Bathroom of the Year Award ...

jackieb

I know the ones you mean (my parents had them in the kitchen (orange veins) and the downstairs loo (blue veins) in the 70s. Ours look similar but are actually floral.

Mischa8

jackieb wrote: »

I know the ones you mean (my parents had them in the kitchen (orange veins) and the downstairs loo (blue veins) in the 70s. Ours look similar but are actually floral.

Floral, how nice!

I swear some of my architectural friends would love to get hold of them, for retro 60's looks! :eek:

Slinky

I think the tiles to which you refer actually have a name - something like bird-lip or bird-beak. I didn't notice it until our builder pointed it out that there's actually a bird head hiding in the pattern. We had the pink version in our 1970s house. Not sorry to see them go 5 years ago, after living with them for 10 years!

carolt

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

One of my pet hates is coloured bathroom suites. Another is coloured lavatory-paper. And I'd really like to shoot whoever it was that invented those mats that go round the lavatory pan. I've never figured out exactly what they are supposed to be for, bar catching wee-wee dribbles. *shudders*.

Wait till you have a small son; then you'll find out what they're for (shudders...).

poppysarah

Slinky wrote: »

I think the tiles to which you refer actually have a name - something like bird-lip or bird-beak.!

I can't find a picture online - and I thought everything was on the internet!

SandC

We had the turquoise version in or house in the 70s. They were something to stare at and analyse when on the loo or in the bath.

ch1954

It's interesting the way that fashion manages to condition people to finding anything other than what is currently regarded as de rigeur, i.e. in bathroom terms, plain white suites, ugly / horrible / vile / laughable etc.

This has been done in order to ensure that people ditch perfectly serviceable coloured bathroom suites in favour of white ones.

As sure as night follows day, as soon as sales of white bathroom suites to people replacing coloured suites start to dip, there'll be a photo shoot in Hello showing Jordan's / the Beckhams' new bathroom suite in a fetching shade of whatever colour has been decided is newly desirable, and over time, a picture of a bathroom with a plain white suite will appear on a Forum with a sarcastic title attached to it.

It's all just a way of parting fools from money. Pink bathroom and no debt, white bathroom and three grand on the credit card? Hmmm. Let me think about it.

iB1

ch1954 wrote: »

It's interesting the way that fashion manages to condition people to finding anything other than what is currently regarded as de rigeur, i.e. in bathroom terms, plain white suites, ugly / horrible / vile / laughable etc.

This has been done in order to ensure that people ditch perfectly serviceable coloured bathroom suites in favour of white ones.

As sure as night follows day, as soon as sales of white bathroom suites to people replacing coloured suites start to dip, there'll be a photo shoot in Hello showing Jordan's / the Beckhams' new bathroom suite in a fetching shade of whatever colour has been decided is newly desirable, and over time, a picture of a bathroom with a plain white suite will appear on a Forum with a sarcastic title attached to it.

It's all just a way of parting fools from money. Pink bathroom and no debt, white bathroom and three grand on the credit card? Hmmm. Let me think about it.

I agree partly, but I'd also add:

Things come into fashion, go out of fashion, and then become "retro chic" and therefore in fashion again

It's one of those things that is just human nature, and you can do nothing about. The same thing happens in fashion, music art, architecture etc. etc.

Brallaqueen

I shall join the embarrassing bathroom parade - my suite is cream. My mum loves it and calls it 'champagne' but hers is avocado and therefore her opinion is invalid.
That would be bad enough but the tiles are rectangular and mottled pink and cream...

Except for the ones with an illustation of a small basket bouquet...

Or the jigsaw puzzle of 4 tiles making up a huge basket bouquet here and there...

And the artex ceiling to cap it all off.

:rotfl:

jackieb

Brallaqueen wrote: »

And the artex ceiling to cap it all off.

:rotfl:

In my last house my mum kept on at me to get the ceilings artexed, despite them being as smooth as a baby's bottom, and no ugly ceiling to hide. But then again she keeps on at me to get a perm and streaks. I think she liked my Morgan Fairchild hairdo back in the 80s and wants me to relive my youth. :rotfl: