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!

[Time40]

I love coloured suites. I can't understand why they haven't come back in yet - it's got to be happening any day now. Avocado ones are great.

[SunshineHQ]

OK, I'm feeling brave and will keep it, maybe dark green tiles or lino floor, and plain white/cream on walls. And will look at new taps maybe.

Just wish I could remember re the tiles. But I just looked in it for a few minutes and all I could remember was the avocado units.

[Goldenhandshake]

You cannot make an avocado suite look modern, you will fail, so embrace the retro fully

[Hidingalion]

It's on the cusp of coming back in. On the cusp I tell you. Keep the faith!

[ElsieMc]

I have kept things so long that they have actually come back in fashion. When we moved here 20 years ago, bronze/terracotta colours were popular along with gold/brass. And guess what is in Debenhams, Matalan etc for autumn colours. Made me laugh and got out the old stuff. Another excuse to keep the terracotta curtains in the living room my girls hate ha!

Sidetracked there and back to avocado bathroom in my old house. Yes, I had one and kept it in. Extra large bath and sink and I had brown shadow shagpile carpet on the floor. I did not pick it, but needs must and we were broke. Gross though but at least the floor didn't smell of wee. Nothing you can do can convince anyone that it is not an avocado suite. I know. We tried.

We took an old open tread orange pine staircase out. Attached to each tread was the shagpile brown carpet. Two people actually fought over it and looking at the man driving away with it on his van was absolutely hilarious, shagpile blowing in the wind. It was for his gite. Yes, really. My dh told me to give it away but I got around £80 quid for it.

I am a more mature (questionable) mumsnetter and I wonder if anyone can remember the horror of the "sun king" bathroom. Think banana-y colour.

[Joinourclub]

I say embrace it. Botanical is in. Go green, gold and black or cork and macrame.

m.maisonsdumonde.com/UK/en/tendances-deco/green-addict.htm

[milliemolliemou]

Dark green tiles. Dark wood/lino. Aspidistra or large fern. Cue Jungle Music. Spice up with lime green/orange toothbrushes and mugs and blind.

I'll be round.

[MrsKoala]

I have just remembered our old avocado suite bathroom had carpet which went up the side of the bath. surely THAT would never 'come back'

[Allthebestnamesareused]

Green and gold is in but you'll definitely have to get the right shades as you can't really clash different greens. so look for mossy colours - sort of on the F&B muting to go with the suite.

[MrsKoala]

Greenhouse

What about a wallpaper like this. Or something botanical?

[Fontella]

In mine and my boyfriend's first house (a VERY long time ago) we opted for a navy blue bathroom suite. The bath was also 'sunken' in that it had a tile surround and two carpeted (yes, carpeted!) steps up to it.

We thought it very swanky indeed.



On a more serious note though, to the poster up above who wrote about things coming back into fashion again ... indeed they do and will inevitably. When I was a kid all the fireplaces got ripped out and horrible gas fires and 'surrounds' put in. Now of course an original fireplace, Victorian, Art Deco or even 40s/50s ... now are a real selling feature.

In the 90s we had all the funky wall colours - Terracotta I remember was a favourite and Olive Green and even Burgundy. More recently, all colour was drained from homes and everything deemed 'neutral'. Neutral was seen as modern and a plus by estate agents ... neutral just meaning varying shades of greige. Now it's back to the colours again.

[Cashewwnuts]

Love coloured suites. They're one of the reasons we bought the house we live in now. Our ensuite is sage green (with dark pink high pile carpet ) and our main bathroom and downstairs loo are baby pink.

I have no intention of changing the pink but I hate the corner bath in the ensuite so will swap in for another colour suite I think.

[abigailgabble]

i could make that work. obviously do it.

[Sugarformyhoney]

This is my dream I dream of finding one in a skip. Please get a spider plant too op x

[llangennith]

Sorry, haven't RTFT but we had an avocado bathroom suite 40 years ago and I loved it
You can get basic white bathroom suites really cheap if you shop around/Google.

[SunshineHQ]

I would love a spider plant. Are they also meant to be really dated?

[MrsKoala]

Oooh get a big cheese plant. They were everywhere in the early 80s.

[nina2b]

OP:

Sounds much more interesting than the ubiquitous roll top bath sitting in its F&B whitesomething setting. Ugh. So boring and uninspiring.

[nina2b]

The cheese plant motif is very trendy at the moment!

[PoppyPopcorn]

We stayed in a holiday let once which was modern throughout apart from the avocado suite. It was immaculately clean though and reminded me of my parents' bathroom in the 80s.

If it's in great condition then live with it. White or bright walls, white towels. Plan to replace it when you can afford to, or you may learn to love it!

[misscockerspaniel]

Thank you, this thread has reminded me of the avocado coloured bathroom suite we had when I was a child. My DDad painted the walls donkey brown. We said noooo.... so he repainted them orange .

[GreenTulips]

We are just doing ours

Suite £600 including taps and shower
Tiles £245 plus £550 fitting
Floor £145
Plumbing electrics etc £900

Don't waste your money on tiles until your in and check it out properly

[MrsKoala]

Really Nina? I must have caught a whiff of the zeitgeist somewhere as I've been coveting a sun room with cheeseplant wallpaper and tropical type furnishings.

We are having our sofa covered in harlequin paradise loganberry/raspberry fabric and I'm getting carried away. :)

[Viviennemary]

They're awful. But if you haven't the money to replace it you haven't. We had to live with a totally awful bright turquoise bathroom suite for ages because other things needed doing. They'll probably be quite fashionable eventually. Then all the bandwaggoners will want one.