Pink bathroom suite

Minniethemoocher

I will shortly be moving into a house with an old 1960's pink bathroom suite. It is a pale, "dusky" pink. It is clean and in good condition and we cannot afford to replace it but was looking for advice on tiles/paint/flooring that would make it look better!

I remember once seeing an avocado bathroom suite in a magazine and someone had tiled the bathroom and made it look so much better!

So I would welcome any interior design advice!

finnigan

Hi Minnie, I can't afford to replace the pink suite in my bathroom either so I am now redecorating it, white and silver damask style (bathroom friendly) wallpaper top to halfway, from there white marbled tiles to the floor. I replaced the pink carpet with non-slip lino, black slate tile effect print and I have built a new bath panel from plywood and covered that with black mosaic tiles, damm bath is a corner one and I had no chance of buying a panel to fit it. Will post before and after pics tomorrow if you want but my tiling leaves a lot to be desired :rotfl:

Itsgottabedone

Grey tiles and deep red carpet/towels?

minnie123

If you dislike the pink suite then I wouldn't spend money on tiles etc to make it look better because you could put that money towards redoing the whole bathroom. Personally I would live with it until I could afford to redo the bathroom. We redid our whole bathroom for about £400 by shopping in the sales etc.. You could spend £200 trying to make it look better but really thats a waste of money as it will still not be what you want. That is just my opinion though.

andyrules

I would agree with minnie, not change the tiles. What colour are they? Can you paint them? I painted some kitchen ones once, proper tile paint plus undercoat - was a pain to use but actually looked OK.

Personally, I'd just accessorise with white or grey, including vinyl floor, and wait till you can afford to replace the lot. Or make a statement with black and chrome accessories.

finnigan

Actually I also agree with Minnie123! Bathroom suites can be picked up very cheeply now in the sales. We kept our pink suite as we have a corner bath and we would have had to move all the units around to make a standard bath fit in, it was too much money and hassle to do this, simpler to redecorate! Also we had to retile etc as we had to break into the wall to reach the pipes and we didn't have any replacements (thank goodness )

SwissLe

I'd have to disagree, a bathroom that is horrible can be very demotivating when redecorating a new house. Why not plan a whole new bathroom now?

I figure that if you can afford to retile now, do it. Base it on the colour scheme and vision for the whole bathroom. Then buy an extra box of tiles so that when you can afford to replace the whole bathroom suite it won't cause too much of a problem if they were to break a tile.

Most bathrooms are neutral colours these days, including wall tiles so will blend the pink in pretty well anyway for a certain amount of time. It's by no means perfect but will save you some cash in the long run and hopefully make the bathroom more bearable in the meantime.

SplanK

snap! we have a dul pink bathrom set as well - and these houses were built in the 90's!! god knows what the developers were thinking!

oh well - we are eventually going to replace it - thought about just replacing bits and bobs but we have decided we are going to rip everything out and fit all new - but for what we want - its going to cost the best part of £3-4k fitted so we are just making do for now instead of trying to cfhange it using cheap stuff...