• A small bathroom can pose design challenges relative to paint color.bathroom with patterned green wallpaper image by nextrecord from Fotolia.com
  
  You love your new home. Its bedrooms, kitchen, living and dining areas are all perfectly proportioned and ideal for their potential uses. The sole drawback just may be one of the bathrooms. With bathrooms, the challenge of making a small space look larger is only intensified, because full bathrooms must have at least a sink, toilet, and tub or shower. Pale shades of blue, green and cream can do the trick.
  
  

Blue

• Cool blue shades add calm to the small bathroom.blue image by Jan Will from Fotolia.com
  
  Blue as a color represents calm, peace and tranquility, according to Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Studies show it can even slow down the pulse, according to the site. Setting a tranquil tone in the bathroom is fitting, especially if you have children who may be anxious or ambivalent about the potty training process. Even adults can take refuge in calming bathroom spaces, whether bathing, showering, shaving, applying makeup or otherwise completing their daily toilette. Soothing spaces are appropriate to ease you into the start of the day, as well as to help you wind down before bedtime in the evening. Try robin's egg blue paint, along with a similar shade for bath and shower ceramic tiling. Or go for pale blue walls with slate blue tubs and sinks; slate-gray floors can help ground the pale color scheme.
  
  

Pale Seafoam

• The buds of this sea plant offer up a soothing seafoam hue.green image by sasha from Fotolia.com
  
  Green is another cool, soothing color, according to Bloomsburg University. Seafoam green, a color found in nature, can introduce a seaside, beachy feel to your small bathroom. Use the palest seafoam paint available to paint your walls. Then employ subtle green shades for the rest of the space. Imagine a gray-green tub and sink with deep-green marble flooring. Or consider green glass tiling for the shower and countertops, with painted concrete floors.
  
  

Cream

• Innocent cream allows the eye and the mind to rest.cream image by max blain from Fotolia.com
  
  Cream is a relative of white, which has connotations of purity and cleanliness, according to Precision Intermedia. In addition, creamy off-white shades, less absolute than pure white, allow the eye and the mind to rest in the near-absence of color. And restfulness is key, especially at the end of a busy day. You can carry the cream color from the walls to the rest of the decor, or vary the scheme a bit by using slightly deeper hues of the undertones in your wall color for the other elements in your bathroom. For example, bisque walls will peacefully accompany oatmeal marble countertops, shower walls and flooring. Cream-colored walls will provide an innocent backdrop to French vanilla cabinetry and tiling.