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40 Colourful Bathroom Ideas and Modern Designs

Bathrooms are often designed to look clean, staid, and stark. Modern bathrooms favour neutral and/or monochrome palettes, clean lines, and the absence of intricate details and décor. But a lot of us still crave for the fun and beauty of colours in every room in the house. Here are fun and creative ideas to perk up your modern bathroom with colours!

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1.       A Flower Feature

The cheerful and vivid colours of flowers will instantly brighten up any room. Adding a floral accent to your bathroom will perk up the space with impressions of the fresh and wild outdoors. The huge flower painting includes vivid and bright hues that compliments the room’s trendy vibe.

2.       Coastal Mints

White bathrooms are popular because of its timeless allure, simplicity, and practicality. But you can also add a pop of fun colour to a white bathroom while keeping its bright and clean aesthetics. The cool and fresh feel of minty greens give this white bathroom an airy beachy ambience.

3.       Spanish Tiles

Hip and trendy, eye-catching and unique. Adding Spanish tiles to your bathroom will transform it from ordinary to awesome. The accent shower walls of different patterns and colours provide a welcome contrast to the smooth and plain modern interiors.

4.       Modern Shapes

A fabulous way to add colours to the ultra-modern and minimalist bathroom! And one that you can DIY too! Find or design the pattern for the accent wall, choose your favourite colours, and use painter’s tape to create straight lines and shapes.

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5.       Mustard and Indigo

Fun, perky, and welcoming. This cosy and charming bathroom gets a colourful boost from its accent wall. The engaging wall features a garden scene in mustard and indigo, giving the room interiors a vibrant and fun look.

6.       All in the Grout

A sneaky and fun way to add in colours to your bathroom. When you love white and is not a fan of excessive embellishments, using coloured grout is for you. This will add colours without disrupting the look and will enhance the design to another level with subtle details.

7.       A Pink Bath

Pink glam! Feminine, fabulous, and chic. The bright pink patterned tiles of the tub and shower area gives the room its focal point. Contrasting the cool whites of the modern interiors, the bright pop of colour provides a warm and delightful touch.

8.       Bold Colours

Bold and arresting, this bathroom accent wall dominates the room with its colours. The dark themed interiors featuring navy walls and dark stained wood flooring get a bright respite from the accent wall. A great idea for powder rooms.

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9.       Gold, Quartz, Glass

With the right materials, you can add colour to the elegant. This luxurious bathroom features a grand wall design consisting thin vertical slivers of ceramic, gold, quartz, and glass tiles. The contrasting tones and textures of the different materials give the design an intricate, elaborate and magnificent look.

10.   The Orchard

The warm breeze from the orchards, the tangy musk of oranges, and the bright hues of the outdoors, all captured in this bathroom accent wall. All modern and ascetic bathrooms need this bright, frivolous, and classic accent.

11.   Azure and Gold

Modern, elegant, and exciting. This white, blue, and gold bathroom features minimalist styling in its plain white walls, minimal accents, and clean lines. But it goes bold in its colourful accents – azure herringbone tiling for its shower walls, blue and white floors, and elegant gold trims and fittings.

12.   Marble and Doodles

This unique bathroom design combines fun with marvellous, artsy, and luxurious. A marvellous mix of old-world elegance and creative charms. While the marble and gold accents lend a luxurious vibe, the salmon walls give the bathroom to a welcome pop of trendy colour.

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13.   Mid-century Modern Hues

Mixing the bright colours of mid-century modern and contemporary neutrals gets you this fun and modern bathroom. The bright yellow floor is the perfect foil to the overall white interiors, while the blue vanity brings in a cool seaside feel.

14.   Pink Boho

Quirky, fun, colourful! This modern bathroom gets a lot of colour and fun from its Boho styling. Eye-catching two-tone pink floors, a bright rug, and a striking art piece. The green accent wall is complimented by a hanging plant – a landmark Boho feature.

15.   Hex Mix

Get wild with colours and shapes! This exceptional bathroom styling banks on its colourful mix of hexagonal tiles in both its walls and floor. The stunning combination of white, denim, navy, and lemon tones give the bath a bright and perky vibe.

16.   Starry Night Sky

Easily add fun and update your bathroom incorporating colours and themes. This night sky addition is an easy DIY and perfect for your kids’ bathroom or even the powder room! Paint the upper walls with Aegean or indigo, then add the stars using gold or honey paint shades.

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17.   Play on Lighting

No need to add fancy paintwork to achieve this whimsical atmosphere. The right lighting implements, and its strategic placement will create imaginative effects and add striking colours to the room.

18.   Emerald Shower

Invoke the magical and powerful feel of the underwater world with this dreamy emerald haven. The entire shower walls are covered with small square tiles in all shades of green – mint, emerald, seafoam, moss, and forest greens! Colourful, cool, beautiful.

19.   Pretty Florals

Charming as it is elegant, the floral wall feature gives the bathroom a delicate and exceptional look. The delightful light tones of the prints compliment the bright interiors, while the floral theme adds colours and an alluring feminine touch.

20.   Delightful Dark Walls

Go for the imposing grandeur of dark interiors! This modern bathroom features a dark and exceptional blue-green shade. The peacock walls add drama and bold styling. The white ceiling and pastel accents balance the dark walls with lighter tones.

