painting and decorating

Doe`s anybody out there have any idea`s what colour i can paint my bathroom (its turning into a nightmare) tiles in shower are white with 3 rows of tiny tiles that are slate coloured and chrome.Window sill is slate , feel we need a slate floor as well to bring it together , have tried 1 or 2 colours on walls :eek: jadey colour not quite the right shade . I`m so used to neutrals but feel they won`t look right with all the chrome (shower frame, lights etc).its taking forever , waiting on plumber :rolleyes: HELP :D

 

I can`t help as I am useless at colour coordination but my wife is good at that sort of thing,I`ll ask her when she gets in.

 

White or red. Just had our bathroom gutted and done floor to ceiling white tiles with slate grey border and 4 slate grey inserts, slate grey ceramic tiles on floor. Crome shower over shower bath with curved glass screen, stainless steel mirrored cupboard and toilet roll holder. Have gone for red towels and red bath mat, with red planter on window sill with alocasia amazonica in.The whole room looks bigger now and mimilist, white wall tiles are large 14" ones. Duel push button loo and nice sink, bath taps pencil mixer and sink taps pencil hot and cold all crome.

 

The slate grey border and inserts have crome lines running through too.

 

I'm afraid I can't really be of help, dq, as we tile our walls up to the ceiling here. Like you, we have tiny border tiles but for both bathrooms they are multi-coloured, one pastel, one primary so that you can use any colour towel.

Personal opinion ... you mentioned "jadey" so you felt perhaps that may work. However about a turquoise which is softer? A light lavender would also work.

 

hi pip i`m normally good with colour but have lost the plot :( T O, like white tiles , but we`re not fully tiled only shower ,white paint is to clinical , like the idea of red accessories
was trying to get on the lines of turquoise lol but can`t seem to get it quite right , have e mailed dulux now , they have come up with a few mixed shades ,beginning to wish it was all tiled
any photo`s tropical oasis :D

 

What a nightmare for you Dancing Queen. Still, if it is of any help I agree with LOL's suggestion of pale lavender. Sounds odd but when we were refurbishing a small hotel a few years ago we put in en-suites everywhere. One we did all chrome and modern and, like you, couldn't get the colour right. We had white tiles in the shower and half way up the walls. One day we tried a pale lavender and it just sprang to life. Actually, it wasn't that pale!! I kept the accessories either chrome/white/lavender - like litter bin, loo brush etc. Found a wonderful pot in Asda which was lavender with big chrome blobs - sounds awful but it fitted perfectly! The hand towels were the same lavender colour as the walls.

Hope this has been some help.

 

thanks kryssy i`m taking it all on board , my heads buzzing :D

 

Hi DQ Have you got any photos you can put up to show us what everything looks like at the moment,then we might get an idea of what you are trying to achieve.Going back to the Jadey look,sometimes if you add white to the dark colour then sometimes it makes it lighter than the dark colour,though if you add it to red then you will get pink.Hope this helps you out

 

photo`s are on non gardening under bathroom , plumber coming tomorrow to reconnect boiler and check pipes then hubby can get on with putting everything in , shower first .I NEED A SHOWER fed up boiling kettles and washing at the kitchen sink . He now says slate tiles will be to dark on the floor after disscussing it at work today these are the tiles for the shower just putting three rows of the small ones

 

quite a few chrome ones

last paint mixad feel its to green ,i added white as well

 

been to b and q tonite now he`s seen some white floor tiles with almost a slight greyish tinge through them ,would i be mad to have this colour , then it still leaves the colour for walls , nice to offload the problem i don`t normally have this trouble :D

 

Are you near the seaside as you are in cornwall? Why don't you go for a seaside theme? You could try to incorporate blue, green and turquiose. We live next to the sea and our bathroom is white with a seashell theme. :D

 

we`ve just been talking white again , yes i do live near the sea and i love the seaside colours :D . spose we`ll get it right in the end :D

 

why not just paint the walls white and use accessories to add the colour? that way if you get bored of the colour all you need to do is replace the accessories and it'll feel like you've redecorated!