Pale Green Bathrooms

May 28, 2024

Pale Green Bathrooms

Bathrooms can be the perfect spot to add some variety into a design – whether that be a new material or a playful pop of colour. Might we suggest pale green?

Bathrooms can be the perfect spot to have some fun with a design, whether that be trying out a new material or adding in a playful pop of colour – like pale green, for example. These NTS-featured homes show off the merits of going viridescent.

Writing:

Kate Kolberg

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In such a **colourful, maximalist apartment**, a colourful, maximalist bathroom is almost expected – but that doesn’t make it less fun. The green ceiling and walls are met with a nice grey terrazzo on the floors and some walls, giving it a funky-luxury feel.

Who said bathrooms need to be neutral? Anthony Authié of Zyva Studio and his wife really leaned into the colourful explosion with yellow 3D-printed lights above the counter.

The green closet serves like a walk-in wardrobe for extra clothing and conceals the washing machine within.

Interior designer Mara Manalo was able to turn a small apartment in Quezon City into a **cosy, well-designed home** for a local film director.

The green bathroom is in playful contrast to the bleached timber used throughout much of the 35sqm/377sqft apartment.

“To provide a different mood, we played with colours and textures in the bathroom. The ceiling is in a salmon pink paint finish and the upper half of the walls were painted army green”.

Mara Manalo, interior designer

A slat wood panel was applied to the wall above the toilet and painted green, giving some additional texture to play off that found in the tiles on portions of the walls, the counter, and backsplash.

Stewart Smith of Smith Architects was immediately taken by **this late 1800s workers’ cottage** in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. While he went with neutral shades for much of the decor, Smith decided to go with green for the bathroom – a pop of colour that is visible from the kitchen and living area.

Accessed by a sliding door in the sleep space, the bathroom is lined with small green tiles and contains a wall-mounted basin sink, mirror cabinet, and large shower. “We love how even in a small cabin we managed to fit what feels like an opulent shower”, Smith told Never Too Small. Adding to the luxury is an under-tile floor heating system that helps keep the room warm. *Images* *Clinton Weaver.*

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Before architect Nicholas Bossard took over his **50sqm/538sqft Paris apartment** it was an uninhabited and dilapidated attic. Bossard rehabilitated and modified the space to include a winding staircase up to a small second story where the bedroom and bathroom are found.

“We wanted it to be spacious, as we imagine a seaside home to be. We designed a spacious and minimalist room with marine echoes”.

Nicholas Bossard, architect

The bathroom is surprisingly spacious and has a serene, spa-like feel inspired by seaside retreats. Pale, turquoise-green tiles, intended to evoke water and fish scales, line the backsplash and usher you into the large, walk-in shower.

Lucianno Intile is the founder of iR Architecture, the designers of Quintana, a housing complex on a small plot of land that used to have a one-story house on it. Intile is one of the 14 people that live within its nine apartments – all under 50sqm.

His **32sqm/344sqft home** has a larger main room with a small kitchen and a small bathroom off of it. The bathroom features small square green tiles in the bathroom, echoing the shape of the grey tiles in the kitchen, while letting them both have their own personality.

Interior architect Carolien Potter did most of the renovation on her **Antwerp studio apartment** herself.

The bathroom of the 51sqm/548sqft footprint contains a polyurethane shower in a green that matches the custom-made shelf in the kitchen.

In this **42sqm/452sqft Melbourne apartment**, owner Alex Antoniadis kept a relatively neutral palette with pops of colour here and there to give it some pzazz.

“I decided to choose the sage green tiles because it provided a nice colour element to the apartment. The titling from floor to ceiling was intentionally used to make the ceilings appear higher.”

Alex Antoniadis, owner

Sage green tiles, selected for their colour, fill the room from floor to ceiling, which can help to make the ceiling appear higher. The gentle green complements the soft grey **terrazzo tiles** on the floor.

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Going Viridescent

Bathrooms, often tucked away from the rest of the home, are ripe for experimentation. Gone are the days when bathrooms were merely functional; today, the bathroom can be whatever you want it to be – whether that be peaceful or playful. A mundane bathroom can become a pièce de resistance with little more than stand-out material or hue. These NTS-featured homes flex that muscle by going viridescent (a fancy word for “greenish”).

Pale green makes sense for a bathroom. It can be soothing and refreshing or more stimulating, depending on the tint or shade. Pale green can be an ideal choice for infusing bathrooms with a sense of tranquillity and serenity for how it evokes memories of lush forests and landscapes. The colour also has something of a timeless appeal and blends rather effortlessly with various design styles ranging from modern minimalist to rustic chic.

In these NTS-featured homes, the designers and architects have integrated the hue into various elements of the bathroom, from paint and tiles to shower tubs and accessories. For some, it is the only place green appears in the home, while for others the pale green echoes in other accents throughout the home like a kitchen shelf. No matter their style, they prove that interesting design need not stop at the bathroom door.

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Writing:

Kate Kolberg

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