Exploring Color Trends for Your Bathroom Remodel
A bathroom remodel gives you the opportunity to make your bathroom more functional and more beautiful. Adding more storage, upgrading to energy-efficient low flow fixtures, and installing new bathroom flooring, countertops, and cabinets can add value to your home and make your bathroom more comfortable. But don’t neglect your bathroom’s color scheme. The color palette you choose for your new bathroom can tie your other decorating choices together and create a cohesive interior decorating theme throughout your whole home. Here are a few of the things you should consider when choosing your color scheme for your bathroom remodel.
Your Overall Interior Design Style
First, you should consider the overall interior design style you have envisioned for your bathroom remodel. Do you want a modern, sleek, and stylish bathroom? If so, you should choose a clean, bright, and fresh color palette, such as eggshell, taupe, and dark gray. Is your bathroom remodel design contemporary, cozy, and down to earth? You might consider a color palette of soft pastels, like pale green, light gray, and tan or peach. If your bathroom redesign is bold and trendy, you should choose a bold color palette of bright blue, crisp white, and black.
What Mood You Want to Achieve
Next, think about the mood you want to achieve with your bathroom redesign. Some colors are meant to be energizing, passionate, and exciting, which might not be the vibe you’re trying to create in your bathroom. Other colors are calming and restorative, like shades of blue, pink, white, green, yellow, and purple. Neutral colors, like shades of white, brown, and gray, are also calming and timeless.
The Size of Your Bathroom
The paint colors you choose can make your bathroom look bigger—or smaller. Painting a small bathroom in shades of white or pale neutrals can make it seem more spacious. However, painting a small bathroom in bright, bold, or dark colors will make it seem small and cramped. If you want to highlight a bright, spacious bathroom, you can use darker colors for your bathroom flooring and lighter colors for the walls, fixtures, and ceiling. This will make the room seem even taller and brighter.
The Lighting Design
If your bathroom gets a lot of natural light, you can get away with using darker colors in your color palette. However, if your bathroom only has one small window, using dark green, black, maroon, or dark brown for the walls will make your bathroom seem like a small cave. Incorporating thoughtful lighting design elements can give you more creative freedom when choosing your color palette. If you want a dark, romantic vibe for your bathroom, install wall sconces and a chandelier and incorporate wall paint or wallpaper that uses darker colors like black, purple, green, and gray. If you want your bathroom to be bright and cheerful and it doesn’t get a lot of natural light, use shades of off-white, like alabaster, eggshell, cloud white, cotton ball, or snowfall with a combination of subtle pink, green, or blue shades.
Existing Decor and Finishes
If you have already picked out decor and finishing elements for your bathroom, you can use colors in those items to inform your overall color scheme. Colors in your bathroom countertops, tiles, flooring, and hardware can help you choose the color scheme for your walls, trim, and accessories.
Online Color Palettes and Color Pickers
You can also explore online color palettes and color pickers to help you make your choice. Paint companies typically have lists of their colors on their websites, and sometimes have a tool that can help you decide which colors go together. You might be surprised to see how some colors look together—even ones you never would have considered using.
Pick Up Paint Swatches
Once you have a better sense of the types of colors you are considering for your new bathroom, you can visit a hardware store, paint store, or paint company website to get swatches. Swatches allow you to see how the color looks in person, rather than in a catalog or on a computer screen. You can use the swatches to create your color palette, mixing and matching colors from different families and shades (and even paint brands). Hold the swatches up to the wall, ceiling, trim, bathroom cabinets, or floor and be sure to look at them in different lights to see how you feel about them.
Get Paint Samples
When you have narrowed down your bathroom color palette to two or three color schemes, you can get paint samples from the company of your choice. Paint a small square of each color in different areas of your bathroom to see how the colors look under different types of light. For instance, paint a square of each color in direct sunlight, in direct overhead or artificial light, and in shadow. Let the colors stay up on the wall for a week or two to see how you feel about them. This can help you narrow down your choices to one color palette.
Need Professional Bathroom Design Assistance?
If you want help choosing key elements of your bathroom remodel, our design team at Abatiello Design Center is standing by. You can meet with one of our interior design consultants to go over your options for bathroom color palettes and help you explore your vision. We also specialize in professional bathroom remodeling services, including installation of bathroom flooring, countertops, and cabinets. To schedule a bathroom remodel consultation or bathroom design consultation in Vermont, Upstate New York, or New Hampshire, call us today at (802) 773-6300 or contact us online.
