When I first designed my bathroom, I thought a modern, monochrome palette was a dream come true. More space, a better flow, and a relaxing, spa-like feel. And in many ways, it does deliver on those promises.
But I also realized that making a stark space feel fun and personal is a lot trickier than it looks. The key isn’t fighting the clean aesthetic, it’s learning how to introduce color within it.
These creative ideas can help your modern bathroom feel both vibrant and perfectly pulled together.
1. Play on Lighting
You don’t even have to pick up a paintbrush for this one. To get a whimsical atmosphere, it’s all about the lighting.
Using the right lighting implements and placing them strategically is the key. This will let you create some really imaginative effects and add seriously striking colors to the room without any paintwork.
2. Colourful Retro
If you want to be bold, this one’s for you! I just love a design that embraces a colorful personality. This bathroom is absolutely breathtaking and so much fun.
It’s packed with bright colors and retro themes, from the dreamy dark teal ceiling to the rainbow rug and the black and white chessboard floor. The whole design just feels fun and electrifying.
3. Coastal Mints
White bathrooms are always popular because they have a timeless allure and feel so simple and practical. But that doesn’t mean you can’t add a pop of fun color!
This is a great example of keeping that bright and clean aesthetic while adding personality. The cool and fresh feeling of minty greens gives this white bathroom an airy, beachy ambience.
4. Potted Greens
Bringing in some potted plants is such an easy way to transform a boring white bathroom into a cool haven.
The bright green hues and colorful planters are the perfect complement to the white interiors and the rustic vibes from the wood accents. As a finishing touch, the matte black fittings add a chic feel and help define the space.
5. Azure and Gold
This look is so modern, elegant, and exciting. This bathroom uses minimalist styling with its plain white walls, minimal accents, and clean lines.
But then it goes bold with its colorful accents! I love the azure herringbone tiling for the shower walls, the blue and white floors, and those elegant gold trims and fittings.
6. Lip Glam
How fascinating and imposing is this? The bright and colorful accent walls in this bathroom give the room so much character and sass.
The lippy shades on the walls complement the elegant and modern space, which features white and grey floors, a glass dome chandelier, and a glamorously vintage vanity.
7. Bold Colours
This is a truly bold and arresting look. The bathroom accent wall completely dominates the room with its colors.
The dark-themed interiors, featuring navy walls and dark-stained wood flooring, get a bright respite from that accent wall. This is such a great idea for a powder room.
8. Pink Boho
Quirky, fun, and so colorful! This modern bathroom gets a lot of its personality from the Boho styling.
You have the eye-catching two-tone pink floors, a bright rug, and a striking art piece. The green accent wall is perfectly complemented by a hanging plant, which is such a landmark Boho feature.
9. Warm Wood Tones
Using natural elements like wood and stone is a great way to source design color, depth, and character.
This very rustic bathroom really banks on the warm wood tones of its accent wall. It’s matched by the tub base and highlighted by that framed tree cross-section on the wall. Gorgeous!
10. Mustard and Indigo
I love how fun, perky, and welcoming this is. This cozy and charming bathroom gets a colorful boost from its accent wall.
The engaging wall features a garden scene in mustard and indigo, giving the room’s interiors a vibrant and fun look that I just adore.
11. Elegant Pink
This bathroom is so classy and luxurious, and it gets a fantastic pop of color from its pink accent wall. The classy feature includes metallic flamingo pink tiles in a herringbone design.
The subdued sheen of the tiles complements the understated grandeur of the interiors, which include marble walls and minimalist finishes.
12. Spanish Tiles
This is so hip and trendy, not to mention eye-catching and unique. Adding Spanish tiles to your bathroom will absolutely transform it from ordinary to awesome.
The accent shower walls, with their different patterns and colors, provide a welcome contrast to the smooth and plain modern interiors.
13. Pink and Grey
Such a delicate and modern look that still feels bright and colorful. Adding pink accents to the all-white interiors of this modern bathroom transformed it from something generic into something truly exceptional.
I especially love the eye-catching starry floor pattern, which adds a fun and whimsical touch to the design.
14. Pretty Florals
Charming and elegant all at once! The floral wall feature gives this bathroom a delicate and exceptional look.
The delightful light tones of the prints complement the bright interiors perfectly, while the floral theme adds beautiful colors and an alluring feminine touch.
15. Pretty Chinoiserie
The delightful shades of chinoiserie blue bring such brightness and a fascinating vibe to this bathroom design.
The white and blue floral wallpapered walls are the clear highlight of the room. They’re complemented by the powder blue vanities, the shower tile flooring, and that lovely patterned rug.
16. A Flower Feature
The cheerful and vivid colors of flowers will instantly brighten any room. Adding a floral accent to your bathroom is a perfect way to perk up the space with impressions of the fresh and wild outdoors.
The huge flower painting here includes vivid and bright hues that really complement the room’s trendy vibe.
17. Golden Luxury
This is a case of truly majestic design, featuring only the best materials and craftsmanship.
This two-tone bathroom design includes a marble baseboard and floors, gold satin walls with exquisite paintings, and absolutely fabulous gold accents and fittings. It’s pure luxury.
18. Marble and Doodles
What a unique bathroom design! It combines fun with the marvelous, artsy, and luxurious. It’s a wonderful mix of old-world elegance and creative charms.
While the marble and gold accents lend a luxurious vibe, the salmon walls give the bathroom a welcome pop of trendy color.
19. The Cityscape
You can add funky doodles and bold colors to perk up your basic modern bathroom. The colorful wall of a doodled cityscape gives this room a fun and trendy feel.
You could spend several days doodling yourself, or take the easier and faster route with wallpapers.
