I have a small half bath off my kitchen. Kitchen is wine red. Dining room, across the hall and around the corner (but still pretty darned close) is sage green. Rest of the walls (including 1/2 bath) are light khaki. I want to paint the bathroom and am not opposed to something dramatic, but want it to coordinate with the other two painted rooms - not matchy matchy but not not clashing either.
What color would you paint it if it were your house?
ETA: Kitchen cabinets are a light oak but there are no cabinets in the bathroom because it's a pedestal sink, fixtures are silver, toilet/sink are white porcelain, tile is a sand color with slight peach undertones in it - I hate the tile, we will probably replace with hardwood sometime in the future. There is no natural light, it's a little cave, lol.
Thank you ladies! Great ideas, keep 'em coming!!
I like moss green bathrooms (not the toilet and sink eew) with off white trim.. souns like it is in the color pallet already.. I wish mamapedia sometimes allowed pic upload! That would help with rooms and identifying rashes :)
We recently bought a new home. When I went to Sherwin Williams they had signs up that if I bought a $75 gift card I got a free hour and a half with a color consultant. I did this and the woman was really helpful and we picked out colors for our whole house in 90 minutes. I have started painting and so far am really happy with the choices.
I asked the consultant about the deal and she said that they run it all the time, so I would think that if you went to any Sherwin Williams you could do this as well.
Cheers,
D.
Deep dark purple or chocolate brown gets my vote!
what color are the cabinets, tiles (if any) and toilet? white, cream, ??? this also plays a role in choosing a color..
I don't care for the really dark powder rooms. It makes me feel the walls are closing in on me.
I love this website and thought it might give you some ideas. It helped me design our twins bedroom, including the perfect wall color.
http://www.roomzaar.com/rate-my-space/Bathrooms/powder-ro...
dusky purple, mid green-gray, or almost dark chocolate (dark milk chocolate)
All cool tones
welllllllll..........You could just do an accent wall and it would be easier to tie in to the other colors, Plus you said the room is not well lit, adding too much color may overwhelm the room. Red and green are an anagulous...sp.. color scheme, they go well together because they are opposite each other on the color wheel. Adding another existing color other than the ones in either the kitchen or dining color would be quite tricky. Id stick with a monochromatic(darker or lighter version of the same color) version of the same colors. Question is which room would you rather tie into the bathroom, the kitchen or dining>?
If its the kitchen, do the wall a brighter, or darker shade of red, but just one wall, leave the rest tan. If youd rather tie in the dining room, use a different shade of green (but make sure it has the same undertones as your sage)
You can find the colors you want to play off of in darker and lighter versions at your hardware or paint store., or you could just do what i do and buy a whte or black and mix it to what is leftover of your original paint for the room you want to tie together.
Bring that look to fruition by adding bathroom accesories, or just one peice of art that makes the new color pop.
If you have red and green, my first thought it some kind of yellow. But whatever color you choose has to jive with the sand color tile, and yellow might not do that. You might have to pick something with peach tones in it.
I tried yellow in a bathroom, which has hideous floor tiles with a kind of orange-ish undertones. It looked terrible, and only made the hideous floor stand out more. So I chose a bold orange-y color, which had the same undertones as the floor, and was dark enough that it takes the focus away from the floor. It looks great.
So if you want the focus on the floor, make the color brighter/darker than you normally might. Though if you already have red and green walls, you are obviously not afraid of color.
Sounds like you have the colors I have too.
I usually buy paint from Lowes, (Olympia brand) I have tried Chasing Chocolate (former bedroom color) and Fudge (current bedroom). Fudge is a really dark brown very rich in tone. Chasing Chocolate is slightly lighter on the same swatch as the fudge.
The easiest way I find to color match is to take swatches and match them up. So take some of the color swatches of the colors you already have then look to see what colors go well with what you have. You want to make certain the colors have the same weight in color meaning around the same range in depth of color, unless you want a serious contrast.
When picking colors, I also consider the amount of light that pours into the room, the more light, the more likely I am to go darker on the walls because the room can handle it without becoming a cave or cavern.
I would go with a chocolate brown, if you're looking for color. You can find one with hints of red and green in it (just go pick up some of those swatches at a paint store).
I definitely would not go too dark. I would use a toasted light brown or a slightly darker version of your sage green.
Our color sound similar and I need to paint my powder room this year as well. I'm going with the entry/hallway/stairwell color (the sage-y green "Garden Urn") because it is closest to the powder room.
Have you considered a mustard gold color?
colonial blue
"Slice" Valspar, I believe it is Laura Ashley, its' at Lowe's, its a bright yellow
"Meadow" Valspar, Eddie Bauer (?), again Lowe's
A beige pink with the sage green and red accents, (my downstairs bath in 4 houses)
My dining room was "Slice" with accents of "Meadow" and the red. My kitchen was "Meadow" with accents of red and my piano room was colonial blue. THe rest was khaki/tan, actually I think it was called Sand III. This was all in the last house. I havent' painted this one yet.
