To mourn the demise of the colourful bathroom.

[TennesseeDays]

When I was little, I always wanted to buy colourful loo paper to clash with go in the bathroom (beigey-green coloured suite, possibly avocado, my memory is a bit hazy). My mum refused, as it was "common" to have coloured paper, and would only ever buy white.
My mum did say that when I was grown up and had my own bathroom, I could choose whatever coloured paper I wanted.

Well here I am, all grown up with my own house, 2 DC of my own, and I can't indulge my inner child DC by buying green paper one week, pink the next, blue the next etc. We can only choose white or tasteful cream, or buff paper enriched with cocoa and shea butter, and where's the fun in that?

AIBU to secretly crave a return to the days of the coloured bathroom suite and matching loo paper?

Oh the wrong one came out. A whitebait one not a lilac one

Or this blue one www.google.co.uk/search?q=pottery+throw+down+sink&client=ms-android-samsung&prmd=svin&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_p8Pso7DOAhVBCBoKHdB_AN0Q_AUICSgD&biw=360&bih=559#imgdii=eF61r9xu-QTpmM%3A%3BUA2_kjSaVB6OGM%3A%3BUA2_kjSaVB6OGM%3A&imgrc=UA2_kjSaVB6OGM%3A

This one

I was browsing some property porn earlier and happened upon a black bathroom suite.

Black.

Or this

My gran had turquoise and black tiles

I love the Italian way with amazing blue /white /coloured wall tropes

We only got rid of our peach bath room suite a couple of years ago, and nothing anyone says on here will make me regret it. I hated it. It was just the wrong side of retro. Some of the pics on here are fab though.

When we were renting, the bathroom suite in our house was Cookie Monster blue with blue plush carpet definite no no in the bathroom and walls. Whereas I feel to pull off a coloured bath suite now, you would need to have neutral floor and walls. I remember my aunt's bathroom felt like you were actually inside an avocado, with matching green suite, walls, towels, bog roll and beige tiles

I remember moving into my childhood home in the mid-80s. The bathroom had an avocado suite, and a magenta carpet. Yes, not only was the bathroom carpeted, the carpet was magenta. GLORIOUS.

I remember patterned toilet rolls too. Those were the days.

Harlett, I love your yellow suite! What a shame it was broken up.

Loving all the coloured suite love on here, and Sexlube I love your spearmint one...might change the colour of the loo seat though.

Our bathroom is the yellow (more lemon than in your face yellow) art deco suite that was here when DH and his late first wife bought the house. He wanted to rip it out and she said no. .

The downstairs loo has a mismatched toilet and sink because the toilet got broken and I don't want the mint sink ripped out. I keep hoping I'll find a toilet to match it because it's lovely. Lots of the other features in the house are gone because of work that's been done over the years, in particular the extension seemed to take away a lot of the 'this is an old house' feel.

I buy the Asda smart price rolls as they are by far the cheapest and also recycled.

I apologise for my lacking sense of fun. Really.

My Mum moved into a bungalow (tied accomodation) that had a lovely pale lemon Art Deco suite with yellow tiles with a black edging..just lovely

I lived in a house about ten years ago with a beautiful turquoise suite. I had no problems getting pale blue loo rolls from the supermarket then. They did green, pink and a sandy colour too to coordinate with the classic 70s bathroom colours. So sometime between 2006 and the present day.

Our first flat had a lovely orange/peach bathroom suite. As it was 1996 and the era of rag rolling etc and we couldn't afford to replace the suite, we rag rolled the walls in yellow to co-ordinate and then I did a multicoloured mosaic border round the room. I loved it at the time

Nowadays I have a white bathroom suite but turquoise walls. Can't resist a bit of colour.

my parents had until recently a piss yellow suite, chequered back&white tiles on the floor and shiney purple tiles floor to ceiling. it was awesome.
now replaced with boring dull grey

Dm has a peach bathroom with a plumber coloured carpet. Been there 20 years (think carpet has been replaced once). Still looks lovely.

My childhood home had a chocolate brown bath it was truly horrible, house was a new build and my parents chose the colour, now the have a kind of beige bath.

I once lived in a house with a pink bathroom suite and black wall tiles. Loved it.

My old house when I was growing up was just like that!

We live in a modern house that's a bit...dull. Our downstairs bathroom is all white. I really REALLY want to get some 70s tiles and a loud coloured toilet and basin in there.

When we moved into our (60s) house it had turquoise in the downstairs loo complete with the tiles with veins on them (remember them?) and a really hideous dark grey suite upstairs that was knackered. Kinda wish I'd kept the turquoise now

My mum ran a tile shop for years before she retired so we had a zillion bathrooms, she was always ripping them out and changing them (and we moved a lot too) So we had mink, avocado, burgundy, dark blue and burnt orange (with gold taps) in the 70s/early 80s. The late 80s it was all 'whisper' colours so we had grey then peach (the later, again with gold taps)

My dad and step mum had two bathrooms and a downstairs loo at their house and had whisper pink, blue AND green. With matching toilet paper. My step mum even had a green bloo loo block in the green bathroom, I bet she was gutted there wasn't a pink version

You mean these commonly known as chicken bathroom tiles kieren? We had them in pink in the 70s

Coloured bathroom suites are certainly going to come back. I think patterns might make an appearance too.