Help with color

My wife and I are buying our first house. The main bathroom has original porcelain tile from 1932 covering the floor and lower 4 feet of the walls. I need help desiding what color to paint the wall above said tile. The flat wall tiles are 4 inch victorian lavender colored. The tiles on the top row of the walls are black in color and shaped to be the boarder. The towel racks and TP roll holder are black as well. The floor is smaller black and white tiles. My wife loves the tile, but i don't know what to do with it.

 

This comes down stricly to opinion. Go to a paint store (not a paint department in a big store) and tell them what you have. Bring home the samples they give you and go from there.

 

if it were me, i would showcase the tile by keeping the wall painted white and using black & white (and chrome?) accessories. if you need a shower curtain, keep it white or black or white AND black, like white battenburg lace or a white curtain with a black print, etc. you could also still keep it monochromatic and use a darker shade of the lavendar (a purple or plum) for rugs, towels, etc. with the black & white.

OR:

you could use a colored paint (like pale turquoise or light yellow, etc) IF you tie the colors together with "something", like a multi-colored floral shower curtain, window treatment, etc. which you should find first, and then choose a coordinating paint color from the pattern. but it could get overwhelmingly colorful in a hurry, so be careful. i've seen pansy floral prints that would probably work really well with your lavendar.

 

"you could use a colored paint (like pale turquoise or light yellow, etc)"

Yeah, but the room already has a light yellow on the walls, and i don't like it at all. I need a better color to present to my wife so that she doesn't try to get me to keep the yellow.

 

like i said, if you don't like the white/black/lavendar idea, you'll have to find a "something" (shower curtain, fabric window treatment, area rug, accessory of some sort, wall art, etc) that is multicolored, from which you can pull a color to use on the walls.

you really can't/shouldn't just pull a color out of thin air to suggest for the walls & have it look good. there has to be a reason for it. something to tie it to the lavendar. otherwise, you've just got 2 colors together.

suggest the black/white idea to her.........