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I wouldn't pick any of those colours. I prefer pale blue, pale green, or warm white.

Right now my favorite is aqua, though I know I'll be over it as soon as I look at it for long enough.

I only like the gray out of that. I'm more of a muted color for such a small intimate room.

If i had my choice of ANY color i would go with "Pismo Dunes #AC-32" in a flat, if it were going against a white/warm white tile.

most of these don't do it for me either but i'm in a very soft and light mood lately. i just can't see having a very dark bathroom. different (softer) shades of pink would be appealing, but this one is a bit too pink for me.

i'm all about the subtleties of gray!

I prefer soft green or blue as well. It blends well with white and promotes tranquility of the water...

I was so torn between Golden Delicious and Northern Cliffs so it's funny to see that they're the neck-in-neck winners. I do find it a little icky that you guys abbreviated Ben Moore though...BM Golden Delicious?...in the bathroom? Icks.

I picked "Reflecting Pool" as my pick from the choices above, but I too prefer a lighter blue or blue-green.

I have really wanted to paint something hot pink and a little bathroom would be perfect.

I have to concur with most of the other commentors. I am living with a deep saturated bathroom right now which is almost the same color as the Reflecting Pool choice above and while the drama of it gets a lot of comments from guests, living with it is getting on my nerves, especially at night when lack of natural light makes everything look too much like the set of a theater play. Or somthing. I plan on repainting it to Benjamin Moore Glass Slipper (which is a super clean but light blue) in the next few months, although I might do a deeper, richer accent wall to break things up.

I dunno, I'm sort of over the deep saturated paint jobs right now (I bought my house from a decorative painter so there is lots of paint drama). I want pale, toned down paint with bright saturated accesories instead.

Also, that yellow - whew - am I the only one who feels I look jaundiced in most yellow bathrooms?

My parents painted their windowless guest bath a saturated, intense, yellow-based pink (similar to Martha Stewart's Peony), and everyone looks fabulous in the mirror.

I'd consider going with a lighter shade of the rust in our talavera accessories, but warm white is just so darned useful as a background for changing towel colors.

For a windowless and only bathroom with a poor light fixture I'm not able to replace, I like the soft aqua/green which helps compensate for the lack of light and supports the water element. I use different shower curtains and accessories for spring/summer and fall/winter, more glass in the summer, more wood in the winter.

I'm just guessing but, and not to put too fine a point on it, I think Mark deliberately chose a urine yellow and a feces brown.

Hmm, I would NEVER go as dark as some of these choices in a bathroom - I'd end up going out to face the day still half-asleep! In my last apartment I went with Tiffany blue (even got one of the bags from the store to color-match) for a nice jolt of color in a small bathroom with no natural light.

Now that I have small windows in my current apartment, the brightness of the Tiffany blue seemed a bit garish, so I went with a more powdery blue in the guest bath. My master bath is lavender due to a happy accident - I was thinking of a lavender and celadon green color scheme for the bedroom, but it just didn't seem to work, and the test quart was just enough for the limited wall space in the bath! With black and white accessories, it's ended up with a bit of a Brocade Home look.

I'm another New Yorker with a window-less bathroom. I went with a pale blue-green against matte white subway tile, white terry cloth, chrome fixtures and dark mahogany.

Eventually I'll repaint it to God's Own Chosen Paint Colour: Benjamin Moore 1493, a pale, incredibly rich grey that goes with anything (at least anything *I* like) in any light. My present colour is pretty when brightly lit, but if I dim my lights, as the light becomes yellower, the wall colour is kind of grim.

Tempting to delude oneself with the flattering glow of pink walls, but then comes the inevitable nasty shock when encountering one's reflection out in the real world. Better to grapple with the facts in a mostly-white bathroom. As they say, "grasp your nettles firmly."

With a windowless bathroom, I prefer to stick with lighter tones of the colour wheel as a base. I have always loved a snow white bathroom as it allows you to add accent colours as you please, like a blank canvas.
I like to complement with natural hues that reflect the elements of our surrounding world. Akin to Joan A., I am currently loving the radiance of aqua blue, also the vibrance of chlorophyll green. Tis the season I suppose! Plus I love the sea and sky, and nature's green after a fresh rain...

I know I'm in the minority on this, but for a small, windowless NYC bathroom, I choose high-gloss white every time and then punch it up with color for everything else. Our current color scheme in the bathroom is black, white, gray and red. It manages to be energetic (much needed in the morning!) and soothing at the same time.

