Latest Designer Bathroom Ideas and How To Guides for your Home

The colour of a bathroom plays a strong role in setting the mood. The majority of people prefer a relaxing ambience in the bathroom, and choosing a neutral or pastel colour is one way of achieving this. Having the walls, bathroom fixtures, furnishings, and accessories being all one colour, however, can be downright boring! Let’s say you choose a cream coloured sink, bath, and toilet. Display olive green towels with a gold design on the towel bars, and try to get accessories, such as a soap holder, tissue box, and cup, to match the colours of the towels. In general, complementary colours add interest, whereas those from the same family are more soothing.

If you want your bathroom to have a seaside theme to it, you’ll use colours that suggest the sea, the sand, and driftwood (blues, light gold, tan, and grey). Some shells in a transparent container and towels with a seaside motif will add to the relaxing mood.

A forest theme would have the colours green and brown, but don’t overdo it. Strong or dark colours in the bathroom not only make the room look smaller, but you’ll tire of them a lot faster.

Although you might want to add plants to the bathroom, if you really don’t have enough space, don’t clutter up the bathroom with such unnecessary items. Examples of other un-needed items are lit candles, which are a fire hazard, or fragile vases, which are just waiting to get knocked over and smashed on the tiled floor.