Am I blind or it it impossible to get bathroom sanitaryware in anything except white these days? Are we victim to the whims of the fashionmeisters?
I've just been around several sheds and all over the web and nothing but white white white.
OK, some coloured suites *were* in very bad taste, but where're the peaches, the light greens and the pinks?
Seriously... I might have to refit a bathroom, hence the interest... Personally, I like peach. But whether that is a faux-pas or not, I'm surprised by the apparent absence of choice.
Yesterdays hip is todays rip..it out and start over..
When I were a young man, white meant it was still the horrible Victorian original crap(er)..you painted softwood, because otherwise it looked vile and rotted..you covered stuff with Formica, because in a kitchen in which people actually cooked, it was tougher than anything else, and didn't give you food poisoning from old food trapped in the fibres.
You covered up thse victorian mouldings with hardboard, because they reminded you of your grandmother, and all the dust in her house that used to give you instant asthma, she not being able to afford a housemaid any more, and being utterly incapable of even thinking of using a duster herself.
Now its all urban chic, because no one can remember how truly awful it really was in its original context. Unheated houses, taking a bath in a tin basin of execrable frigidity, filled from a few kettles of water boiled on a solid fuel hob... with lye soap..before assembling a wardrobe consisting of thermal underwear, a shirt, thick worsted trousers, knee high socks and garters, a woolen V neck pullover, a waistcoat and a jacket, followed by an overcoat and a cap and scarf, and gloves and thick boots before even venturing outside to walk to the bus.
We couldn't wait to install central heating, scrap all those dusty 'features' bin the nasty bath on legs, with its dust collecting exposed pipework, and install a nice green bath all boxed in and free from dust traps, and luxuriate in modern comfort and colour...
As well as fashiomasters, there are some other reasons:
Easier for the B&Qs to source a bath from one manufacturer and a basin from another and then sell as a suite.
Easier for you to do the same!
When the components are in different materials (china bog, plastic basin, enamel bath) it is very hard to get a decent colour match - they do pretty well in white but you can usually see clear differences in other colours/materials.
The market appears to prefer choice in style rather than colour. I'd guess a lot of us would prefer a choice of four different styles to having the one style in four different colours. (Although reality seems to end up with most styles looking like knock-offs of other styles.)
White is not going to trap you into a colour that is not appreciated by anyone next year (or maybe, no-one except you).
I suggest that you accept the state and try to see how you can cast a peachy effect around the room by decor, lighting, etc. Not what you want
Open fires were never very effective at heating. Most of the heat escaped up the chimney and the benefit from the radiant heat was offset from sitting in the draught from the air needed to feed it.
Little bit off course there IMO, warm centrally heated houses with soft furnishings and deep pile carpet are an ideal environment for house dust mites.
Although they would have had rugs and horse hair upholstery, the open fire would have kept allergen levels down.
Steve Firth coughed up some electrons that declared:
I disagree sir.
The peach in my old flat went well with two different colour schemes and went well with the wooden half-pannelling I put in (which was done in antique pine). The avocado bathroom suite in my rented house is also quite pleasant.
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