I believe you can pick up such items in once-popular shades such as beige/brown, boudoir pink and - of course - avocado from your local Community Recycling Depot for a song.
My bath is that usual sort of dull beigey colour. Sink and cistern ditto, kharzi traditional white.
(Alas my kharzi is not a Twyford's Adamant, which I always thought was the best name for a toilet ever; it's only an Ideal Standard). Armitage Shanks is suitable only for the workplace
Yes, you can paint them. There is specialist bathroom enamel and bath resin paints for painting existing baths, but I've never been convinced that I could paint a bath without the paint getting runny lumps. B&Q and Homebase both do a line of baths (the model I have in mind is an I-can't-believe-it's-not-Victorian clawfoot bath) that are displayed in some of their showrooms in a variety of colours, red and turquoise being the most vivid I remember.
If you're buying a new bath and don't want a white one, check out the paintable baths at B&Q or Homebase (even if you have no intention of buying from them) to find out what bath suite material can be painted, which paints they recommend, and if someone else could do it for you.
I like white baths, personally. Too many scary memories from late 1970's aged relatives' houses!
Sarah Beany (or whatever her name is on Property Ladder) and the House Doctor both agree that for resale value, the only colour of bathroom fittings allowable is white.
However it is indeed possible to get stuff in other colours.
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Date: 2006-07-11 01:43 pm (UTC)My bath is that usual sort of dull beigey colour. Sink and cistern ditto, kharzi traditional white.
(Alas my kharzi is not a Twyford's Adamant, which I always thought was the best name for a toilet ever; it's only an Ideal Standard). Armitage Shanks is suitable only for the workplace
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:17 pm (UTC)If you're buying a new bath and don't want a white one, check out the paintable baths at B&Q or Homebase (even if you have no intention of buying from them) to find out what bath suite material can be painted, which paints they recommend, and if someone else could do it for you.
I like white baths, personally. Too many scary memories from late 1970's aged relatives' houses!
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Date: 2006-07-11 04:04 pm (UTC)However it is indeed possible to get stuff in other colours.
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