Advice for my bathroom

[ancientgran]

Hi, I hope some of you stylish women can help me. I am having my bathroom refitted. Picked the bath and I'm having a unit with the toilet and basin over a cupboard, not sure what they are called but seems a tidy way to do it. I'm having a thermostatic controlled shower over the bath. It is a small bathroom.

I'm stuck about colour, I'm not very adventuous, most of the house is white but I have a pale blue bedroom and a pale green bedroom so a little bit of colour.

I'm thinking of having grey marble look tiles on two walls and as a splash back behind the basin. It is currently all tiled and I quite fancy not having the whole lot tiled but what sort of colour should I go for? I'm thinking of a pale dusky blue colour. Would that work do you think? I really don't want it too look like an old ladies bathroom, I am an old lady but I want it to look modern.

Any advice gratefully received.

Look at iridescent mosaic tiles. A few stripes of those, and they come in various colours, will give a pearly shimmer and multiple colours.

Oh that sounds nice. I'm just waiting for a quote and getting excited. You'd probably need to see how awful my bathroom is to understand quite how exciting this is.

I'm sorry to say this but think iridescent mosaics would look old-fashioned (they were very popular 15-20 years ago).

You should have what you like of course, but grey tones are also in the way out, with warmer beiges coming back in. What goes around...

However marble seems to be going nowhere, so stick with the tiles you like. Pink is a very popular bathroom colour at the moment, as is dark green. A light, dusky pink (something like Dulux Bathroom paint in blush pink) would go well with the grey tiles and tonally tie in with your light green/blue elsewhere.

Rather than having an isolated splashback, I'd tile the wall up to splashback level, then paint above. But that's because I have a dislike of a couple of tiles stuck by themselves over a sink!

Another thing you can do to make it all look contemporary is paint the ceiling to match the walls, and/or ditto the woodwork. This would really work with a pale colour and in a small room as you're not then "outlining" everything in white. Or paint the window frames black - we did this when we had our bathroom done a couple of years ago and it makes the whole room look more put together.

Ultimately it's only paint, you can always re-do it if you hate it. Definitely use Dulux bathroom paint though!