To have a Avocado bathroom suite

[SunshineHQ]

Just that really.

Buying a new house. Limited money to spend, and a long list of what I'd like to spend it on.

AIBU to to think I can live with an avocado bathroom suite? It is all in great condition, just - well - avocado green.

Does any one have any success stories? Are there other funky colours that go with avocado? Or do I just pretend the retro look was deliberate?

Help me please, fellow Mumsnetters!

[Sanoffyhighstepson]

I'd have kept aquamarine! That could be made ultra modern and stylish with geometric tiles and primary colour accessories! I'm going on broken bog now

[BalthazarImpresario]

Think of it as a wes Anderson style bathroom, call it the grand Budapest ;)

I think kitchen over bathroom and I could live with it if house was right because as some point you will be able to change it.

[Sanoffyhighstepson]

I'd love to know who decided that build quality should be out of fashion for bathrooms along with coloured suites 🤔 ( eyes modern white toilet that's leaking AGAIN)

[LastYearsUsername]

I would go with mustard, orange or even cream over white towels. Rock it with succulents and style it out I say :)

[Redredredrose]

When my parents moved house in 1982, the new house had a shit brown bathroom suite. I just can't imagine who thought that was a good idea.

[SaucyJack]

You could totally make it work. I'd paint the tiles/walls white or neutral. Dark wood floor, and then just a few retro accessories like ^^ to bring it all together.

[sabbatica]

Lucky you, I say. Not sure if this picture has already been linked (or if I have done it correctly) but love this style...

[maddiemookins16mum]

We had one in 1979 (new house) and lo and behold 4 years later the next house had one too (and we had it for another 30 years).
It wouldn't be choice now but if the house was right I'd put up with it for a bit.

[Sanoffyhighstepson]

My friends rented tenement flat in Glasgow had a mint green bathroom suite. They had old Victorian black and white floor tiles and black bath panels and splash backs with white wall tiles. Combined with an old Victorian style light fixture and a huge lush green plant in the corner ( big old bathroom) it was stunning.

[TheWernethWife]

We had one years ago. Ours had cream walls, had sets of towels in either burnt orange, cream or dark pink and lots of leafy plants dotted around.

[n0ne]

Green is my favourite colour so I'd leave it! Pink, now, is another matter...

[MrsKoala]

We are getting a new bathroom in 2 years and I am seriously considering a coloured suite. After reading this thread I'm more convinced!

[AlmostAJillSandwich]

When i was a kid we had a dark brown toilet with cream seat, white sink, white bath with a matching brown bath side panel. Red carpet, and god awful cream tiles with brown and orange flower patterns on. We finally got a new suite when i was in my mid teens that was white with shell design toilet seat and top, and the same shell indent design on tbe sink and bath where you put tbe soap. Painted all the walls and ceiling white and got some fancy steel effect lino, with matching tiles alternated with plain black tiles round the bath edge. Looked really good. Sadly the white painted over tiles started peeling a few years ago where in big patches its just separated from the tile. Needs completely stripping and re painting or even whole room re tiling but its the only bathroom so cant be out of action, especially since ive now gotten quite ill with ocd and need things in there in specific places and ritualised which wouldnt work round painting or tiling. I dread the loo ever breaking im not able to use any other and havent for years.

[aSleepyPrincess]

I have a blush pink bathroom suite, including a bidet

I didn't like it at first but even the matching pink tiles don't offend me anymore!

I found some matching flooring and find that if I keep it sparkly clean and tidy I actually quite like it

[IndominusRex]

Ours is avocado. Weve lived there a year. It doesn't bother me in the slightest because it's been really well kept and is nice and clean. We are planning to change it as part of our overhaul of the whole house (was ALL last done in the 70s) but it keeps slipping down the todo list as we just aren't that bothered.

[notsmartenough]

I had an avocado suite for about twenty years. I put up lilac curtains and fitted a lilac carpet to make do until I actually needed to replace the bathroom.
It wasn't too bad but I replaced it with an all white suite.

[PumbletonWakeshaft]

Your suite will look awesome with plain white or black & white tiles and flooring OP, stick with it. I am getting very nostalgic here, everyone had coloured suites when I was a girl (and carpet in the bathrooms!). My best friend had a wine colour, my aunt had navy blue, my parents still have a champagne suite, 30 years after they bought it. The only problem with dark suites is that they really shop up toothpaste marks and limescale.

[Madcats]

My DH had an avocado bathroom in his first flat. We're still together 30 years on.... It was a bit of a pig to keep clean since we have really hard water (but we probably tried to keep it clean with a bottle of Jif/Cif). If the suite has survived this long it might mean it is really good quality.

Take colour inspiration from Orla Kiely stuff/knock-off equivalents.

[MrsToddsShortcut]

My bathroom suite is a tasteful 'champagne' with beige floral tiles that have bigger, more detailed tiles, arranged in a big square on the main wall to form a geometric floral pattern. My Landlord is a creature of taste. Join us in the retro bathrooms, join us...

[MrsToddsShortcut]

My bathroom suite is a tasteful 'champagne' with beige floral tiles that have bigger, more detailed tiles, arranged in a big square on the main wall to form a geometric floral pattern. My Landlord is a creature of taste. Join us in the retro bathrooms, join us...

[FurryDogMother]

I would paint everything paintable in tomato red, and buy tomato-themed bathroom accessories, plus perhaps a few fresh coriander plants around the place, and some lime decorations too - don't be shy, go the whole guacamole!

[Fontella]

We looked at a place yesterday that had a mushroom coloured bathroom suite and it looked fab!

It was old, but the people who lived there had made the decor fit the suite and we loved it. It was really cosy and comfortable looking, not hard and clinical as some bathrooms can be.

The estate agents said ... you'll need to rip this out and put a new bathroom in .. and we thought 'no we won't!'

[PollyFlint]

I rented a house where the bathroom had a pink suite and lilac walls. When my mum saw it she said 'It's nowhere near as bad as you said it was ... but I can imagine if you came in here with a hangover it would make you feel queasy.' My best friend said it looked like the bathroom in the Barbie house. Strangely, despite not being a pink/lilac person at all, I did become quite fond of it by the time I moved out.

I think you can really live with most things if the house is right. We recently bought a house with a living room that is a fetching shade of aubergine and has extravagantly swirled artex on all the downstairs ceilings...

[punicorn]

My mum has an avocado suite - she chose it when they had their bathroom replaced back in the Dark Ages many moons ago. Their toilet had to be replaced recently and surprise, surprise the plumber could only replace it with a white one. She was devastated not to be able to get an avocado replacement and is now setting a trend amongst the over 70s in two-tone bathrooms. As a kid I remember we had an orange suite and brown carpet. I would totally go with the avocado suite in your new place although I'd suggest just toning it down with plain walls and maybe treat yourself to a similar colour in towels and mats if you can afford it, unless you are a true retro diva...

[Silverthorn]

Our house had an avocado suite with avocado tiles around the toilet and bath, glued on mirror tiles the whole wall opposite the bath, avocado carpet and avocado painted woodchip wallpaper on the remaining walls and ceiling. So the whole room basically, except the door which was cigarette stained white (along with the rest of the house).
If it's clean and working i could have lived with it.