Fun Paint Ideas to Give Your Bathroom a New Life
We believe in the power of paint to turn a tiny nook into a calm oasis. The bathroom may be one of the smallest rooms in the house, but with the right colors and design accents, it can be a hidden gem. Whether you’re remodeling or just updating your bathroom, there are many ways to use color to make it feel larger, more open, and more personalized.
Ready to give your bathroom a makeover? Here are five of the best bathroom paint colors and ideas that will make even the smallest space a highlight of your home.
Create a Zen Cocoon with Neutrals
Give your bathroom a warm upgrade by painting it all in light neutral hues and adding biophilic elements, like hanging plants. Light, warm tones are great small bathroom paint colors to brighten a space. Start with a soothing cream like Moonlight or a warm beige, like Ryokan Guesthouse for your walls. The more you can match your neutral hue to the stone of your sink, wall moldings, and other finishings, the more your bathroom will transform into a cocoon-like space. Take a look at how our customer used this paint idea to achieve a completely blissful room.
Coordinate with your Tiles
If you have tiled walls or floors, consider coordinating your paint color to your tiles. We recommend going a shade lighter with your paint than your tiles while staying in the same tonal family. For example, one of our customers has basil green tiles on the bottom half of their bathroom wall. They opted for our Natural Habitat paint for the top of the wall, which is a light green with a hint of yellow. The result is that the room has a beautiful organic feel that is refreshing – as a bathroom should be. Light green is one of the best small bathroom paint colors because it adds brightness as well as an inherently lush quality.
Divide and Conquer
Many people like the look of having two-tone walls, with one color on the bottom and one on the top half of the wall. While you can keep it simple by using painter’s tape to divide the walls and paint each section a different color, you can also get creative by segmenting the walls with several vertical stripes or one diagonal line. You can even use a fun wallpaper on the top or bottom half of the wall and base your paint color on this idea.
Balance Black and White
Instead of choosing one dominant color for your bathroom, choose two with high contrast, like our Supermoon white and Dark Arts black. As long as the colors are well balanced, black and white bathroom paint colors come across as sophisticated, upscale, and contemporary. To avoid having too much of one color, paint the walls one shade and paint everything else in the other shade, including the doors, trim, and furnishings. Take a look at how one of our customers achieved the perfect contrast in their bathroom.
Look Up
Finally, don’t forget one very important bit of real estate in your bathroom that is often neglected: the ceiling. Painting the ceiling gives a bathroom added dimension, opening it up or creating more of a mood based on the color you choose. Create cohesion by adding the same color of paint to your ceilings that you used on your walls, or add a bright pop of color just on the ceiling so that guests can’t help but look up. You can even use a painterly wallcovering, like Hyperion to create a work of art in an unexpected place.
Depending on the paint that catches your eye, your bathroom can be serene, playful, soft, or dramatic. There’s no wrong answer when it comes to our paint, so get creative, be messy and loud with any bathroom paint colors you want.
