The walls are painted in ‘Smoke’, but there are many other colours that would have looked great in here as well. Reds, oranges, yellows, fresh green, or even purple! In a bathroom like this, the choices are endless because it doesn’t need to ‘flow' with adjoining rooms!
Here she matched the floor to come up with CC-490, Smoky Taupe and painted a wide stripe right next to it and beside the ceiling. This was the best part of the idea because now you are repeating the existing colour in the floor which creates a more coordinated look.
Then she chose a darker browny/gray shade [Willow] for the door and another stripe in the center of the wall to ground the space and give it some depth! Commercial bathrooms can have the most unattractive floors (just like this one), so if you were dealing with one that had two colours that were just dead, you could repeat those colours in the stripes (on one wall so it’s not overwhelming, like she did here) and then pick a third unrelated colour with some punch and suddenly, the attention is off the previously dingy floor (but then you are not ignoring it either which can make it worse) and the whole space is transformed. That’s the power of colour!!
What do you think?
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