A buttercup yellow can brighten any bathroom.
Decorating your house is a great way to express your individual style, and your bathroom shouldn't be left out of the equation. Painting the bathroom can be an effective way to give the room a , and can make a plain room really pop. Learn some cool painting ideas for your bathroom walls, to give the place you primp a cool new look.
Bright Colors
To open up a tiny bathroom, try painting the walls with bright, fun colors. You can do a butttercup yellow, bright pink or sea foam green. For a smaller bathroom, avoid dark tones like purples, reds and browns, as these will enclose the space and make it seem even smaller.
Garden Fun
A garden theme can give your bathroom a fresh look to liven up dingy walls. Start with a white wash if walls have any stains or chips. Starting from the bottom, paint a few feet with a medium green to look like grass. Then paint long green stems with flower buds at the top to appear as though the flowers are growing right out of the bathroom floor. For a more realistic look, paste fake flower pedals to the wall using craft glue.
Beauty Tips
Another fun idea for bathroom walls is to paint beauty tips and advice in various spots, in various font sizes. Paint makeup tips around the bathroom mirror and exfoliating and bath soak tips near the tub. Use stencils of various fonts that you can find at your local hardware store. Thumb through beauty magazines for inspiration on tips and ideas.
Beach Look
A beach theme can make your bathroom look like a tropical paradise. Paint walls sky blue and use a sponge brush to paint white clouds a little below the ceiling. Add a few feet of tan paint for sand at the bottom, and use brown and green to paint a palm tree or two. Use whites and pinks to paint little seashells over the sand. Purchase seashell and beach-inspired soap dishes, shower curtains and tan, blue and white bath towels.
Modern Look
For a modern look, try a black-and-white bathroom. Don't paint all the walls black, unless you have a very large bathroom. Instead paint two walls opposite each other black, or paint vertical black-and-white stripes. Keep decorations simple, like silver soap dishes and a clean white curtain. You can also do this with white and any bold color, like dark purple, dark green or dark blue.
Earth Appeal
An earthy bathroom can be very calming and help you get in touch with Mother Nature. Paint trim a bamboo color and add streaks of dark brown and red to make it look like real bamboo. Paint walls a neutral, earthy green color and add accents of tan and yellow streaks for texture. Use bathroom utensils like wicker toothbrush holders and soap dishes.
Velvet Texture
To get the look of soft velvety walls, use two paints of the same color but in different shades. Think a dark maroon, with a slightly lighter magenta color. Paint all of your walls with your darker color. Allow paint to dry. Take a sponge brush and lightly sponge on the lighter shade sporadically all over the walls. The contrasting colors will add rich texture to tired walls.
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