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Color in bathroom?

15 years ago

Hi, I am a new member here looking to redo a few of our bathrooms and needing inspiration. I see many lovely bathrooms on this site, but most of them are white or use stone or stone-colored tile.

Has anyone used real color for their bathroom? Colored floor tile or wall tile rather than just colored accent tile or paint? I would love to see pictures I could use for inspiration. Thank you!!

Comments (10)

  • 15 years ago

    Try houzz.com for pictures. Thousands! You can use the search in the upper right corner to narrow your results after you go to bathrooms. I found this easy and to some extent overwhelming. I'm in the process of doing a gray and brown bath. But you may get some color inspiration there as well. Good luck!

  • 15 years ago

    I agree with tikatoo... Houzz can be a little overwhelming (and cumbersome to search) but you'll find more inspiration photos there than anywhere else I know of!

    [contemporary bathroom design[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/contemporary-bathroom-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_712~s_2103) by chicago interior designer Nora Schneider Interior Design

  • 15 years ago

    I am doing a bathroom with color but it isn't finished so I don't have any pictures. I get so tired of neutral color bathrooms. I have spent hours going through all the bathrooms on Houzz. There are some wonderful colorful bathrooms, but they are in the minority.
    My bath will be water colors. The shower walls will be green glass tile with a band of blue and green tile. The shower floor is green pebbles. The counters are going to be a new product called chroma by 3form.
    http://www.3-form.com/materials-chroma.php
    They will be bliss.
    the cabinets are white and the floor is dark bamboo.
    I think i'm going to love it! I have always wanted a bathroom with water colors. i'll post pix when it's done.

  • 15 years ago

    "Colored floor tile or wall tile rather than just colored accent tile or paint? "

    The "in" colors come and go pretty quickly, so it is most economical to use those in things that are cheap to change out. eg paint, towels etc. Most people choose to go neutral in the really expensive items - eg a tiled shower or stone floor.

  • 15 years ago

    We did a green tile floor in our hall bath. I don't think it was an "in" color when we put it in last year, so I'm not worried about it going "out" either. I just liked the tile. Here's a picture as our reno was nearing completion.

  • 15 years ago

    After nineteen years of waiting, I'm in the middle of a complete to-the-studs reno of our masterbath, replacing the beige cabinets and all white tile, walls and counters with.... more beige! Or at least variations on the beige/taupe/black theme.

    Although I love color, I find that I don't decorate with it much, at least when it comes to the more permanent (and expensive) parts of a room. It's not so much that someone else might think that it is "in" or "out" but rather that I'm pretty sure that *I* won't love it for that long!

    I can change my paint, towels, art and accessories whenever I tire of a certain look and that works just great for me!

  • 15 years ago

    treasure,
    The contractor tore out our main bathroom on Monday (luckily we have another upstairs). Our last renovation was in 1978!
    Looking forward to an update.
    We are also going with browns/beige, but I was thinking of a soft antique pale green for the walls to add some color as mentioned by FSachs.

    FSachs,
    I had a really pretty shade of yellow on my bathroom walls and white sink, toilet, tub. I never got tired of it.

  • 15 years ago

    How much color are you thinking?

    Here's some more from Houzz - organized in an Ideabook:
    https://www.houzz.com/magazine/dare-to-add-color-to-the-bathroom-stsetivw-vs~276696-to-Add-Color-to-the-Bathroom

    Here is a link that might be useful: [Dare to Add Color to the Bathroom[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/dare-to-add-color-to-the-bathroom-stsetivw-vs~276696)

  • 15 years ago

    Thanks for the responses. The pictures are very helpful. I'm in the house I plan to stay in forever, so I'm not as worried as some might be about needing to change things out, and I'm not the type of person who gets tired of colors if I put in colors I like to begin with.

    sas95, I like the floor tile you used, and the accent. I also like the green picture you posted, treasuretheday. Maybe I just like green. LOL.

  • 15 years ago

    The other thing to remember is that even when you take a single tile that seems to have very little color in it expecting it to look a light neutral color, when you actually use it to fill a whole wall and completely tile a bathroom floor to ceiling, it can look richer in color than you expect - we found ourselves happily surprised with ours, but wondered what might have happened if we had set out trying to make it look that rich in color with a deeper colored single tile...

    the cumulative effect of a full wall of your tile may or may not match your expectation, if you get my point...

    just wanted to add that perspective...

    Here is a link that might be useful: