The most hideous bathroom suite I have ever seen...

Davesnave

Primrose wrote: »

brandy93 - yes, that's perfectly true, and in a lighthearted vein, I can add our own horror story, although not about bathrooms. In the first marital home we bought as hard-up newlyweds, the hideous wallpaper in every room had been stuck on with carpenters glue - (the seller had worked in a carpentry workshop!) It took three long years of sandpapering, scraping, soaking and sanding to remove it all, by which time we'd gouged countless holes in the plaster underneath. We swore we would NEVER EVER have wallpaper in any house we lived in again, and we haven't. I can't tell you how many prospective houses we immediately walked out of when prospecting for a new home as soon as we'd entered the hallway!
What are other peoples' pet hates in houses?

Whooops!!! Years ago, when the cats were kittens, we lost a lot of anagypta wallpaper to their claws. I realised I had to make the lower levels less 'spongy' and attractive to them so, after a bit of thought, I tried liquid fibreglass painted on thinly. (and quickly, because it 'goes off' in minutes!) It scarcely noticed, and it worked, so I did this all around the lower 1m of the rooms we papered, making the surface rock-hard.

I wonder what the next people will make of our walls when they try to strip the paper! They'll never guess what it is or why it's there, that's for sure. However without being re-plastered, the walls aren't good enough to go 'naked.'

Phirefly

Primrose wrote: »

What are other peoples' pet hates in houses?

I'm probably going to offend a lot of people here, but one of my pet hates is moulded white uPVC front doors. Now I'm throwing stones in a bit of glass house here in as much as I have a uPVC front door, but its fully glazed and is in keeping with the complex of houses down on Tha Wharf here.

But I can't abide this sort



Least they can be easily replaced though, I suppose. Off the bathroom topic a bit but Primrose did ask...

Primrose

Yes, kittens are a nightmare. Relatives of ours redecorated their lounge with some posh expensive hessian-type wallpaper. Then they acquired two adorable kittens and when we next visited them all the walls were completely wrecked with loose threads and fibres hanging all over the place. A kitten we had did the same to some rather attractive loose-fibre full length curtains. These antics are hilarious to watch in somebody else's house but not quite so amusing in your own!

ukmaggie45

Hi Phirefly,

Phirefly wrote: »

top THAT :cool:

Wow, love the wallpaper - or is it stencilled fish? Looking at it again, I can see it must be.

I so wish I'd taken "before" pics of our bathroom! Sort of flesh pink plastic cistern that didn't quite match bath, basin and loo - they were a more blueish pink (IYSWIM). There were flesh pink mock tiles (sheets of hardboard with the tile shapes routed out) up to dado height, and above was black and pink wallpaper that when you stared at it you could kinda see faces in (Angela Rippon was one! :eek: ).

Oh yeah, the toilet seat was black. And there was pink fluffy carpet on the floor (yuck!). :eek: We stripped the carpet out, and replaced with leftover bits of vinyl from the kitchen. Even just doing that was a huge improvement!

North facing room, so always horrid dim and dismal anyway, but the black in the wallpaper really was depressing and darkening.

Have to admit, was going to do a fishy theme as a cheap 'n' cheerful makeover (just to make it a bit of fun even if it was revolting colours!), but the window broke, so we had to have a new one, so after about 30 years in this house with the ghastly pink suite from hell, OH bit the bullet and we finally had a white suite and pale tiles... :j

Oh, and a new ceiling too - the old one was that awful polystyrene wallpaper in a crazy paving pattern, but previous owners hadn't even bothered to match the pattern. It used to drive me mad when I lay back in the bath and looked up at it! :rotfl:

pawpurrs

My pet hates are UPVC anything, doors,windows, conservatorys (but have allways bought old houses that are not allowed these)

Artex ceilings, Snot paper (woodchip)

Laminate flooring, puffy leather sofas (Although furniture had to get them in)

Fred Flintstone fireplaces.

Strip lights, Cheap flooring of any kind, orange pine cladding.

andyrules

I had a cat sick yellow bathroom with one of those 'utility shelf' things in the op. I struggled to know what to do with it - eventually got some of the 'tiling' paper in cream which toned it down. For some reason, I hired a one-eyed decorator to put it up....

oh, and that particular house also came complete with an avocado kitchen!

Kez100

We had primrose yellow when we moved in here - and we lived with it for 12 years! All white now though.

My parents had avacado but back in the 1070's most homes had that sort of choice. It was slightly better than that blue, as was our primrose yellow, but they were all considered pretty vile by the start of the millenium.

At least they are relatively cheap to overhaul, unlike kitchens!

mischiefmaker

We also have a primrose yellow suite and I am keen to change it. I have no idea how old it is but we bought this house from my parent and i know it's older than I am! Like others have said I have kinda grown used to it.
In our old house we had an avacado suite when we moved in with pine cladding. Nice.

lostinrates

I'm glad I'm not the only uPVC hater.

smileykylie_2

Think I just saw this blue bathroom that started the thread on an old episode of property ladder !!!!