Coloured sanitary ware

My last flat had a blue bath, sink, and toilet.

It was quite a pretty colour, I thought.

I stippled the walls, as was fashionable then, and it was like being underwater.

I think 1970s people were being brave and fun loving by collectively deciding to dump the rules on colours.
They had probably seen and had enough of plain white (probably cracked and chipped) loos etc with big, high, drippy, noisy cysterns. It was following the fashion and yes it extended to bars of soap and toilet tissue
They were clearly not overly concerned with what other people might think about their choices in the future. They were living for then. Good for them I say 😀

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

Funnily enough I've had a very recent experience with scented loo roll! I bought a bulk pack of loo rolls from Aldi last week, chucked them in the trolley and wandered around the shop for the rest of my shopping. The most hideous chemically scent followed me everywhere I went; it was a sickly sweet floral smell and very overpowering. At first I thought it was another customer and then I realised that I was the only person in the aisle, so it must be me. The stench followed me all the way home. When I opened the boot of the car to get the shopping out, the smell nearly knocked me over! It was the scented loo rolls. The smell is so bad that I've had to store them in the garage; couldn't possibly have them in the house. Even my daughter said that they stunk to high heaven. Someone, somewhere at Aldi has gone seriously overboard with the cheap scent.

I've seen a grand designs type programme where the couple chose not only coloured items, bit each thing was a different colour!
Yellow sink, blue bath, etc.

It was a "marmite" thing, but I loved it.

All this talk of gleaming white bathrooms has guilted me into going to clean the ensuite.

Back in the seventies my boss needed a replacement bathroom sink. He found a turquoise one which was reduced. He couldn't understand why his wife wasn't pleased when he bought it for their white suite.

Worst colour? Brown. But you can clean it!

We moved into a new house in 1984. Dark blue bathroom suite in the bathroom. Avocado in the en-suite and peach in the downstairs toilet. Pure white for me.

I have always preferred white sanitaryware, and, generally, have managed to avoid coloured ware, although one house we bought came with a primrose yellow suite in the main bathroom and avocado in the en-suite.(and matching 'chicken' tiles). We moved on relatively quickly!

Some of these colours have become 'vintage'. A friend and I once looked at the same cottage that was for sale. I was horrified by the bright yellow bathroom suite. She bought the place, and left the suite where it was, and bought new co-ordinating tiles. I thought it looked good, and 'different' in a nice way. It was sturdy, the baison was a practical shape and the
toilet was at a comfortable height. White is becoming boring!

We had the avocado in one house. Turquoise in another! Believe it or not coloured bathroom suites are coming back in fashion! Very retro …….

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Here is the latest bathroom suites. Coloured back on fashion again

I was going to say that it'll all come back around at some point, and be the latest "must have".
I really didn't like the peach colour, though.

When we married in 1971 we bought a brand new house that had a pale pink bathroom suite. We thought we were the bees knees.
As most fashions eventually come full circle, I wonder how long before those dark colours become the 'in' thing?

Don’t know what it says about me but I quite liked coloured bathroom suites
Guess to cost a company more to produce different colours rather than bash out all white. And more shop space to sell it

And do you remember that you had to have matching / or complementing - 'toilet rolls' to go with your bathroom colour

The last house I lived in with my es husband had a burgundy suite. We both hated it but there were no funds to change it. As has already been said, the colour showed every mark. On one occasion m three year old mixed bubble bath with Ajax and coated the bath with it. Apparently she was attempting to clean it. The solution set rock hard and took forever to remove.

We had turquoise in our current house, soon replaced. When next door had theirs replaced we discovered it was dark brown🤑

When we moved into our current house over thirty years ago, the downstairs loo was pale yellow - that’s ok - but the main bathroom was grey. Absolutely dire and we couldn’t afford to replace it for years. So, in the meantime, every year or so I would make a new pair of purple curtains and paper the one area of wall which could be papered with purple wallpaper. I have a memory of staying in a b and b in St Ives years ago where the bathroom was totally black!

Granmarderby10

I think 1970s people were being brave and fun loving by collectively deciding to dump the rules on colours.
They had probably seen and had enough of plain white (probably cracked and chipped) loos etc with big, high, drippy, noisy cysterns. It was following the fashion and yes it extended to bars of soap and toilet tissue
They were clearly not overly concerned with what other people might think about their choices in the future. They were living for then. Good for them I say 😀

I say the same😃
I have all white now as it was in situ anyway but had a few colours previous to that I really liked.One was pale turquoise and the other a deep rose pink bathroom suite.
Two I didn’t like but didn’t change as expensive were a sage green and a yellow.

Mouse

The last house I lived in with my es husband had a burgundy suite. We both hated it but there were no funds to change it. As has already been said, the colour showed every mark. On one occasion m three year old mixed bubble bath with Ajax and coated the bath with it. Apparently she was attempting to clean it. The solution set rock hard and took forever to remove.

😁

Gwyllt

Don’t know what it says about me but I quite liked coloured bathroom suites
Guess to cost a company more to produce different colours rather than bash out all white. And more shop space to sell it

It’s like the present trend for having houses decorated top to toe in drab grey, paint and carpets included, that will be laughed at in 20 years.

My flat had a creamy beige bathroom suite which I loved!
So didn't change, though I did everything else up .....

In the 60s my folks replaced our ancient white bath and basin (loo was separate, as was usual then) with those in a colour I’ve never seen since - a sort of turquoise, like a lovely warm, shallow tropical sea. So much nicer than the avocado you later saw everywhere.

I still have fond memories of that bathroom.

That's the sort of colour mine was.