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I cannot for the life of me choose a paint color for my small guest bathroom. I have a beautiful light fixture and can't find a color to match it. We painted the bathroom this pink color and it looks terrible.
I can't get an interior decorator to call me back or work with my work schedule. (I can't find someone to come after 6pm or weekends!)
I cannot for the life of me choose a paint color for my small guest bathroom. I have a beautiful light fixture and can't find a color to match it. We painted the bathroom this pink color and it looks terrible.
I can't get an interior decorator to call me back or work with my work schedule. (I can't find someone to come after 6pm or weekends!)
I don't know. My husband just said plaster. It's white. Looks shabby chic style.
I vote for blue.
But not baby blue, or sky blue or navy blue, lol.
The color I have in mind is called "Kaleidoscope".
Go to Lowes and check out the Olympic paint colors in the "Audubon Collection".
I painted my guest bath this color last summer and it is SO beautiful. I had my painter take it about 3 shades lighter in the guest room adjoining the bathroom and people LOVE it. I have very light floors and a light maple vanity with. The contrast of the darker blue with the lighter whitish accents looks really awesome
ps - if you absolutely hate blue, go look at the rest of the Audubon Collection colors - there are some spectacular shades in that collection of all colors
Thanks loves!
The light fixture has little pink/purplish flowers with green leaves. So I was leaning towards pink or purple. But the color I chose, it's too light and looks washed out w/ the fiberglass shower. And I dont want to go too dark, because the bathroom is tiny.
Take the light fixture to a paint store, and match it there.
My experience with designers is that they're not interested in something as small as your project. I can understand why, but in my opinion it's worth a little of their time to make the occasional exception. OTOH, do you really need a designer for this?
Something else to consider is that the lighting by which you've chosen the paint color is probably different than the lighting in your bathroom. I don't know how to adjust for this but I know it's an issue.
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Thanks loves!
The light fixture has little pink/purplish flowers with green leaves. So I was leaning towards pink or purple. But the color I chose, it's too light and looks washed out w/ the fiberglass shower. And I dont want to go too dark, because the bathroom is tiny.
Home Depot has a really nice color, in the Behr paint, but I don't have a chart handy. I think it's Moonglow. It's a gray, but a very nice one. I used it in my old house & couldn't find a normal decorating color that looked bad with it. Everybody who saw it loved it.
ETA: I found it. The name is Full Moon. (I kinew it had something to do with the moon.)
Last edited by southbound_295; 04-03-2011 at 11:09 PM..
How about a nice shade of green in the sage tone. It has enough color to be a contrast but not too dark. You can bring out the pinks and purples with accessories like art work and flowers.
I would go with either a purple/lavender or sage green color.
We did our MBR in a medium sage color. I have a brushed nickle bed with a quilt that has a white background with purple, plum, lavender, dark sage & lt. sage colors on it. The sage walls really brings out the colors on the quilt nicely. We did the same in the Mbath but in a lighter shade of the sage.
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