One of the best ways to makeover a small bathroom space is with paint. We all know that, but sometimes it can be hard to think outside of the box and use more than one paint or add some graphic dimension to things. This bathroom gets a bright and bold makeover, after the jump!
Flickr member Carabou went to town with some brighter than normal colors. They squared things up and balanced out the bold by leaving the top half of the room white. It makes a big statement and we have to say, we're fans!
Would you ever be able to go this bold? What about using large squares, just in a more subdued set of colors? Or are you more of a 4 walls the same color type person? Leave us your thoughts below!
(Image: Flickr member Carabou licensed for use under Creative Commons)
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Comments (42)
Very brave, and well done. I think I would also have included some sort of blue in the mix, to tie in with the tiles.
Nice bathroom for the kiddies.
a bit too bold for me. the colors don't really seem to fit in with the rest of the bathroom, or with each other.. must have been hard work though...
Not my taste...but i commend your work and creativity!
really?
I like the pattern, although I would have used various shades of blue and white.
I'm going to echo katzamboni's sentiment on this one. I like the idea, and the pattern, but feel a dab of blue would have made it fit the space instead of competing with it. Still, very well done.
Yikes.
I'm sorry to say, but I think the color choice was wrong (does the homeowner not agree, judging by the fact that s/he cut out as much of blue bath tile as possible for the After pic?) and the paint job looks amateurish.
Not my taste... but I bet your kiddos love it!
It reminds me of the original colors of Starburst fruit candy.
I love before and after shots of anything. I don't care how godawful it looked before or how godawful it looks after, I just LOVE LOVE LOVE before and after shots.
This bathroom reminds me of Fruit Stripe gum, and much like the gum the flavor is soon lost after a few minutes.
The colors are fun, and I like your technique, however it seems so detached from the top portion of the wall, the tiles, and well.. everything else in the bathroom. I think if different hues of blue were used it would have done a better job of joining all the different finishes and materials in the space. It seems that many others agree with this as well.
It looks to me like some of the lines are little bit crooked; I wish the squares were all nice and neat and straight. I like the idea of something fun and bold in the bathroom, but I don't really like the color combination.
I have to agree. I think they should have gone with blues. The neon colors compete too much with the existing tile. Your eye doesn't know where to go too much crazy going on.
Love the Kotex in the first photo.
Oh. Ummm ...
that just does not look good. nothing else to say.
A for effort
Wow, I really don't like this. Sorry. I applaud the idea of trying something new.
oh god.
is there some kind of wallpaper border above the paint/below the mirror? this looks like a paint job inspired by post-its.
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Very brave, but some taping or something for straight edges would have improved the look a lot. The colour scheme.. eh.. reminds me of that whole 1980s neon trend, let's not go back there, pls.
Nope, too overpowering and not cleanly done. This would have been better as small amounts of the same colours on a white background.
I'm sorry, but...yuk!
you are very brave
no!
but at least she put away all the stuff! that's an improvement all by itself.
I don't mind the colors - I can imagine those colors making an otherwise blah bathroom more bright and fun. But the execution here is pretty bad. The lines are crooked, the border is weird, and it just doesn't match the existing blue tile.
I've given an old/tired bathroom (with the bumpy walls, etc.) a makeover and you just can't pull some things off in them the way you could in a bathroom with no issues. For instance, I found glossy paint was a bad idea - like shiny spandex over cellulite. I switched to matte, BIG improvement.
Anyway, all that matters is that the homeowners like it, and I hope they do!
no. in short... and in LONG.. NO....
but if I was to... my I would ensure my masking was perfect before committing the brush to the wall.
If that were my Bathroom.. I would have continued the Blue theme and maybe do a mixture of Blue tones.... rather than this Joseph inspired fixup...
BUT the person who uses the bathroom likes it this way .. and that is what is important here!
Not exactly what I was expecting... that's as nice as it gets.
On second thought, the design could work if the colors complemented the retro blue tile. Essentially, it's a good idea with really poor execution.
Gah. Bad taste, bad execution.
This idea COULD work, with razor-sharp paint lines and a choice of colours that complements the existing tile.
Unfortunately this bathroom has poor colour choice and sloppy execution.
Still, it's just someone's Flickr photo. It's not like they offered it to AT on a platter for criticism.
By the looks of the before pic, I was expecting something fantastic for the after. Nope.
More of a "before and disaster" than before and after.
Not my cup of tea. I just wonder what happened to all those stuff next to the sink in the before photo.
yowch.
well -- i imagine that if this were a bathroom for children, they'd probably love the bright colors. :)
it's definitely an improvement that it looks cleaner. I don't think that the colors work. the top also still looks not finished.
Not my taste.
I actually recoiled from the monitor and said "OH, mygawd!" out loud when I saw this...
Not for me, but it may have had a more positive impact if they hadn't totally ignored the blue tile but instead called on that color when choosing the rest of the color patches.
I was expecting a more elegant, dramatic transformation. I'm dissapointed, actually.
No.
And, for anyone who likes the look, please use painter's tape.
All of above being said; I would much rather use bathroom 2 than even considering stepping into bathroom 1, therefore I think it's a wonderful transformation!
I commend you for taking a bold risk, though....
I'm not a four walls-one color kind of person, but I agree with the majority. Good idea, poor execution. And maybe work with the blue tile instead of totally against it?