To ask you to look at this pic of my new bathroom and tell me why I hate it!

[Canyoutellwhoiamyet]

Name changed as outing.

We have saved so hard for this new bathroom. We have reconfigured it and had everything new. Stripped to bare brick.

I really don't like it :-(

We still want to put a shelf up behind the toilet with some nice things on, and a towel storer where 3 towels will be rolled up at once in there.

Please be honest. Be as brutal as needed. I want to change the paint I think but no idea what to. We need to get a blind. What else can I do to make this the dream bathroom I envisaged

I think it looks a bit corporate! I used to work in an office that had a swanky bathroom (obviously without a tub) with that colour scheme. For me, I think it's the dark wood floor against stark white. You need some colour and some personality.

Green

It’s cream and brown (floor) it needs colour plus needs a blind and your belongings

What I meant was it’s not a popular colour to have, maybe charcoal or grey would be better which leaves you more open to colours on the wall and some accessories

@mootime I love that first pic! Really love it!
Defo my keen on the green.
Will show these to dh shortly.

Thanks soo much it's honestly been the most helpful thread ever for me.

Really appreciate everyones input

I think it’s lovely. I would have had the tiles going up to the ceiling.

Ooh, I like @mootime's renderings – particularly the addition of the stately home garden outside! You should definitely add that part.

Anyone else cracking up that this thread is almost at 700 posts? All largely saying the same thing: paint over the magnolia. Add a fugly 90s monstrosity funky Roman blind. Tile the whole thing. Pop-of-colour towels. It's more fun than Pinterest.

First up -Ive broken the rules and havent rtft.
Second Mooo those are amazing. You could make Hoggle love his hovel!

Back to the point. Cream walls /white suite/grey tiles...Thats why you hate it. If anyone 'upthread' has pointed that out then I agree!
You could pick almost any colour for the walls except beige/cream/brown tones. Then like others have said... Personalise it and you will start to feel like its yours.

It needs more tiles. I would tile from the bath wall, behind the toilet and over to the shower, Then the same on the other side. Have learned that a toilet against a painted wall is not a good idea if you live with a male.

Weird use of space. Small floor area.

MrsWhatToDo
I fully accept the no reading of TFT. I 100% wouldn't either if it wasn't mine!
But yes the main points have basically been

-Don't go for anything with warm cream or beige undertones.
-its lacking personality
-it needs colour of some sort
-my floor isn't very nice
-my tiles should probably have gone higher to stop it liking like a rental

• my very young dc will likely have destroyed it soon anyway

Definitely the wall colour - magnolia (I'm sure it isn't called this - but it basically is) and white is awful (in my opinion)

@primallass

Live with 3 males
1 grown up who has a good aim
2 under the age of 3.
Never even thought of that

It’s just so boring

MYA2081
Yikes! Erm i wouldnt say kids trying to trash it would factor in to you making it what you want.
How does shelf placement indicate a rental?
Fwiw I like the floor...

What colour are you considering? Have you got a favourite colour?

It looks a lovely big bathroom to me OP, all that’s wrong with it in my view is that there is too much bare painted wall. I love your fittings but think I would have gone for more tiling certainly behind the basin and round the bath Without going back to look at the photos again - how is the room heated? Is it just the radiator by the door?
My bathroom was redone several years ago now - the previous one was a disgusting mould riddance mess and I vowed that I would never let the new one go the same way, so I’m now obsessive about wiping down, cleaning and airing the room. The one thing that has horrified me - and I can’t believe that it’s unique to me - is the
amount of dust and fluff that accumulates especially on the floor. I hope I’m proved wrong but I suspect you may have the same problem with your dark floor. That space between the bath and the wall would be of concern to me and the areas under the hand basin and the toilet.

Its beautiful. Bit of farrow and ball and it'll be perfect. Not green though, yeuk.

Colour. What about some of these colour schemes. They would work with your dark floor.

@MYA2081 are you the OP and have forgotten to change back to your temp name change?!

Agree with what everyone else has said. I bought lots of plants for my new bathroom, added a sparkly grey/silver fluffy matt (Asda) and a lovely dark wood bath bar and candles. It needs colour and texture imo. If you do add tiles you could add textured tiles or ones with a bit of interest?

I like the flooring

It looks lovely. A coloured blind? A shelf?

The colour of the walls is dated and boring, the room is bare and sterile. I think it has loads of potential though. Go to pinterest and get ideas.

I would tile to the same height as above the bath round behind the toilet too. Then paint above that in something like F&B Dix Blue. Defo kill the magnolia. If you want to stick to neutral then try Skimming Stone which is a lovely bathroom colour - but check it goes with your tiles.
Love the dark brown shelves in the pics above too.
Otherwise I think accessories will make all the difference - blind, plants, mats for the floor.
I'm also laughing at how much we all love this!!

Do not, I REPEAT, do not get a fabric blind! I speak from experience. They just go mouldy after a while in a bathroom.

But a coloured metal/painted wooden venetian blind would be great. Some colourful towels and a picture or a splash of colour on one wall.

MYA2081

I live with two. Need the plasterboard taken off and redone ... then tiled.

I've always had fabric blinds in bathrooms and never had any issue with mould. Current one been in over a year, last house four years.

I do factor in them needing to be changed every few years though.

My kitchen one needs changing - but I don't know how old that is as it was here when I moved. It's not mouldy, just slightly yellowed.