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greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Installing a new bathtub...new bathroom to follow

Cortney1982 · Chanel

You said you are going to be selling your home? I'd stick to light shades of paint. Blue and brown are lovely together. I don't know if I would go dark with the blue, you can see many paint colors on sample bathrooms on many paint websites like http://www.benjaminmoore.com and http://www.sherwin-williams.com Easier to visualize then you know exactly what shade of color to get!

NCshopper · Hermes

You sound like us! We're doing the same thing right now, only we're still in the "ripping-old-tile-out" phase, which seems to be taking FOREVER. Once we really get started, we'll be doing it piecemeal too, since it'd be a fortune to try and do it all at once.

Anyway, I think blue and brown is a gorgeous color combination and probably wouldn't be too dark if you threw some white in there as well. Does your bathroom have any natural light? If not, then it might end up too dark and you might want to lighten up the paint by just a shade in that case. Our bathroom has no natural light, so I've put in white towels, a white bathmat, and painted the vanity white to offset the lavender walls that I painted. (We have granite as the tile in the shower, on top of the vanity, and on the floor, so it looks like a friggin' cave in there. I'll be so glad to get rid of it!)

Oh, take plenty of before and after pics! Since we're doing the same thing, I'd love to see what you all are doing!

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Their is a window that faces North and gets plenty of morning light (I have to duck around the beams as they shine into my mirror and make morning make up application a workout). All the fixtures will be bright white, as well as the door (it's the tiniest bathroom ever!) so I don't think it will be too dark, but I may have to lighten the paint. I have a color in my head, but I can't describe it.

We won't be selling for another 3 years (our plan was to live her 3-5. We've been here 2 and it's gonna take five to get rid of this place. The market sucks in MI).

I'll take some photos and I'll look for yours too.

-gd

FashionPrincess · Hermes

When you say french blue are you talking about this shade:

or more like this:

Cause I would do the lighter one. I think the combo will be very pretty, be sure to post pics.

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

The first color didn't show up, but a shade lighter than the blue in the polo shirt. I don't want it to be a true 'baby' blue, but I want a true shade of blue that isn't too pastel but isn't much darker either. I tried to post a paint chip from the web and it wouldn't take.

This is the shower curtain that I ordered from Target online. I will get it in a week. Hopefully it is nice! I hate ordereing stuff online because so often it doesn't come as true to color as one hopes.

Mystic Shower Curtain

I want to bring out this blue, but I'm a little fearful of painting the bathroom walls this color. I may just have to accesorize the hell out of it in blue. The bathroom is pretty bright, so I know it won't be too dark in there with the brown.

I'm trying to go modern and masculine without making it into a plce that's too manly. Poor hubby deserves some space that is a little masculine, our bedroom is purple for goodness sake!

-gd

FashionPrincess · Hermes

Love that shower curtain! I agree about the brown not being too dark, I recently painted my guest bathroom chocolate brown and it isn't too dark at all (and it's a small room). Although here's an idea, how about painting the top half the blue color and the bottom brown, make sense? Or maybe one wall blue and the rest brown.

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Oooh. I could get on board with that. The two tones walls.

Where the big mirror over the sink is now, I want to replace it with two large oval medicine cabinets. That way I can increase the storage (as I mentioned, smallest master bath ever). So, that will make it a focal wall, being a little different. I could make that wall behind the mirrors all blue and then do a blue on top, brown on bottom split. Maybe the bottom I could do in beadboard. Then on top of that would be some moulding like a chair rail in white, and blue above. Could I do a more flat brown and a slightly more glossy blue on top?

I am a little afraid that dividing the wall in two like that might magnify the smallness of the room. Maybe I could make the wall you see when you walk in brown and the rest blue. The blue must be behind the mirrors so that it's lighter there when the lights reflect so I can apply make up easily.

I'm going to kick your idea around.

Keep the ideas coming!

-gd

FashionPrincess · Hermes

greendiamond wrote:

Could I do a more flat brown and a slightly more glossy blue on top?

If you spray hairspray or anything in there, I would do a satin.

Maybe could you post a pic of the room and we could give you feedback on what walls to paint what color, etc?

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

So, these photos were taken during our home inspection, before we bought the place, so needless to say this isn't my junk and I haven't been living with it like this. I did fix it up the best I could for the short term. But, above you have witnessed one of the ugliest and smallest "master" baths around.

You can't see the toilet, but it's in fornt of the window, and directly in front of the door.

The bathtub/shower area will be bright white in about 2-3 more hours. This is the longest project ever. I'm dirty and cranky, but I can not wait to have a new tub!

I've been brainstorming, and am contemplating painting blue, and then painting brown at the top of the wall, and on the ceiling near the corner, so it makes a "border" that's folded into the corner. We'll see.I did just cruise out to BBB and looked at their bathroom accessories. I bought a curved shower rod.

hope these ugly photos help with the brainstorming!

-gd

-- Edited by greendiamond at 18:02, 2006-07-23

FashionPrincess · Hermes

greendiamond wrote:

I've been brainstorming, and am contemplating painting blue, and then painting brown at the top of the wall, and on the ceiling near the corner, so it makes a "border" that's folded into the corner. We'll see.

I'm not sure what you mean, but one thing to consider is that if you have all the walls blue and then do chocolate at the top, the dark color will bring the ceiling down and may make it feel smaller. I think what I would do if that was my bath is to paint the wall with the mirrors on it blue and the rest brown. Or the wall with the mirrors brown/blue vertical stripes and the rest brown. Oh, and don't feel bad about having such a small master bath, mines about the same size and my door opens right up to the beautiful toilet too Can't wait to see the finished product.

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Hmm. Good point about it lowering the ceiling, visually. I'll keep brainstorming. Meanwhile, I just washed my hair in the sink becuase it's Monday morning and the instal isn't done. Hopefully tonight. Cross fingers!

-gd

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

new bathtub...new bathroom to follow, update.