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Thematically my master bedroom and bathroom are matched with suble chinoiserrie, but color-wise they aren't a match. Mabye an echo?

My bedroom has a neutral ground with walnut wood tones and spa-blue, natural linen, and honey gold textiles. The bathroom is a palest celedon with brown linens. To my eye, the celendon fits nicely between the blue and honey, and the brown linens are a nod to the casegoods.

I have door between the bath and bedroom, but they function as a single master space and I feel more comfortable with the harmony.

That is a lovely transition above. The light blue hue in the bathroom and the wood shelf with coral is very organic.

I have given great thought to this situation as I have a bathroom attached to the bedroom for the first time.

My intention is for the bathroom to be an extension of the bedroom. The bedroom is a soft blue with sisal carpeting (soon) that will transition into a heated pebble floored bathroom with a cantilevered limestone vanity with soft stone tile on the wall. Minimal to a certain degree but a flowing suite that is warm and textured.

The door between the two spaces is an eight ball right now but I'm thinking frosted glass or something as simple as a porthole to create a transparency between the two.

they should compliment each other, but definitely not "match". having your bedroom and bathroom decked out in the same wall colors would remind me of those obnoxious couples who dress alike when they're on vacation.

Fantastic. Love it. Where did you get that beautiful coral?

Doesn't it depend how much you can see of one room from the other?

If you just catch a glimpse through a doorway, I'd do what Jonathan did with carrying over one color and bringing in something new. But if the two rooms are very open to each other, there's no real way to break a color scheme unless you're very subtle and clever with mutating from one accent color to another.

When we had a master bath in the last apartment, it really wasn't visible at all from the bedroom, so we went with a completely different color scheme. No reason not to!

I wish they would. But we are renting and the bathroom has horrible brownish tiles from the early eighties, where as our bedroom is neutral, white and light wood.