Which colour paint to go with hideous bathroom suite?

[Elisheva]

My house has a hideous bathroom suite. Apparently it’s ‘champagne’. In Velspar colour it’s ’sheepskin rug’.
I can’t afford to replace the suite at the moment, but I’m painting the bathroom to try and make it a bit more bearable.
However literally no colour makes it look any better, green tones make it look yellow, yellow tones bring out the green, whites make it look dirty.
Any suggestions?

Dark blue and white so it looks as though it's intended to be the ubiquitous beige like you'd have with a neutral carpet, blue walls and white woodwork?

Thank you. I was looking at a lighter shade on the walls and then a darker teal, but it’s the shade of white that is causing issues!

What about dove grey, so contrasting neutrals in a similar tone. Then you can use coloured towels, bath mat to jazz it up. French Grey from Little Greene or
warm Pale Grey from Coat

Dark blue, like stiffkey, with a darker brown/beige that has similar shades to the champagne, Coats taupe for example

I did look at grey. I’ll buy a tester!

Do you mean blue on the walls? Or as a feature wall?
Sorry, this is all new to me.

Dark burgundy walls? Little Greene

Blue on all the walls-embrace the darkness! We had a similarly disgusting off white suite in our old house and we used dark green to overpower it and it worked!

I can count for Stiffkey blue -I have it in several rooms!

Champagne bathroom suites are peak 80s, go fully on Dynasty on it and don't fight it!

Hang on to it long enough and it will come back round

I can’t understand why someone would voluntarily choose this colour. I mean, someone went out and deliberately bought a champagne suite! What were they thinking??

We have a full orange colour shower and sink. The tiles around also orange and black tiles floor. It’s also awkward layout. I can’t paint shower tiles by no idea what goes with orange and black!
So far I added white under sink cabinet and large whiit bath mats to hide some. It needs full refurb when affordable

Do you don sunglasses before you go in @Caspianberg? Sounds like a festival of bad taste 😂

Any chance of a photo? Can then be a bit more help with naming specific shades.

@dotdotdotdash - luckily the lighting is also awful it hides some of the sins. It’s the only shower in house, but we have a much nicer bathroom with bath, toilet, sink so avoid as much as possible

Here’s the 1950s orange horror show

I can't see a champagne suite, only part of a white sink? Do you mean you don't like the colour of the tiles?

The wooden-panelled ceiling is not helping either is it @Caspianberg? And who thought those tiles were a good idea? 😆

The same oddballs who choose 'champagne' for kitchen cabinets.

quite a few people have chose a light blue. Personally I think it's horrible.

a dusky pink would probably look good

personally I'd go for a dark blue.

@Caspianberg complementary colour to orange is blue, if you painted the ceiling a very pale, subtle blue and got bathmat and towels in similar colour it could change it considerably.

@Elisheva could you post a couple of pics of the champagne suite in different lights? I'm sure something could improve it. 😁

That would be my mother.

We moved house. The bath was the original from the 1950s. So white and ceramic.

Mum had a brown suite put in.

But it never looked clean.

Next it was purple. Still not great.

The final choice was champagne. It was the 1980s.

She also had a little cushion that attached with suckers so you could lie in the bath with cold water from who ever had been in there before you.

Rather than paint the bathroom have a look at changing the colour of the suite itself.

https://thebathbusiness.co.uk/bath-resurfacing-services/resurfacing-a-bathroom-or-bathroom-suite/

Champagne was very fashionable, it was considered classier than avocado/grey/brown etc in the late 80s. All of us with white suites need to realise that people will one day look at them and think they are awful, hard as it might be to believe now.

Early 90s my parents put a champagne suite in their en-suite. Initially it was a very beige room with travertine tiles but latterly before they moved out in the 2000s they added some dark green. That worked nicely.

As PP said, it was fashionable. When I was a teenager (1990 ish) we moved into a brand new build house. My mum bought it off plan and so got to choose the bathroom and downstairs loo suites. She went for dove grey upstairs and champagne downstairs. Awful now but very chic at the time.

@heldinadream - yes I need to do something. We have lived with it 5 years as was hoping to replace by now so it seemed pointless. But life happened and it’s going to have a stay a few more years. I think the ceiling might be the first to cover.
There was wallpaper also at top at one point (but took that straight off as damp)

My parents bought a new build house in the early 90s and it came with champagne bathrooms, they didn't get a choice of it but all the houses there had them at the time. It seemed so posh after the avocado one we grew up with.

I'm sure DM had one in a pale blue, one in pale yellow then white, and I can't remember the colour of the other one now. I want to say cream. I never really thought about how the wall colours went with the suites as that's just how they were at the time.