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Master bath and bed, different colors?

6 years ago

We are having the master bedroom and bath painted this week. The bath has cherry (I think) cabinetry. The bedroom furniture is two-toned (you guessed it, 1997) with, I think, cherry tops and birch for the body. I want to do a light beige with a tad of pink or peach for the bathroom. But the color I like there, doesn’t work in the bedroom. One, it doesn‘t go with the furniture, and two, it’s too light. It’s a good-sized room and a darker color warms it up and makes it a bit cozier.

I‘m using Benjamin Moore and have a Color Preview fandeck. Do I have to go with colors from the same card? I was thinking one from the middle of a card for the bedroom, and lighter by two colors for the bath. But, somethings the color that works in the bedroom doesn’t work for the bath. What to do?

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  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    def do not have to be the same color ... picking colors on the same card will work, but their website will also suggest complementary colors too

  • 6 years ago

    In a smaller room, such as a bathroom, just be aware that the "tad" of pink or peach can become much more than a tad, especially in the corners and when bouncing back from the red of the cherry cabinets.

  • 6 years ago

    Are you planning to change your bedding? That is usually what I think about when choosing a wall color.

    I think we can be more flexible in our personal space. I get that you would want to coordinate a hallway guest bath with its adjoining rooms, but this is your private space.

    That said I personally like to have it somehow coordinate. With a pink/peach in your bathroom, I wouldn't mind a green in the bedroom.

  • 6 years ago

    For me, the colors in different rooms together just need to play nicely together : ) .

  • 6 years ago

    Any two colors that look nice together are fine. I assume you have different flooring in the two rooms too, just like you coordinated the transition in flooring you will do same with walls.

    In my old house our bedroom was SW Creamy, and the bath was SW Jogging Path. Looked lovely together. The rooms had the same style and feel.

  • 6 years ago

    It would never have occurred to be that they should match. They are separate rooms, presumably.

  • 6 years ago

    If you can see the bathroom walls from the bedroom, the colors need to be in harmony. As long as they play well together, pick whatever is pleasing to you. Rather than pinkish in the bathroom, a color with a little more yellow would probably work better. Try a hint of peach or apricot.

  • 6 years ago

    The two will definitely coordinate (and do it well, I hope).

    Apricot is probably a better descriptor of what it want, thank you! I had a color in another house that I loved, Candlelight, but I don’t Remember whose brand, and the only other Candlelight I’ve seen is a yellow.

    Sigh, I should probably get new bedding, but I love my Laura Ashley.

  • 6 years ago

    I am so bad at selecting paint colors. I need a color by midday Tuesday. Eek. The bedroom hall looks great, though, but I just used the same color as the downstairs hall. oh, and the living room. And dining. And DH’s office. Actually, he will go with anything as long as it isn’t the Laura Ashley mint green it is now Lol.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I went with BM Hazelnut Cream in my guest bath and I love it ... a gentle beige with just a hint of a pinkish undertone...just enough to make everyone look warm. It does not match the guest room which is yellow.

    If you are concerned about colors blending you can, with color preview, a) pick colors along a strip or b) pick colors the same # of steps down the strip. Or you can go to Ben Moore's Affinity colors which are all designed to play nicely together.

    BM Hazelnut cream:

  • 6 years ago

    That Hazelnut Cream is pretty, and it led me to Candle White. The other colors on the CandleWhite card seem to work better in the bedroom, so that might be the pick. I think the bedroom color could work in DH’s office (the bedroom next door), but then we’d have 3 tints-of-brown bedrooms upstairs. DS#1’s room is kind of khaki and we are not painting that. DS#2’s room is blue. So DH’s office will probably be more neutral. It’s the smallest of the bedrooms and faces north, so it could use a lighter color.

    I think DS has chosen the hall bath color.

    It‘s so nice to have the upstairs hall painted the same color as the foyer now! It was China White, which I’m sure is a nice color but not in a sunless space. Now it’s Hepplewhite Ivory, which looks like sunlight in my house.

  • 6 years ago

    It really is so true how different the paint colors look depending on the space. Hepplewhite Ivory looks really nice. It prompted my memory to my last master bath which did get lots of light, I had painted Putnam Ivory which was a lot deeper than what you are looking for~ but it was lovely as well.

  • 6 years ago

    Hazelnut Cream is beautiful in your bathroom Annie. I needed a peachy or apricot tan for my house and had a devil of a time finding the right one. I kept looking at Hazelnut Cream and sooo wanted to use it. I was afraid it would be too intense in my space. It's a perfect bathroom color to me but I was looking in a dining room....

  • 6 years ago

    Patriceny, what did you end up using in the dining room?

  • 6 years ago

    I agree with everyone else who thinks that the rooms can be different coordinating colors. :-) I'm hoping to convince my husband to do 2 different colors in ours!

  • 6 years ago

    Bpath, I think it's SW Divine White. Sometimes it's just straight-up tan, other times it's got a definite apricot hue depending upon lighting.