While you don't entertain in your bathroom, it's still a room in your home you and your family use, as well as your guests. Because the bathroom is one of the most visited rooms, you want it to have a neat appearance that matches with the style of the rest of your home.
Instructions
1. Look around your bathroom. For bathrooms that have natural light through a window or skylight, you can consider a darker color for your paint. But for bathrooms without windows, especially small bathrooms, consider using a lighter color of paint on the walls to prevent the "closed-in" feeling that can occur with dark walls.
2. Decide if you're going to pick paint colors based off of current or future accessories. If you have a theme in your bathroom and you want to continue with that theme, choose colors throughout your theme to consider matching your paint to. Choose floor rugs or bath towels that you want to keep in the bathroom and add coordinating colors on your list of paint to consider.
3. Visit a paint store. Browse through sample paint chips to begin narrowing down color choices.
4. Bring sample paint chips home. Choose your top three to five and bring the paint . This allows you to hold the sample paint colors up against window treatments, towels, as well as your permanent fixtures (bathtub, toilet and sink) to see how the colors will go in your bathroom.
5. Paint small sections with your top choices. If you still can't decide on a final paint color choice, paint your final selections on your wall. Buy a quart of paint in each of your final colors and paint a section measuring two feet by two feet on your bathroom wall. View your painted sample patches in different lights, night and day to see the overall match.
6. Pick your paint colors. Choose the paint color that's also available in the sheen or type that's needed for your bathroom (semi-gloss or eggshell are recommended for bathrooms due to moisture control and ease in washing).
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