Maybe you should improve your lighting with a more white bulb to brighten up your paint! My bathroom is small and has no light too. If you like that type of colour, my place is painted in ralph Lauren Impressionist and I love it! Its a bit bluer than the one you show

I agree with CASEYINTO. THis is my suggestion as well, as I went thru a bathroom reno myself in a windowless room, and my walls are painted a light blue, and I have GREAT lighting now, 3 bulbs of 100W that make it like daylight in there. I am pushing 40 and my eyes are not as good as they used to was :-)

If you really like the paint colour in your bathroom, consider perhaps painting the top half of the wall white. It will lighten the bathroom without losing out on colour. You can also put a chair rail molding where the two colours meet. Also use a paint that has more shine to it, versus a mat paint which can suck the light out of the room.

I agree that a brighter light will help. Have you considered going with a color that looks closer to natural light? I'm thinking a light yellow to psych you into feeling like you are in sunlight.

I have this same shower curtain and my bathroom is Aqua Sparkle from Lowe's

http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/715195/715195035484lg.jpg

You have just about my favorite color palette there! I would suggest going into the paler, cooler versions of the blue in your curtain rather than the green-blues int he Watery paint group. And by paler I mean a white with a hint of blue-gray. Benjamin Moore does some fog colors that would work with your curtain -- Harbor Fog is a clean and not-too-pastel blue, while Coastal Fog is a grayish tan that would work with the tan you have. Nantucket fog is a colder blue-gray, but might be too dark. Fog Mist is a pinky-tan/off-white that might really pick up your blues.

I agree with all the other post. My bathroom has no nature light and it's painted in a mint green. The fixtures are bronze, the cabinets are a birch color, and the shower curtain is actually a sheer curtin with soft tiger stripe design. Doesn't make the bathroom dark..just bring up those lights.
I do really like that shower curtain. Good luck

I have a similar color scheme as you in my no natural light bath, but I have a fixture both on the ceiling and one with four bulbs over the sink and it seems almost too bright. Can you change your light fixture to something that provides more light?

Until I came to AT, I wasn't aware that this was a problem for people... it seems like bathrooms not having windows is very common. Until recently, I had never a bathroom with any windows, so we've always relied on artificial light, which can be made brighter, so we just did that instead of thinking about dealing with not getting any natural light.

It seems to me that the best solution is the most obvious one. Change the light fixture or change the bulb.

This is a no-brainer. Use your favorite color and good lighting. CASETINTO said it well.

I suppose my puzzlement in reaction to this is that a bathroom, with no natural light, is "tricky to decorate." It actually seems fairly easy. You don't have enough light...add more light. Now, if you are a renter and can't swap light fixtures, THEN let's talk about making it brighter.

I would paint a bathroom with no natural light in white. If your tiles, toilet, or sink are already white, make sure you get a bunch of samples to most closely match the same white. Mirrors help too, as does (of course) a nice lighting source.

I'm in a similar situation. Even though I'm renting, I planning a pale blue gray. Olympic has Winter's Day and Thin Ice that I'm scoping out. The color now is this blah blah beige color that makes the whole space feel claustrophobic. I only have one light over the sink too--I switched to a CFL bulb but it still didn't do much. I'm thinking about swapping out with one of those GE Reveal bulbs. Very close to natural light.

Good luck!

I know it seems counter-intuitive to some to paint a small room dark, but I also have a windowless bathroom and we painted it BM Nightfall, which is nearly black. Its a very warm graphite and the light bounces around the room like crazy. Its my favorite room in the house right now.

Don't feel like you need to stick to light colors because there are no windows and the room is small.

You can see my before/ (nearly) after here: http://eclecticdesignsource.blogspot.com/2012/04/from-this-to-that-pt-2.html

Hi there,
I'd seriously consider switching to BM colors - they are way more subtle and beautiful than SW or anything else out there (short of DKC of course). BM makes two colors that have that watery blue color I'd recommend: Healing Aloe and Gray Cashmere. I have the former in my hallways (dark, no light) and the latter in the bathroom (some light). They are a lovely blend of blue-gray-green. Very appealing. Do all white linens perhaps too.

Why don't you paint some white horizontal stripes? That's what we did in my small, window-less attic apartment bathroom (with a sloped ceiling) and it not only brightened it up considerably, but it also made it seem bigger. We chose a light Martha Stewart brand blue, that I love but would have been a bit overwhelming if not for the white stripes!

