Coloured sanitary ware

We had the same conversation only a few days ago, reminiscing about bathroom colours. First house was white. 4allweknow the pale avocado was pampas. I wanted that in our new build in 1976 but DH got his way with avocado!
Next up pink and we chose wild sage for the new ensuite. Onwards, blue family bathroom and we changed ensuite from yellow to pale grey. A move to west country gave us sandalwood and peach ensuite - unbelievably managed to source a corner bath despite it being discontinued. Since 1997 white.

lemsip

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

I definitely did too. Mind boggled as I did not realise you can indeed get it coloured.

We have had avocado, pale blue, mushroom and now thankfully white. With white you can always match it if you need to replace something. So much easier. Tap fashion changes too, I was amazed at the prices too when I recently had to replace a couple of taps in the bathroom sink.

When we moved into our current house in 1985 the bathroom suite was orange and the wall tiles and carpet brown - it was hideous.

White replacement with gold coloured fittings from Texas homecare Store in 1990 still in place. Still looks good.

I would like to refurbish but upheaval and cost put me off.

The 70s was definitely the modern era of coloured bathroom suites. I had a paler than avocado bathroom suite 1976. Couldn't get rid of it quick enough.

That's the sort of colour mine was.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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!

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!

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.

Worst colour? Brown. But you can clean it!

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.

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