a nice warm colour for the fittings. Blue is a bad choice but turquoise and white look good.
I've only ever had white but I've always fancied one of those Victorian decorated suites.

Tastes change.