help! SO is about to ruin our pool bathroom

13 years ago

the bathroom has green transition tiles in the shower, dark grey (almost black tile) on the floor, and medium grey walls. the door trim is white and there are 2, possibly 3 doors, in the bathroom: 1 to the guest room, 1 to the outside & pool, and the 3rd is going to possibly be a bifold closet door (although i really want to leave the door off and make it more of an alcove (more on that in a later post).

SO wants to paint the bifold door a very dark grey, almost matching the tile, but leave the other doors the same color as the trim (which is how the rest of the house is).

i understand having a different color on each side of a door... but i just can't envision a room, especially a bathroom, with different color doors inside the room. am i crazy? not bold enough? too safe? this seems like a horrible decor faux pas!

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Olychick
13 years ago
pics would help...and you might want to post in Home Decorating forum. They'll know for sure!
ladoladi
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13 years ago
here are some photos. sorry--it's a smallish bathroom with odd corners, so getting a good picture, even from out in the hallway, is difficult.

from out in the hall
toilet is immediately to the left of the pocket door. sink cabinet (undecided yet) but it is to the right.

from the shower corner
toilet isn't installed yet. i would like to make the "hole" an alcove, but SO wants it to be a closet with a bifold door. a dark grey bifold door.

still from shower corner
the brown door, which leads out to the pool, definitely has to be painted. he wants to also do it dark grey.

the colors are really irrelevant. painting all the doors dark grey would be okay with me, as would painting them white along with the rest of the doors in the house we are painting.

the problem is he wants to paint the bifold door and the door to the outside dark grey... but paint the pocket door (which leads to the hall) white because he thinks it's less "weird" to have 2 different colors for doors in the bathroom than it would be to have a door with a different color on each side.
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Well, personally, I don't think either way would be too awful, but logically I agree with you. Since you can see all the doors in a room at the same time, but you can't see both sides of a door at the same time, who would even know a door was a different color on each side? Especially a pocket door.
palimpsest
13 years ago
What is the reason he wants to do this?

I will sometimes paint closet doors the wall color just to make them blend in a bit more, while leaving the other doors trim color.
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13 years ago
It is just paint. It won't ruin anything. If it is awful, it will be immediately obvious and you can repaint it just as easily as you painted it the first time. This really will not end up being a big deal - one of you will get to say "I told you so."
redstar123
13 years ago
Did I read correctly that it would lead to the pool? I'm thinking (and maybe this isn't true) but if a guest were to go from the pool into a restroom, and that door was painted a color other than the others, they would know which door to exit through also?

If this is what he's thinking, I would definitely go for it. Otherwise, I would voice my question and suggest painting it his way, with the possibility of changing it in a set time if it just doesn't work.
marcolo
13 years ago
It is certainly not "weird" to have a door painted two different colors. It is done all the time and is quite traditional.

If you stand with the door opening away from you, paint color "A" on the side of the door facing you, and also on the hinge edge of the door that you see only when the door is open. Standing with the door opening toward you, paint color "B" on the side of the door now facing you, as well as the edge of the door where the latch is.

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