Yellow bathroom suite yay or nay?

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Got a beautiful primrose yellow bathroom suite in great condition, the bath stays hot for hours as it's metal. Very solid stuff from the 60s/70s.

I'm updating the bathroom around it, but tradesman reckons the house won't sell as well unless I replace the suite with a modern white one.

Is he right? Is there really no place for a retro suite with buyers nowadays? I love it and am gutted we'll be leaving it behind at some point tbh.

I agree with others-consider taking it with you!

I love retro bathrooms so I would lean into it 100%. Am thinking of getting a similar suite when I redo mine in fact. Get a matching primrose yellow toilet seat and bath panel (there's a place called Discontinued Bathroom Suites or similar that does them), then put some candy pink and mint green tiles on the floor and walls. Lots of plants, hanging foliage. Gorgeous.

I genuinely love it and would keep it if I bought a house with a suite like this. I’d do it up but not change the suite.

Not so keen on the yellow but I really miss the Pampas suite we had in a previous house.

Sorry I had this 30 years ago and wanted to replace it then, but could not afford to.Would not go back there.

I absolutely love it and would definitely keep it! I think navy could look good.

When I bought my house, it had a beautiful sky blue suite. Unfortunately, when adding the finishing touches, I fell off the ladder and broke the toilet! It would have cost more to replace the toilet, than get a new white suite. They couldn't guarantee it would match either, so ended up with white.

Nay!

100% keep it - you just need the right interior design / colour scheme.
That brown is horrible!
Get yourself on Pinterest for inspiration.

Disclosure - I had the same dilemma with a whisper grey coloured suite and keep it.

Oh it's fabulous! Looks like a banoffee pie.

😂😂 brilliant.

Some new taps, change wall and floor coverings

It's fabulous! Please don't rip it out - give the new buyer the choice, I bet someone will love it. That metal is cast iron which is brilliant for keeping the heat in and also those old baths are really comfortable. Also it's extremely heavy so not easy to remove.

We replaced an old green cast iron bath around 10 years ago and I haven't had a comfortable bath since 🙁

I completely agree with everything you said! I'm sorry about your situation. Is it not possible to get iron baths any more??

Yes, me too. I'd put it with white but keep the yellow suite.

You can but they're usually the freestanding period style ones (not the same comfy shape as the old standard cast iron baths) which are expensive and builders etc don't like them as they're so heavy. They do look lovely though and you can paint the outside. They're not all cast iron though - often some sort of composite fibreglass / acrylic / plastic.

The cheaper metal baths you find are usually steel, which doesn't keep the heat in the same way.

I'll probably change the bath in the house I'm moving to (it's huge and plastic) so I might try and source a vintage cast iron bath for the comfort, as well as the heat-retaining quality.

Plants in macrame holders!

Ha Ha.
When we bought our previous house in 1995, all 3 of the houses we looked at that day had the same yellow bathroom suite, and they felt dated then! (Distressing to thing that is 30 years ago )
However, this surely must make it 'retro' and coming back into fashion again now, as all things go round in circles.
I wish you could easily get different colours of bathroom suites nowadays, as everywhere being white is so dull.

That said, if I were buying a house that still had one of the old coloured bathroom suites in it, I would be mentally calculating how much less to pay for the house, as I'd feel I would be needing a new bathroom sooner rather than later.
But, as was said early on in the thread, I'd rather do a new bathroom myself, to my own tastes, than pay top ££ for a house with a new bathroom which would be unlikely to be to my tastes, so, if I were you, I probably wouldn't change it just to sell.

Yes you can find them in salvage yards, on FB marketplace etc but the cast iron ones weigh a metric fucktonne. Think very carefully about the strength of your joists and how you would get the thing upstairs.

I agree with you, OP.

If the next owner wants to rip it out, fine, you’ll never know, but I certainly wouldn’t be doing it.

There’s also a good chance that if you replace with modern, plain white, the next owner will rip it out and replace with a different modern, plain white anyway. That’s just what some people do.

I agree that white might go nicer with the yellow than the grey. But I would definitely keep the yellow suite.

Thank you everyone I'm really grateful for your input 🙏

We just got rid of a brown bathroom. It was quite nice but I was glad we got rid. The bath weighed a ton and I was scared it would fall through the floor :D bathroom fitter struggled to get it out but it came out in parts. Someone nicked it from the skip for the iron I suppose.

Modern baths are so much nicer.

Keep it.

Plastic baths are incredibly warm and comfortable 🤣 bonus points if they're coloured.

My parents had an oversized purple, plastic oval sunken bath. It was like starring in Scarface. Especially with the mirrored tiles, pink shag pile carpet, hanging basket chair and spider plants in macrame holders.

The colour wouldn't put me off buying a house, we have literally just bought a house with a light pink toilet and sink downstairs and the same in the en suite.
Ill be keeping it downstairs but making the room really 'loud' with wallpaper and pink paint to fully embrace it.

I would go yellow and white.

Yellow and grey is very 90s and its confusing the retro look. Unless you are aiming for early 90s.