Boring white bathroom suites. AAGGHHHH

vet8

Thank you for all your helpful replies.

The main reason I hate white is that when I was a kid every house had a white suite and when coloured suites came in it was quite exiting. Now we are back to white. I am sure the only reason everyone fits them is because that is the only colour available. Even if you want a different colour you are stuffed. I just hate being dictated to by the market. It is like, one season you can only buy clothes in that year's "in" colour or skirts a certain length.

I have lived in 2 houses with avocado suites and they were O.k., I find it funny that they are now regarded as the epitome of naffness.

I am still amazed that absolutely none of the main retailers sells suites in another colour at all. I am also annoyed that all of them include in the sale price the bath panel and toilet seat. Yes, I can change those, but it annoys me having to pay for stuff I don't want.

I must say a brown suite sounds awful. Is it dark brown? Yuk, dont people have funny tastes.

samuela66

vet8 wrote: »

Thank you for all your helpful replies.

The main reason I hate white is that when I was a kid every house had a white suite and when coloured suites came in it was quite exiting. Now we are back to white. I am sure the only reason everyone fits them is because that is the only colour available. Even if you want a different colour you are stuffed. I just hate being dictated to by the market. It is like, one season you can only buy clothes in that year's "in" colour or skirts a certain length.

I have lived in 2 houses with avocado suites and they were O.k., I find it funny that they are now regarded as the epitome of naffness.

I am still amazed that absolutely none of the main retailers sells suites in another colour at all. I am also annoyed that all of them include in the sale price the bath panel and toilet seat. Yes, I can change those, but it annoys me having to pay for stuff I don't want.

I must say a brown suite sounds awful. Is it dark brown? Yuk, dont people have funny tastes.

Yes dark chocolate brown, :rotfl:

vansboy

catt wrote: »

Hi Vet


Having said all that, colours are available, particularly at the high end. A designer friend of mine has recently fitted out a bathroom in a warehouse style city flat with dark grey natural slate walls and floor, combined with a black enamelled suite!
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Can't remember where, but looking through the web/mags recently, actually liked the pale, battleship grey coloured one, featured in an article.

& we DID have a burgandy one, two houses ago!! Looked good clean, too!

Friends have a BROWN corner suite & looks EUGHHH!!

Also remember if you break part of it, the insurers will only replace the affected item, so might look a bit odd, if the colours are out, following a mishap.

Really hard to match. You should have heard the problems a caller to our BBC local radio consumer prog, had, with a broken peach coloured suite.

VB

nickj_2

if you had let me know last month , you could have had my hideous lemon yellow suite

vet8

Thanks, but I was not after a hideous lemon yellow one, rather a more tasteful muted colour.

A friend of mine, several years ago accepted an offer of a yellow suite from a builder who had taken it out of a house and he assumed it would be a sort of pale yellow colour. When it arrived it was the kind of vivid yellow you get on sweet wrappers on Roses chocolates, bright golden yellow:eek:

I can understand why some colours have gone out of fashion!

Iguana

Would you like my 1970's turquoise one?

leetread

If you try your local idependant plumbers merchant they will be able to best advise you as to what colours are available, whilst at work today i noticed that twyford still manufacture some suites in whats called soft white, Vitra also still use pergamon or soft cream if you prefer. The other benefit of buying from an independant is that you wont have to buy the suite as a whole but instead you can pick and choose individual aspects like the taps or bath panels.

Hth

gabyjane

Lol..when we moved into our current house our daughter cried as she hated our bathroom (avacado green!) we had moved from a brand new flat but needed more room..we are moving in roughly 2 weeks and she is so excited about the new white bathroom!!
Good luck with what you pick.

mrcow

vet8 wrote: »

Can anyone explain why they are all white?

Because we're not living in the 1970's anymore.

Saying that, I have a nice avocado toilet and sink you can have for nothing it you want to come and deinstall it.

SUESMITH_2

aahh the delights of penthouse red, sun king and bahama blue. continental companies sell lots of colours - most good plumbers merchants will be able to get them for you and the brochures too (Or at least the one i worked in could and we were nowt flash)