Keeping it White

I wonder how many people remember Avocado coloured bathroom suites
In the 70’s it was one of the latest ‘in’ colours
So we installed that same colour with similar coloured tiles
and Avocado paintwork

Today of course white is the colour and I have even heard that prospective buyers will turn down a house if they see an Avocado suite

A few years after that we wanted to install another bathroom
and as money was tight we were thrilled to see an advert by someone who had just moved into a new house and not liking the colour of their suite,
wanted to sell it
It was a very good bargain – the colour was turquoise
Under the circumstances we were happy to install a colour that was not our choice.
We were doing the job ourselves so Alan tiled the room in white to try and offset the turquoise.
That probably would have been fine, but being the decade when stencilling was all the rage in home decorating
I stencilled quite a number of the white tiles with ‘seaside’ themes
and used a pre-stencilling paste that would make them permanent
I was thinking only of the moment and not looking ahead

Now it seems one can only buy white so when renewing our lavatories recently
we had no choice but to buy white whether they matched or not

We have just finished decorating these rooms so changed all the Avocado to white where it was possible to do that as we do not want to renew the suite and tiles at the moment. I would not have chosen white as a contrast with Avocado but I wanted to link up all 3 rooms.

We have redone the flooring with white Cushion floor too which helps

In the second bathroom with the turquoise suite the paintwork was always white
and because it seemed so boring

I added accessories with a seaside flavour over the years.

In fact Alan would sigh when I went into one of those seaside craft places

What you see here are my efforts to minimise the Avocado and Turquoise

The dreaded Avocado

Took out the Avocado fittings and replaced with white

This tiny room was not a problem