Coloured bathroom suites

[TheTecknician]

Just imagine for a moment that were no more white bathroom suites. No white loos, no white baths and basins and no white shower trays. No white bidets either! Your replacement bathroom or shower room will be coloured. What colour would you really like, what colour would you grudgingly put up with and what you avoid ?

I'd like pampas. It's pale and inoffensive.

I'd put up with pink as long as it's not shocking pink!

I'd avoid dark brown completely. Too many hidden marks and stains and just utterly dull and grim!

By the way, if your current bathroom is coloured and you like it - great. But white seems to be the way nowadays.

I stayed in a country house that had a lilac bathroom suite including bidet. It was absolutely beautiful. Tiles to match. Never seen one that colour before.

When we moved into our 60's house - it was like bathroom bingo, we had a pink one, avocado one and poop brown one. Along with wall paper above the shower ? We had a pink one in my parents house when we were young. I'm on the fence regarding the colour.

My childhood home had a sand coloured en-suite and a sort of sludge green, but not avocado, family bathroom. Both also had the ubiquitous marbled tiles in matching colours. I'm not sure I could have a coloured suite myself.

@IWishThatICouldBeWorryFree we had that exact same bath in the house I grew up in!

My sister's first house had a yellow bathroom suite, not too mustardy and not too primrose either. It was probably about twenty years old and in very good condition. Armitage Shanks, you know. She and husband decided to keep it for the year or so they had that house. It did the job so why not ?

I've often seen on Homes Under The Hammer and similar where house buyers decide to spruce up an elderly but otherwise perfectly serviceable coloured bathroom, as long as it's not a really crap colour. I think this makes sense, especially with rental properties.

Anything but beige! In the process of removing the beige shower and toilet just now and can't wait to be rid

Everything is going to be white as it allows me to indulge in any colour on the walls but if I had to pick a colour I would go for a deep rich blue or a deep red or green, something that made me think of jewels and decadence!

I’d love a pale pink suite with black and white tiles.
If anyone actually wants a coloured suite a company called brokenbog still make them!!

My grandmother had a bright ocean blue suite when I was a child which I loved.

My parents had pale yellow armitsge shanks (plus emerald green carpet) in the 70s. I’ve stayed at Burgh Island with all the original 30s coloured suites - they’re awesome and available from reclamation yards sometimes. Huge baths and sinks!

I would embrace that and go retro with everything else.

Pale grey, that’s what I had in my first house, when I moved to the second it was peach, that soon went

I grew up with pink but it was a harsh pink. My first home had a champagne colour which was plain enough. Grandparents had Jade which was nice. My inlaws had the tan brown which wasnt very nice at all.

I quite like a bit of colour. Its just harder to change than paint isnt it.

My parents had a champagne suite in the 90s. It's now white.

I like black suites, as long as the bathroom has a monochrome decor.

Back to Homes Under the Hammer and I remember seeing a house with a 1930s pink bathroom suite and pink and black tiles. Very Art Deco! The purchaser kept it as it was.

Our bathroom when we moved in was burgundy. We replaced it asap as it was very unclean and no amount of cleaning the toilet would have made me want to keep it. My Mum and Dad had a sage green bathroom suite, my Mum loved it, was very proud of it and refused to have it replaced. She made sure that everyone knew that it was sage green and not the common avocado .

Our downstairs toilet and sink is champagne and I prefer it to white for there. I wouldn't want a colour in the bathroom though

I REALLY want a turquoise loo and sink in our downstairs toilet - but it's working out quite expensive. I've been trawling second hand sites and have had builder friends on the lookout for years but haven't come up with the goods.

Brokenbogs don't seem to deliver to where I am.

It's got to the stage now where our sink is broken and I am going to have to replace what's there with boring old white. The dream is dashed.

I viewed a house years ago with a BRIGHT yellow suite and was gutted when we were outbid purely because the bathroom was so fabulous

We had a very pale blue, which was ok. My gran had a pale peach, which wasn’t too offensive either. My first flat had an olive green suite and a house I shared had burgundy. They were truly awful!

I think with the downstairs toilet you can be a bit more adventurous with colour than in the bathroom but it's difficult to get a small sink in a colour.

I have vivid memories of my aunts navy blue one in the 80s, they a dark green downstairs loo as
Well.

@70sDuvet Look on eBay. There's lots of coloured loos and sinks there.

Unless it's cheating the system. If I can't have a white suite, I'd do a reverse and go for black. Probably with white tiles, perhaps a jewel tone accent, like a emerald green.

I might go for a pale blue or grey.

All the yellows and creams feel like they're already old and faded. Avocado speaks for itself. I don't like pink.

I'm looking at bathroom companies right now as we need to choose things for our en suite, and Ideal Standard have a coloured range! How about a pomegranate Ipalyss?

Pomegranate is the same as the vile burgundy one I used to have. It was awful in a hard water area, ended up with a white lime scale stain!

If you want colour in your bathroom without large swathes of avocado and pomegranate, buy a loo seat like this. I have one very similar.