Daily water procedures, in addition to keeping the body clean, help get rid of obsessive thoughts and move from wakefulness to sleep and back. A comfortable, pleasant-looking room should be arranged for them.
Most often, when designing it, shades of blue, yellow, green or red are used. Those looking for something more unusual will love the black and white bathroom. Such a monochrome interior without any admixture of other colors looks very elegant and always remains in fashion.
Advantages and disadvantages
The use of black and white materials with different textures, outlines, and contrasting patterns makes it easy to update the appearance of the bathroom.
This finish has other advantages:
- the ability to visually change the size of the room;
- compatibility with several design styles, all shades of colors;
- highlighting the necessary areas, diverting attention from shortcomings.
The fashionable combination of white and black in the interior does not cause rejection. These opposites complement each other well, but the decoration should be thought out in advance so that harmony reigns in it. Most likely, you will have to combine materials from different manufacturers.
Extra details, imbalance of colors, incorrect accents can spoil the impression.
In addition to the need to carefully plan the design of a bathroom in black and white, it has another drawback: dust and traces of dried drops are very noticeable on surfaces. It will take more effort to keep it clean.
How do black tiles look in different interior styles?
Dark tiles in the bathroom will be appropriate in loft, classic, retro, minimalism and hi-tech styles. It's important to choose the right accents and furnishings, such as brass lamps, faucets or a unique mirror frame.
If you like classics, feel free to combine black and white. For a loft-style bathroom, use metal or wood tiles.
When decorating a bathroom in high-tech style, give preference to strict geometric shapes, metal lamps without lampshades and glass accessories.
What to focus on
In the case of a predominant black tone, it is important to ensure sufficient lighting of the room. To do this, they resort to artificial and natural sources. They delimit the room, create comfort, and emphasize the advantages of the design.
Even with a strong bias towards one color or another, the bathroom, with the right lighting, will not look like a dungeon or an operating room.
Advantageous elements of the decor are also highlighted by contrasting with the surrounding background, placing mirrors, bright colored areas or shiny details.
Black and white bathroom design
The decoration of the room should be selected taking into account its size, the quality of the walls and lighting, and the wishes for the overall style. For example, the same combination will decorate one room, but create disharmony in another.
Expert opinion
Olga Kovalenko
Since 2010 I have been engaged in interior design and architectural design.
A universal option is an equal amount of white and black finishing, a combination of monochrome with a contrasting pattern.
It is desirable that in single-color areas the even gloss be diluted with duller, rougher surfaces, and that the patterned parts have different sizes.
A black and white bathroom can be decorated in the following styles:
- classical;
- retro;
- art deco;
- modern;
- high tech.
The design of the room, which involves a variety of shades, is not suitable for two-tone decoration.
More black
If the bathroom area is small, it is recommended to give preference to a white finish, slightly shading it with black. But in a spacious room, a predominance of dark colors will be appropriate if there is moderately bright lighting and many shiny surfaces, including mirrors.
Usually the walls (entirely or up to the middle) and the floor are made black. Or they decorate the space around bathroom furnishings in this way. A successful addition is the plumbing, furniture, and white ceiling. Cabinets, cabinets, shelves can be made of wood.
Solid black
This option for decorating a bathroom is rarely used, since the furniture and plumbing blends into the background if the lighting is incorrect. A small cramped room, if it is completely black, will look like an uncomfortable closet with a ceiling pressing on top. However, in a large room with a window, a solid dark finish is allowed.
In a completely black bathroom, you should use different surface textures, additional artificial lighting from several sources, and shiny metal parts on the furniture.
Mirrors and glossy tiles that reflect light are relevant. A good effect is achieved by placing 1-2 bright objects - a pot with a plant, a picture with a frame.
Natural wood furniture
A suitable material for furnishings that will make a bathroom in black and white visually more comfortable and warmer is wood. The main thing is to choose furniture with impregnation, which will not allow it to swell from high humidity.
