What could be more natural than the color of water?
Thoughts of a light, bright and soothing color for a bathroom reminded me of two that work well with white tile and beadboard. Both are light but vivid blues I have long admired – Farrow & Ball’s Borrowed Light – which is pale but intense and much like the color of the sky or the Pacific ocean. Boston designer Frank Roop used it effortlessly in the charming master [top] with white beadboard, antique-style clawfoot tub plus a pool-hue mosaic floor installed like an indoor-outdoor carpet. Windows high up on three sides of the small space give it an especially etheral quality.
A magazine editor wrote about building his dream house in upstate New York (not far from us) and showed off his bathroom which is a cottage-deco mix. . It boasts popular fixtures like the Pottery Barn Somerson sconces and a Kohler pedestal sink with a lever-handle faucet. White subway tile wainscoting and 2-inch black and white hex tile floor put out the mixed vibe. Still, it was the color – Sherwin William’s Hinting Blue – that offers a similar sense of calm and luxury that every good bathroom should own.
