I’m an interior designer – there’s two ‘unclean’ colors you should NEVER use in your bathroom… don’t make my mistake

AN interior designer has opened up about the colors homeowners should never paint their bathrooms. Laurin White said she learned the mistake the hard way after giving her own master bath a moody makeover. Interior designer Laurin White has given tips on the bathroom wall colors to avoid Credit: Courtesy of Laurin White She said dark colors like a midnight blue can prevent the space from feeling clean Credit: Getty The experienced designer, who runs the Birmingham, Alabama-based studio Cambridge Row, was drawn to a “smokier navy green-blue” because it’s an “amazing color.” “It would be perfect for a half bath,” she said in an exclusive conversation with The U.S. Sun. Sign up for the Fabulous newsletter Thank you! “But I have learned after living in it for six years that it’s really hard to feel like it’s very clean.” White puts makeup on every morning, and she said darker colors like charcoal gray and dark blue can make your routine more difficult. “It’s really hard to apply makeup because it’s just too dark,” she admitted. “And so I would just say totally play up a moody, smoky room color, maybe in a half bath or in a little bar area, or even in your kitchen in some cases, but you just need to be careful about how you’re actually going to use the space.” Keeping the bathroom lighter, brighter, and cleaner can help with the functionality of the space and make it feel more hygienic. “I’ve learned from my own trial run that if it’s a bathroom that you use all the time, you will regret it being too dark,” she said. Most read in Lifestyle “Unless you just don’t want to see how your makeup looks, because may it’s just better to not know.” Meanwhile, another interior designer has revealed the five horror secretly making houses like cheap. Comment now