Bathroom renovation ideas

Colorful tiling brightens up your bathroom—9 ideas from real homes

Red, blue, or perhaps violet? Primary colors can give your bathroom a refreshing touch, while muted tones create a cozy feel. We’ve gathered 9 charming examples of bathrooms featuring colorful tiles.

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January 14, 2025Lue suomeksi

Straight out of a comic book!

This home is all about bright colors—especially yellow and red. This is evident in the small bathroom, where bright red tiles offer a refreshing contrast to white, accented with black details.

The small bathroom tiled in red and white. — Off the entryway, there’s a vibrant little bathroom where the homeowner chose red tiles. The red tiles border the black-and-white tiled floor.

Decorative and exotic atmosphere

An old shoe factory was renovated into apartments for three generations of a family. The couple living in this apartment wanted an industrial vibe and dark tones in their home, and that style continues in the bathroom. Colorful and patterned tiles bring an oriental touch to the toilet, and the walls were coated with dark renovation plaster.

Oriental mosaic tiles and a wall rendered in blue in the toilet. — The sink cabinet is a cupboard that one of the residents’ grandparents received as a wedding gift. The cupboard was treated using a sponge to give it the dark brown finish, and now it complements the decorative tiles perfectly. The round basin is a souvenir from Spain.

Something old, something new, and something blue

This house underwent a complete renovation during which colors were not spared in the interiors. The blue upstairs bathroom is a fine example of that. Blue tiles were popular in the 1950s and still feel timeless. The dark blue tiles laid in a herringbone pattern are a bold choice that beautifully bring out the 2020s hit—the terrazzo tile floor.

Dark blue tiled wall, gray terrazzo floor tiles, and wood-toned bathroom furniture. — Complementing the dark terrazzo floor tiles is a herringbone-laid wall tile. The rain shower and the toilet are by Gustavsberg.

Brimming with purple

It often pays off to decorate with your favorite colors. How fresh and modern does the combination of purple, light blue, and yellow look in this unique bathroom!

Bathroom renovated with various shades of purple, featuring a light blue door — The highlight of this bathroom is the Durat composite countertop. Its shades are echoed in the wall paint and the light lilac mosaic tile from ABL on the floor.

The perfect choice

The green bathroom is the pride of this 1868 home in Suomenlinna, Helsinki.

Green and white bathroom. Green tiles laid in subway style on the walls. — The owner of this home adores its location. The renovation of the house was done entirely to the homeowner’s taste, and they haven’t paid attention to its resale value as they intend to never sell it.

Even more colorful

The owners of this home decided that between two equally good options, they would always choose the more colorful one. They stuck to their decision, and the vibrant result is evident, all the way to the bathrooms. For the adults’ bathroom, they chose a striped wall made of mosaic tiles and yellow grout to accompany the white tiles. In the children’s bathroom, a bright blue wall paired with yellow fixtures make a great color combination.