Shower room wall colour - with pictures!

[MrsMummyBx]

Hi all

Currently redecorating my shower room in a country cottage. It doesn’t have any windows and is quite gloomy. I thought (without testing it) that Cromarty F&B would be good- big mistake, it looks really grey. So I’ve had matchboard (the tongue and groove type stuff) put on the bottom half of the wall to dado height to break things up. And now need to decide what to do re paint colours. Ignore the green color of the matchboard, it comes like that as it is waterproofed and needs to be painted over.

Options are Either:
Keep the Cromarty on the top (see picture below) and paint the matchboard white

Or

Paint the matchboard a duck egg type colour (bit like Theresa’s green) and put white on the wall above.

Shower tiles are cream metro.

What do you think??

What's the floor going to be?

I would paint the matchboard cream to match the tiles then choose a colour for the walls. What's the lighting like? I'd be tempted to go stronger/bolder than you may have been thinking. Maybe Dulux Teal Facade. Or, wallpaper it.

Hi @goldpendant am going to do an antique wood coloured karndean for the floor

@wowfudge it will be spotlights when they are put in so will be brighter than the pictures show

Thoughts much appreciated x

I'd definitely go for a 'twist' on traditional cottagey style then

I’d do cream matchboard and stronger colour above as a pp suggested. Would you consider a green or grey green rather than duck egg - bit more current?

Colour match the tiles and paint that above the dado (def not white)
Paint the Matchboard to contrast. Mid toned in the grey/green/blue spectrum.

House White (it's a cream colour) F&B might be a good match for the tiles. I'd do something like that on the walls and maybe Blue Gray F&B on the wood panels. Exactly what 7to25 said.