Carrie hun...if you are using a pumpkin....why not tone it down with a lighter pumpkin? You could also go with a shade of mustard or olive. I think the Olive would complement the grey nicely.

Or if your in the mood for staining, I'd go with a chocolate color....maybe a walnut? Or a warm blonde.

Just my thoughts.

Hello Care,

I agree, get rid of the toilet stand and put up a single shelf on the wall above the toilet.

I would stain the cabinets a Mahogany Brown, to keep the pumpkin warm and classic looking.

I think: the whitish floor tiles, countertop, and stainless fixtures will cause the pumpkin colored walls to wash out, IF the cabinets are a light color.
However, I think that staining the cabinets a warm dark color will bring out the pumpkin and make it pop.

When you get around to it, I would replace the mirror with an oval mirror, framed in a burnished brass color (mirror turned horizontally)....if you have a Christmas Tree Shop in your area, you can go check out their mirrors. The currently have one (not real brass but an excellent imitation); it is about 26 or 30 inches and pretty cheap.

I would go with paint. Its faster and cheeper. Get rid or the stand and put some foating shelves above the toilet.

I would get rid of the toilet stand and not replace it. My Bathrooms are bare only cabinet is one under sink. Makes it easier to clean. I would use stain I've never liked wood products that have been painted over. Take the wallpaper with you to the store and check it against the stain that appeals to you to see if they match or complement each other.

I don't even have medicine cabinets in bathrooms only mirror. I don't like medicine cabinets in bathrooms because of steam from showers and germs in bathroom and they just always seem dirty. I have a hallway closet to store bathroom suplies in and meds go up on top shelf of kitchen cabinet or locked up in bedroom.

One of the advantages of having house fire when they put the walls up in the bathroom they didn't put the whole in the wall for a medicine cabinet so having just a mirror there works fine for me

Hugs

I'd offer you some decorating ideas, but frankly they probably wouldn't work. I have no interior decorating taste. As a matter of fact, I can barely put a clothing outfit together......LOL.....My dh could probably help though.....when we first got married, and he moved into my house.....he said this should go there, and this should be this color.........I was really offended at first......but then realized that, yeah, he's right it works!

So before I redo anything, don an outfit, and build a new garden, I always ask his opinion. But at the same time, he has not clothing taste for himself. He's still wears things from the 80's. Not only do they look nasty, but they don't fit him. LOL

your bathroom is Similiar to mine...I Painted 3 Nice relaxing shades of Green in mine, Iight on the ceiling, medium on the walls, and Darker shade on the wall with the mirror, I traded out all my Fixtures to the brushed nickel {msp?}...and all shelves I painted a bright white, lacy white curtains on the window and shower curtain...then I got Lucky and found a bright white bowl with a brushed nickel stand at a garage sale, was still new in its box, got it for a Buck !! and that is where I put some Guest things, like a hand rag, small bars of Honey based soaps...

my SILs were so Impressed that their "Brothers" nasty bathroom ended up looking like a Spa bathroom !!

I Love Oranges...Pumpkin is one of my very favorite shades...very Relaxing...Looks beautiful with browns or stark whites...wallpaper ?? not so much, but that is Personal choice, I tend to get bored alot and repaint, hard to do that with wallpaper as it is alot of work...

this House we are Moving into, has Wallpaper in EVERY Room...OMG...I will bee Super Busy this spring bringing that stuff down, even tho it is well done, and No loud Colors or prints...every wall Is Covered, and this is a Huge house, just under 3000 sq. Feet..gonna have "Skiiny Arms" by the time I am done !!

Hey !! you going to Minot to shop ?? LOL !!

I would use a dark stain on cubbards. Looks nice. Maybe do a cubbard above the toilet, to update. You could use lighter orange accents.

Thanks everyone for the great advice! I get mental blocks with some of my rooms. I also get very bored of the same thing so try and stick with neutrals or earthy colours.

Dakota, the wallpaper is a textured paper, and can be painted at a later date. It's also a very small area that I'm doing. I WAS a wallpaper HATER but, and I can't believe I'm saying this but I actually LIKE it again! I do think it has to be properly installed, an updated pattern and used sparingly. The problem with past wallpaperers is that they did every room, with mismatched borders and different colours and patterns in each room. Way overwhelming.

I'm going with the majority of you:

1. Staining the cabinets a walnut/hickory colour.

2. Pumpkin wallpaper on 2 walls.

3. White baseboards and trim.

4. Get rid of the toilet stand (already cleared it out) as the only thing it held was the decorations and the hair clippers container. LOL

5. Add a floating shelf or two above the toilet.

6. Look into getting a new, framed mirror instead of the cabinet

7. New light fixture and hardware for cupboards.

8. Look at getting new shower doors (hate those ones).

Just found this thread.....Oh, Carrie, wish I could come help....I LOVE to redo and paint and tear out and ..... my hubby has banned me from redoing anything else in this house right now!!!! So I have to find others who want to play....

Sounds like you've got great ideas going....be sure to post lots of pix!!

HUGS