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The bold and

Beautiful
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Colour creativity

Basic whites and pale greys are always beautiful,
but your bathroom can also be a place for
colour — it’s limited only by your imagination!
Romantic reds, breezy blues, enigmatic greys
— your bathroom colours set the tone of your
day-to-day life.

Ready to be bold with colour? Here are our
designers’ best-kept secrets.
Obey the rule of three LeVivi Leeds Ensuite Vanity
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Marbella Toilet Suite
When planning a bathroom colour scheme, it’s LEVMARBTW LEVLEE40FSVCO
a good idea to stick to just three — a dominant Resene: Nia Dusky Pink Wallpaper
colour, which is generally lighter and more Tile Warehouse: K-Wood Light
neutral, an accent colour, which will be your
splashes of bold or bright, and then a secondary Athena Contro Bath
colour, which will be somewhere in between. BFCO05WH160
For a good balance aim for 60% dominant,
30% secondary, and 10% accent.

Bring on the brights

Colours — even very bright ones — have their
place in bathrooms. The trick is to balance them,
so they add just the right amount of personality.
Generally, the brighter the colour, the smaller the
area. Similarly, larger bathrooms can carry larger
areas of colour. It’s why tiles are often a fantastic

LeVivi place to add pops of colour to otherwise neutral
Aspen Basin Mixer tones — a colourful note to your shower tiling,
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or a bold mirror surround.