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Beige bathroom paint refresh - what color?

Our bathroom was remodeled by the previous owners within the past 10 years so is in good condition, but unfortunately isn't my style by a longshot. I really don't like beige, and the tile is almost beachy but we live nowhere near the ocean.

Since it's in good condition the only thing we can justify doing is painting the walls (I can't convince my husband to let me do the cabinets so they will remain espresso), and refreshing the hardware with gold Rustoleum. The walls are currently a textured sand color (literally feels like sand) which is chipping off. What color should we replace it with? I prefer bright bathrooms so don't want to do anything dark.




Comments (10)

  • 6 years ago
    What look or style are you going for? I don’t see gold hardware in here. If anything I’d consider removing the accent tile and painting everything a light gray, but keeping the brushed silver hardware. Maybe even replace the mirror (which shouldn’t cost much) to get rid of the greenish tile all together.
  • 6 years ago
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  • 6 years ago

    We don’t have a demo budget and are just going for paint right now. In 10-15 years we’ll do a demo but there isn’t anything functionally wrong with it right now except the peeling paint and some rusting on the hardware (esp. the towel bar which I might just remove). I’m just looking for something a little brighter. The tile is SUPER grouted in there...


    I’m thinking maybe I should take it in a neautral “spa” direction since it seems like that’s the closest fit. I just need a different wall color (not sand or beige).

  • 6 years ago

    I might use the warm beach glass blue-green color that you have in in your accent tile..only make it deeper, somewhat darker color..such tile plays well either with colors drawn from it, where it blends(such as now)-or it needs something stronger next to it but still keeping same warmth of shade of a color chosen.

    Would you consider this direction? Of coure one needs to make samples first etc. To see how looks in the space

    I also think deeper warm blue-green like that will be a nice background for dark vanity. Will play well with gold too if you go forward with redoing the pulls etc.

  • 6 years ago

    The wall tile is fighting with everything else in the room, it looks like to me.

    As Aprilneverends says going with the greenish glass color from your listetto might work. There is a lot of pink in the mosaic. Pink and green do go together. You could go very light bluish green gray.

  • 6 years ago
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    here are 2 paint options I made. one is a gray/blueish green the other is a taupe/gray color, in my estimation.

    original:

    grayish greenish

    taupe/gray:

  • 6 years ago
    Check out Nelson Blue by Benjamin Moore. I want to use this paint color somewhere in my home.
  • 6 years ago

    here's a lighter version of your existing color:

  • 6 years ago

    I like all of the options everyone has listed. I really like lighter/brighter bathrooms but would consider doing a darker shade of the sea foam green tile, maybe as an accent wall though.

  • 6 years ago
    Sherwin Williams Sea Salt. But go to the store to get a sample as the photo on line is not an accurate representation. It is a blue, green, gray shade that truly picks up what is around it. I had it the home we sold a year ago in the bathroom. The bathroom felt modern and didn’t cause weird tints for putting on makeup.