Coloured sanitary ware

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.

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 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 😀

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.

Tastes change.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

No RosiesMaw, I definitely would not!

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 ? 🤣🤣🤣

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.