My 1970 condo bathroom has minty-green fixtures and the ugliest tile (with dark grout!) ever. Until I can afford to rip it all out, it's been painted Benjamin Moore's Radicchio, deep purply-red. Sadly, it will probably look silly with white fixtures, but I'm loving it in the meantime.

That is funny, I used Golden Delicious when I painted my bathroom a couple of months ago. I love it, and it looks great with a Japanese woodblock print poster that has pink/red tones in it. If there were a "smallest coolest bathroom" contest, I'd enter it!

I too prefer light watery blues and greens for my bathrooms. But, I am painting one of my baths a creamy warm white. It was a wedgewood blue color and it just got on my nerves. It has no window and that blue just looked muddy to me. The other bathroom is a just a little half bath with a ton of natural southern light and everything just looks washed out- but I don't want a deeper paint color. My husband is tired of looking at paint colors and is of little help. Any ideas?

My first bathroom was a bright light blue and even with decent lighting and a small window, people looked terrible in it! I currently have an orange bathroom with white tile and cobalt blue tile accents. It satisfies my need for a watery blue and we all still look happy and healthy in there. I like a bright saturated color with white or neutral tiles, the color choices above were very dark, much more black than color.

Next bathroom I want to do a warm cafe au lait color with lots of cream colored stone/tile. I'm thinking the coffee scheme will be a visual caffeine boost and I'll get things going a bit faster.

i would not pick any of these colors - they are garish or flat!

what water is these colors anyway?

It depends on the colors in the rest of the apartment. I personally chose a super-sassy Benjamin Moore Salsa color for my bathroom because I had no other hot colors in my apartment (and I like to use the bathroom as a place to invigorate, not meditate). Also, I have white tile halfway up the wall, so the super-sassy color only exists for about 5 feet before it's tamed again by a white ceiling.

I'd kind of like to do a really campy tropical theme in my bathroom, with a banana leaf print wallpaper and the cabinet covered with bamboo, and maybe some little surfboard shaped drawer pulls. Just something really fun and beachy, but since we only have the one bathroom I'm afraid I'd get tired of it pretty quickly. If I ever move someplace that has a 1/2 bath or power room I may try it. If I can get rid of the '70's striped wallpaper that's in there now, I'm considering either a very soft yellow, or a pale "sunset" color. (No, I have no idea what it is and I haven't seen it anywere except my imagination.)

ummm.. white. with hints of other very light, washed out colors. anything else, is not very relaxing.

Well given your choices above (navy blue, black, brown or grey - don't sound so good without the fancy names do they!!) - they are all disgusting colours for bathrooms - the pale pink is not me at all - so I'd go for the lime green

Which is a good choice as I think there should be more lime green in the world!

I like aqua/turquise colours for a bathroom

With some of those darker colors, I'd probably fall asleep and bash my head into the floor of the shower. Nice, warm white for me--it's relaxing and is good for an accurate reflection when getting ready. The natural tones come from my accessories.

Oh, and Jessica--I agree completely...poor Benjamin Moore!

Sorry Maxwell, your color choices seem too boring for a bathroom. I would like aqua blue or lime green in my bathroom.

I'm all for Feng Shui but the darker colors feel really heavy, and the lighter, like golden delicious, would probably be pretty unflattering in the context of an bathroom--I'd imagine it casts a pretty icky glow. Northern Cliffs seems unoffensive enough, but I think bathrooms are great opportunities to use brighter, punchier colors.
When I moved to my current apartment a few years ago I re-painted the flat white walls of my teeny, tiny bathroom Benjamin Moore's Jamaican Aqua and I LOVE it! It's bright, cheery and flattering, without being over the top. I only wish I'd taken some before photos because it totally transformed the space and brought all the blah browns together.

Not crazy about any of these as bath colors, but the Strudel is pretty enough and warm.

My favorite bathroom was an indescribable, muted pumpkin orange, with gold and pale turquoise accents. It sounds bizarre, but was so relaxing and flattering.

Right now I'm contending with a bright-white rental bath. I am surrendering to mostly white, but putting in quite a bit of grayed aqua, and bits of silver and cobalt blue, without really thinking about it. So I guess those are my current favorite bath colors.

I recently saw a beautiful bathroom in a shade similar to Reflecting pool, with penny tile in matching color up the walls. It was very striking.

I'm thinking of painting my bathroom a light green, maybe sea green, maybe a historical gray-based green. Can anyone recommend some specific shades they like? Thanks.