Color of master bath cabinets and furniture in master bedroom

12 years ago

Does it matter? DH and I are trying to decide between white cabinets or dark espresso cabinets for our master bath. We will be purchasing new furniture for the master bedroom when move, but we're trying to figure out if our bathroom choices affect out options for bedroom furniture. We plan on gray/blue walls and white subway wall tile. We're not sure about floor tile yet, but it will probably also be mostly white (marble or faux marble maybe) as well.

All the other bathrooms (for 3 young kids) and the laundry room will have inexpensive white lamininate cabinets. Kitchen will have painted white perimeter cabinets and dark espresso cabinets in the island. Does cabinetry choices in other rooms make a difference either?

Opinions please? :-) TIA

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mydreamhome
12 years ago
IMO, the cabs and furniture need to coordinate, but not necessarily match. For example, we have white perimeter cabinets in the kitchen with merlot colored hood & island. Kitchen is open to family room with 2 built-ins in a slightly off white color. Cubbies are just around the corner from kitchen and can be seen through the doorway--they are also slightly off white. There is enough distance between the whites that you don't notice they don't match--they just coordinate. Our master bedroom furniture has a mahogany finish with antiqued gold pulls, the master bath has espresso vanities with antique pewter pulls and you can see from one room into the other. Again, they are just far enough apart that you really don't notice the difference & they coordinate. Stained furniture can be coordinated with painted vanities/cabinets & vice versa. Unless you're planning something totally outlandish, I think you'll be just fine.

Hope this helps!
outsideplaying_gw
12 years ago
IMO, you can go with what you'd prefer in your bath vs kitchen vs master BR and they don't have to match. But consider this in your bath. My bathroom gets dusty, dirty quickly and I would absolutely hate to have dark granite, for example on top of white cabinets. So consider what you are putting on top of those cabinets and maybe let that drive your choice as well. If you are using Cambria quartz (a good selection as is non-porous and some newer stuff looks almost like granite) or granite choose it along with your cabinet choice and I'd maybe go with a dark cabinet below. If your kids have sticky, dirty fingers like mine did, I'd be wanting to hide that too. Just coordinate the finishes (lighting, drawer pulls, fixtures etc) in the bath and you'll be fine.
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Snookums I agree: Everything does not go with everything, and the bathrooms pictured do have to be considered in context of the adjacent rooms. And if I recall, all of these bathrooms were complementary to the adjacent rooms in terms of color, wallpaper or window treatments, and architectural style. The blue bathroom in particular was a Jack and Jill between two bedrooms, and it coordinated very well with both. But one bedroom was 1960s French Provincial and the other bedroom (and much of the house) was 1960s Asian Moderne. (This was one of the most intact and beautifully furnished time capsule houses I've ever been in, the owner was around 100 yo when she died, I think). Anyway, the bathroom coordinated with both (even though it is unapologetically blue instead of neutral). But since this post started about Vanities in particular, lets look at that: One bedroom is furnished in French Provincial with a painted sort of grey blue patina finish, and has French looking curly hardware and such. One bedroom is furnished in Asian Modern, in blonde wood and little oval recessed pulls. So if you are redoing this vanity to coordinate with furniture, which one? While the rooms coordinate as a "whole" within the house, I don't think you could really swap any of the case pieces from one to the other bedroom. The notion that the vanity is built in and looks like "generic cabinet" and not like a freestanding furniture style at all means it can bridge both rooms. Mtn: maybe the examples are far afield from what a lot of people are doing now, since furniture vanities are a trend (not a fad but a trend), but my idea is that technically a vanity, if it coordinates in some plain fashion with the House, rather than a particular piece of furniture, it does not need to Match Anything to coordinate with Almost Anything. The examples you pictured definitely do NOT belong in adjacent rooms. But, take down the wallpaper paint the vanity the color of the walls in the bedroom and put different hardware on the vanity, and it Would. The vanity does not have to be a combination of Queen Anne and Chippendale just because that's what the current bedroom furniture is--if it is treated as a cabinet and not a piece of furniture. The problem with the two rooms you show is that each is treated as a "theme". I am not even sold that the bedroom is an actual bedroom but is a catalog shot to show a "Bedroom Set" for some furniture company. But I do see this sort of adjacency a lot. Look at real estate in areas where full-on decorating is very popular. Sometimes you can say "This room is original; this room was redone around 1985; this room was done in 2000; they just freshened this room up to put the house on the market this year". Each room has a distinct and discordant "theme". For anybody who lives in this area look at Cherry Hill, Penn Valley, Elkins Park, Rydal, on occasion and you will see time capsule houses and time capsule by room on a pretty regular basis.
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sweeby
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Colorwise, I don't think they have to match AT ALL -- but then, I have a very eclectic home. There are a few choices that would fight, and I'd avoid those -- but these are two separate rooms, right?

While they don't have to match COLORWISE -- I'd say that MOODWISE, they should definitely harmonize. For example, if you like a modern spa bath, a fussy Victorian bedroom will make both rooms seem fake -- choose a minimalist bedroom instead. If you like a vintage subway tile and hex flooring look, then a contemporary bedroom will fight with it; a traditional or Arts & Crafts bedroom will enhance it.

So match MOODS or ERAs rather than colors.

Outside is definitely right about black granite countertops though. We did that in our boys' bathroom, thinking they would be indestructible. Unfortunately, they are ;-( They show every little speck of anything.
Mom23Es
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12 years ago
Thank you so much for your opinions! I really want to go with espresso cabinets with white counters, white subway tile, and white floors, but I've seen so many bathroom pics with white cabinets lately. I will NOT do black counters. We have black corian in our basement wetbar, and it drives me nuts.
2ajsmama
12 years ago
Sweeby - I love your bathrooms, and what you said about moods makes perfect sense. Would you pop on over to my thread asking about "finishes" and comment on my bathroom design? I had picked a builder's vanity I thought would coordinate with our Shaker cherry BR set, now thinking a different direction and would like your opinion. Thanks

Here is a link that might be useful: Master bath finishes thread

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