Bathroom of the Year Award ...

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Zelie wrote: »

You know, I like pink. But that's just overkill.

Actually I've just thought about my grey bathroom suite. I think I'd take pink over grey any day. Honestly, who puts grey in a bathroom?

Everyone about 20 years ago apparently. Ripped my "dolphin grey" suite out last year. Developers should be banned from using anything that isn't white!

Contessa

( takes deep breath) "I have a blue bathroom." There, I've uttered those terrible words! It may put buyers off, but I'm not sure it would be worth the cost/nuisance of replacing the suite and tiles.

Mischa8

poppysarah wrote: »

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

I spent many a happy hour (only joking!) looking for these too via google, put in *retro*, *Vintage* - etc and nothing! I think they're called Cristal (I saw the back of one of them as they're retiling now when I was at my mum's today for Bank Holiday Lunch) and I looked just now under that name but no joy.

For all the popularity of these tiles I'm surprised there is not a shrine website to them somewhere on the internet! :rotfl:

Mischa8

Slinky wrote: »

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!

I'd love to know the real name - googled under Bird Lip, Bird Beak etc but no joy!

eco-friendly_2

Here's some!

SUESMITH_2

i worked in a plumbers merchants in the late 80s early 90s and we sold lots of whisper grey suites.

the pink ones are usually earlier and were called group 1 pink.

if you want a really vile colour for a suite try sun king - a vile orangey yellow, or my personal fave penthouse red, which isant even listed on this colour chart.
http://www.hmjames.co.uk/colours.htm

the house we're in now had a sorrento blue suite when we moved in