Bathroom Color Schemes for Wood Trim
Choosing Paint Color for Wood Moldings in Bathroom Design
Nov 9, 2009
Coming up with bathroom color ideas for the wall color in a bathroom design can be easier than choosing the paint color to be used on the wood trim. Bathroom colors for wall paint can often be derived from the countertop, the tiles, or a border color. The wood trim needs to take its color from other sources.
Pull the Color from the Fixtures
One way to choose a wood molding or trim color for the bathroom that compliments the rest of the color scheme is to use the color of the bathroom fixtures. While this may sound as simple as just selecting a white or cream for the trim, fixture color can vary widely by manufacturer.
American Standard’s white and Toto’s Colonial White are more of an antiqued shade than Kohler’s white, or Toto’s Cotton. A bright white trim, would look stark next to an American Standard white sink and toilet, while making the fixtures themselves look dingy.
Try taking along the plastic bolt cover from toilet to the paint store to choose the paint trim color. This method will work particularly well if using fixtures in shades of white, ivory, biscuit or almond.
Pull Colors from Elsewhere in the Home
If using fixtures in a color such as blue, or green, try pulling the wood trim color from adjacent rooms. If there is wood trim in the hallway leading to the bathroom, or in an adjoining bedroom, carry the color through the bathroom to preserve continuity, while bringing additional color to the bathroom design.
Tone Down Colors Already in the Bathroom
If using two tones of wall color, such as a darker tone on the lower half of a wall, and a lighter color on the top half with a wooden chair rail running between them, try using a lighter shade of one of the two colors. Move to the highest color on the color shade chart to compliment those colors already in use.
If using a tile chairrail or tile molding in the bathroom, try using the lightest shade possible of the color used in the tile. Keep the color as close to white as possible, with just the barest hint of color to unit the wood moldings with the tile moldings.
If using a wooden molding on top of a cut piece of marble as a baseboard in the bathroom, paint the wood molding the same color as the predominant tone in the marble. For example, if using Botticino marble, paint the wood molding a shade of taupe that will match the background of the marble. If using Breccia Oniciata, paint the wood molding a light shade of peach.
Match the Doorway
If the only wood trim in the bathroom is the frame of the door, it is more than acceptable to match the color of the trim surrounding the door, to the paint color on the door itself. This will still enable the wood trim to stand out from the wall color, while still providing some unity for the bathroom, and the home.
By using colors for the wood trim that are already in use elsewhere in the bathroom design, or in the home, it brings the entire design together in a seamless fashion. Each aspect of the design needs to compliment the others to provide a finished look that embraces the entire style of the homeowner and the home. Choose the wood trim color from the pallet already in place to bring a finished touch to the bathroom design.
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