I don’t know if there is still a home remodel thread, so I’m posting this here. I am terrible at picking paint colors, but I need to paint two bathrooms, and I’m very uninspired. I thought I would just pick a white and be done with it, but now I’m feeling like I might regret just choosing white…any suggestions? Or is white a fine option? I thought I would love the color it’s currently painted, but it looked much more green/grey in person/in a different room, but it comes across very teal/bright blue in the room due to lighting. Should I go for something darker?
I am doing a little “mini” spruce up. So I have a new black light fixture, new black faucet, black framed mirror and a new black shelf to hold things. So whatever would look good with those accents I guess
So, the black/white contrast thing is definitely A Thing right now and you could go with it! I would use White #3 if so (last one on the wall with 3 swatches). It looks a little warmer but the middle one is off white enough it could look dirty? Esp next to the vanity and toilet. I would also try to add An Art to the large blank wall (could be DIY abstract or some framed Joann’s liquidation sale fabric?). (I would also probably get black cabinet hardware?)
If not going for high contrast, I’m seeing some kind of mauve, caramel orange, or sage/olive green direction? Saturated dark pastels?
PS you could try changing the light bulbs before you redo the paint. Warmer light could give more of the grey-green you were going for? And it’s more cozy in a bathroom anyway
PPS I like blue, but having been apt hunting and seen a few houses with blue or blue-grey paint… I think it can be surprisingly hard to pull off?
i think with those pretty wood floors and black accents, i would consider a warm pink/coral color. it may sound odd but all skin tones look so good with that color of light and i value looking pretty to myself in the bathroom mirror
This is the white I was leaning towards, so thank you! I like the idea of the middle, but it comes across very dirty in person.
I will definitely be adding some form of artwork as I’ve gotten some cool posters from Buy Nothing recently
I loveeeee the idea of pink/coral. I don’t know if I’m brave enough, haha but since the wall has already been covered with samples, I might just grab a sample of one and see how I feel!
So I totally default to sage. But my entire house is sage, so I feel like I should do something different in the bathrooms…but maybe not? I do really love green
i think if you do go white, i would go with a really crisp neutral white like benjamin moore’s simply white rather than an off-white, but that’s just my preference.
ETA: at my last rental house we had a really dark tealish green in the bathroom with white tile it looked fantastic, too!
lol sorry this probably isn’t helping at all. how do you want to feel in that bathroom? is it the one you use all the time, or a guest bath?
If I did sage, I’d want to do a darker sage and then I would want gold accents not black. Sigh. I could do one bathroom sage and the other white. IDK!
I’m leaning towards white for the downstairs bathroom like you describe, with some colorful prints. And maybe branching out for the upstairs guest bathroom
Both are guest bathrooms. My house is really weird in that I have 3 bathrooms but only 2 bedrooms. My primary bathroom is terrible but a renovation for another day My downstairs bathroom I do use semi-regularly, but mostly to put sunscreen on before hiking, or when I’m too lazy to go upstairs haha.
The second bathroom, not pictured is fully a guest bathroom that I never use except to water plants. I could see branching out more in there just because it would be fun and low stakes since no one would see it unless they were actually staying at my house. If you did pink/coral, would you do gold fixtures instead of black?
Ok I did some Pinterest-ing and I think I like pink+gold vibes better than black. If I do it to my upstairs guest bath and don’t love it, it is the lowest stakes since I don’t use it on a daily basis. I kind of like the idea of branching out! I found some pink tones I really like…
there is a beautiful farrow and ball color called sulking room pink that i feel like straddles the line between pink and terracotta. other paint brands can match it.
i want to paint something that color someday — maybe i’ll do my bathroom too! it looks so beautiful and soft in different lighting situations. i really love it!
But I would find it pretty at a hotel or smtn.
