Clicky: What color should I paint guest bathroom?

s-a-r-a-h

I recently bought this shower curtain from West Elm for one of the upstairs guest bathrooms in our new house:

What color would you paint the bathroom? I'm thinking green or gray/blue (to match the flowers). Would you then match the rugs with the paint color or go with something more neutral like white? The bathroom hardware is chrome and the tile is a beige/brown color.

FWIW, we have four bathrooms to paint. I want to incorporate the green and gray/blue into the two full guest bathrooms and possibly paint our bathroom and guest bedroom a gray/blue as well (kind of like our current kitchen below). But then I wanted to paint the downstairs bath the color of our current half bath (also below). Is that too much blue in the bathrooms and if so, should I just paint the half bath a tan color to match the rest of the downstairs, where the half bath is located?

And yes, I know I'm waaay overthinking this.

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AustinBride06

I said other.  I think more grey than blue.  It can be a cool grey with hints of blue but not anything that would be obviously blue.  And I think neutral bath mat / linens to tie in the fixtures and floor.

sweetdreams2000

AustinBride06:

I said other.  I think more grey than blue.  It can be a cool grey with hints of blue but not anything that would be obviously blue.  And I think neutral bath mat / linens to tie in the fixtures and floor.

I agree with this suggestion.  And I'd shy away from pure white bath mats in the guest bathroom if it is commonly used.   I ended up with white mats in our guest bathroom and they are always filthy after we have guests come.  I wish I had just gotten a light neutral color mat instead.

abh1977

I liked the grey/blue right up until you mentioned you have tan/beige tile.  I have tan tile too, and I've used a lot of grey and it's HARD to find one that looks good.  The key is a grey with lots of brown in it, so I'm having a hard time picturing a grey-blue with that.  But I'm seeing my tile in my head - yours might be a lot lighter than mine.  If you pull a color from the shower curtain, I would do one a shade or two lighter than the actual color in the fabric, not the EXACT color.

I like white bath mats, personally.  I have them in all of my bathrooms, even the high-traffic ones.  I just really like how they look.  And they can be bleached!  Which is a plus for color but also for my germaphobe tendencies (it is a bathroom, after all).  But they DO get dirty.  I wash them every few weeks, and don't buy expensive ones so it's no big deal to replace them if necessary.