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!

[MrsKoala]

saw this article about coloured suites

[rightwhine]

I really hope they don't come back into fashion. I'm not planning on replacing my white ones and I don't want to be totally out of fashion yet again.

[WhatwouldOliviaPopedo]

To all the posters who are saying avocado suites are due a comeback - they already are! We're buying a house with one and I've been a bit about it because we don't know how quickly we can refurb it. My friend advised us not to throw it away when we replace and instead sell it on Ebay - apparently all the hipster dudes in Hoxton and other trendy parts of London are snapping them up!

[RebeccaWrongDaily]

my lounge now is almost identical to the one my parents had in 1970/1980.

I wonder when that hideous 3 different wall papers / with added borders and fake dados/stencils comes back?

[c3pu]

I saw an episode of something like Grand Designs or £100K House once where they bought refurbished vintage bathroom bits in bright colours. Looked pretty good when it was all done, but they said the plumber had a nightmare getting all the ancient fittings connected to modern pipes!

[Helendee]

Embrace the colour! Ditch all the monochrome and magnolia.

[Teutonic]

My PIL have two bathrooms.
One is avocado everything. Bath, sink loo, loo brush, loo roll holder, accessories, towels, floor and wall tiles.
The other is bright blue, done the same as the avocado one.
It's difficult to know which one to use as one is nausea inducing and the other needs sunglasses.

[Fontella]

The power of Mumsnet could spark a movement to bring back the coloured bathroom suite!!

I am eyeing my white one now and thinking how passé it looks, and thinking fondly back on my navy blue of yesteryear.

[Fontella]

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

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

Back in t'olden days when some of us more ancient mumsnetters were bright young things just starting out in our own homes - cheese plants, spider plants, yuccas and not forgetting the wondrous ficus tree - were de rigour for interior design purposes, along with coloured bathroom suites, shaggy carpets, cork tiles and a fondue set!

[RagingCunt]

My last 3 houses have had coloured bathroom suites. 2 avocado and one sky blue.

I hate them!!!

Current bathroom is avocado complete with bidet and floor to ceiling avocado chicken tiles. We're ripping it out ASAP ....

Must admit I am very fond of my spider plants though

[Puzzledandpissedoff]

It was an early "Spot Wally"

Look on the bright side: at least the men in your family now have an excuse for the aeons of time they spend in the bathroom

And thanks, Fontella, for just giving me a total mindslip back to the ;late 70s

[PinkFluffyFairy]

Bright pink?

[loraflora]

My downstairs loo is avocado and I've lived with it for 17 years. I'd get rid but it flushes better than the newer white one upstairs. At least that's my excuse.

[c3pu]

www.salvonews.com/uk/tracy-and-the-multicoloured-mishmash-of-gorgeousness-from-mongers-x85361x9.html

[PricklyBall]

@GreenTulips "Damn didn't realise I was last again "

Fear not - my bath is both white and green. How, I hear you ask? Simple - it is so old (circa 1960s or possibly early 70s) that it predates avocado bathroom suites. It also has a copper oxide stain under the hot tap from years of not quite right washers. (I can date the bathroom by the fact that the cistern doesn't fit snuggly on top of the toilet, but is about a foot up with wall with a long, attractive not pipe).

But it doesn't surprise me that hipsters in Hoxteth are buying them! I'm an old gimmer and there's a 20 to 30 year cycle. I have heaved a sigh of relief many a time when some ghastly interior decor trend finally departs, only to have to sigh in exasperation when it makes a comeback. I grew up with the 70s in all its beige, brown and orange horror, and then saw it revived. I've been through the twee-ness of Laura Ashley in the 80s, only to see it "re-invented" as Kath Kidston (who is basically Laura Ashley for the noughties). I remember my parents' genuine 60s minimalist modernist furniture - then IKEA brought that look to the masses... I've seen it all go round in circles many times. The only thing that surprises me about coloured/white bathrooms is that it's on a much longer, slower replacement cycle than other interior decor trends.

(On a side note, am I alone in thinking that bathroom cabinets are the furnishing item that taste forgot? You cannot get a nice one for love nor money - nor extensive shoe-leather looking round many shops. They are all hideous).

[Tomorrowisanewday]

I had a blue green suite (aquamarine?), and lived with it for 5 years before I replaced it. As PP said, bath was perfect shape, most comfortable I have ever bathed in.

[rightwhine]

This looks nice
www.kbbdaily.com/article/4709/ideal-standard-brings-back-1970s-era-avocado-green-suite

[rightwhine]

oops i didn't realise this was an April Fools joke - as said at the end of the article

But it does actually look nice.

[MissBabbs]

I inherited a maroon suite in a hard water area (1989)

[PinkCrystal]

Yes it is fine. Fashions are stupid and it won't be long till colours are back in so that people can sell more unneeded stuff to make money

[Clembarrass]

We used to have a pale pink bathroom suite in our previous house.
I really liked it. They remind me of childhood (though we had avocado when I was growing up, and I never liked it as much as either of my grandparents' bathrooms - one had aqua and the other had pink).

[FrLukeDuke]

I liked my Aunt's light blue one.
I'd have everything else in the bathroom white with some pale olive towels/blinds/light shade.

[SpaghettiAndMeatballs]

I'd get all nostalgic over that - my parents had an avocado suite when I was growing up.

Actually, so did my PIL until recently - and it honestly looked fine - sunken, avocado bath, white/green kind of Moroccan patterned tiles - didn't even look that retro - although I'd totally go all out if I were you.

We had a pale pink and gold one in DP and my first house - that was a bit more grim - but again, more because it was pink tiles, pink bath, pink everything than the actual individual bath itself.