Need makeover ideas - small, dark bathroom
Decorating_challenged
I have a bathroom that desperately needs updating. The problem is the bathtub, toilet and built-in sink are all a light shade of pink. My house was built in the 1950s. Also, the original house was 3 bedrooms & 1 bathroom -- when a family room was added to the rear of the house the bathroom window was removed. I'm thinking of painting the walls a dark red to compliment the pink toilet and bathtub, but since there is no natural light I fear it will be dark and uninviting. Any suggestions? Thanks.
montana1
I painted a small bathroom a dark red (almost burgandy) color, trust me you don't want to do that. The room instantly became extremly dark. My solution was to paint the top half Beige and I left the bottom half red. We installed chair rail in between the 2 colors and it came out beautiful. If you paint red and decide you don't like it, you then have to put on a couple of coats of primer before you can repaint.
forest26
The Post recently had a article about vintage bathrooms from this era. For a pink one they suggest: PINK? Patterns that have white, red and pink would work, Gagliano says. Use them on the shower curtain or wallpaper. He suggests Pottery Barn Kids for a good assortment of patterns. Most important, he says, "Don't try and match the pink." It will be almost impossible and it will look like you tried to match and missed.? Use tones of warm gray: a medium shade and charcoal, Lewis-Overstreet says. No light grays and nothing cool. Use brushed-nickel fixtures.? Paint with Benjamin Moore's Atrium White, which has a pink cast, Schwab says. Benjamin Moore's Navajo White, which is more tan, also would work well. Add white towels with a taupe monogram.Good Luck
catwoman708
If you'll look back, there is a post from last August on page 8, "Bathroom Renovations" from someone who had pink tiles. There's some ideas there.A dark color with no natural light will definitely make your bathroom look small, dark, and dreary. I'd stick with white, bone, or a pale gray, depends on your type of walls and the shade of pink (pale pastel, or deep "pepto bismol"?). In the previous post on p.8 I suggested going with a black/pink/white 50's retro theme, or "hollywood glamour" theme. The ideas about chocolate brown and taupe sound promising also, but I'd use them in accents and not wall color. With Valentine's day coming up I'm getting a lot of visions of chocolates & darkish rose pinks - I must be dreaming of boxes of candy.P.S. I love to hear updates on what you end up doing, there's not much traffic on this board.
Decorating_challenged
Thank you for your responses -- I'm starting to think I can do this. I watch quite a bit of HGTV for redecorating inspiration, but truthfully if a project gets too complicated (and I don't have other people to make it go faster) I'm over my head. My kitchen was remodeled three years ago, so I realize there's a lot of merit in hiring professionals (especially in a house as old as mine). The price ends up being worth it when, as mentioned earlier, you take into consideration dry rot and other issues that can be a problem later on with a home inspection if I put the house on the market. I really like the "white, pink and black" concept, given that there are no windows and its a really small bathroom. If money were no object I'd spend the bucks to enlarge it, but given that the real estate market is slowing at present I don't think the time is right for that option. This is really getting me enthused -- thank you so much.
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