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Design a colourful, characterful bathroom with the infinite style options provided by Marazzi porcelain stoneware tiles
The creative process of designing a new bathroom includes collecting inspirations and studying the latest trends to help you to choose the colour scheme best suited to the room itself and your personal taste.
So in this article we’ve decided to cover all useful ideas and advice for choosing a bathroom’s colour, from the wall covering to the flooring, by way of the best tile-furniture combinations.
Factors to consider when choosing the colours for a bathroom
When choosing a bathroom’s colours, both your personal style and the space available are crucial: the colour scheme must satisfy individual tastes and requirements, of course, but trends and architectural constraints cannot be forgotten.
For example, the choice of colours for a small bathroom may be very different from that for a room of larger size. Or the criteria for setting the colour scheme for a windowless bathroom will be different from those used to design the colours of a bathroom with plenty of natural light. Colour can also be used as a visual trick to change the way a room is perceived, modifying its apparent proportions, height and structural characteristics.
So let’s take a look at how to choose the right colours for your bathroom, bearing in mind all the factors that can help to make it a real interior design feature within your home.
Bathroom covering ideas: from moodboard to choice of colour scheme
The first phases in the creative process of designing a new bathroom include the choice of the room’s colour scheme.
To start, you should produce a moodboard, a plan summarising all the colour shades and finishes to be used in the bathroom. This moodboard, actually a collage of photos and sketches, is usually inspired by a specific furnishing style or impressions and sensations you want to achieve in your bathroom’s make-over.
Once you’ve defined your project (which includes, for example, the placing of the sanitary fittings and other furnishings), you can also start to decide:
- the colour of the walls;
- the material and colour of the floor covering;
- the colours of the furnishings and the metal finishes of the sanitary fittings (accessories, taps).
The bathroom’s colour scheme is the outcome of all these choices and the combinations of the various textures, the shapes and sizes, the colour shades and the patterns of the furnishings and coverings.
In fact, the coverings are amongst the features with the greatest influence on the end result: the bathroom’s tiles are fundamental in the creation of its chromatic personality.
Some options when choosing coloured bathroom tiles can be summarised as follows:
- neutral tiles can form a minimalist background against which furnishings and fittings stand out;
- brightly coloured tiles with a striking visual impact play a greater role in defining the room’s personality, and look good with more neutral, paler furnishings.
Popular colours for the bathroom
The most popular bathroom colour schemes definitely include pale and neutral shades like grey and beige, which are highly versatile when it comes to combining them with other features. Together with brighter colours or textures with a timeless beauty, such as wood-effect stoneware, they will give your bathroom an inviting elegance.
Grey is becoming more and more common in bathrooms as it creates a calm, relaxing ambience, ideal for a room dedicated to wellbeing and personal care. A neutral grey-based colour scheme is the basis of an elegant, understated interior, especially teamed with a wood-effect stoneware flooring, but the addition of colours like petrol blue or sage green can also make it more vibrant and individual.
If you love warm, welcoming shades, beige is a very popular colour because it provides a luminous background and makes the room look larger. Opting for beige as your bathroom’s main covering leaves you free to add even brightly coloured features without visually overloading the design scheme.
Beige combines splendidly with natural materials like stone, wood or linen fabrics, creating a warm, welcoming interior. Colourful touches like vases of fresh flowers or towels in bright shades can add points of interest to a mainly beige bathroom.
Modern bathroom colours: neutral shades or mix & match of hues?
Coverings, in this specific case bathroom tiles, are a fundamental stylistic feature for defining the “look” of the room and shaping its style.
Choosing the right colour of tiles can be an opportunity for changing the way the space appears to the eye, making it seem larger or lighter depending on requirements.
Looking for a few examples to give you some inputs? Combine neutral shades with textures and patterns for a timeless bathroom: colour is back in fashion, in interior designs and coverings. In solid colour or as decoration, it offers infinite creative opportunities for personalising a bathroom with a forceful character, featuring original compositional solutions that mix tile sizes, patterns, colours and material effects.
For a bathroom in minimalist style, go for a colour total look: minimalism is becoming a more and more popular trend. Large sizes in solid colours, joints of minimal width and neutral shades such as beige, grey, greige and all the intermediate tones available can be used to create interiors in understated good taste with a refined appearance
Choose the marble effect for a bathroom of eternal charm: marble-effect porcelain stoneware tiles are an elegant interior design choice, for a practical, contemporary bathroom enhanced with exquisite finishes.
The many shades of stone for the contemporary bathroom: stone-effect coverings can give the room a neutral colour, but one enriched with vein patterns and grainy textures, that generate a warm but not overly traditional style.
Terracotta and concrete effects are ideal for bathrooms with an industrial and vintage mood: the tactile terracotta and concrete look is a versatile choice because it combines these surfaces’ typical texture with colour that varies in intensity depending on the collections. From solid colours to cement tiles, the end result can be completely different: the colour scheme will be fundamental in deciding the overall style.
Not just colours: the ideal textures for mixing and matching in the bathroom
As we’ve already seen, it’s not only colours that shape the room’s aesthetic effect.
Materials’ texture plays a central role in defining the bathroom’s mood and style: in this case, porcelain stoneware’s big advantage is its ability to imitate natural finishes like stone and wood, providing a convenient, attractive alternative.
For example, covering the bathroom floor with wood-effect stoneware can provide a sensation of warmth and rusticity, while a smooth surface can evoke a fresh, clean impression. Once you’ve chosen your texture, you’ve only to combine these features and your colour scheme to transform a standard bathroom into a stylish, comfortable, individual place of refuge.
The colours, patterns and textures you’ve selected must be combined with care to ensure that the final design scheme is tasteful and elegant.
Our wide offering can help you to find the ideal solution, with the perfect blend of aesthetics and practicality. Choosing Marazzi means opting for style and fashion, able to transform any bathroom into a place of beauty and comfort.
