Paint color for windowless powder room?

Painted Peggies (zone 6a)

last year

Hello everyone!

We updated our small windowless powder room when we moved in 3 years ago.

I LOVE my wallpaper but have not been happy with the muddy teal paint color.

Looking for a better idea. I wanted to pull a color from the wallpaper.

Here are some before and after pics:

Before: pink and mauve sponge painted fabulouness

Now: we replaced the vanity, sink, faucet, and mirror

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Sabrina Alfin Interiors

last year

I'd match the white of the wallpaper background. Will look so much fresher with your oak cabinetry. Here's what we did for a recent powder room with an oak vanity:

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jackowskib
last year
From what I can see, the paint color works well with the wallpaper; which is vey cute! It's all the unfinished trim that needs work to pull it all together. Add baseboard, and paint the door and trim same white. Not sure about the wood going across front and back of sink, do you have plans to do something more with them? As is, they kind of compete with the floor in an odd way color wise. I would find something else to use for backsplash and cover for front of sink.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
IMO it is the lighting that is the issue and I do not like the wood pice for the backspalsh Get a really nice light that lights up the whole space in LED 4000K that will totally change how you feel about the space . I do not like hand towels in PRs I never like to use a towel someone else used . I like disposible hand towels there in a nice containerwll mounted where you have the ring. BTW ILOVE that wallpaper maybe just a piece of glass for a bcksplash since I find in PRs there is not that much water usully spalshed around , I think the wall color is nice .
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Here's what I did with mine. The color didn't photo well here but it's a very pale yellow. Hand painting is cooler than wallpaper because you can do things like this (I couldn't continue the design because it was headed to a place where the cabinet was mere inches from the wall and I couldn't get in there). And if you're ever tired of it, you can paint it back out in minutes. Anyway, I dunno how good it looks in pictures, but everyone who sees the room in person gasps in surprise and then says nice things about it, and it wasn't that hard to learn how to do it -- you can do something like this if you want, or any number of faux treatments... like I really like the shiny and dull stripes in the same color paint if you're into a more modern look, and the beadboard if you're into a warmer look. :) Did you look at the bathrooms thread in the Gallery?
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Glad to hear you sound excited about the Caponata. 'Tis true that you can never tell what a paint color really looks like until it is actually up on the wall in the room to be painted and interacting with everything in there, including and especially the lighting. I also think painting swatches on a wall, even in the room to be painted, is useless. It's so deceived by the existing wall color surrounding it. I have found that, painting the swatch right up to any trim, coming from behind a fixture, like a sink, etc., really helps to get a good idea as to what the color will look like. Fortunately for you, the light in your powder room doesn't really change throughout the day, since you don't have a window, so you won't get any surprises, like in the morning it's great color, but in the afternoon, it goes blah, or whatever. Let us know what you decide and post pics when and if you're able!
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stiley
last year
I like a dark, dramatic powder room. What about a dark blue/purple or dark rust that I can see in the birds? Or are the branches a dark green? That could be pretty too. We have a powder room tucked under the stairs that's a dark brown, and it feels cozy and private. Also, it's a small thing, but can you replace your almond light switches to white? That could create a domino effect if you have to replace them throughout the house though.
KW PNW Z8
last year
Definitely agree with @stiley about the light switches! It is a small thing but always, the devil’s in the details! the almond detracts from the pure white of sink & paper background. I like the wall color too. Agree the door trim should be white or wood color like floor. Unlike Patricia, I don’t mind real hand towels in PR as we also use the PR for convenience. When we have guests I do place paper hand towels on the counter for their use & the real hand towel is washed often anyway.
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Diana Bier Interiors, LLC
last year
Navy blue would be very dramatic and a nice contrast with your woodwork. Ben Moore Hale Navy is very popular. No 4000K LED lights unless you want the room to look like an operating room.
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Behr Day Spa would be a softer version.
Painted Peggies (zone 6a)
Original Author
last year
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We were going for

a floating vanity look. the wood is finished and sealed.

YES!! fully agree about the lightswitch and molding color needing to be white.

There is a second light that’s an exhaust fan that is bright LED. It is controlled separately.

The one over the sink is not as bright but the room is if you turn both lights on.
kl23
last year
I agree with @Sabrina Alfin Interiors. Look at this similar situation. What do you think about white paint and adding a pretty brass light switch?
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kl23
last year
Never mind. I see your fawcet color. White light switch will do fine.
Painted Peggies (zone 6a)
Original Author
last year
That butterfly bathroom is gorgeous!!
Paul F.
last year
I think its all in the details. Your oak looks water stained. I'd protect it better.
krdpm
last year
Your wallpaper is so pretty! I completely agree with previous posters---walls and trim should be a white that matches the wallpaper background. To me, it seems that in that cute powder room you want one "wow" item, either the beautiful wallpaper or a dramatic wall color. Not both. Everything white (semi-gloss on all trim, eggshell or bathroom-matte on walls) will make the wallpaper the star. Light switch cover white.

I like what you were going with with the wood on the vanity, but I think in this situation the wood color/undertone clashes with the floor. Also, the backsplash area looks water damaged. I would probably do white semigloss on that wood, allowing the floor to be the only wood accent in the room.

You can then switch out towels & accessories periodically for a change in accent color, pulling from the wallpaper. I love the dark red/scarlet.
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Kimberlee Marie Interiors
10 months ago
It seems like the paint color works well it looks like it's the door frame and electrical outlet that are causing issues. You might look at painting both white and either treating the wood used as a backsplash or getting actual tile to use as backsplash. Water will easily ruin the wood. Here are a few powder room designs which might give you more ideas.
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