20. Starry Night Sky
This is such a fun way to easily update your bathroom by incorporating colors and themes. This night sky addition is a simple DIY and would be perfect for a kids’ bathroom or even the powder room!
Just paint the upper walls with Aegean or indigo, and then add the stars using gold or honey paint shades.
21. All in the Grout
What a sneaky and fun way to add color to your bathroom! If you love white and aren’t a fan of excessive embellishments, then using colored grout is definitely for you.
This will add color without disrupting the overall look and will enhance the design to another level with subtle, beautiful details.
22. Outside Inside
Why not bring in colors from the outside? Adding a glass wall will not only let natural light flood in, but it will also let you enjoy the outdoor views and add gorgeous colors to the bathroom palette.
The greenery from the outside balances the cool interiors of this ultramodern bathroom so well.
23. Psychedelic Walls
This is a great way to go wild and colorful! You can transform a clean and mean modern bathroom into a vibrant sanctuary just by adding colorful streaks to the walls.
Colorful wallpapers are also a perfect way to get the trick done. Keep the room bright with wide windows, mirrors, and plenty of lighting.
24. Delightful Dark Walls
Go for the imposing grandeur of dark interiors! I love this look. This modern bathroom features a dark and exceptional blue-green shade.
The peacock walls add so much drama and bold styling. To balance things out, the white ceiling and pastel accents provide a nice contrast with lighter tones.
25. The Orchard
This just makes me think of the warm breeze from an orchard. The tangy musk of oranges and the bright hues of the outdoors feel totally captured in this bathroom accent wall.
I think every modern and ascetic bathroom needs this kind of bright, frivolous, and classic accent.
26. Glass Mosaic Shower
You can get such a luxurious elegance from glass and colors! This stunning shower accent wall features a mosaic of triangle glass tiles in amazing textures and colors.
The mesmerizing wall provides a real wow factor to the otherwise plain and cool white interiors.
27. Chic Farmhouse
This farmhouse bathroom is absolutely amazing, and it is definitely not drab or dingy. It features white walls with gold accents and fittings, and an exceptional bathroom vanity!
The vanity comes in a stunning emerald and has a fabulous marble top with an undermount sink. The black ceiling and trims complete the dramatic look.
28. Hex Mix
Why not get wild with colors and shapes? This exceptional bathroom styling really banks on its colorful mix of hexagonal tiles on both the walls and the floor.
The stunning combination of white, denim, navy, and lemon tones gives the bath a bright and perky vibe.
29. Minimalist Pastels
So pretty and bright! The colorful patterned floor provides a chic and fun look to this modern bathroom.
The pastel shades of oranges and blues relieve the stark white walls and clean surfaces. I think the floating wood vanity also gives a warm touch to the design.
30. Painted Ceiling
If you want clean and neat white bathroom walls but also crave a colorful room, painting the ceiling could be the perfect solution. This bright and refreshing bathroom design includes white walls, floors, and fittings.
It’s the remarkable steel blue ceiling and the complementing curtains that make the room so unique and exceptional.
31. A Pink Bath
Pink glam! I think this is so feminine, fabulous, and chic. The bright pink patterned tiles of the tub and shower area create the room’s focal point.
Contrasting with the cool whites of the modern interiors, the bright pop of color provides a warm and delightful touch.
32. Mid-century Modern Hues
When you mix the bright colors of mid-century modern with contemporary neutrals, you get this fun and modern bathroom.
The bright yellow floor is the perfect foil to the overall white interiors, and the blue vanity brings in a cool seaside feel. It’s such a great combination.
33. Moroccan Flair
This modern grey bathroom gets a serious glow-up from the yellow accents and the metallic shades of the arabesque tiles in gold, copper, bronze, and silver.
Their subdued glow hints at an understated luxury and a really classy taste.
34. A Red Tub
Sometimes a bold red tub is all you need to turn a dreary grey bathroom into something incredible! The neutral grey walls, vintage fittings, and traditional designs give this room a classic look.
But it’s definitely the red tub that provides the interesting focal point, character, and a pop of color.
35. Colours and Sunshine
Bold and bright! This bathroom makes such an impressive statement.
The bright sunshine theme is all over the interior design, from the Tuscan sun walls and golden trims to that spectacular sunburst chandelier!
The pastel pinks and white accents help to tone down the glare just enough.
36. Emerald Shower
This design invokes the magical and powerful feel of an underwater world with this dreamy emerald haven.
The entire shower walls are covered with small square tiles in all shades of green: mint, emerald, seafoam, moss, and forest greens! It’s so colorful, cool, and beautiful.
37. Modern Shapes
What a fabulous way to add colors to an ultra-modern and minimalist bathroom! And the best part is, it’s one that you can totally DIY.
Just find or design the pattern for your accent wall, choose your favorite colors, and use painter’s tape to create those crisp, straight lines and shapes.
38. Luxurious Blue
This is such a luxurious and magnificent bathroom, featuring all shades of blue. It plays on the delicate blue-grey veins of the marble walls.
This incredible design features complementing shades of blue, from the steel blue floating vanity to the notable Chesapeake blues of the patterned Spanish tiles.
The brushed gold trims and fittings complete the luxurious look.
39. Gold, Quartz, Glass
With the right materials, you can absolutely add color to elegance. This luxurious bathroom features a grand wall design made up of thin vertical slivers of ceramic, gold, quartz, and glass tiles.
The contrasting tones and textures of the different materials give the design an intricate, elaborate, and magnificent look.
40. Rose Gold Charms
I love this combination of the elegance of gold with the enchanting rose tone.
The warmth and charms of the metallic rose gold fixtures complement the understated glamour of the marble and cool minimalist designs. It’s a perfect pairing.