I have the same shower curtain, white vanity and neutral tiles - I chose a color that matched the lightest shade of tan in the shower curtain and it looks fantastic - the color is Sierra Sand by Behr (Sherwin Williams paint).

A more muted color and brighter bulbs will work fine. Try Sherwin Williams Sea Salt or Accessible Beige. I do not recommend Benjamin Moore as those colors - especially in the Classics and Preview color collections - can be very intense and saturated.

I agree with @Steph12 - paint the top half white. You can use silvery washi tape where the colors meet to provide a subtle contrast, or brown washi tape to pull-in the color from the shower curtain.

I have a similar situation with my bathroom and went with Benjamin Moore Glass Slipper. The soothing blue gives my bathroom a spa-like feel. The color is almost white; it's such a beautiful, crisp translucent blue. Good luck! Love the shower curtain!

There are base paints and even glazes that have reflective chips in them. Consider either repainting in the same color or glazing the walls to reflect and bounce more of the light around. No natural? Bounce what you do have around more.

I agree with @Eclectic Design Source - my tiny bathroom is painted a dark navy blue with all white & silver accents. Though I would suggest a brighter light fixture, don't be afraid of a darker color. It's the application that makes the difference (like painting half the wall, only an accent wall, etc). Good luck!

Before you make any color decisions, try lightbulbs specially made to mimic the color spectrum of natural light. I've used them before in a windowless room and they make a HUGE difference.

I recently bought a place very modern with a windowless bathroom straight out of Mauve Town. It was awful, especially compared to the rest of the condo, with the mauve floor tiles continued up the walls to vanity height (so hideous!). I sanded all the wall tiles and painted them a bright white, painted the walls and ceiling a soothing pale blue/gray, replaced the floor tiles with 12x12 slate to match the kitchen floor, added a pedestal sink and nickel fixtures and lighting. It was a huge impact with minimal effort. I would suggest a paler blue/gray for your bathroom. Good luck!

In a similar bathroom, I painted the walls Farrow and Ball Pale Powder. It's a very light shade of blue-green. I love it. Maybe just changing up the lighting and painting a lighter variation of your color would do the trick - just move up the paint sample to two shades above the one you chose.

Go to Farrow & Ball! They have so much useful information and they show you each color with a variety of other light and dark colors to give you an idea of how it really looks. http://us.farrow-ball.com/colours/paint/fcp-category/list?resetFilters=true

I suggest just going up one or 2 tones on the same paint chip. It will look darker due to the lack of light.

I also have a bathroom with no window. I replaced the solid door with a (privacy) glass door so now it gets some indirect sunlight. I also replaced the old light fixture with one with 5 Xenon bulbs, which give a very bright warm light. My bath has white tile with almond/off white grout, white toilet, off white sink. I didn't want to replace any of it so needed a paint color that would unify the white and off white elements. I painted the walls Benjamin Moore Abalone (a very pale warm gray), and the vanity cabinet a dark off-black. It looks sharp now, and I am happy with it. Hope my little experience helps you out.

@Eclectic Design Source, your bathroom is gorgeous! Even though the paint is darker than what you started with, the white tiles in the shower really pop. You're right that it seems counter-intuitive to paint a small space with no natural light dark, but that bathroom turned out great.

If you can change the light fixture to something with directional lighting and paint the walls the dark brown that's in the shower curtain, that would make an inviting space.

Remember to do a few samples of the colors you like so you know what they actually look like in your bathroom instead of at the store (but you def know that already). We had a grayish-bluish bathroom in the last place and just painting the ceiling a bright white made a quick and good difference. I would go with white walls and teal-ish blue or powder blue (shades darker or lighter) bathmat and hand towels to pick up on the beautiful curtain. Good luck and send us after pictures!

My bathroom is small. We painted it Almost Aqua which i think was a Glidden color. Looks great with my waterfall ruffle shower curtain.

How about a smaller scale geometric patterned wallpaper in there in a neutral color and agree about lighting! Can you paint the vanity?

Finally I have an acct set up here so I can respond...and I see that this post was a while ago. If Liz kids anything like me at all...she finished this project almost the same day. I just purchased a paint color for one of my bathrooms with no natural light and also limited in space...similar color scheme. I inspired by noticing the cover of my Aveda light elements...as I looked around the house to find a light enough blue. True Value sold me a can of paint called Sea Salt....love it...the palest blue with still a hint of seafoam. I may even use this color when I experiment in crackling a small furniture piece that currently resides in the room.