In a small area, even 1 piece of wood (pedestal, cabinet, shelf) will be enough to soften the contrast of the finish. A spacious room can be decorated with several things, but if there are a lot of them, then the bathroom will no longer look black and white.
Bright colors in decor
It is recommended to dilute the monochrome decoration of the room with painted objects and areas. They can be 1-2 objects (vase, towel, painting), or a small piece of wall. A bright spot that attracts the eye should not disrupt the appearance and style of design.
Pairs well with black and white:
- red, orange;
- yellow;
- brown, cream;
- grey.
Often, in this way, part of the space of the room is allocated, for example, around the washbasin.
How to combine colors correctly
It’s not enough to choose the colors you like for the bathroom interior; it’s important to learn how to combine and combine them correctly.
Several rules are used to combine finishing materials:
- When selecting tiles of several colors and shades, the same rules are used as in painting. For a light background, use warm-colored material; for a dark background, you can use any shades except blue and light green. These colors in the bathroom, even when illuminated with contrasting stripes of light shades, do not create the proper saturation in the room;
- Between the darkened and light finishing surfaces there must be a buffer or intermediate zone of transitional color that goes well with both dark and light finishing;
- To place a bathroom with two predominant colors, use the gradient method. The transition from the dark part of the walls or floor to the lightest is made by several rows of tiles with successively changing tone or shade;
- If the bathroom design uses only dark-colored materials, you can do without a transitional color zone.
Most of the stylish bathroom interiors designed by professional designers belong to the latter non-buffer type. This method is used to decorate the interior in newfangled high-tech, in imitation of Roman and Greek style, in minimalist design.
Matte and glossy surfaces
Design options for a dark bathroom interior can be very diverse. Most often, in such an interior, tile materials of different colors are used, but without patterns or relief. This is due to the fact that against a dark background, an ordinary painting or pattern is not perceived brightly or effectively enough. Therefore, for dark-colored interiors, natural stone cladding with a characteristic brocade pattern is most often used.
To avoid the effect of monotony in the appearance of the bathroom, they use the common technique of covering the walls with slabs of natural stone with a polished and matte surface.
With the right choice of lighting, walls in a darkened interior can look like a single monolith or turn into horizontal stripes.
Alternating several dark and light shades of the same color
The easiest way to make your walls look more cheerful without being too light is to simply alternate tiles of the same color, but in different undertones and shades. For example, you can use tan tiles paired with honey yellow and lemon yellow trim.
To create a finish based on two colors or several shades of the same color, horizontal stripes no more than two tiles wide are traditionally used. In this case, a darkened interior with a finish of two similar colors turns out to be quite conservative and at the same time comfortable for everyday use.
To avoid the unpleasant effect of color spots, it is best to arrange dark and light tiles on the walls of the room in a chaotic pattern.
This cladding is easy to transform and change if necessary.
Finish options
The floor, walls and ceiling are usually decorated using different materials, color combinations, and patterns. Traditionally, the lower part is dark, the upper part is light.
A black and white bathroom looks beautiful and stylish if the decoration takes into account the influence of shades on the visual perception of its size and lighting. Let’s say that the abundance of white in a spacious room will increase it even more.
The decor of the room should match the design of the walls, floor, and ceiling. By combining black and white areas of the finish, they achieve drawing attention to the right places and visually smoothing out unevenness.
Ceiling
For the ceiling, the color most often chosen is white, which visually increases the height of the room. A dark surface can absorb some of the light - to avoid this, it must be glossy and reflect the light falling on it. Some room styles go well with shiny baseboards.
Tensile structures, decorative plaster, and plastic sheathing are suitable for decorating the ceiling.
Walls
Decorating bathroom walls in black and white style gives room for imagination. She often combines different textures, gloss and matte. Completely dark walls are suitable for a room with a large area.
