Don’t be intimidated by a black bath; if you’re ready to try it, just make sure there’s ample light (and mirrors to bounce the light around). If there’s not, half-black, half-white is a good alternative.
The London bathroom of journalist Kate Watson-Smyth, painted in Farrow & Ball’s Down Pipe. See the rest in Going to the Dark Side with Mad About the House in London.
Photograph by Rory Gardiner for Remodelista.
The London apartment bath of architects Bentley Hagen Hall is finished in tadelakt, a traditional Moroccan lime plaster.
Photograph by India Hobson, courtesy of Bentley Hagen Hall.
An Axel Vervoordt–designed bathroom in the TriBeCa Penthouse of the Greenwich Hotel makes use of a 17th-century stone water trough as a soaking tub, complete with fireplace nearby.
Photography courtesy of the Greenwich Hotel.
For a master bath submission to this year’s Remodelista Considered Design Awards, Brown Design Group used Dunn-Edwards Black Tie paint to separate the bathroom from the bedroom in a Los Angeles home.
Photograph by Matt Wier, courtesy of Brown Design Group.
Photograph by Aubrie Prick, courtesy of Lynn K. Leonidas.
In this San Francisco project—another submission to the Remodelista Considered Design Awards— designers Lynn K. Leonidas and Andrea Faucett used black granite slab for the bathtub niche and Nero Marquina marble hex tile from Ann Sacks for the surround.
In the master bathroom of a Bedford, New York, former farmhouse, architect Rafe Churchill had an existing bathtub painted black and the floor finished in black granite mosaic tile.
Photograph by Amanda Kirkpatrick, courtesy of Rafe Churchill.
Photography courtesy of Jasper Conran.
A bathroom at L’Hotel Marrakech, designed and owned by Jasper Conran, is lined in black tadelakt and white stucco.
Photograph by and courtesy of Constance Gennari.
A bathroom in France by Clarisse Prudent, whose family is featured in a book on French living from the Socialite Family’s Constance Gennari.
Architects Space Exploration overhauled this petite black-and-white bath inside a former carriage house in Tuxedo Park, New York.
Photography by and courtesy of Kevin Greenberg.
Photograph by Shannon McGrath, courtesy of Hecker Guthrie.
A humble Alape Bucket Sink stars in a black-and-white bath in the Old Library restaurant in Sydney, designed by Hecker Guthrie. See the rest in Paradise Found: A Library Where They Serve Cocktails.