Color in the Bathroom

The bathroom's color palette is as important in creating a mood as are the style of the fixtures and bathroom accessories. If designing your bathroom from scratch, start with a simple, lustrous white backdrop - a white sink, tub, and toilet - and build your bathroom color from there. On today's market there are a lot of colorful lines of bathroom fixtures, that can confuse many homeowners. Those who chose colored bathroom fixtures instead of white regret it quite shortly after they start using them. Colored tubs and sinks require high maintenance, because soap scum and dandruff looks terrible in a colored surface. On other hand, white is fresh and pure, and visually expands space as well. Be aware, however, that even within the white category there are subtle variations, which run from a crisp milk color to a buttery tone.

You can add warmth and charm to your bathroom by using fresh vibrant colors in the tiles, towels, and linens. You can accentuate your white fixtures with embroidered hand-towels, brass fixtures and glass shelves holding collection of antiqued colored bottles.

The mostly neutral color pallet of the small powder room or bathroom can get a pop of color when you choose a hand-painted bathroom vanity.

Another inexpensive yet highly effective way to introduce color into a bathroom is with flowers. They are considered a luxury touch and can create a cheerful feeling in the bathroom. Beautiful flowers like freesia, lilacs or roses in addition to vivid colors can introduce delicate smells, witch will add a feeling relaxation and freshness to the bathroom.

Bathroom Elements

A lot of bathroom elements such as paints, wallpaper, towels and accessories, are relatively inexpensive and can be easily changed.

There is a great opportunity available for flair and imagination in a simple bathroom. Especially if your bathroom is white, when you scoop up the bath towels, hand towels, bath mitts, bath mats, and cotton rugs, pay attention to how much color all the cotton provides, and how easy it is to change the look and feel of the space by putting out a new set of fresh supplies.

You can have a blue-and-white theme, where everything matches, from the terry-cloth towels to the quilted rug. At other times you can decorate with a palette of solid pastels and toss down a rag rug with a rainbow of the same colors.

Keep a stack of cotton hand towels and change them at whim. One week they can be mint-green and white, and the next they may be pink-and-white check. Or you can put towels of different plaids or checks in a pile. For everyday use, the cotton kitchen hand towels from house-wares and kitchen supply stores are ideal. They're inexpensive, absorbent, colorful, and don't need to be ironed.

Well designed and well proportioned bathroom, made of honest materials usually do not require a lot of decorating and over the top embellishments. Fixtures should always be simple and appropriate for your bathroom style. Save the money you would spent on a hand-painted sink and purchase classically designed crown molding and crisp baseboard that will contribute to an elegantly understated beauty and tranquility of the bathroom. What can be more beautiful and relaxing than clean white fixtures, pretty faucet sets, and lots of colorful towels in a room with running water?

Bathroom Decorating Advice

The stone's natural variations provide a visual contrast to the smooth, crisp white tub and crown molding. Classic style, graceful curves and green plants create a relaxed garden-like setting in this bathroom. A little extras make the bathroom complete. Aromatherapy candles set a romantic mood and produce therapeutic scents.

Adding architectural details like ribbed columns and large crown molding will give you results that are anything but ordinary. Beautiful wood carving with scrolled leaf design applied above the bathroom window creates interest and enriches the bathroom's textures.

A soft swags of the bathroom's window treatments and fluffy colorful towels will soften-up the appearance of hard and shiny surfaces in the bathroom.

You can enhance the bathroom's textures and introduce color by hanging framed art above the tub. The moister-resilient wallpaper with horizontal stripes will also make a bathroom ceiling appear higher.