Traditionally, bathrooms have been mainly white. It’s a classic design, looks clean and shows up dirt quickly enough to get cleaned up. However, white isn’t the only color for a bathroom, far from it. If you’re planning to remodel your bathroom, it’s the ideal opportunity to add a little color, and life to it.

Using color is the cheapest and most effective way of transforming a room. It doesn’t matter what room, in what kind of house, paint is cheap and very effective. Choosing those colors is what’s key here.

Despite our predilection for using color, we would suggest leaving the bath, toilet and sink white. It’s a classic color that doesn’t age. While it’s easy to paint the room another color and stain wood to match, it’s more expensive to change the bathroom because it looks dated.

When designing a color scheme for a bathroom, the place most people start is the color wheel. A color wheel visually demonstrates how different colors interact with each other and offers a range of options in combining colors in a single space. It’s a great place to start before you begin your bathroom remodel.

Brave souls who like color can go for high contrast colors to give energy and life to a room. Choose opposites to contrast each other and add real character to a space. This approach offers a lot of freedom in the colors you choose and can really make a statement. Remember, the color wheel only makes suggestions and allows you to see how colors work, it isn’t a ruleset.

Other bathroom remodeling projects stick to a monochromatic scheme. That’s fine, there is absolutely nothing wrong with white, we just want you to know there is much more to a bathroom than that. Other colors, like stone, light blue, light green or a pastel can also be monochromatic and add much needed life into the room.

Color has a major impact on how we feel in a room. Paint a room blue or green and it feels calm and cool. Paint it orange or vibrant yellow and it instantly warms up. Choosing your palette carefully can create the effect you want with relatively little outlay.

Using color influences mood too. If you want your new bathroom to be a sanctuary from a busy home, then use calm, natural colors. If you want it to give you energy first thing in the morning, paint it something more vibrant. Red and orange gives energy, stone and cream is calming.

Mixing and matching a palette to match how you want the room to make you feel is the best way to get the look you want. Remodeling a bathroom isn’t something to be taken lightly, so the more thought you put into the colors you want to use, the better the room will make you feel.

Use colors that match both your lifestyle and taste and find a combination that suits them both. Out of the millions of available colors, it might take time, but it’s certainly possible.