Wow. This company — Miscellanea Discontinued Bathroomware — claims to have more than 50,000 pieces of discontinued “sanitaryware” — toilets, sinks, bathtubs — making it the largest such salvage place in the world. “Over 100 Retro bathroom colours in stock including,” they say: “Coral Pink, Sky Blue, Champagne, Turquoise, Sunking, Primrose, Flamingo Pink, Pampas, Indian Ivory, Linden Green, Bali Brown, Misty Blue, Harvest Gold, Oyster, Whiskey, Wild Sage, Bone, 2-tone including Lilas Jaspe and of course Avocado, Avacado or if you prefer Avacardo…”
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As you may be able to tell by the spellings of Avocado, sadly for us Americans, MDB is in Surrey, England, far far away. To be sure, a trip to London is now on my to-do list. But the heck with Big Ben — I’m going for the bogs! Oh, did I mention their website, brokenbog.com? I am taking it that bog = toilet?
Miscellanea says it has collected all these pieces by buying about-to-be discontinued stock direct from manufacturers. They add, “Whether you’ve got a smashed Sepia cistern or a broken Bermuda Blue bidet we can help, rather than going to the expense, disruption and downright mundanity of having a complete new White suite fitted.”
“The downright mundanity of white…” — These are my kind of people – and they now go into our Top Ten Bathroom posts.
De says
Gives me hope for our 1952 toilets/bogs. Well, we only need the lid to one of them that my son dropped.
TappanTrailerTami says
I do believe their buildings might be an old greenhouse site, if you look close in the aerial shot. At least they look like greenhouses. Well, now they are officially sinkhouses, tubhouses, and apparently boghouses 🙂
What great colors and soooo much of it! I just counted: 20 narrow greenhouses, the 1 really big one, and then at least 7 solid buildings, that’s at least 28 big buildings full of bathware!
OMG!
Shorty says
OMG such pretty toilets! It’s a shame they are so far away!
Genjenn says
Heavenly.
John Billings says
Al Bundy would think he’d gone to Bog Heaven!
Happy Daze says
That is amazing…
loumeigs says
Chris,
We too used to have a home with a sprayed bathtub. The first time we put in one of those slip mats with the suction on the bottom, POP!, up came the bubbles. Next the corners where the shampoo sat went. The cool thing was, under that nasty white, was PINK!!! I just hadn’t found my love yet and was uber happy to sell the house and newly uncovered pink and white bathtub! Me, I say hold out for the good stuff, baby! We have the rest of our lives to brag about “the hunt” when it is finally found!
pam kueber says
Jane and Chris – Somewhere in my travels I heard that the epoxy coating process has “improved.” But I’ve never talked to anyone who has had more recent experience.
Elvis (aka) Jane says
Chris (and Pam) – The bath in our house was recoated sometime before we bought the home two years ago (between 6-10 years ago is my guess.) The coating is now beginning to come off on the inside of the bath. I didn’t even realize what was happening at first, and may have made it worse trying to scrub out the “marks”. I’m being very careful with it now. But as a result, I wouldn’t recommend this treatment and definitely wouldn’t repeat it.
Femme1 says
I find it interesting that the Brits seem to use more saturated colors in their baths. Look at that blue! And that deep aqua. I’ve never seen anything like it in an American bath.