Your bathroom sees you at your best and worst -- when you're sick, when you're in a rush to get to work on time and when you're relaxing at the end of a long day. Choosing warm, cozy paint tones for your bathroom walls and cabinetry, and selecting calming, tasteful wallpaper can transform your bathroom into a welcome sanctuary overnight.
Wall Colors & Techniques
Avoid flat paint for the walls and cabinetry, as it is the hardest to clean and often visibly retains moisture. Instead, choose a satin or semi-gloss paint. Always paint ceilings with ceiling flat paints, which are specially designed to be the most splatter- amd stain-resistant.
If love the color of a particular set of bathroom towels or the color of a soap dispenser, choose a complementary color for the walls from a color wheel. If your bathroom has non-removable colored components, like blue floor tile, a color wheel also can help you select wall color that will match.
To create a soothing, serene environment, pick a pale shade of green or blue, like sea foam green or sky blue. Chocolate brown with bright white trim is also a warm choice, while gray adds a more modern, industrial feel (especially against silver faucets and towel rods). If you want your bathroom to say romance, try a deep burgundy. However, the darker the color, introduce more lighting into the room to keep it from feeling like a cave.
Avoid colors that you wouldn't use as the backdrop of a photograph. When you look at yourself in the bathroom mirror each morning, the color of your walls effectively is a photographic background. Bright yellow or lime green may highlight your complexion in a less-than-flattering way, according to HGTV. Don't be afraid to try a daring color, as you always can repaint.
As for painting techniques, if a single color isn't fulfilling enough, consider faux finishing, which warms up any space. DVDs and instructional books can teach you how to do it yourself, although an experienced professional is your best bet for ensuring a polished, uniform tone. Other painting styles include strie painting, which makes your walls look like fabric and crinkle paper painting, which adds texture to a level wall.
Cabinet Colors & Techniques
Select a high-gloss paint for doors, cabinetry and trim, which is the best kind of paint in an area prone to constant moisture and frequent use. Use white or ivory tones that will open up the space and match any other colors you incorporate into the room.
Unlike walls, cabinets can only be painted a few times before all the layers of paint add an unattractive extra depth, so only try a bold color or a fancy painting technique if you're confident you'll keep it for awhile.
If you want to paint your cabinets, paint the walls your chosen color first and then choose an analogous color for the cabinetry. If you realize you'd prefer another color for the walls, you'll also have to repaint everything else. Never paint the cabinets the same color as the walls, or you'll create a boring, flat space.
Feeling crafty? Peruse your local craft store for a tasteful stencil that you could use to paint a simple design around the side of a cabinet, or consider a decoupage project.
For a temporary and easy custom cabinet design, purchase a set of decorative vinyl wall clings -- anything from unicorns to modern dots. If you get tired of them, or constantly want to switch things up, it's just a matter of peeling them off and adhering new ones.
Wallpaper
Choose bathroom wallpaper with care, as wallpaper retains moisture. Bathrooms take awhile to dry out after a shower, and if the heater doesn't regularly and quickly dry out the walls, the wallpaper will start to peel. Selecting a vinyl wallpaper and applying it with a high-moisture paste will help extend its life.
Vertical stripes will make the ceilings in a small bathroom feel higher, while a rose-and-white pattern creates a feeling of sophistication. Light blues and greens are calming and spa-like, while a darker blue has more of a get-down-to-business feel. Consider patterns with light, natural designs, like single leaves, ferns or birds. The fewer the number of colors in the wallpaper pattern, the more calming.
Before purchasing wallpaper, consult with everyone who will be using that bathroom regularly. A wife may love the idea of walls covered in flowers, but her husband may prefer more subtle stripes or squares. A busy pattern may seem perfectly acceptable in a book of patterns but feel altogether overwhelming when it covers the room.
A wallpaper border, lined along the middle or top of the wall or around the mirror, is another alternative. The border will dry faster than an entire wall, and and if it does start to peel, it's much easier to remove and replace a wallpaper border than an entire room.
Accent Walls
If your bathroom is large enough, consider an accent wall, which is one wall painted with a slightly darker tone. A typical accent wall is mostly empty -- it wouldn't be the wall with your shower or sink against it, as appliances break up the color too much.
For a small bathroom, however, an accent wall may create more of a feeling of tension than one of balance, since there's not much area to cover with the second color of paint.
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