What colour should I paint my bathroom walls and what style of taps would suit clay brown tiles?

Question

Im looking to improve my bathroom at a low cost. The only struggle Im having is deciding what colour walls I should paint to match the clay brown tiles and brown basin benchtop I cant afford to change. Its very difficult to match the walls with this colour tile. Plus Id like to know what type of taps would suit the bathroom.

Answer 1

Of course beige...or if you are daring enough...Tiffany blue looks really good with brown.  You don't have to paint the walls that color, but use it as an accent color and do the walls a darker beige.  Use silver taps...the gold is a bit much.

Answer 2

With all due respect taps and tiles have no correlation, with regard to coloration. Second to that is the fact that COLOR is as personal a choice as Politics and/ or Religion.

   MATCHING isn't strictly necessary either. Have you a paint dealer local to you? Might they not have thousands of chip sample cards which you can use to decide? Finally, get a color wheel at the very least and spin it, noticing, opposing, contrasting, coordinating color suggestions.

Just my two "sense"

Answer 3

you could do a cream or a brown only lighter...you could even do a blue..which would look nice next to those tiles...i would do regular bathroom taps...you can get many styles..you can do the old fashioned ones with the little white things on the handles that say c or h...which i think would look nice on the counter top...

Answer 4

To make it more interesting a different color would be nice. A pale blue, or orange. Cream would be nice too but a little bland in my opinion. Silver taps will make it look more modern. Black would be nice with a warm color like orange.

Answer 5

If you're up for a bold color, terra cotta would be brilliant with the brown. For a more subtle update I'd try beige or some other off-white. As for the taps, I'm a big fan of the new "antiqued copper" style. They're a bit spendy, but really drop dead beautiful!

Did you know you can also paint the tiles? Most craft stores sell paints specially formulated for finished ceramics. They won't stand up to much scrubbing, so I'd only try that on tiles outside the bath/shower unit. You don't have to paint all the tiles- just pick out a couple stencil patterns and decorate a few tiles, just for accents! When you get tired of that look, just scrape the paint off with razor and try something else!