Dark Navy Bathroom. Would it be mad?

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Dark navy floor and walls. Possibly dark navy vanity unit (else white). White sanitary ware and normal coloured taps and ceiling.

Small suburban windowless bathroom.

I'm really feeling it - like that it would be soothing and calming and cocooning.

Would I regret it?

Other option is pure white - but I'm concerned that would glare the eyes.

You'll regret it. A house I lived in had the windowless hallway painted blue - the colour of the preview and post buttons...maybe a little darker. It was so dark. Sucks up the light. When we moved I to this house dining room was navy under the dado and cream above - that just looked very dated. I'd go with a light colour with navy accessories.

I painted ours a medium blue by Valspar. Windowless, but bright spot lights. Already had dark tiled floors, white bathroom suite and ceiling and I love it.

I'm so over the insipid magnolia that's there at the moment.

And I want a block statement colour - not patterns - I find patterns tiring to look at when I'm at the end of the day

Solid navy might or might not work (I love navy rooms!) - it depends on the blue and how you break it up.

Look here:

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Go for white vanity and sanitary ware and it's very easy to repaint if you do regret it!

The builder is talking us into tiling the whole thing - so it'd be a commitment either way

You mentioned ordinary taps but there's a huge trend to put copper with navy which you could also consider: copper bathroom randomly googled example

Spend some time on Pinterest and you'll see better examples...

the-frugality.com/ensuite-inspiration/

Or brass..

Dark on dark ... it's the low visual stimulation that's hooking me. One of my aims is a cocoon for my autistic teen.

Considering virtually every new kitchen / bathroom / paint job I’ve seen in the last 18 months has been navy blue I wouldn’t consider it mad. No.

@crosspelican - I like that bathroom from an aesthetic point of view - but my lizard brain is going into meltdown at all the clashing grout lines (straight, diagonal and small format on the floor) - not to mention the spiky pattern on the tiles.

Our cloakroom has no windows and we have black tiled floor, bottom half of wall in black tiles and top half in white with white sanitarywear. We love it!

@PinkOboe - is that to say that navy bathrooms are going to date, because they're too 'on trend'? Though I have my hall painted grey from when that was trendy - and no regrets - I like it.

@bouncydog - I've wondered that.... would having a white 1ft strip of untiled wall between the navy tiles and the white ceiling give an 'optical illusion' of a bigger ceiling ....?

Shall I post up pics of the stripped out room to give a visual of the space ?

This is the view when I'm sitting in where the bath would be. Plan is to run the wall straight across - to square off the alcove.

I once had a black tiled and deep teal suite bathroom, very 70s. The black tiles & surfaces showed every drop of water that had evaporated, limescale nightmare. Avoid if hard water.

I don’t think considering navy walls is mad but I think it would certainly need to be broken up with a lighter colour.

I’m considering navy walls in our bathroom and having white sanitary ware and vanity unit, white tiles half way up wall and a lighter patterned flooring.

Yes, dark tiles show lots of marks

It sounds like you’ve thought it through and that you would like it. So I think you should get it.

Well - I've only thought it through since the old bathroom leaked right through the ceiling - so it's being done fast and for necessity rather than to fulfil a dream iykwim.

Showing marks is a concern. I'm a slattern.

Only if you have no limescale in your water

Go for it. I would do a white floor and white vanity though.

Or white and navy floor tiles

Yes, pics are always good!

That Frugality bathroom hurts my eyes too. Talk about throw everything at it! So many different styles of tiles, brass, modern, Victorian style sink.......Sheesh, it's got a total identity crisis.

I've just googled Navy Bathrooms and can't find one lovely one. Some look great because the bones of the bathroom are great but in a more ordinary bathroom, it just looks horrid.

We have a dark floor and paintwork in our downstairs loo and it shows up all the white dust from the loo roll really badly.