This is not another article telling you what the perfect trendy color is for your bathroom. What this article is meant to do is to let you know that your personal color choice is just fine.
Paint companies have declared 2018 to be the year of the dark colors, with shades of black, deep dark hues of blue and such. Many of the photos which are posted show charcoal painted walls behind the perfect stripped sofa or a totally jewel-toned teal painted wall, with a complementing floor rug and they are fabulous. But what if you are a real person with a home that is lived in and not a showpiece?
Of course, you want your home to look nice, but be sure to consider room size, lighting and furnishings when contemplating paint colors for the walls and don’t choose based on experts of the year.
Use Your Decorating Eye
Dark wall color in a small room can look fantastic or it can look gloomy. Don’t fall for trendy instead of good taste. Your good taste.
If, in 2018 you want to paint your bathroom sunny yellow, do it. The paint is on the shelf and available for you. This year is like every other year, consider what the experts are telling you and then decide for yourself what your style is. If you have ever invested the time and money to have a room painted and it was too dark or too bright or too anything, you understand the disappointment of having to start all over again.
One suggestion is to paint three walls a lighter color and one wall darker. This creates a new depth to the room. Alternately, paint three walls dark and one wall a lighter color, or make it a wood or stone wall.
In the last quarter of 2017 we moved into an apartment and have resurfaced and painted every room in the place. The parlor is sage green on all four walls and the floor dark gray/brown plank laminate. One bedroom is a rich dark-chocolate brown on three walls with natural knotty pine planking on the fourth wall. The pine planking runs horizontal with the floor. There is a chair rail on two walls which is painted the same very slightly grey-white as is on the ceilings throughout the apartment. The walls in the family room, kitchen and one of the bathrooms is Old Monterey Grey, it looks taupe to me. The color is a perfect backdrop for our home, not so cool that it looks industrial, not too warm to look country. In the bathroom is a shower, we are tub people, so we’ll just let it go with “there is a shower.” Old Monterey Grey is on the walls and we have placed a few decorative items in dark teal to make the room really pop.
Nearing The End
The master bedroom and bath are under construction so not paint yet. Since 2018 has arrived, we will look at what the paint companies have to offer and what the decorating experts have to say. When it come to final choice of paint color for our home, we will go with what we like.
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