What Colours Would You Avoid Using in the Bathroom?
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What colours would you absolutely not use for accessories in the bathroom?
My bathroom has granite colour tiles on the walls and floor, it was decorated that way when I moved in. I want to brighten it up a bit, I'm planning to get stainless steel accessories, such as bin, toilet brush etc but thinking about towels, bath mat, candles etc. I'm not going to put too many things in, it's just so it isn't all dark grey. Is there a colour that is an absolute no for using in a bathroom?
davewalsh126 that sounds absolutely awful! Purple on its own would be fine, as would mustard yellow (if you liked that colour) but definitely not together!
davewalsh126 more than likely. The old owner of our house painted the outside walls in the left over magnolia paint he had used inside the house. As soon as the cold weather hit it started to peel!
I always avoid blue, i think it feels cold. Ours is a very light grey colour.
PinkElephant26 I had thought about a light blue but I think a warm colour would be better. I just don't want to put a dark colour in incase it makes the charcoal/granite grey tiles look darker. I was thinking light grey but then thought thst would be too much grey
I second this. Blue is the coldest colour and too many people have blue. Also I'd avoid brown in a bathroom and avoid too much grey.
We have a sort of pale turquoise in ours and i hate it 
can’t wait to move house and will do so much differently
RachHC I don't mind turquoise but wouldn't paint my bathroom in it! We have charcoal tiles on the walls and ceiling, so don't anything too dark but I don't like cool colours, such as light turquoise would go. We are planning to sell when my husband gets a new job and want something that will be nice for staging and appeal to a number of people.
RichardDoolin I hadn't even thought of using either of those colours but I completely agree with you.
Warm colours (orange and red). I think those are better suited for a bedroom or a living room. 
I also wouldn't like dark colours such as black or brown. Yuk.
RegularComper90 I've seen a red bathroom before and it just didn't look right on my opinions. Orange and red were two that I was staying away from. As my bathroom tiles are a charcoal grey, black or brown would be far too dark, although I doubt I would have had those colours even if my tiles had been lighter.
We once had an avocado bathroom suite with cream and brown tiles not a good look
Have you thought of cherise or teal accessories to lighten up the grey 
beccatavender ohh I like the look of the teal. I have some bright pink towels and bathmat just now, but I think that lighter pink is very nice.
I once lived in a flat where the bathroom was Lime Green, with pink bathroom accessories...horrendous!
Imnotcheap that will be for our next bathroom, but right now it is for staging the house to sell it once my husband gets a new job, so want something nice and simple but appealing to most people, a big ask I know!
We are restricted by the landlords tiles, blue/grey with pale pink flower, and pale pink carpet, originally walls and side of bath were pink we painted walls grey/blue (room gets sun all day) and sprayed bath panel white and put pop of pink in the room with bright pink curtains. It looks nice and open now, not a pink box.
lilyflower sounds lovely. I am not restricted to what I can do with the room, I'm just not wanting to change the tiles so I'm working with what I have. Can I ask what material your bath panel is and what you sprayed it with? Mine is white but might look nice with an update, but don't want to buy a new bath panel
MrsCraig Bath panel is bog standard acrylic we used a can of white gloss spray paint from Wilko, took panel off painted and put back next day.
For accessories, if the room is dark I’d avoid darker colours, and if the room is light I’d avoid lighter colours since they may blend in too much. If you have dark grey in there I’d go with something like yellow to add some warmth and brighten it up some, and avoid anything dark like navy.
For the walls I would say the main thing I’d avoid are metallic coloured paints. One bathroom in a rental I used to live in had metallic silver and gold paint in the bathroom and it always looked dirty with smudges everywhere from where it could get wet or where condensation could form. I hated it, but wasn’t allowed to change it.
cocolgooh the room itself is bright, it just has dark grey tiles. It had dark grey tiles on the floor and the walls, so I'm not worried about painting anything, just the accessories. I've seen some nice stainless steel bins, toilet brush etc, but just don't know what colours to add.
I definitely won't be going with navy as too dark. Yellow might be nice, as long as I got the right shade.
Why would anyone paint the bathroom in metallic colours?
cocolgooh it is a nice room, just want to make it look nicer. I just put the towels etc from our old house in there but they are about 12 years old now and the bath mats got a bit ruined when the dog was a puppy, so would like some new ones but don't want to go with the terracotta type of colour we have now
I typically like to stay very neutral but I do think blush pink or duck egg can look nice with greys if not overdone.
Glitterandgold I was thinking about duck egg. It would just be the towels and bathmat that would be duck egg and bin, toilet brush, soap dispenser etc would be stainless steel to match the towel rail etc
MrsCraig I think that'd be perfect. I love duck egg. It's the only non neutral colour in my home.
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