To Hate Nautical Bathrooms?!!!

[TiggyD]

Have these people got no imagination? "Well, a bathroom has water in it...like the sea...". Cold blue paint, bits of fishing net, depressed looking dried starfish, crappy model of a lighthouse, pictures of boats like the ones that you see in their thousands in car boot sales and pub walls. Go with the herd, eh?
If you have a seaside themed bathroom you have no taste. I bet Darth Vader has a nautical bathroom. He bobs around in his bath full of Matey bubbles using his loofa like a lightsabre imagining that he's floating somewhere off Weymouth.
Does your collection of shells remind you of your holidays? Shells are secreted by tasty, slimy, bogey looking animals and when they die you pick up what's left and stick them on you windowsills. Classy. If I were to do that with sheep skulls I'd get called weird.
Please redecorate your boring bathrooms immediately.

YABU

I like blue and nautical bathrooms (disclaimer - I haven't got one ). I'd agree that the trend for nautical bathrooms is now well out of date, it has not been possible to buy blue wall tiles for ages (I know this as I've done up a bathroom in a previous house, and looked at some new homes for sale with options on bathroom colours)

What is far far worse than blue and nautical, is the never-ending bland beige, or shades of neutral earth colours and brown, which seem to have been the only bathroom options available for the past 10 years. (another disclaimer - my newly re-done downstairs cloak room/toilet room is bland and beige, I chose it this way, I looked at a couple of floor tile shops, hundreds and hundreds of tiles later I had not found anything at all that wasn't beige-brown, I gave up in the end and just bought some).

Cream, beige, chalk, yawn.

I also think that whether you like cold blue paint or not depends on what colours you like/feel comfortable with. I love cool colours and would feel overheated if I had to live in a house with lots of browns/beiges/sands/creams etc. For me, white, blues and greens make me feel comfortable and relaxed, not cold!

Oh I love Rhod Gilbert! I didn't know he was on.

I have a rainbow-stripe themed bathroom. Look, it was all I could come up with which went with the horrible carpet stapled to the side of the bath (imagine the kind of colour you'd get if you mixed terracotta with salmon).

summerfruitsalad - it's a bit like this. Came with the house - I wouldn't have chosen it particularly.

It still suffers, like any self-respecting khazi, from skiddies and pubes stuck to the seat. And the mighty vortex is so mighty, it tends to release a light shower consisting of an emulsion of piss and flush water all over the travertine tiles in the immediate vicinity.

< grumble >

Have you got the matching futuristic bidet though?!?!

Grumpla - christ no! If it was anything like the flush on the lavvy, it'd probably take your arse clean off in one blast. Failing that, it would be an enema to remember...

Sounds refreshing!

Off to bed now, to dream of a Darth Vader Khazi. Frankly I'd settle for a functioning shower and a floor that doesn't leak into my kitchen ceiling.

May the Flush be With You.

Nautical bathrooms and expanse-of-beige-travertine-tile bathrooms are as bad as one another [bangs gavel].

"Boutique hotel style' should be banned from this land for ever and ever. Except in boutique hotels.

And anyone who has a deep red dining room is suffering from terminal lack of originality.

And anyone who wants to come laugh at my bathroom is welcome. It is pretty vile. But once I get the time and money to sort it I promise you there will be no driftwood mirrors, starfish shit, or blue plastic loo seats with sea life buried inside.

Oooh I just learnt a new word, travertine, I did a google images search, right enough the tile shops were jammed full of this stuff, not a shell or a lighthouse in sight.

little sailing boats

Well I'm just about to do my boys bathroom out in a Pirate theme, so does that count?

I hate bathrooms that have nothing in them.

I have candles in my bathroom because I like having a bath by candlelight with a glass of wine.

And its bright blue.

But no sea shells... they're in the kitchen.

Sooooo, YABU, I have good taste and its not clutter. BUT YANBU because you have your own taste and its different to mine.

Op, you must have paid a visit to my SIL's downstairs cloakroom. Its decor is nautical with knobs on - enough to cause nightmares! Every room in her house has a different theme: rustic farmhouse kitchen, African safari living room, Ancient Egyptian dining room, Victorian study etc.

Mind you she has a lot of time on her hands (no DCs or job and an indulgent DH) to do all that shit.

I think I do hate themed rooms though, if they're too obvious... and usually they are overdone. So on further thinking, YANBU. I just got a little defensive over my bathroom! lol

Themes generally are crap. If you follow your tastes, it should be fairly cohesive. You don't live in a stage set!

Just personally hate the idea that bathrooms have to be blue or green as they are 'wet' colours. I prefer a warm accent colour in the bathroom for towels etc (eg orange) or white which at least looks modern. My bathroom does have beige towels but with modern looking silver border tiles to break them up.

It also has underfloor heating

DooinMeCleanin I am giggling at the thought of you being 'bottled off stage' by your OWN BATHROOM TILES!!

I love bathrooms, they're my favourite room in a house. Big, lovely bathrooms. Preferably in a warm greeny colour, with interesting things in, big enough to have a bookcase in, definitely tongue and groove. One nautical element allowed, such as a shell or perhaps a rubber duck with a pirate hat.

YANBU, I hate nautical themed bathrooms too, no imagination in that. (Apologies to the nautical fans/wannabe sailors)

My bathroom is tiled all white, a big mirror on the back wall that goes the length of the room, the one wall that isnt tiled is painted a deep plum purple, and we have matching towels and bath mat. I love it in there

YABU. i don't have a nautical bathroom but I think of the look as very simple - maybe some white panelling and blue accents (which I do have), and a couple of simple boat prints or seaside items such as shells. almost any common theme can be in either good or bad taste but the theme alone shouldn't be vilified!

let's address the real issues in modern decor: ridiculous blown up photos of weddings and young children, and oversized letters spelling out "LOVE" or "BATHE." oh, and don't forget your union jack cushion.

Bathrooms must be clutter free. Nautical bathrooms remind me of a fish restaurant I worked in as a teenager. You know, nets and starfish etc.

My bathroom is cheerfully adorned with childrens bath toys, ie squirty frogs and yellow ducks. Class.

The WORST type of bathroom is one where there is lots of stuff, but it's all DUSTY. Bathrooms need to be clean, clean, clean! I shudder when I see a bath surrounded by shells/toys/bits and they're all gungy. How can you relax in the bath surrounded by dust??!!

This from a non-tidy-house person, btw. I know they get dusty quickly, but bathrooms need to be havens of fluffy clean relaxation.

I do think oversized letters and union jack cushions are the new twigs and pebbly shit.

unless the letters spell something rude.

I think there's 'nautical' - lighthouse statues, fishing nets that make it look like a bad 1970s restaurant, loo seats with underwater creatures floating in them, mirrors shaped like a boat steering wheel (what are they called?) etc and then there's 'tasteful seaside-inspired' which is what I've got - chalky blue walls, white loo etc, framed pics of seaside places we've been on holiday and a few stones and shells we've collected on said holidays in a glass jar.

I like my 'decor' to be personal as well as tasteful, can't bear those slick, perfect modern bathrooms, they are so clinical and in their own way just as try-hard as a full on nautical theme.

Lusting after ShroudofHamsters' big bathroom with room for a bookcase - a wooden ship's captain style chair would be nice too so I could sit and chat to DD in the bath without breaking the loo seat.