Hi! I adore the bathroom as is but my husband hates it so after a year of this look I’m changing up the paint.
How do you think Benjamin Moore Wet Concrete would look? I’m open to other options, but I’m leaning towards something moody. It’s a small guest bathroom with no windows. My young kids use it too so I don’t want to do wallpaper (water ends up everywhere!)
Thanks!
by BeniniMarie
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I like it. Fits the moody brief well, but also has a little colour. I was going to suggest a pale lilac in a small, windowless room but that’s not at all moody!
The colour is kinda nice. I’d have to see all the accessories and other elements you’ll pull in to make the rest of the moody look. Just the colour alone may look a bit drab. But together with accessories I love the idea
A solid four walls of “wet concrete” risks looking like four solid walls of wet concrete – shawshank chic.
I think you’d just want to start accessorizing it more to detract from that effect.
Maybe half and half it with an other color on the strip (at least two steps away), with the north-south dividing line about half way up the mirror.
I have BM Wet Concrete in my dining room and kitchen and I love it. That said, in a room with very little natural light, it will be quite dark. It has an LRV (light reflectance value) of just 27.45, which means it doesn’t reflect much light at all. I recommend painting over the stripes with white Kilz or Zinsser primer and hanging some Samplize sticker swatches in colors you like. That’ll give you a true idea of what the colors will look like in here.
For other moody mauves that reflect more light, try BM Mauve Blush, Mauve Desert, Amethyst Sky, Inspired, or Sanctuary.
I *LOVE* the stripes. Maybe you could bring in a lot of black accessories to sort of mitigate the brightness and compromise that way? Like a mirror with a heavy black frame, paint the shelves black, and maybe a big piece of black/white artwork?
It’s absolutely none of my business at all but going from this vibrant, fun space to a gray seems depressing as heck.
The wet concrete is great, but in a tiny room like that I think it will fell confining
https://preview.redd.it/7xt0ch1wnamg1.jpeg?width=1707&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c082cee43387f379aacddcc1968aef8bde0a1c6
It’s giving Juno in the best way possible 😆 I would leave the stripes behind the toilet and sink as an accent wall and repaint the rest
I almost thought this was a Whataburger until I checked the sub name 😅
I’m so sorry, but while scrolling I thought “that’s the nicest Whataburger bathroom I’ve ever seen” until I looked closer
If you go dark moody in a small dimly lit bathroom I feel like you need a vanity light also or else it will just feel dreary.
Here’s moody. Stating dark colors do not work in small rooms is not always the case. Some dark colors (not all) can absolutely work. Here is Benjamin Moore Sillouette. Its kind of a deep but warm gray. If you zoom into the photo, you can see it leans into a dark plum beautifully. The contrast with the white is stunning. I may need to try this in my guest bathroom lol.
https://preview.redd.it/ilahi73rsamg1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2c2ee40d3de1c97cd6ace2164a121b91a9b360b
I kinda like the stripes, we don’t have whataburger where I am, so I didn’t know this was similar. Anyway, I can see where they’d get old after a while though.
That said, I am not super crazy about the paint color. Grey is so overdone, and has been for a long time. I like the mauve tone of it, but as others are saying, I think it would come off as mostly dark greyish in a small space. What were the other colors in that family? I think I’d go more mauve-purple with a lot less of the grey tones.
What about painting over the orange with Wet Concrete, and keeping the pink?
I think that will look boring and muddy with that blue reflecting in from the hallway. Maybe a very light, light blue? You already have the lines to follow so why not use them to tape off the stripes and do the same light blue but alternate flat and satin?
Sounds like your husband would approve👍