Am I mad to quite like a coloured bathroom suite?

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In the right house….with the right decoration. ?

Just seen a house with one on a thread here and though…you know…that doesn’t look that bad.

Oh @motherofcrocodiles yes to the coloured loo roll!! Completely forgot about that. My mum was a big fan of peach!!

We've had all sorts in our family. My mum and dad had a light sage green colour, my grandma and grandad had yellow, my other grandparents had blue, we had pink in a rental and my husband's parents had avocado.

All awful, looking back!

I would love a bathroom in coral pink

My mum carefully chose an avocado suite in the 80s for our 1930s semi, with peach tiling. It didn't come out till about 1997. I quite missed it.

I’m old enough to remember when they were cutting edge! I was only about 11 when my folks replaced an ancient white bathroom suite with a sort of sea blue/green one - def. not avocado - it was the colour of warm tropical sea and looked amazing.

I’ve never seen one in that colour since.

This was a very long time ago and we 4 kids were in hysterics when the showroom saleswoman suggested that our folks might like to add a ‘bottom washer’ to their order!

There was alas no room for one.

My parents had yellow one in the 1980s and I loved it. It was a soft water area though so no lime scale and spiders still visible!

They are due a comeback!

Yes I think they are...I remember we had a pale yellow bathroom in one of my childhood homes. When we moved house, the white bathroom was replaced with pake yellow too. I had a pale blue sink in my bedroom.
My aunt has got 3 bathrooms - a kind of tobacco coloured bathroom suite in one, burgundy in another and navy blue in the other....always a talking point!

My fantasy bathroom has a lovely green and yellow deco bathroom. I think you really have to go for it and keep away from wishy washy pastels.

Everything comes around again. Remember though, don’t spend too much. They will go out of fashion again and be considered naff! I express my individualism with wallpaper. Not so expensive to replace.

They were fashionable from the 1920s to the 1980s so if anything it's the white suite that not lasted so long.

White was the fashion from the 1800-whenever and from the 80s onwards though…

I love those original 30s green ones. I would love a pink one!

The Victorians liked patterned loos like this. Or chamber pots like this. Not exactly snowy white.

I'd love a yellow one. Saw one in a skip a few years ago and thought it looked great.

Thought you'd all like this original art deco beauty.

That’s Wow!

My dad’s house had (the house is now sold) a beautiful Art Deco green bathroom suite with original tiles, I absolutely loved it. Everything was original including the taps and the fact that it was all original was one reason why dad never knocked through between the loo and bathroom, he wanted to keep it in its beautiful state.

However, the opposite is that growing up we had a hideous burgundy suite and the bath was raised as if it was some kind of god and we had a burgundy shag pile carpet to match in the bathroom 😂

Haha to the people mentioning coloured loo roll, during the first lockdown one of my substitutes was yellow loo roll for white, I accepted it obviously but every time I used those bad boy rolls I got really angry 😂 😂

We have a champagne coloured bathroom. When our loo broke, the plumber really struggled to get a replacement because it's a low level loo, to fit in a tiny space (it was an insurance job so had to be like for like). I don't mind ours but I grew up in a house with a chocolate brown bathroom suite which was inherited from previous owners but my parents couldn't afford to replace. My friend who lived in the next street had a bright yellow bathroom suite. I quote like the colours of the one in the OP though.

@SuperFairy

Haha to the people mentioning coloured loo roll, during the first lockdown one of my substitutes was yellow loo roll for white, I accepted it obviously but every time I used those bad boy rolls I got really angry 😂 😂

Same. I had a delivery and the driver said sorry for the “pebble” coloured loo roll. I said it was fine and was glad to have anything. Driver said he’d been to a house earlier on and the woman had gone crackers at the coloured loo roll sub and refused to accept it.

I second what pps have said about dark colours. A Dbro had a dark brown suite in a 1970s holiday flat abroad - they show every speck of limescale/toothpaste/scum/dust.

The bathroom in our first house was green, but not avocado. I think it was 'pampas' - a slightly muted shade with a grey tinge. It was very nice and at the time (early 80's) we were the envy of friends who had pink, blue etc. When we moved here, the suite was orange! Disgusting and we soon replaced it with 'whisper grey'. We would still have that now if we hadn't needed to replace the bath and the insurance company decided it would cost too much to colour match, so we opted for a new white suite.
I also remember the coloured loo roll - we had purple back in the 70's - and the pressure of getting the colour to match the suite!
My mum' 60's built house still has the original pink suite. It looks like new.

I love coloured tiles. I have to help my parents redo their bathroom in a 1930 block and I will look for the right tiles and there will be lots of colours. MIL has a light yellow tiled bathroom that I love.
It puts me in a great mood. I hate grey. I hate grey tiles in a bathroom (which is what I have). It looks posh but I find it dead sad. This said I am a firm believer of white on walls, probably because my place is on the small size....

Our downstairs toilet and sink is champagne which I prefer to white in a small toilet room, I would like a green one but the sinks are too big, our sink is tiny. It is quite difficult to match also if you just want to replace one item at a later date as styles change.

I deliberately buy the Andrex pebble loo roll , they have changed the texture of it now though and not for the better.