What color looks good in a VERY small bathroom?

Question

I'm interested in painting a very small half bath with a 10 foot ceiling, and I have NO idea what color would look good. It is only 3 fet wide, and 8 feet deep and I don't want guests to feel like they are trapped in a very small box! Anyone had any experience with this?

Answer 1

Put up a chair rail. Paint the bottom half whatever color floats your boat. And mirror the top half of the wall to give the appearance of more space.

Answer 2

I may have one of the tiniest powder rooms on the planet! It's a 30"x7' 5" powder room (8' ceiling) with no window containing a vanity with mirror, and toilet. The door is in the center of the long wall, the vanity is at one end and the toilet is at the other. It has a ceiling light with fan and a strip of lights over the vanity. I painted the ceiling white, the floor is medium dark wood, and I had the walls wallpapered in the same paper as the hall outside. The wallpaper is a "non-busy" small print with a light hued background that looks like it's been paint-sponged. Instead of placing the coordinating 7"-wide border at the ceiling, we had it put at chair-rail height. I think that makes the room look a little bigger. Another idea would be to skip the wallpaper and use the border on a sponge-painted wall. Sponge painting in subtle light hues (color tint of your choice) would add interest. Plain white is so --- plain. I'd leave the ceiling white or off-white. To make it darker than the walls would give the feeling of a dark hole up there! Also - the big vanity mirror is on one of the 30" walls and that reflects the picture I hung on the opposite wall and I think that also makes the room seem larger than it is. I hung no pictures on the long wall. The only thing there is a couple of hand-towel rings. Someday maybe I'll try putting another mirror on the opposite 30" wall and see what effect that has.

Above all, don't leave your walls plain. It's a very small room so jazz it up with some pattern and color. You can do more radical decorating in a bathroom because it isn't a room that people spend a lot of time in. Keep the colors that you choose ones that are flattering to people. And i keep the light level high, especially if there isn't a window, so it won't be a dark place. Since you have such a high ceiling, you might consider hanging some sort of chandelier from the ceiling - on a 2' chain so that the light would be approximately at an 8' height from the floor and people would forget about those extra 2 feet up there.

Answer 3

Pale colors make a room look larger, and cool hues give it a tranquil feel....think powdery colors. Paint the ceiling the same color as the wall, it will bring the ceiling in, but more importantly it takes emphasis off the shoe box feel the room may have (a white ceiling emphasizes the smallness by drawing attention that the room is taller than long)

Answer 4

Lowes has a pamphlet that says one & only by Valspar ultra whites they are many light colors in it that could work I like Lilac moon, pale taupe, filtered sun, sherbet cream, peach lily, raw silk.
We have a small powder room and sponged a peachy color on the walls and it looks good. Also using a mirror helps a small room look bigger. We have been doing alot of painting in our new house and finding the right color can be difficult so good luck.

Answer 5

fung shwa! =] look it up.. sorry with the spelling!
You could also:
- paint the wall orange, its unusual to paint a wall orange, because most people don't paint they're walls orange, so when they look at the beautiful orange wall they'll forget how small the bathroom is! And add some pretty pictures, so that they will only stare at the beauty of it and smile when they get out of the bathroom!

- paint the wall light yellow, with light yellow people would wonder if the color was white, they'll stare at it forever wondering if its the lights shine thats shining on the walls and they'll also forget that that the bathroom is very small! + its a very nice design with stripes of blue! =]

-paint the wall green, it shows off the beauty of the bathroom, for some weird reason, most people think light green is the nicest wall color, you could have on your walls.


-Unusual designs (wall paper), they'll stare at the designs and be jelous of what pretty walls you have! =]














Hope that helped!

Answer 6

White is in all likelihood as strong because it truly is going to get for making a room look higher. installation a huge reflect, if there is not one already, can make quite a huge difference. Get colored towels, upload-ons, bathe curtain, and doubtless some paintings in case you want the room to look extra interesting.

Answer 7

I would agree that a light color would probably be best, but whatever you do try to stay with a monochromatic color scheme. Similar tones will make the room look larger.

Answer 8

Make sure to go for light colors, anything too dark will make the room look much smaller, also a large mirror will add space to any room.

Answer 9

Speaking from the point that my mother is studying to become a interior decorator, here is what she said:

Dark solid colors ( like chocolate, mocha, pumpkin, crimson, burgundy) -make a room seem inviting and warm.
Light colors ( pastels in the colors of blue, green and purple)- make a room seem cool (like a bathroom.)

Now you have two choices:
you can make a room look wide or you can make a room look tall.

By using vertical stripes of two/three colors (that match either analogously or monochromatic wise) you make a room look taller.

By using horizontal stripes of two /three colors you make it look wider.

Now, best chance of stripes looking good is wallpaper ( that is striped) If not, paint with tape to help guide you.

Best colors for a bathroom is probably (in my*** opinion) black, red, white, or beige.

P.S. Monochromatic= two or more hues of one color ex. black, gray or ex. burgundy, red.
analogous= any three colors next to each other on a color wheel, ex. red, red-orange, orange.

hope it helps!!

Answer 10

Pale green, or very light yellow, it makes the room look bigger. My bath has a 6ft hall, painted it with the color ( BEESWAX) it looks great.