When you’re updating the look of your bathroom, one of the things that you may wish to do is to paint the room to either improve on the look that you have or even just change it up.
Choosing paint for your bathroom is a bit different than choosing paint for other rooms in your home — numerous factors differentiate a bathroom from other rooms in your home.
With that being the case, let’s look at and consider five tips for choosing paint for your bathroom in Baton Rouge, LA.
1. Remember The Mold
When you are looking to paint your bathroom, you have to think about the role of the paint that you will be applying to the walls.
The fact is that you will have considerably more moisture in the air in your bathroom than in any other room in your house, other than perhaps your kitchen.
That being the case, you should look at paints that are going to be protected against mold and mildew, and there are quite a few out there from which you can choose.
2. Calculate Wall Space Before Painting
When you want to paint your bathroom, one of the first and most important things that you can do is to calculate your wall space — this is important for a couple of reasons.
First, you want to be able to figure out how much paint you’re going to need for the paintwork — it’s better to not have too much paint as you’re just going to end up having it sit in storage unused.
Secondly, it’s good to know how much you’re going to end up painting as when you know how much there is to paint you will be able to calculate how long it’s going to take you – and therefore make a plan for the painting project.
3. Let There Be Light
The light that comes into the bathroom — more specifically, the quantity of light that the bathroom gets — makes a big impact on the way that colors look in your bathroom.
The more natural light you get, the darker colors you can get away with choosing.
Conversely, if you get less natural light in the bathroom, you should consider using brighter colors for the bathroom to make it look overall better.
4. Consider The Floor
When you are painting your bathroom, one good area is the floor in terms of how to choose the right color for your bathroom.
You want to make sure that the color goes well with the floor because the contrast is going to be fairly obvious in your everyday use of the bathroom.
The best way you can choose the color that will be good for your floor is to take a small sample and apply it to the wall and allow it to dry.
That way you can see how it looks in real life, so to speak, as opposed to how you think it might look based on paint swatches.
5. What’s Popular?
Odd as it may sound, a good thing to consider doing is to look at what the professionals in the business use in terms of painting the bathroom.
This could be anyone from the sorts of architects that go into making bathrooms as well as the designers that choose paint colors for them
It should probably be noted that if a color is popular in use for painting bathrooms, it tends to be because it is known to look good in the various light conditions that one can find in bathrooms, including the harsh artificial lights that bathrooms tend to have.
Nathan Rust is the Managing Partner at Prestigious Painting. He is passionate about service and gives back through his business with “Paint it Forward” and the “Young Entrepreneur Scholarship”. Nathan is married to his wife, Amanda and they have two children, Elijah and Grace.
Nathan founded the Rotary Club of Southeast Baton Rouge with 24 other local leaders in February 2020, and served as Club President from 2020-2022. He also serves as the Charter Organization Representative to Pack 15, where his son is a member as a Cub Scout.
Nathan was elected as the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board Representative for District 6 on November 8th, 2022. In this new opportunity, Nathan aims to strengthen our school system by ensuring every child in EBR has access to high-quality schools, regardless of where they live or their economic status.