The room becomes lighter if the lower part of the walls is black and the upper part is white. Also, monochrome areas can be alternated with two-color stripes, where the details are arranged in a checkerboard pattern. In the loft style, the surface of 1 side is different in color from the other 3.
Expert opinion
Olga Kovalenko
Since 2010 I have been engaged in interior design and architectural design.
Using different design areas, you can highlight the main functional areas in the room.
The walls often contain areas covered with mosaics, patterns, and geometric designs. The larger the room, the larger the drawing on its walls is allowed. The contrast between white and black can be emphasized or smoothed out with a smooth transition.
The most common bathroom wall covering material is ceramic tiles. They also use plastic panels, waterproof decorative plaster, and paint.
Flooring
The lower part of the room usually attracts more attention than the upper part. Therefore, the bathroom floor does not have to be black. On it you can arrange plain parts or tiles with a contrasting pattern in a checkerboard pattern or in the form of a pattern.
To decorate the floor surface, stone (real or artificial), ceramic tiles, and waterproof laminate are most often used.
Choosing furniture, plumbing and accessories
The style of the room's furnishings should be combined with the decoration. It is recommended to install pieces of furniture, a toilet, a bathtub, that differ in color from the floor, the lower part of the walls. Otherwise they will be difficult to see. You can also use contrasting finishing around plumbing fixtures, cabinets, and cabinets.
Too much furniture and accessories clutter up the free space and make the interior heavier.
The design of a black and white bathroom welcomes the presence of transparent partitions and shelves, mirrors of various sizes, and shiny lighting sources made of glass and metal. All important areas should be exposed to light. It is recommended not to hang reflective surfaces opposite cabinets and open shelves, otherwise the room will appear overcrowded.
Reflecting white areas of the walls in mirrors increases the illumination in the bathroom.
It is customary to choose furniture with a glossy surface, metal parts and glass doors. If the room is dominated by black color, the metal is required to be silver.
Using small accessories, you can add a bright spot to the decor of the room. A towel, a cup for brushes, a soap dish or a floor mat are suitable for this purpose - the main thing is that there are not too many items.
Nuances of a small bathroom
When decorating a small room, it is recommended to predominate in white in combination with dark plumbing fixtures and furniture, and good lighting.
- On the light walls of a small bathroom, a small contrasting pattern is most appropriate.
- Horizontal lines visually expand the room, vertical lines make it taller. Mirrors will also increase the space.
- The floor in a bathroom with a small area can be black. But it is better to lay out the ornament on it diagonally to visually expand the lower part of the space.
- Dark skirting boards should be avoided: they make the room seem smaller than it actually is.
Examples of black tile layouts
Any type of masonry would be appropriate in the bathroom. The hardest thing is to decide which method you like best. Classic - chess. Bricks or hogs are suitable for finishing walls and floors. To combine with other colors, choose a diagonal or striped layout.
The photo shows a combined tile layout.
Adviсe
When decorating a bathroom, you need to take into account that uneven walls and crooked corners become clearly visible if they are painted black. A pure white coating or a small contrasting pattern on it helps to hide imperfections.
Expert opinion
Olga Kovalenko
Since 2010 I have been engaged in interior design and architectural design.
It is also recommended to use the principle of alternation - placing matte accessories on shiny areas, and vice versa. Then the details will successfully complement each other and not merge.
Gothic in a black bath
The best style in which black is revealed is gothic. It is appropriate to combine both light and dark shades here. Here light shades play in contrast.
For example, light ceilings look good, while the walls will be painted in dark shades.
It is important to walk a fine line so that there is no depressing atmosphere in the interior of a black bathroom.
Photo gallery
Illustrative examples of bathroom finishing in black and white, developed with the participation of designers, are presented below. They show that with a harmonious combination of colors, the room will be sophisticated and cozy.
A properly equipped monochrome bathroom always looks impressive. The main thing is to properly think through a balanced combination of black and white colors.
