Eight bathrooms with colourful toilets and sinks

Aug 05, 2023

For our latest lookbook, we've gathered eight bathrooms where the sanitary ware adds a splash of colour, ranging from a green Portuguese "shower tower" to a bathroom with pink marble washbasins.

Although white toilets and basins are still the default choice, increasingly interior designers are experimenting with adding colourful sanitary ware to bathrooms.

Among the designs in this lookbook are stylish black toilets that add a graphic touch to the bathroom, as well as basins in a range of pastel hues including pale blue and avocado green.

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring interiors with split-level living areas, mix-and-match flooring and homes with cleverly hidden lifts.

Les Deux Gares, France, by Luke Edward Hall

British designer Luke Edward Hall's design for this Parisian hotel features plenty of patterns, bright colours and printed furnishings.

This can also be seen in the bathroom, where a green toilet and matching green sink stand out against the mustard-yellow wall and zigzag floor tiles. Above the sink, a mirror in a darker green hue complements the interior.

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Annabel's, UK, by Martin Brudnizki

The bathroom at London members' club Annabel's is an explosion of pink, from the pink marble sinks to the pale-pink flowers that line the ceiling.

"It's really about fantasy – this is a club, you don't come here for reality, you come to be transported somewhere else," studio founder Martin Brudnizki told Dezeen.

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Hygge Studio, Brazil, by Melina Romano

Terracotta tiles decorate this apartment in Brazil and were used in the bathroom alongside red bricks that were formed to create a vanity.

Next to it, a black toilet adds a dramatic contrast against the forest-green wall, while green plants and tan towels match the interior.

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House Recast, UK, by Studio Ben Allen

House Recast, a refurbished Victorian terraced home in north London, was finished with coloured concrete throughout.

In the bright green bathroom, the colour is contrasted with brass details, which were used for the tap and temperature controls by the small, circular sink.

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VS House, India, by Sārānsh

A black toilet almost blends into the veiny green marble backdrop in the bathroom of VS House in India, which was designed to focus on "the nature of the materials used to finish the insides".

Grey Kota stone, a variety of limestone that is quarried in Rajasthan in the north of India, was used on the floor and walls.

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Nagatachō Apartment, Japan, by Adam Nathaniel Furman

Colour is everywhere in the Nagatachō Apartment by designer Adam Nathaniel Furman, which is located in Tokyo and has a dreamy pastel bathroom.

In the bathroom a pink toilet sits next to a baby blue sink unit contrasted with a bright, sunny yellow tap.

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Small House with a Monumental Shower, Portugal, by Fala Atelier

Architecture studio Fala Atelier created a "shower tower" to house the bathroom and shower in this home in Amarante, Portugal.

Inside the tower, minty green tiles clad the walls while a matching sink surround in a pale green marble hue adds material interest.

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Unit 622 in Habitat 67, Canada, by Rainville Sangaré

Design studio Rainville Sangaré's design for an apartment in architect Moshe Safdie's brutalist Habitat 67 building mostly features discrete colours, but in the bathroom, colourful sinks and a matching mirror break up the monochrome surroundings.

The washbasins have black Corian tops and the smaller of the two is used to wash calligraphy brushes.

Find out more about Unit 622 ›

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring interiors with split-level living areas, mix-and-match flooring and homes with cleverly hidden lifts.

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