Bone lighting fixtures and cognac vanities exhibit a range of warm underlying colours or undertones. Before picking a paint color to your bathroom, it helps to discern whether your vanity undertone is walnut-like orange-brown, red-brown or a lighter orange-brown. Bone lighting fixtures also come in numerous colors, including light pink, orange, yellow or warm green-gray tones. When the fixture and vanity have delicate red or orange undertones, walls at the exact same color family produce a tone-on-tone scheme, but in the event the vanity and lighting fixtures feature contrasting undertones, it is possible to make an interplay of colour wheel opposites, also referred to as complementary colours.
Orange-Red Cognac and Subtly Tinted Bone
If the vanity has an orange-red undertone, walls in light orange tan or adobe add continuity, especially if your vanity includes a darker, walnut-like shade of cognac, which contrasts with light walls. While certain variations of tan and adobe are light, earthen colours, they are several shades darker than bone, so they provide tonal comparison with a bone illumination element, adding cohesion to the exact same colored vanity top and shower. Tan or adobe Brazilian tile blends with the wall colour, even though a faucet in antique gold leads to the range of these lighter orange tones.
Cooler Cognac and Pink-like Bone
Some cognac vanities feature hues of red-brown that resemble the rich colours found in cherry finishes. Darker shades of cognac pair with walls at a red-like warm gray or red neutral, as with medium taupe, particularly when a bone light fixture includes a pink-like, alabaster undertone. A cognac vanity which leans into the red side and vanity top in pink-like bone build a tone-on-tone colour scheme. A sink or bathtub faucet in light pink or rose gold provides an accent at the exact same hue family. For textural contrast, a backdrop accent wall at taupe and bone adds interest with enlivening accents of teal or mint green.
Lighter Cognac and Green-Tinted Bone
Light cognac vanities include an orange undertone, and because blue and orange are complementary colours, walls in robin’s egg blue or blue-gray complement the vanity orange, inherent hue. But if you decide on sage-green paint, it complements a vanity which displays red-orange undertones topped with a green-tinted bone vanity top and a faucet in a light, green-tinted brushed nickel. White flooring tile with a green undertone generates cohesion with a bone vanity top and lighting fixtures with underlying hints of green-tinted bone, as can a bone shower curtain with designs imprinted in sage-green and green-blue.
Cognac With Yellow-Tinted Bone
Bone occasionally has an orange-yellow cast, and if your cognac vanity includes a lighter or darker orange colour, walls in gray with purple undertones provide complementary contrast. Walls at yellow-tinted orange — or fan — mix with lighter cognac vanities, especially when the vanity includes a lighter finish. Buff walls also mix well with light fixtures at orange-yellow undertones of bone and cognac vanities. If the lighting fixture has more yellow-green undertones, however, the vanity inherent colors run yellow-orange, walls in light-to-medium purple-gray provide a complementary impartial that gently contrasts both.