I have a slim but dramatic offering this week. Why don’t you paint your powder room black?
It doesn’t have to be black black, try Black Iron. It’s ever so slightly brown, which softens the wall as it rubs shoulders with the marble tile. As always, I do love strong, dark colors in small spaces. Red accents complete the picture.
Go ahead, why don’t you?
COLORS USED:
Benjamin Moore Black Iron 2120-20
- Mark Chamberlain, interior and decorative painter
Mark Chamberlain Painting
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Very cool in the right home.
Love the combination of the tiling, black wall, red hollywood regency frame and lacquer accessories!
Would definitely do it! I saw it in a hair salon and now I am very tempted do it in my apartment..
the reflection in the mirror is as equally curious - nice
Love that color with those tiles! Beautiful.
Definitely wouldn't look right in my house, but I love the pictures here, and I have seen other black bathroom (sadly can't remember where!) that were lovely!
I did! Love this with the spots of red :)
Where is the mirror from? Is that beach art?
The red frame remind me of this one:
http://www.designpublic.com/shop/harry-allen/8730
though one can easily spraypaint a baroque-style picture frame .
I rocked this color scheme in an apt with a very modern travertine-rife bathroom...and changing the wall color from 'builder white' to the dark shade made the bathroom look BOTH bigger and bolder. I, also, left the ceiling white--very similar to the post example. I saw a lot of other units in the building where tenants had gone the sage-green/spa-tastic route: yawn.
I have a teeny bathroom, and am actually going to copy Anna @ D16 and paint the ceiling black. The hope is that it'll make the 25ft2 space feel, ahem, 'roomy'.
OMG - those beach scenes appear to be Massimo Vitalis. In the bathroom? I can't imagine what the art in the rest of the home looks like.
i did it! I used "Railings" by Farrow and Ball, which is really a midnight blue. It provided some welcome punch against a mousey fawn-brown tile, a bit paler than the one in the photo above.
People sound shocked when I tell them, but I feel validated now, thanks!
Not for me, but it's a really interesting display.
Hey! It *might* work in our 50's pink tiled bathroom...
Done, or nearly so. My walls are a very deep brown. It's one of my favourite elements in my house.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22363146@N02/4703584938/in/set-72157623784874757/
Can't wait to find the right spot in my house for this.
Pretty cool! I wish I could do that in our basement, but I'm not sure my husband would agree...Although I could probably convince him that a very dark gray wall would work...
Very nice.
I painted my mothers bathroom black. She has 1940's mint green and black tile on the walls and black and white hexagonal tile on the floor and I walked in and said "this room needs to be painted black." She hemmed and hawed for months about it but in the end trusted me and she absolutely loves it. Anytime someone goes in there they come out and say "I LOVE YOUR BLACK BATHROOM!" It is fabulous.
k2yhe, look fabulous.
here's mine (sorry for odd angles)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5211/5532828350_9aedf6bae8_o.jpg
no.
Will probably be buying this same paint color to use in my bathroom. Been wanting to do an accent wall such as this for a while now. Very excited!