What will be the Avocado bathroom of the future?

[Eastwickwitch]

I'm doing a whole house & am questioning my taste. I know opinions are subjective but could you help with your ideas?
So far I'm thinking

-not stone everywhere e.g. whole bathrooms full of Travertine
-not down lighters everywhere
-no feature walls I can't wallpaper anyway
Any ideas would be very welcome.

Shabby shite chic. I'm just thankful that it's usually not built in. We've been updating our furniture, recently and trying to get hold of a few second hand pieces, so we're not so concerned about destructive boys. Sifting through the side tables made of logs, Argos quality oak effect tat and shabby shite is a job and a half.

Sludgy colours a la farrow and ball and little Greene. All lovy and 'traditional' now. Sure to be replaced in the future

duchesse, it sounds as though everyone is emulating you.... but artificially. Would it make you feel better, to hear again that Alan Clarke denigrated Michael Heseltine "for having to buy his own furniture"?

BrownSauce, was it hating breakfast bars or the little men in white coats which you preferred? If the former, I've got loads of old rental properties to... er... critique!

Feature walls definitely
Those crap fake fireplaces
Wall mounted massive chavvy tvs
High gloss kitchens maybe

I think the new down lighters are having lights put in where they're needed. For example having wall or lights where you'll read, lights over eating areas/tables, softer not visible lighting for other areas.

The stone bathrooms have already started to date.

I'm feeling a bit bad about the mental hospital crack now, with you clawing at walls, ElephantsandMiasmas!

Yes to bowl sinks on cupboards. Surely black granite has been dated for 5 years already?! Aaaand I would like to add chandeliers. Of any description.

Wooden counter tops in kitchens. Stains, burns, gets water damaged... looks terrible.

Metro tiles, big huge pattern wallpaper usually in teal or muddy purple and only on one wall. Cupboard with a bowl style sinks. That shitty grey slate stuff as a 'garden' with two depressed purple pointy grass things growing.

That's fiiiine, RenterNomad

Worse than wooden surfaces is wooden draining boards! Usually with a warning from your host to not put anything wet on them. I mean, whyyyy bother then?

Cheap white UPVc windows and doors.
Decking
White plastic kitchen units with hidden handles
All that brown black white and hints of fuchsia
Feature walls
Moulded doors
Decorative letters

IMO these things won't date
Real wood (windows/ doors /kitchens/shutters )
Natural Stone
Classic squashy sofas
Wood burning stoves

Agree about the practicalities of wooden coounter tops. They're just not up to the job. But tbh you could drive yourself crazy with this and just sit in an empty room too scared to choose anything. Everthing 'dates' in the end.

to some extent everything dates and things wear out. you put in a kitchen then it will become shabby eventually.

So what will replace these things? I can't afford corian worktops.
Most of these things are cheap to mid price. Do expensive things not date? Is it just snobbery that dates things?

exactly, you do what you can afford. my kitchen tops are laminate beech and have been in since 2005 and have not worn too badly or stained.

So - with granite out and wood out, what is the classic countertop material??

I think anything "high fashion" will inevitably date. This don't always a bad thing as it is also "of its time".

Less fashionable stuff will either be classic or not but if we knew in advance we'd all be rich.

I wouldn't worry about this kind of thing. If it's cheap it will wear out anyway. If it is good quality and refuses to wear out then all you have to do is wait till it becomes 'retro' then you will be 'on trend' again.

Tsk - this "ISN'T" not this "DON'T always"

Yes, to open plan being hideous - in the future, people will surely want to laugh at the thought that we chose coldness? I have a million miles of open plan downstairs, not a door in the entire place and it is freezing today. I don't know what we were thinking of as we built the place .

I stand by thinking parquet is vile though - I'd choose laminate over that any day.

for example, people use stainless steel sinks with drainers because they are supremely durable, hygenic and practical. not because of some passing fad or fancy. They are just as good for actually using now as they were 50 years ago. The same goes for laminate surfaces and chrome capstan taps.

If they cost thousands of pounds, people would not sneer at them.

I think those tiled bathrooms where it looks like big beige floor tiles have been put on the wall will date quickly... loads of friends have them.. just looks odd to me...

oooooh!

plastic front doors!

Surely more likely that most people (certainly my house and houses I'm likely to go enter) only have cheap/mid-range stuff. I wouldn't have the foggiest clue what goes in an expensive modern house so wouldn't know where to start slagging it off

elephants I've watched too many grand designs where thousands are spent on a tap! Nice of you've got the money I guess.

This has made me start planning my bathroom!

I want stone in the bathroom and I want to make a shower room downstairs in our current downstairs loo.