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Coloured bathroom suites

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TheTecknician · 22/12/2023 18:31

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.

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Lindy2 · 23/12/2023 20:56

We had plain white in my childhood home. (With orange wallpaper for that 70s vibe).

I was so envious of coloured suites. An avocado bath was my dream bathroom. 😂

AndyPandyismyhero · 23/12/2023 21:03

Our first house (early 80's) had a pampas green bathroom suite. When we moved the new house had a bright orange suite! We changed it to whisper grey which I loved. Due to some accidental damage the bath needed to be replaced and the insurer would not pay for a colour matched bath and wouldn't replace the sink and loo, so we either had to replace them ourselves or have a mismatched suite. After that, we decided to alway have white so that colour matching wouldn't be an issue if we ever needed to replace just apart of the suite.

Ginmonkeyagain · 23/12/2023 21:10

Our bathroom is white metro tiles with royal blue accent tiles (dado and pencil tiles) so I'd go for a royal blue bath suite.

One of my student houses had a pink bathroom - pink tiles, pink bath suite, deep pink carpet. It was a thing of wonder.

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TheTecknician · 23/12/2023 21:17

@Ginmonkeyagain Carpet in a bathroom is unforgivable, no matter what colour the suite.

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Ginmonkeyagain · 23/12/2023 21:23

Oh indeed. It was gross, not ideal in a shared house of five young women with fairly lax cleaning habits. Two house mates had very long thick hair - you can imagine the rest.

reluctantbrit · 23/12/2023 21:49

When DH was at uni he was in a house with a burgundy bathroom suite. Looked lovely but it was also in a hard water area and each water drop showed immediatly.

Coloured suits do age so fast, I wouldn't want anything apart from white, we have lovely mosaics and granite to give colour and accents.

greengreengrass25 · 23/12/2023 21:50

We had a sunking or something (yellow) in our house but redid it to champagne but is now white

I liked the pale pink one in our previous house

BlueThursday · 23/12/2023 22:23

My uncle had a navy blue suite in the 80s it was so shiny!

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TheTecknician · 23/12/2023 21:17

@Ginmonkeyagain Carpet in a bathroom is unforgivable, no matter what colour the suite.

I had a flat in my single days with a carpeted bathroom, used to love having carpet under my feet when getting out of the bath/getting ready for work in the morning etc. So cosy. But then again there were no males living there so no issues with missed aim etc... 😄

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