Coloured sanitary ware

I remember thinking my aunt was amazingly modern as she had a mauve suite with purple loo paper. I thought that was the height of sophistication as we only ever had white suites and paper at home.

I bet that really was pretty groovy, though

You know what? This thread is making me want a colourful bathroom suite.

We had dark green bathroom & guest loo, hideous.
Every bungalow we looked at recently, six out of the ten had coloured bathroom suites 😩

grandmac

I remember thinking my aunt was amazingly modern as she had a mauve suite with purple loo paper. I thought that was the height of sophistication as we only ever had white suites and paper at home.

My friends well off parents had a black suite with corner bath & black shag pile carpet, now I thought that was the height of luxury 🤣

Oreo

You know what? This thread is making me want a colourful bathroom suite.

What colour would you go for?

How would you style the bathroom?

I’d like a pale turquoise with a basin shaped like a shell, as some of them used to be.
Then I’d go for pale sandy coloured floor tiles, and sandy coloured wall tiles.A few green potted plants, maybe fan palms to complete the lagoon theme.😃
A wall canvas featuring a St Lucia type beach scene like something out of ‘Lost’.Turquoise fluffy towels.

We had navy blue bath ad loo. Awful but now the norm seems to be. White

We had a beautiful spacious shell shaped basin in our first Edinburgh home, where I bathed the baby.
The people who bought our house ripped out the bathroom and that basin was lying broken on the front lawn. It made me so sad to see it.

DamaskRose

An all pink bathroom with navy shag pile carpet (which went all the way up the side of the bath) upstairs and a pale blue downstairs. We lived with it, apart from the carpet, because we had no money. Next house white bathroom and avocado shower room. We changed them both. This house all white but in shocking condition so we had to renew anyway. I would not have anything but white by choice.

An all pink bathroom with navy shag pile carpet (which went all the way up the side of the bath)

... sounds like a fungus growing

Surely coloured suites will make a comeback if they haven't already.

Avocado and brick red were popular in the newbuilds of the early 1970s.
We painted our white bathroom chocolate brown, sh*t coloured. It looked awful but we never changed it.

Sadly, once someone had remarked that we had 'dead budgie' tiles in that gloomy bathroom, that did it for me - luckily there wasn't much tiling so we replaced them with larger, brighter blue and white tiles in an effort to combat the overall funereal effect. (

MissAdventure

The corner baths that you step down into, always remind me of days gone by on tv.
Couples up to their shoulders in bubbles, sipping champagne, surrounded by potted palms.

That puts me in mind of the tv adverts that had a woman lounging in a bath surrounded by bubbles from a brand of soap. I forget what it was - Cussons? Camay?

Oh, I don't know.
I was thinking of the "blacksploitation" type films, with the cool back guys calling in on their chicks, and joining them in the bath...

Or Tales of The Unexpected, which is back on tv on a couple of obscure channels.

Bump as the spells have returned

and again

Someone mentioned how we are now decorating in white and grey! Not me. Here is my hallway.

Oh that's beautiful!
Colours!

@LovesBach ...once someone had remarked that we had 'dead budgie' tiles in that gloomy bathroom, that did it for me...

Please help my poor, tired brain stop boggling. I've looked at all the Dulux and Crown etc colour cards but can't find it! What on earth sort of colour is 'dead budgie'?

That could be another Farrow and Ball colour!

Scribbles

@LovesBach ...once someone had remarked that we had 'dead budgie' tiles in that gloomy bathroom, that did it for me...

Please help my poor, tired brain stop boggling. I've looked at all the Dulux and Crown etc colour cards but can't find it! What on earth sort of colour is 'dead budgie'?

Well, budgies are beautiful and very colourful, even dead ones.

Callistemon21

Scribbles

@LovesBach ...once someone had remarked that we had 'dead budgie' tiles in that gloomy bathroom, that did it for me...

Please help my poor, tired brain stop boggling. I've looked at all the Dulux and Crown etc colour cards but can't find it! What on earth sort of colour is 'dead budgie'?

Well, budgies are beautiful and very colourful, even dead ones.

Scribbles the tiles were popular in the sixties/seventies, and were a design that, viewed with a slight tilt of the head, looked just like a dead budgie lying on its side. Our tiles had a blue back ground with a white dead budgie - other colours were available and could be found in kitchens and bathrooms almost everywhere.

Oh, I know the ones, I think.

We may have had some in a house we moved into! Were they Cristal tiles?

@LovesBach
Thanks for the explanation. For reasons unknown, that decorative trend must have whooshed right past me and I don't ever recall seeing them. But, who knows, I'm about to go house-hunting so I might just find some, lurking in a fixer-upper!

Every time I see this thread title a thought passes through my head wondering if they are making brightly coloured sanitary towels and tampons nowadays 😂