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21.   Colours and Sunshine

Bold and bright! This bathroom makes an impressive presence. The bright sunshine theme is all over the interior design – Tuscan sun walls, golden trims and fittings, and the spectacular sunburst chandelier! Pastel pinks and white accents help tone down the glare.

22.   Elegant Pink

This classy and luxurious bathroom gets a pop of colour from its pink accent wall. The classy feature includes metallic flamingo pink tiles in herringbone design. The subdued sheen of the tiles compliments the understated grandeur of the interiors that include marble walls and minimalist finishes.

23.   A Red Tub

A bold red tub is all you need to turn a dreary grey bathroom into incredible! The neutral grey walls, vintage fittings, and traditional designs give the room a classic look. But it is the red tub that provides the interesting point, character, and a pop of colour.

24.   Psychedelic Walls

Go wild and colourful! Transform the clean and mean modern bathroom into this vibrant sanctuary by adding colourful streaks to the walls. Colourful wallpapers can also do the trick. Keep the room bright with wide windows, mirrors, and ample lighting.

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25.   Potted Greens

Bringing in potted plants will instantly transform a boring white bathroom into this cool haven. The bright green hues and colourful planters compliment the white interiors and the rustic vibes of the wood accents. Matte black fittings add chic to the design and defines the space.

26.   Chic Farmhouse

This amazing farmhouse bathroom is no drab nor dingy. Featuring white walls with gold accents, gold fittings, and an exceptional bathroom vanity! The vanity comes in stunning emerald and features a fabulous marble top and an undermount sink. The black ceiling and trims complete the dramatic look.

27.   Luxurious Blue

A luxurious and magnificent bathroom featuring all shades of blue. Playing on the delicate blue-grey veins of the marble walls, this incredible design features complimenting shades of blue – steel blue for its floating vanity and the notable Chesapeake blues of the patterned Spanish times. Completing the luxurious look are the brushed gold trims and fittings.

28.   Pink and Grey

Delicate and modern, bright and colourful. Adding pink accents to the all-white interiors of this modern bathroom transformed it from generic into exceptional. The eye-catching starry floor pattern adds a fun and whimsical touch to the design.

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29.   Painted Ceiling

When you want clean and neat white bathroom walls, but also like a colourful one, painting the ceiling could be your solution. This bright and refreshing bathroom design includes white walls, floors, and fittings. It is its remarkable steel blue ceiling and the complimenting curtains that makes the room unique and exceptional.

30.   Lip Glam

Fascinating and imposing, the bright and colourful accent walls of this bathroom give the room its character and sass. The lippy shades of the walls compliment the elegant and modern bathroom featuring white and grey floors, a glass dome chandelier, and glamorously vintage vanity.

31.   Outside Inside

Bring in the colours from the outside! Adding a glass wall will not only allow natural light to come in, but it will also let you enjoy the outdoor views and add colours to the bathroom palette. The greenery of the outside balances the cool interiors of this ultramodern bathroom.

32.   Minimalist Pastels

Pretty and bright, the colourful patterned floor provides a chic and fun look to this modern bathroom. Pastel shades of oranges and blues relieves the stark white walls and clean surfaces. While the floating wood vanity gives a warm touch to the design.

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33.   Pretty Chinoiserie

The delightful shades of chinoiserie blue adds brightness and a fascinating vibe to this bathroom design. The white and blue floral wallpapered walls serve as the highlight of the room, complimented by the powder blue vanities, shower tile flooring and patterned rug.

34.   Rose Gold Charms

The elegance of gold combined with the enchanting rose tone. The warmth and charms of metallic rose gold fixtures compliments the understated glamour of marble and cool minimalist designs.

35.   Warm Wood Tones

Natural elements like wood and stone are great sources of design colour, depth, and character. This very rustic bathroom banks on warm wood tones of its accent wall matched by the tub base and highlighted by the framed tree cross section on the wall.

36.   Glass Mosaic Shower

A luxurious elegance from glass and colours! This stunning shower accent wall features a mosaic of triable glass tiles in amazing textures and colours. The mesmerising wall provides the wow factor to the otherwise plain and cool white interiors.

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37.   The Cityscape

Add funky doodles and bold colours to perk up your basic modern bathroom. The colourful wall of doodled cityscape gives the room a fun and trendy feel. Spend several days doodling or take the easier and faster way – wallpapers.  

38.   Moroccan Flair

This modern grey bathroom gets a lot of glow up from the yellow accents and the metallic shades of the arabesque tiles in gold, copper, bronze, and silver. Its subdued glow hints at understated luxury and classy taste.

39.   Colourful Retro

Be bold and colourful! Embrace your colourful personality with this breathtaking and fun bathroom. Full of bright colours and retro themes – dreamy dark teal ceiling, a rainbow rug, and black and white chessboard floor, this design is all fun and electrifying.

40.   Golden Luxury

A case of majestic design featuring only the best materials and craftsmanship. This two-tone bathroom design includes marble baseboard and floors, gold satin walls with exquisite paintings, and fabulous gold accents and fittings.

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