"Our entire house was neutral. Then we renovated this bathroom." White walls, pale timber, beige furnishings: Sophie's home is calm by design. But she had been saving green bathrooms for years and always talked herself back into another neutral at the last minute. The small downstairs bathroom was finally the right room to be braver.
The fear was a dark little room
Green in a small bathroom can swallow the light, and that worry had killed the idea every previous time. The fix was not less colour. It was pairing the colour with a floor that pushes light back.
Two samples side by side
Sophie ordered the Wilsons forest green kit kat and set it next to the Daintree white encaustic look hexagon. The patterned white floor stopped the green from feeling heavy, and the walnut vanity and aged brass samples turned "risky" into "intentional" on the spot.
How the room came together
Instead of tiling every wall green, the kit kat runs behind the vanity and continues into the shower feature section, one strong focal point rather than a green box. The Daintree hexagon patterns the floor in white, the remaining walls stay warm white, and the walnut vanity with aged brass and a round mirror finishes it. The rest of the house is still neutral. This room is the exclamation mark.
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