Choosing the perfect color paint for your bathroom can be very confusing. You have to consider the existing colors of such things as the tile, fixtures, flooring, cabinets, etc. This page contains bathroom paint color advice.
I live in an old home and many times the plastered walls have cracks in them. Here is an alternative if the cracks keep showing up soon after you paint. I "papered" my walls in brown paper and rosin paper that have been painted.
I wanted to go with a copper theme and have always wanted an elegant bathroom so I took pieces of brown craft paper and tore them into irregular pieces, saving some of the ones with a straight edge for where the ceiling and the wall meet. I then crumpled them all up very hard and then semi smoothed them out so that you could clearly see the wrinkles in them.
I used a sponge brush and brushed on copper leaf paint on some, barely touching the surface of the wrinkles and then used gold spray paint on others. Let them dry (doesn't take long at all) and then apply them with wallpaper paste. The wall should be sized first.
I already have a claw foot tub and my kids inserted a sink into a dresser that I faux painted and applied copper paint stenciling. I had rough plastered walls so the roughness of the walls added to the dimension of the treatment. My curtains are copper colored and I made a shower curtain with some copper color in it and put copper colored beading on the edges. I painted the bottom of my claw foot bathtub brown.
Source: My own idea.
By Elaine from Belle Plaine, IA
Some of you may recognize this suggestion, as I have written it several times. When I am in doubt about paint color I take a look at nature; I consider green to be a neutral color. Green grass, trees, leaves of all shades. Green seems to go with any color. All the colors of flowers go with green. It is safe, serene, and clean; you can't fail with green.
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By hopeful from temporarily in Texas - Salem, OR
My bathroom has a black shower kit and a black and white sink (specks). Also surrounding the shower kit and around the sink is tile which is a taupe and beige color. The vanity and cabinet are oak. What color should I paint the walls?
By Karen
I need advice on how to paint a bathroom with burgundy ceramic tile halfway up the wall. The other half of the wall and closet are white. The tub and sink are gray and the toilet is also white. What colors can I use that will complement these colors?
By Glenda from Lake Charles, LA
By Goldie2
11/03/2011
We have gray and burgundy tile in our tiny bathroom, too, and I get more compliments on the wall color. First I painted them white and then I lightly sponged on glazes of gray and pinkish-puple paint. The glaze is something they sell at the hardware stores as a neutral and you can use small amounts to mix with any paints you have.
What wall color will pull together a navy blue commode and sky blue bath tub?
By Linda A.
By susanmajp
01/19/2012
I did a venetian plaster wall finish on my bathroom walls. It was time consuming, but turned out really nice. I used different shades of blues, covered by a thin coat of white. It incorporated several things together.
I have a harvest gold tub; what color will look good on the wall? What color can I trim up the bathroom in?
By Hattie
By frugalsunnie
12/31/2011
The nice thing about Harvest Gold is that it goes with just about any other colour-all you need to do is decide the direction you want to take your bathroom decorating in. By any chance does the basin and commode match the tub?
You could go retro (60s-70s), or elegant-dramatic (timeless, or with the right accessories something that feels 1920s), or even farmhouse (see below)
For example, you can go with black and grey for a dramatic, elegant statement, high gloss black halfway or even two thirds of the way up the wall and then a lovely lighter shade of flat grey the rest of the way up the way; accessorise with dark grey hand towels, brushed nickel hardware, etc.
For a retro look to match the tub, you can paint in late 60s-early 70s colours like avocado (although I'd go with something a little lighter than full-on avocado) and use some of the new fabrics available that look like fabrics from that era-buy a half yard and cut sew-on strips to make a border on hand towels, for example, or make a valance.
To get a farmhouse look, you could go with a cream a few shades lighter than the gold tub halfway up and then white up the rest of the wall, and use cream coloured accents in hand towels, soaps, dispensers. You could look in flea markets and yard sales for some of those vintage tin wall plaques of 1900s era washrooms.
Good luck with your painting, whatever you decide, please update this with pics to give us all some fresh ideas:)
I would like suggestions on how to decorate a bathroom. We are buying an older house with a master bath with a blue and white swirl synthetic marble shower, sunken tub, and vanity top. There is no window in the bathroom. We will eventually change all of that out. For now how should I paint and decorate the bathroom to make it a little easier to live with until we can remodel it? What wall paint colors and accessories do you suggest?
By Mrs. C.
By garnetgirl9
11/30/2011
I would first paint those cabinets a light gray or black color, then the walls could be painted a blue to match the counter top or hold paint chips up to the counter of different shades of beige to browns to see what matches best and you like best.
We just installed new tile around our bathtub and the color is grey with hints of pink and brown. Our tile on the floor is brown and light tan. What color should we paint the walls in the bathroom?
By Aubre
I am redoing a bathroom, the stand up shower is black with white, silver, and black accents. The vanity is stained with red cherry and the floor is charcoal grey. I am looking for a colour for the walls
By Sean P.
By joanfry
09/15/2011
White, you have no options, any of your other colors would make the space smaller and a bathroom is usually a small place. And you need light for most activities in a bathroom.
I suggest lots of mirrors too, to reflect your silver touches - do the frames in silver. Add some red stuff, ie, a trim on towels, ribbons on mirrors.
I am repainting the bathroom. The tiles are white with gold flecks, the sink and toilet are harvest gold.
I have a small half bath with a white vanity and top and white commode. The floor is white tile with soft gray grout. It does not have a window and gets no light. What paint color should I paint the walls?
I am trying to update a small bathroom. I have an acrylic, marble toned vanity. It looks like a tan, grayish swirl, with a few faint reddish streaks.
I painted bottom of wall in bedroom warm beige. What color would look good on the top part?
I am redecorating a 1970s bathroom with green/gray tiles and peachy cabinets, vanity, and floor. What color should I paint the walls? I have one window.
I have a small bathroom with a dark hunter green toilet and pedestal sink. What color should I paint this room?
What color should I paint my bathroom wall to match black cabinets? I do not want to use white because the counter top, tile, and toilet are white.
What color paint can I use on a bathroom with stone tiles (brownish/red) in the shower area and a white cabinet?
What color of paint would I use for my small bedroom with light and dark green carpet? I already have the walls green, but I want something different.
I have green tile with a black border tile in my small bathroom. What color should I paint the upper walls. It previously had wallpaper.
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