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6. Colour Tips, Storage & Bathroom Crimes

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6. Colour Tips, Storage & Bathroom Crimes (Image 6 of 6)

Colour Scheming
All too frequently people go for a green or blue colour scheme in their bathroom to pick up on a watery theme. The problem is that cool colours such as blues, some greens and lilacs reflect an unflattering light onto the skin that can make you look pale.

Warmer natural colours such as beiges, creams and pale browns, or colours with a warm, orangey base like apricots, salmon pinks and terracottas reflect a warmer light around the room and make you look much healthier.

Storage
Enough storage can transform your home from a dumping ground to a designer pad. And the bathroom is no exception, what with all those lotions and potions that need to be hidden away but got at all the time...

Do you really want to tell your deeply desirable house visitor that you're just getting over piles? No? Then don't let the squeezed out tube of medication languishing on the cistern do it for you.

Clever, accessible storage is every designer's secret weapon. There are a surprising number of places you can fit in storage in a bathroom.

Think about all the dead space under and above the sink or above the toilet cistern, and build in storage there.
Disguise your pipe runs by boxing them in and creating a shelf on top. Remember to allow for access to the pipes, in case you get a leak.
Use flexible, freestanding storage, such as a chair with space in the base or a rolling trolley that can be pulled out, handy when there's pipe work running behind its position.
Don't forget your heat source can double as a towel rail. There are some fantastic designs available which look almost sculptural.

Bathroom Crimes