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.

PIL have an extreme nautical/marine bathroom, in fact I think it is Davy Jones Locker.

Not for long though they are moving it upstairs, it is going to be laminated throughout, and they are going to go for a mildly nautique teal and white.

I do confess to having a yellow submarine in my bathroom. It was a gift from MIL and DS1 loves it, it is the only nautical thing in there though. The rest is white and bright pink, blue, green ,orange, yellow and purple.

I hate travertine bathrooms too though. I feel like I am encased in stilton rind when I have a shower at BILs house.

Oh I love my bathroom, the most important thing in them are my bath sheets... mmm.

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I have a tub full of different soaps (orange peel etc.), and an oldy worldy picture. Otherwise it's just two baskets with his stuff in one and mine in the other... usual Radox by the bath etc. Clean and welcoming, not cluttered or clinical. There might even be the odd sock lying on the floor.

The only truly nautical themed room I have ever lusted after is mybrothers... but he does live on a boat, and its not so much a theme as somehwre to store his surfboard/fishing gear. Its shabby chic in the extreme (ie, just shabby) but it works!!

We've just sold our house and I am so going to miss my bathroom (pics on profile).

Some of you might think it is bland and beige and soulless but I loved it. It was clean, calming and had a mahoosive shower and lovely big bath. All those cupboards meant no messy bits of tat around, and it was so restful.

We now have a perfectly fine, small but functional bathroom. Despite being 200m from the sea there's not a pebble or shell in sight (thank chuff) but as it's all shiny black and white it feels a bit cold to me. I've put my blood red towels and bathmat in which is better but it's still a bit too much like my treatment room at work for my liking!

You monster|! i'm decorating nautical *haughty expression

I have a nautical bathroom. The technical name is "heads". It has a pump out loo. Pump out shower that dribbles cold water down my neck every time I go for a pee. Hot water takes a few hours to get to temp and uses oodles of battery power. The sink is doll's house size. It's freezing cold in winter and the deck head drips icy water all over me as I'm washing in the morning.

Apart from that it's wonderful.

Shit. I've just painted my bathroom Cornish blue, bought a picture of a deckchair and I'm scouring the shops for a deckchair striped blind. No wonder the woman in the blind shop looked at me like I was a twat.

How can you call them boring when they are decorated with the secretions of tasty, slimy, bogey looking animals?

When you put it like that it sounds anything but boring.

NormanTheForeman - "I love nautical bathrooms, but then I would have my whole house in a nautical/seaside style if possible."

As in the style of the Mason's from Sunny Sands?

Actually, I wonder if they are like the mirror image to a family with a nautical bathroom but un-themed rooms throughout the rest. Since their house is plastered with nautical style in every other room, perhaps they have a very un-nautical bathroom.

Perhaps a nautical bathroom is proof that you are not secretly aspiring to be the Mason's of Sunny Sands.

I hate bland, safe, dull beige bathrooms. Endless beige with the occasional magnolia or biscuit 'highlight'. Small collections of stones accumulate in the nooks and crannies. The stones often have photographs of their families on the wall.
It's the new nautical.

AIBU to suddenly want tasteful wooden letters on a shelf spelling out "WiPE yoUr BuM" ?

Our first flat had a Grecian themed bathroom. It was painted germolene pink walls with greek style borders, marble effect lino and had grecian columns painted on the back of the door. The light pull had some gold rubber grapes on the end of them.

We painted it over and have since moved twice. But,yes Tiggy, it wasn't bland and boring like our white and biscuit bathroom (no stones though).

DP actually has a Star Wars themed bathroom- I must take some pictures for you all tomorrow

Previous tenants kindly left all their nautical shit for us. I haven't been arsed to get rid of it yet because nobody sees the bathroom upstairs but us. Actually until I saw this I'd forgotten about it. All I really know is that there is a fag burn on the bath.

I'm a dedicated (albeit outside) smoker myself but can't for the life of me imagine not being able to go without for the duration of a bloody bath FGS. Then again after two DC I've forgotten how to have relaxing baths anyway.

I love MN. New bathroom theme sorted...

Awaiting pictures BoF.

No pressure F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5

My friend inherited a Moroccan-themed bathroom.

It was 1993.

allagory - sounds totally amazing, including the Gilded Haemorrhoids light pull.

I'm hoping that there was also some Grecian 2000 in the bathroom cabinet.

I assume that I'm in trouble for my downstairs loo having lots of holiday pictures on the walls, given beaches, pools and DDs messing about in water feature rather heavily. No seashells just a dead plant.

Anybody fancy a One Million Years B.C. bathroom?

Can't you just picture Raquel Welch taking a dump whilst fighting off a pterosaur?

I love you OP, I've been wanting to say this for years, YAsoooooooNBU.

(If you're reading this, DM, I don't mean your bathroom, your bathroom is lovely and doesn't have blue tiles so the maps of English Channel Shipwrecks on the Walls are fine along with all the other nautical -tat-- ).

But beige Hotel Deluxe style with bloody beige travertine tiles is even worse. I must have tromped round every tile store in South London trying to get some tiles that were neither hideous nor beige when we did ours.

Talc that is genius. Do you think I would actually have to remove the ceiling of the bathroom to get the full effect though?

LeBOF where are these pictures then?!?!? I await with bated breath