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15 Bathrooms That Wow With Vivid Color

These rooms take the color intensity up a notch. Are they bold enough — or much too bold — for you?

Erin Carlyle March 25, 2017

Former Houzz Editorial Staff. Writing about the cost of renovation and what it takes to remodel. Former Forbes real estate reporter. Fascinated by cool homes, watching the bottom line.

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Whether you’re an unabashed color-lover or consider yourself more color-shy, the bath or powder room is a great place to load up on a favorite pick. One reason is that it’s a small enough space that bold colors can work without being overwhelming.

Black Lacquer Design

“It’s a really good opportunity for homeowners who are wanting to dip their toe in the water,” says Caitlin Murray, principal at Black Lacquer Design. “If you don’t like it, you’re not overcommitting. You can change it up again.”

For some colorful inspiration, take a look at these 15 bathrooms recently added to Houzz that embrace saturated colors via wallpaper, paint, feature tile, even brightly colored vanities. Which room would you like to have in your home?

1. Bold purple wallpaper forms a beautiful canvas for a white sink accented by a matte brass faucet and a modern brass mirror with a thin frame. This is a powder room, one of Murray’s designs, and the purple is actually deeper than it appears in this photo (see product link below). Murray says the deep color helps the walls to recede, making the small room appear a bit larger.

Wallpaper: Drag DR 1292, Farrow & Ball

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2. A deep pink infuses energy into this white bathroom. The homeowner used the same color on the ceiling of a nearby bedroom.

Wall paint: Peony 2079-30, Benjamin Moore; vanity: custom; flooring: 2-by-4-inch marble tiles

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JWT Associates

3. This bathroom in a 1936 Spanish-style Los Angeles home benefits from a skylight that bathes the bathtub in natural light. The aqua tiles edged in dark green showcase a favored color.

Tile: B&W Tile; tub deck: marble; fixtures: California Faucets

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4. Bright red and deep red tiles add a big jolt of color to this room, but the smooth lines of the countertop, vanity and sink help to take the energy down a notch.

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Trigg-Smith Architects

5. Goldenrod and olive-hued wallpaper above mustard-colored beadboard paneling imbues this Hawaii bathroom with a warm feeling, as if it’s being bathed in sunlight. The colors here and in the rest of the home, a new build, are favorites of the client, says architect Alwyn “Trigg” Trigg-Smith. “What was so interesting is in picking the colors, I realized that my client, Diane, actually came to the meetings wearing the colors of her house,” Trigg-Smith says. Her closet was filled with mango, olive, soft pink and yellow hues.

The other homeowner, an engineer, added the yellow detailing on the floor after the home was built. The yellow diamonds are tiles inset into the wood, increasing in frequency toward the wet portion of the bathroom (the shower and water closet) beyond the open door.

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Eberlein Design Consultants Ltd.

6. This en suite bathroom was designed for a 17-year-old. Orange and blue are opposite each other on the color wheel, positions that indicate complementary colors, or those that have the sharpest contrast. The bold color choice makes for an energetic feel.

For master bathrooms, many people want something that makes their skin look pretty, says Barbara Eberlein of Eberlein Design Consultants in Philadelphia — “so everyone ends up with a rosy bathroom.” But people need not feel limited to skin-flattering colors, especially in smaller or less frequently used rooms like powder rooms. “I don’t really think there are any colors to avoid in a bathroom,” Eberlein says. Her own powder room is a lacquered high-gloss black.

Eberlein suggests pulling colors for a bathroom from the spaces that share architecture with the bathroom, such as a hallway. This room is a good example of that principle; the fun palette was pulled from the teen’s adjacent bedroom.

Camber undermount sink, Underscore BubbleMassage tub and Santa Rosa Comfort Height toilet: Kohler; Transit faucet with lever handles and Transit lever tub filler with hand shower in polished chrome: Waterworks Studio;

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Hamilton Wills Design

7. For someone who loves a serene shade of salmon, this beamed bathroom in a British cottage couldn’t be more charming.

Paint: custom mix, Dulux

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Henrik Nero

8. Forest green tile works quite nicely with white and black in this Swedish bathroom. The free-standing tub, toilet and fixtures are classic, and such a regal color makes a good stylistic match.

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Philip Gorrivan Design

9. A gleaming white bathroom gets some rich color via this turquoise custom-made vanity. The vanity was loosely inspired by the celebrated late decorator Dorothy Draper, according to Philip Gorrivan Design, the New York firm that worked on the project.

Mother-of-pearl hexagon tile: Artistic Tile; faucet: Aero in polished nickel, Waterworks; vanity and mirror: custom; door hardware: The Nanz Co.

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Архитектурное Бюро Андрея Стубе

10. This bathroom in Russia has the color orange repeated in different tints: deepest on the undersink cabinet, followed by the wall paint near the ceiling, and lighter still on the sherbet-colored sink and bathtub backsplash.

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Black Lacquer Design

11. A basic foundation of bright white flooring, countertop and walls allows the cheery pink vanity to take center stage in this Los Angeles bathroom.

Mirror: West Elm; countertop: Silestone in White Zeus; rug: Urban Outfitters; stool: vintage, Etsy; vanity hardware: U-Turn pull, Atlas; Orbit wall light: YLighting

株式会社KADO一級建築士事務所

12. Primary colors — red and blue — and large ceiling dots bring a whimsical, almost childish feel to this Japanese bathroom.

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13. Bright celery green creates a refreshing contrast to the gray concrete in this Moscow bathroom. And while this point isn’t color-related, that toilet paper storage is also a nice perk — hard to imagine running out.

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Harnish Properties

14. This Oregon bathroom is worth pointing out because while its permanent features are very neutral tan, wood and white, a fan of vivid pink brought in many splashes of color that create a joyful, upbeat vibe.

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Collar City Collective

15. A bright blue door spells fun in this bathroom, and offers a nice contrast to the red exposed brick. Builder Dylan Turek of Collar City Collective and his business partner purchased a deteriorating multifamily brick building in Troy, New York, and remodeled it. This bathroom shows a portion of the original brick wall. The door was purchased from Historic Albany Foundation, an architectural salvage warehouse.

“We used grays and whites for new elements a lot to balance the louder yet warmer historic pieces,” Turek says.

Door paint: Bahaman Sea Blue 2055-40, Benjamin Moore; vanity set: Cutler Kitchen & Bath

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@weldins I do like that color - I call it a dusty rose! LOL I think the molding would make it look even richer if it was mahogany - very art nouveau! Love those pendants and the oval mirror. But, I do have to ask, "What is 'pickled wood'?"

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