Colour Ideas For Small Bathrooms

Bathrooms come in all shapes and sizes, but even the small ones should be beautiful. If you’re looking forward to your next bathroom renovation, you could be wondering just how to decorate your small bathroom, and which bathroom wall colours to choose. Here are a few ways that you can quickly and easily update your small bathroom using DBS Bathrooms’ high-quality bathroom wall panels.

Whether you’re dealing with small square footage or low ceiling height, these small bathroom colours are perfect for maximising space and making an impact. So, here are some of our favourite colour ideas for small bathrooms.

Keep it neutral

Neutrals are perfect for bouncing light around a space, and for that reason neutral colours have been popular in home decoration for years. Neutrals work especially well in small rooms, and will complement a white bathroom suite very well making them the perfect small bathroom colours.

A neutral bathroom is also an easy choice – perfect for those who want fuss-free decoration that’s ideal for rental properties or homes that are for sale, and can be created easily with beige wall panels. They can be complemented with different bathroom accessories, and dressed up into hundreds of different styles to suit your personality or your existing design inspiration.

Go grey

Grey has become more popular in interior design over the years and has often been described as a ‘new neutral’. It’s laid back and clean whilst adding an element of Scandinavian modernity – ideal for any room in the house, but particularly good for the bathroom, as it will do well paired against a white bathroom suite. So, it’s the perfect addition to our list of colour ideas for small bathrooms, too.

Grey also looks great in different textures, which makes grey bathroom wall panels a good option. Whatever the shade, whether it’s grey off-white or dark grey, don’t be afraid of putting a dark colour into the bathroom. You can even use it as a feature wall behind the shower, with shower wall panels or bath.

Bold is best

Although you might want to instinctively stay away from colour in a small bathroom, chosen correctly, colour can really enhance a small bathroom. Whilst it may be thought that painting a small room with a dark colour could be overwhelming, in some cases, a dark colour in a small room could actually make the room look bigger. Dark colours, like black wall panels, work in small spaces as they create dimension and interest – they have the power to transform bland spaces into something interesting, with personality. You could also choose small bathroom colours like blues, turquoises or jewel reds and greens. Our range of red wall panels and purple wall panels is the ideal place to discover your next colour ideas for small bathrooms.

Think about painting the ceiling the same colour as the walls or add dark colour up to half height or just over the picture rail and over the ceiling if you want to be cautious with colour.

All white everything

After the coloured bathrooms suites of the 70s and 80s, bathrooms have more recently been white since the 1990s – and for good reason. White is easy to accessorise and update, making it the go-to shade for bathroom wall colours. Using white wall panels will enable you to add colour sparingly, and keep your white bathroom gleaming and clean. To modernise the white bathroom, go white on the walls and use metro tile-effect wall panels – an ideal tile alternative. White walls are crisp, clean and fresh – an ideal quick-fix small bathroom renovation solution.

Pick an earthy palette

If you aren’t into bright whites but you also aren’t the biggest fan of neutrals, earth tones are the perfect happy medium for your bathroom wall colours. Choose terracotta, such as in a traditional brick wall panel, or accessories in a khaki tone. Deep, cool blue and teal are also perfect earthy additions.