Room of the Week 2.9.10 Our Facebook Bath Makeover Challenge

Posted on 09 February 2010

Remember when we asked you to send photos of a boring bathroom to us, something we could make-over with color?

Here it is, reader and Facebook fan Betsy Orr’s bland bathroom in Rogers, and now you can see the bath makeover online as well.

El Dorado-based interior designer Andrea Brooks (another Facebook fan!) stepped up to the color challenge. Her colorful suggestions:

1. Paint the walls Sherwin Williams Open Air, a tranquil light blue that would give the room a feeling similar to this:

2. Paint the cabinet a deep blue/green, an affordable way to update a basic vanity. Here’s the paint and an idea of the end result:

3.  Andrea suggests adding roman shades in a striped fabric that pulls the blue and green together.

Which would look similar to this on the window above the bathtub:

4. Then she suggests adding a range of accessories that would tie together the colors: a fabric for the vanity seat, art for the wall next to the tub, trays and bowls for the counter area, and new knobs/pulls for the vanity. (Art by Beverly McLarty, Backwoods Art & Frame Gallery; Accessories from Murphy Long Design, both in El Dorado).

We love the idea of tranquil blue bathroom, spiced up with some colorful accents. You can read the full story online in our Color Issue.

A few more blue baths to inspire you:

(Photos courtesy of House Beautiful, Country Living and Domino)

If you’ve done some bath making-over yourself, let us know about it! Enter our contest and you may be in our pages and on our blog too. We’d love to see your place.