Coloured sanitary ware

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.

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.

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.

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

It's better than insanitary ware lemsip 😁

Our tan coloured bath is now a "pond" in the veg garden.

How about this?
Bumps and felt comes to mind.

Our first , bought on a newly built estate in 1968 offered a list of extras you could have put in. At extra cost of course. So we splashed out and had a coloured bathroom suite which I think was the avocado colour. Makes me shudder when I think of it now but at the time I felt we were going places!! Which turned out to be Into the red at the bank where we spent a lot of time back then…. Then we grew up!

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

I can’t imagine how anybody could think this is anything to do with something you wear.
Ware/wear
Bare/bear
Lose/loose - here we go again.

I’ve always had a white suite but , in the 70s , was told by a house valued that I would need to put a coloured suite in to get a better price for my house.

I have only had white bathroom suites but my old house had a massive clawfoot bath in a huge bathroom. It was lovely but took ages to fill. Sometime late dh and I would fill it up, light the church candles in the huge cast iron candle stand, open a bottle of fizz and enjoy a romantic bath. When the children were little they would wear their flippers and snorkels. The people who bought the house from us ripped the who bathroom out and turned the room in to a third sitting room. Such a shame as it was lovely.
My mil had a gorgeous green bathroom suite. It wasn't avocado and I have never seen another suite the same colour. Can remember viewing a house with a brown bathroom suite, complete with a huge corner bath. The worst bit was the dark brown shag pile carpet that went up the outside of the bath! It was hideous.

When we added a bathroom to our cottage (we only had a shower before) I desperately wanted an avocado suite. However when I chose the wallpaper for it I realised it really needed a pale parchment colour. It was a much better choice as avocado was totally out of fashion within a couple of years.

A coloured friend of mine had a dark brown suite. She bought it as a joke "My husband can't find me in it!" but soon found that she had to spend hours scrubbing white water marks off it.

I guess we had an avocado suite in Luton which we changed to black and gold with a jacuzzi but it still took over 5 years to sell.

My first married home was a little one bed cottage that had a wonderfully large bathroom at the sunny rear of the house. The bathroom suite was primrose coloured and was actually rather nice. It accentuated the room's natural warmth and light.

lilypollen - got it now - ours was not avocado, it was pampas.

RosiesMaw

^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^

I can’t imagine how anybody could think this is anything to do with something you wear.
Ware/wear
Bare/bear
Lose/loose - here we go again.

RosiesMaw this is the best thread ever😁 have enjoyed reading all the tales of coloured bathware ( there! Avoided any hint of sanitary pads.)😅A trip down memory lane is always fun.

We had a grey suite in our first and new build home. We then moved to an old stone cottage where the suite was turquoise. It was only when I acquainted myself with the inside of the toilet bowl during morning sickness that I realised the inside was white.
On closer inspection the previous owners had painted the outside of the white toilet with turquoise paint to match the bath and sink. There was a matching toilet seat as well so the demarcation line was not immediately noticeable. I hadn't even clocked it when cleaning the toilet!
All credit to them I suppose that the paint job was so good it went unnoticed for quite some time.

My downstairs loo is peach! Not my choice but I love it!

I cant remember ever having anything but white in my homes. I do remember other colours in homes I've visited but not for a long time. Coloured toilet rolls yes but not the suite itself

Our second house had a deep blue bathroom. It was instantly christened 'Miserable Blue' as it was an awful shade, but a quite new expensive suite with a cast iron bath. We changed the 'dead budgie' wall tiles for something that looked better, but couldn't afford to change the suite for some years. How wonderful when it was replaced with sparkling white - the bathroom was transformed.

The corner baths that you step down into, always remind me of days gone by on tv.
Couples up to their shoulders in bubbles, sipping champagne, surrounded by potted palms.

I truly can’t recall the colours in our first five homes. Number six was bought from a builder, as it was completed with no choices for kitchen and bathroom fittings there was a substantial reduction. Our en suite was white. Our sons were less impressed with being directed to the main bathroom which was a gentle shade of pink. We changed it to white - once they had both moved out. . The cloakroom a very pleasant blue which remained for the 27 years we lived there. The folk who purchased the house from us also liked it and I’m told, 11 years later, it’s still there. It’s certainly lasted.

Our current home had a pale grey bathroom when we arrived. The agent details had made it look white, a surprise on viewing. Did we change it? You bet, grey just looked grubby so white it is. I did like some of the colours, sort of miss our blue cloakroom.

LovesBach

Our second house had a deep blue bathroom. It was instantly christened 'Miserable Blue' as it was an awful shade, but a quite new expensive suite with a cast iron bath. We changed the 'dead budgie' wall tiles for something that looked better, but couldn't afford to change the suite for some years. How wonderful when it was replaced with sparkling white - the bathroom was transformed.

One house we bought had a blue bedroom; I like blue but this had a deep to mid blue carpet, walls, ceiling and paintwork. It was like walking underwater!

I grew up with a lemon bathroom suite. First house when newly married had a lilac sink and loo, with blue bath! Next house had a pink suite- and when we moved into present house in early 90’s it still had an avocado suite, with green and white tiled walls. Very quickly replaced with a white suite which has now been totally removed and a grey and white shower room is now in situ.

'dead budgie' wall tiles
I love budgies but that made me laugh 🦜 (yes, I know that's a parrot!)