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biscuit vs white

8 years ago
I am building a home and I have a choice of using white or biscuit in the bathrooms for my sink, toilets and tubs. My master bathroom will be white and cream, my guest bath has white cabinets and shower wall with creamy marble floors and my other two guest baths have darker cabinets with cream floors so the question here is should you use the same color fixtures in all of the bathrooms? Or is it ok to mix them and use white in say two and biscuit in the other two? Would that look weird?
Thanks

Comments (25)

  • 8 years ago

    I am of the opinion that you simply cannot go wrong with white plumbing fixtures if you EVER have plans to sell your home in the future. I personally do not care for biscuit colored fixtures, no matter how nicely they “go” with the color scheme, and I imagine it could put off other buyers as well. Changing fixtures would be seen as a major undertaking to future buyers.

  • 8 years ago
    I don’t think you need to match the fixtures between all the bathrooms. If you like biscuit in one room and white in another, that’s perfectly fine. Both colors look clean and nice.
  • PRO
    8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    More than which where, be careful on mixing the warm and cool tones in white. As In............. "A white shower wall and a cream marble floor" . Be sure you have some on site design help with this. We can't see your selections. Beware of of design over think.

  • PRO
    8 years ago

    White for all bathroom fixtures--sinks, toilets, tubs. Classic, and everything goes with white.

    If you want to do white with cream (not biscuit--was this left over from the 80s??) check out Home Glow's blog post below. Amy writes about white and cream kitchens, but it can apply to bathrooms as well:

    http://homeglowdesign.com/2016/08/27/cream-white-kitchens-stroke-genius/

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    I suggest choosing white for all. It is classic and will go with any of your other selections. I find biscuit, almond, etc run risk off looking more yellow-ish/like your fixtures need a good scrubbing. I have also noticed in real estate photos they don’t photograph as well (they do not look as fresh & clean) which may be a factor if you want to sell - first impressions and all.

  • 8 years ago
    My mom has an older condo with biscuit appliances and her oven just died, we went to HD to just replace it with a biscuit oven so we don’t have to change everything out, nope! They don’t sell them anymore in that color! I think that should tell you something...
  • 8 years ago

    There are subtle differences between 'whites' from different manufacturers, but it's not as glaring as with other fixture colors. Let the cream floors be a contrast to the white. You don't want *everything* same-same.

  • 8 years ago
    Jan,

    I guess I should rephrase... so my marble floor for my main floor is crema marfil and I am using that in my master bathroom for the shower walls and bathroom floor as well. Then I am doing a organic white quartz countertop with a melted Bri (creamy white) cabinet. There’s a lot of white in the crema marfil so it will go. Then in the guest suite I am using an arctic white cabinet with a costa Esmeralda countertop and subway tile on the shower wall. I was planning to pull my marble floor crema marfil in there as well or I can use something else if I want... I just wasn’t crazy about the white tile that came with the white subway tile ,for the floor so decided to just pull the marble in the bathroom. Should I use something else for the bathroom floor rather than the marble?
  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Sara, I see Bisque (different but close enough) ovens all over the place...

    Melanie, are you sure you want to mix this up in the bathrooms? We just tore out ours (mix of cream and white) because it didn't work.

  • 8 years ago
    Penny,
    No I decided I’m going to keep them streamlined and do all of either white or biscuit. I currently have biscuit toilets in my current house and honestly I thought they were white until I bought a white toilet seat to replace an old one and realized they weren’t pure white but the colors are super close just not as stark. I think a lot of people think of almond when they hear biscuit which is more tan, biscuit is more of an off white. basically
  • 8 years ago

    In 10 days we are starting demo on a 3 bath house and all the biscuit tubs, sinks and toilets are being replaced with white.

  • PRO
    8 years ago

    White has been, is and will be forever. Biscuit. Not. So. Much.

  • 8 years ago

    White.

  • 8 years ago

    Can't go wrong with White. I remodeled all the bathrooms and got rid of all the 18 year old fixtures that were off-white.

  • 8 years ago
    Have you ever seen a bathroom design you really admired (for example in a home or hotel or fancy restaurant) where the toilets were biscuit?
  • 8 years ago

    I have biscuit tub/surround and toilet. I've been "conditioned" against white my entire life-my mom *detests* white...however, after reading so much over the last few years about home decorating/designetc, white has grown on me SO much, and I wish I'd gone w/white b/c it would've been easier to repaint and such w/out having to agonize over the *exact* shade of whatever will look nice with it. As of now, we need to replace the toilet and I've been considering getting a white one and getting a longer shower curtain to go to the floor and cover the bottom bit of the tub that shows and I can ease my mind on repainting etc.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    I like biscuit...I'm hoping it becomes more popular. But it all has to be the same in one room. Just my opinion of course.

  • PRO
    8 years ago

    White, white, white!!! Never out of style, never dated, goes with any color paint one might choose to use. You've got an awful lot going on in that bathroom. Re-think this.

  • 8 years ago

    White!

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Cotton white, Colonial white, Sedona beige. Find what works with the other finishes.

  • 8 years ago

    Ultimately you can do anything you want. There are no rules about bathrooms having to be identical in a house. However, I 100% agree with the comments that white is always the classic and most re-sellable choice. There are beautiful bathrooms with all manner of colored fixtures, but white is the most enduring color. Personally I do not like any bathroom fixtures that aren't white in my own home and anytime I've looked at buying a house with non-white bathroom fixtures, including biscuit, I've always considered them a negative against the house. I would always want to change them out to white.

  • 8 years ago

    Having replaced a toilet last year in a bath that had a "bisquit" tub, I can tell you that how different manufacturers define that color differs a lot. Not all bisquit colors are the same. Ours looks fairly white.

  • 8 years ago

    White is classic.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    You’ll be glad you have a white toilet if you ever need to replace the toilet seat!

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