Decorating A Pink Bathroom

By

tennesue

How about spring green for towels and a spring green and pastels flower basket on the wall or (if there's room, on the vanity or toilet top. Try a white shower curtain before you go spring-y. You don't want to go overboard.

By

mom of towers

Also, a shower curtain - closed at all times - would minimize seeing the pink shower all the time. But, I like the black and grey suggestions, as well as the "Neopolitan" too - I remember seeing the blue/brown combinations last year - at first, YUK, but the more I saw the more it grew on me. Don't fight it - use it!

By

Poor But Proud

I agree with the black and pink. Hey, it worked for poodle skirts, right!

By

leopardstripes

LOL, I was thinking the very same second line as Dedeswrkshop, as I was navigating from my email to this page: Embrace the pink!

I had a totally pink bathroom once, in a rental, and this is what I did, after agonizing for awhile- I added purples as a third (after the greys and black that were already in the tilework) element, and you'd think it would be garish- but it worked! I accessorized with all different shades of purples, lilacs, and even burgundies and eggplant shades, and it wound up looking very pulled-together. The cost was minimal, too- the vases and ceramics that I put in there were from the $tore, and the towels and bathmat set were from Target- and purple was not terribly popular at that time, so they were dirt cheap, on clearance.

Sometimes the best thing to do with a situation like this is to try to be even more over-the-top with it than it already is- you may be surprised with the end result! :o) Good luck, and have fun with it!

By

atinap

I would put burgundy decoration it would make it look good, pink is not that bad.

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Dedeswrkshop

Embrace the time period! Or embrace the pink!
Ever hear of Neapolitan Ice Cream? No one ever said a bathroom cant be fun instead of pretty, or grown up. I bet if you found an awesome ice cream cones fabric and made your own shower curtain it would be a great start. Paint the wall white and then do a chunk line of chocolate at the top and strawberry (same color as shower) at the bottom. Wonder if you could find large cherries to decorate with, and do the towel racks and such in chrome to mimic the silver spoon? Make 'em say, I want one!

By

countessj

Use black as an accent color. A black bathmat and black and white patterned shower curtain would look cool with some wrought-iron looking candle sconces or decorations on the wall. Good luck!

By

Allison5

I think you just have to roll with the fact that it's pink and perhaps do a soft pink around it for the walls, towels, accents. The other option is to really play up the gray.

When we moved to this house, the wall tiles were beige colored. I painted them dark red to tone down the pink bathroom, applied a few 'stickers', papered the walls and made the curtains from lace curtain material, backed with a cream silky lining material.