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love it but I would never do it. I would be tired of this in about a month.

I love this, just not the tile or curtains. I have a very dark brown accent wall in my living room that looks black when the lights are low - I find it strangely comforting.

I also love this. To me, it feels enveloping, not sinister.

I have a bathroom that I painted ultra-brown (Benjamin Moore's Black Bean Soup)

I love it but the only problem is condesation from my hot showers leaves white water spots on the ceilings and walls due to poor ventilation (it's a rental: no fan or window in the bathroom)

I could only get with this look if it were dark eggplant instead of plain old black.

i love it and have been trying to convince my partner that it's a good idea in our own bathroom (and strangely, we happen to have the exact same fairly unattractive tiles). it's only a matter of time until i win on this one, i think.

Looks like someplace Dita Von Teese would bathe.

I could never live with this (and I think my husband would leave me) but it's a gorgeous photo.

Fun to look at but I do not think every home can pull this one off.

Love the idea for a hallway/half bath...but the tile floor in the pic doesn't quite fit in my opinion.

Very unique. I wouldn't mind a black bathroom.

love this as inspiration. I would love to have the bathtub and the curtains. I think I would prefer a shade of dark gray on the wall instead of black.

My parents have a black downstairs loo - it's fab. The funny thing is the number of people who ask what colour it is they just can't accept that it's actually black.

We just rented an apartment in Barcelona for a trip next month and the bathroom is all black except the white fixtures. It will be interesting to see if we tire of it by the end of our vacation.

Very Elvira...I'd like to see it with that pink tub featured awhile back

it can be very glam, depending on what the rest of your loo looks like. Does it have clawfoot tub, porcelain sink, comfy chair, etc?

I like this a lot. I would do this in a second if I had a window in my bathroom.

I have a black bathroom...sort of. It's gloss black below the chair rail....the chair rail, trim, and door is cinnebar red, and above it is a chinese scene on gold leaf that's original to the 1927 build-out. I love it! Very dramatic and the fact it's been preserved 70 years makes it that much more special!

if Dita von Teese would bathe there, as Enrique says, I might be buying some black paint this weekend...

I think it looks fantastic anyhow, and even though the tile and chair colors aren't what I would've chosen, anything other than red makes it feel warm to me.

i would go for this. i think its different, elegant and i love the chair. its naughty sexy and refined sophistication in perfect balance. like a high society vampire. i may suggest to friends of mine...

Such a well balanced room! It could have never worked without that large window. I think the natural light makes all the difference. I wonder what it's like at night...with lit candles.

Black is the new white. (kidding)

I think when you do this, it's all about what you put in there with the black. The white clawfoot and two-toned tub, yellow chair and other subtle colors make this work.

I think you also need to go gloss black to pull this off. A flat black would be too dead, whereas the open window in this room gives the wall a lot of depth via the reflected light.

Absolutely.

I moved in to my new house about a month ago, and promptly had my bedroom painted a flat slate gray. The master bath, however, remained the same color it had previously been, a hideous neutral shade (nothing against neutrals, I love them, but this one was hideous), that did not provide for a cohesive "master suite" look. I thought doing gray in there as well would look to bland, so I settled on a high-gloss black.

I've not delved into the project yet, as I'm absolutely wiped from the entire homebuying process (it's my first). But once I feel up to it, it's going black, baby! I'm thinking of using a lot of silver, circular shapes on the walls as art... clocks, rims, gears and spokes...what do you think?

craiggerator I think YES!!!

above the faucet, this shade of black does almost look dark purple...

I have a downstairs powder room I want to paint. It's about 4 x 7. The pedestal sink and toilet are white and the ceramic tile is whitish / grayish. Thing is - I want to paint all of the walls black, with the exception of the trim and the ceiling. Think it's too much back? I want people to be surprised / shocked when they open the door. Opinions?

I like it! I want to do something similarly dramatic in my long hallway. Any ideas how to achieve that high gloss finish?

I had a friend whose parent's seemed to have had the same interior decorator as Elvis.
Their downstairs half-bath had black carpet, black toilet with gold handle, black ceramic sink, black granite with gold flecks, gold plumbing fixtures and gold wallpaper with black velvet designs on it.
Now, that was a black bathroom!