Fireplace wars

[mynamechangemyrules]

I think this is 50s/ 60s and disgusting and about to rip it out. Brother in law insists it is an original feature (1920s/30s) and thinks I should keep it...
if it is original I'd feel a bit sentimental about ripping it out but also I think it's horrible, and hate all things grey... please vote
IABU- it's original and leave it in
IANBU- it's not original and take it out

Or tell me it's original and give me permission to remove it anyway...?!

Oh, it must take an age to fill but right now I’m imagining having a wallow in that magnificent bath.

It's got a really wide flat rim, so your glass of champagne, pickeld onions, paperback is in no danger whatever.

(For younger readers, pickled onions was a reference to an early Steptoe and Son episode)

That's a fabulous bathroom suite. I would go full-on Art Deco, with black and gold to make the pink pop.

Are you my next door neighbour?

You need to submit your pink rooms here!

Save the Pink Bathrooms!

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That fireplace is an abomination and mostly definitely not original in a 1920s/1930s house. Tiled hearths then tended to be turquoise and brown spots, or mottled pink like German sausage and brown spots. Fine if that's your thing, it certainly wasn't ours.

DS's bedroom fireplace was along the same trend but had the added bonus of about five or six skeletal dead birds in the space behind and chimney, which had to be removed (by DH, while I fled gagging). Worst thing is, we also have a fireplace in our bedroom (which appears to look like mahogany, unexpectedly) and no doubt similar horrors lurk within. I'm assuming upstairs fireplaces are more likely to suffer unlucky bird ingress than downstairs, fortunately OP's is downstairs by the size of it?

Wouldn't care when it was from - its bloody hideous.

Sadly no, or I'd be round for a bath with champagne in a bucket.

Oh that is very ugly. Skip it without a second thought.

Oh that is very ugly. Skip it without a second thought.

The pink bathroom suite is amazing!! Seriously bathroom envy here but then I do follow a vintage bathroom account on Instagram.

We removed a fireplace and the back bit was largely held place by a big screw, one at each side near the top. You could chip away at the plaster down the side and see.

An indication of it being an original feature (I think) would be whether the floor boards stop at the base rather than disappear under it, as yours seem too.

I see you have the crowbar all ready to lever it out. I would press on with that...!

Ghastly, aren’t they?

If you were, you’d be in your own pink bath (just like mine) with Art Deco decoration as you described.

I reckon it's late 40s early 50s. We had a similar one (without the flowers) in our previous, ex local authority house and it was built immediately after the war.

When I was a child in the 60s my parents bought a very similar fireplace. Instead of flowers ours had ears of wheat. It’s definitely a 1960s fireplace surround.

I have the pinkest bathroom on earth… you weirdly get used to it and it saved me 30K when I bought my house so 🤷‍♀️

I also have a 1956 hotpoint oven and stove which still work great, so yeah I’m usually in the camp that original is better.

My mum has a similar one, I'd say it's more 50's as the rest of the house has the original fireplaces.

It was original a mottled beige, then cream then a light grey and now a darker grey. She's in the process of selling her house so won't be her problem anymore.

I’m another one that thinks it’s actually more 70s/80s.

It’s also atrocious and I’d have gotten rid a long time ago.

That is neither a 1930s fireplace nor a 1950s one. I’d place it at around 1982. It’s also revolting.

I'm assuming upstairs fireplaces are more likely to suffer unlucky bird ingress than downstairs Fireplaces without fires are more likely to suffer bird ingress. Downstairs fireplaces are used more often

so… pretty sure it was 80s!! Some votes for 60s from people who saw it- but I found a daily mail from 89 stuffed in there so unless that was a repair then it’s 80s! It had reinforced concrete behind it and so I had to trade in my pine dresser with the builders round the corner to come and help me remove it! Took 4 of us to lift it out.