Color Trend Alert: 12 Bathrooms with Fixtures that are Everything but White

Until recently pastel bathroom fixtures fell under the same to-be-avoided category as plastic sofa covers and Hummel figurines. But it turns out that in the right context, a beaming yellow bathtub and bright blue sink can be uplifting rather than fusty. Here, 12 bathrooms that make playful and even elegant use of colorful porcelain, new and vintage. Your granny would approve.

Above: Former Burberry designer Natasha Lyon used a 1930s pedestal sink—a €61 Facebook Marketplace score—as the focal point for her family bath in Kent, England: see the complete makeover in Bathroom of the Week. N.B.: In its Heritage Colors collection, Kohler offers sinks and toilets in a similar shade called Peachblow. Photograph courtesy of Appreciation Project. Above: Italian line Devon & Devon’s Hollywood Bathtub at Villa Colucci in Puglia, Italy, a resurrected palazzo (and rental) created by two Danish design families. The tub comes in 500-plus customizable colors in a glossy or matte finish. Photograph courtesy of Villa Colucci. Above: Pink and green at Oddsson in Reykjaviik, an upscale hostel designed by Döðlur that opened in 2016; sadly Oddsson has since closed this location, but operates two more muted hotels in the city. Photograph by Tekla Evalina Severin. Above: A bright combination at Paris’s Hotel Les Deux Gares designed by Luke Edward Hall. Above: From London bathroom specialists The Water Monopoly: the Rockwell Basin with Rockwell Basin Taps on an aged brass, ball-joined frame. The sink is also available in pale blue and green. Above: Pastel porcelain fixtures against a dark, moody backdrop in Jonathan Tuckey Design Studio’s Yard House project. Photograph via The Modern House. Above: The Water Monopoly’s Paris bath in at The Pig, a country house hotel in the Cotswolds that’s part of the The Pig group. Above: A powder room in a Sussex, Grade-II listed house with a powder blue Water Monopoly Rockwell Lavatory. The project is the work of Beata Heuman protegé Phoebe Hollond of Studio Hollond: see more of her in Bathrooms of the Week: 5 Very British Standouts. Photograph courtesy of Studio Hollond. Above: Pascale Michel of Brussels antiques shop Scènes de Ménage recently featured this scene on his Instagram and explained to us that he took the picture in a friend’s “old bathroom in un country house in Belgium.” Above: More color at Villa Colluci in Puglia, Italy: the Italian heritage brand Sbordoni supplied the sink. Photograph courtesy of Villa Colucci. Above: A marigold yellow tub at Casa Bosques Pensión, Savvy Studio’s guest rooms over its art and design bookstore in Mexico City’s Roma Norte. Photograph by Margot Guralnick. Above: Cultiver’s Repose linen bedcover (in a discontinued shade) in a room styled by Colin King. Find vintage sinks such as this one by scouring Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, and from architectural findings dealers, such as Square Deal Plumbing of Huntington Park, California, which specializes in old fixtures—and repairs and reglazes them, too.

Browse the Remodelista archive for more bathroom inspiration, including:

• 11 Favorites: Japanese-Style Bathtubs from Around the World
• Steal this Look: A Retro Bath (with a Green Sink and Toilet) on the English Seaside
• 10 Easy Pieces: Colorful Bathroom Sinks
• Archive Dive: Powder Rooms, Tiny Space + Big Personality Edition
• Expert Advice: 6 Common Bathroom Plumbing Jobs You Can Tackle Yourself, from Plumber Carly Carey