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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

INSANE: Avocado bathrooms are back in uk as younger homeowners go green | Vintage Vibes

An avocado green bathroom suite
In the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of homes across the UK had an avocado green suite. Photograph: Andrew Paterson/Alamy

Wild sage, lemon, peach, sorbet, mint, and avocado: not the makings of a bizarre fruit salad, but some of the forgotten shades of Britain’s bathrooms that were popular in the mid-20th century.

The colourful suites disappeared from homes as whites and minimalist, neutral designs took over in the 1990s. But avocado-coloured bathrooms are back, and it is gen Z and millennials driving the trend.

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