Day 71 #100DaysOfOldDays

Using the bathroom in the 60’s & 70’s was often a psychedelic experience. Everyone blamed the mushrooms, but it wasn’t the mushrooms; it was the interior designers and the parents who went along with it.

If I sat in this bathroom for more than five minutes, I’d experience hallucinations too.

It was the fashion to have a coloured bathroom suite. And if you had a few pound stashed under the mattress, you might have even ripped out your boring white bath and toilet and replaced them with lovely new ones – in any colour you fancied.

I remember visiting my great-aunt Helen in the 70’s, and I’m pretty sure she had a blue bathroom. The blue ones were very popular!

My aunt Marie’s bathroom was avocado green. Although, to us it was just ‘green‘. I only remember light green and dark green! Did we know what an avocado was in the 70’s? Oh…wait, we had jade green too. That’s three shades of green we had!

I once had a pink bathroom suite and a grey one. I’ve seen them salmon coloured, peach, mustard, burgundy, even brown – Penthouse Brown I believe it was called! We had penthouses before we had avocados.

People were still putting in coloured bathrooms during the 80’s. I remember viewing a house that was for sale (it was built in the 80’s) and it had three bathrooms and a toilet downstairs, and each one was a different colour. That’s where I saw the brown one.

The thing was though, the tiles, the carpet, mats, and curtains all had to be the same colour as the bath and toilet. And…coloured toilet roll.

Look at this. It’s like a bedroom!

We couldn’t afford to replace our boring white bath with a coloured one but we could afford a very trendy vanity splashback. There were made from tough plastic and came in different colours. They had a mirror that opened up a little medicine cabinet. Two glass holders and a soap dish. They had five toothbrush holders which would have caused rows in a family of more than five. And you could have one in whatever colour you wanted…it didn’t have to match the sink!

An aunt of mine was very posh with a furry toilet seat cover. Poor mam bought one but with four young boys in the family it didn’t last too long, sadly. I’m sure she was devastated!