When we began designing our recently renovated master bathroom , I knew I wanted to incorporate polished nickel bathroom faucets and with gold accents. In our marble tiled shower, I used a polished nickel shower faucet and shower head to create a timeless, classic look. Our stunning gold chandelier is a beautiful contrast, breaking up all of the neutral marble tile and highlighting my new soaking tub. After living without bathroom mirrors for a long time before the renovation the joys of renovating in stages!
The soft gold finish warms up this mostly white transitional bathroom. I also wanted to echo the frameless glass shower doors with these glass and polished nickel vanity lights. Later, I hope to add new gold cabinet knobs and hardware to complete the look! And, because I love a more rustic-modern, traditional farmhouse flair out at Little Pax Ranch , I chose to do a bold matte black bathtub with chrome plumbing in this attic bathroom.
For the solo vanity, I chose a bold modern black bathroom mirror and black bathroom lighting , rustic wood cabinetry, and a vintage-style chrome sink faucet. I hope these mixed metal combinations inspired you!
You can feel confident about mixing metals with a style that is both trendy but classically beautiful. Which is your favorite? Share with me in the comments! I love the navy blue vanity and gold fixtures. Is gold coming back — after I just switched out my kitchen pulls for silver several years ago?
Gold is having a moment and in some ways, stays classic! To avoid water spots, I find having matte or brushed finishes a bit better than glossy or shiny metal surfaces.
What do you think about pairing champagne bronze with oil rubbed bronze? We have the oiled bronze in our walk-in shower. Our vanity is dark with a light top. I think it can work! What would you suggest? The granite counter tops have hints of beige and grey. The kitchen backsplash is beige, which Im also thinking of changing out. Champagne is warm and would look nice with the oil rubbed bronze. Do you think I can have different metals for the sink faucet and the shower finishings?
I am looking at doing a brushed gold for the sink faucets and a brushed bronze for the shower head and handle. I often find gold feels a little bold in the shower, but better with sinks and vanities. How do you feel about mixing metals in the same color family but different finishes? For example, brushed nickel and polished nickel or chrome?
My husband says shiny faucets are a deal breaker for him because of had water spots and finger prints. I was hoping to compromise with brushed nickel faucets, shower head, toilet paper holder and towel bar. But then I was hoping to do a polished nickel frames mirror, a glass shelf with polished nickel brackets, and polished nickel pulls on my charcoal vanity. I am SO sorry I missed this question, Kelly!
I just found some hidden in a side folder… my apologies. My other options are painting the mirror frames to match my cabinets or should I match them with ORB or paint them dark brown? I know I have been verbose, but I want to give the best picture I can of the situation.
Thank you so much. I am remodeling my guest bathroom. My bathtub and toilet are in an adjacent doorway space to the vanity—but not all visible like in one room. I have chrome fixtures on the bathtub and shower head.
I would like to use brushed nickel for my faucets and vanity door knobs. Would that work because they are the same metal with two different finishes? I can get my faucets and door knobs in chrome, if necessary. I would like to have your opinion of what is the best up to date look.
Thank you,. Thank you for this posting! I am currently starting a bathroom remodel and I am so confused on what to do. I ordered a double vanity with polished nickel hardware faucets not included. Would you recommend I use polished nickel for the sink faucets to match the vanity hardware or black to match the shower hardware?
What about lighting fixtures? I would like black matte to be my primary metal finish but feel like I need to add more polished nickel, unless I take it out and just go all black. Thank you for your feedback.
Personally, I would use polished nickel sink faucets. The light fixture I would go with black. But, you have your two metals here so as long as you stick with one of them I think it will look great regardless. What I said above is just my personal preference!
I have Polished Chrome shower fixtures and sink faucets. Can I use brushed nickel in the same bathroom, or should I stick to polished chrome? I would stick to polished chrome.
If you want to mix metals, I would go with brass, bronze, champagne, etc. Love this post! Would you say the same for brushed nickel?
We have brushed nickel hardware for our cabinets, faucets, towel rods etc. Although we added a built in makeup vanity where our small shower use to be on the opposite wall of our sinks we removed the whirlpool and put in a large shower in place. I would like to use a gold or bronze bar pull and the same color mirror? Would this look okay? Hey Andrea! I just want to make sure I understand. You have brushed nickel everything and want to use gold or bronze on the built in vanity and mirror?
If that is the case, I think it would look fine! If you use it for the pull on the makeup vanity, I would repeat it with the mirror. My master bathroom will have all polished nickel faucets, shower handles and tub filler. I now need mirrors, Moroccan pendant lights over the bathtub and two sconces for each basin. I found plated, oxidized, silver champagne Moroccan arch mirrors but the Moroccan light fixtures come in polished brass. Should I look for silver light Moroccan fixtures in this scenario or look for gold mirrors?
Thank you! The reason is you have all bronze and then one chrome piece. I would always suggest using the same metal twice in the room. I plan to primarily use oil rubbed bronze, as I prefer that against our off white cabinets, and they seem to best mimic the original year old door knobs all throughout our house. I have already purchased the shower fixtures, sink faucets and curtain rod in bronze some with more of an aged finish than others.
However, I have have fallen in love with a mirror that has a distressed silver frame. I am trying to figure out if this will look ok against a bronze faucet and next to bronze lights?
Any advice? I think a distressed silver frame would look perfectly fine next to oil rubbed bronze! Is it ok to have bronze fixtures with a brushed nickel door hardware and track and perhaps some galvanized looking wall scones?
I would try to repeat that brushed nickel somewhere else though. Maybe brushed nickel wall sconces instead? I have redone the master bath…used polished nickel for all of the fixtures. I want to add 2 black mirrors over the vanity sinks. Can I use a mirror that has silver edging along the inside of the mirror frame? You can always try it and see how it looks? Mirrors are easy enough to return. My initial instinct is no, because of the silver edging. Black mirrors paired with polished nickel would look great!
I am worried about the silver edging, though. I love all of your advice! We are working on a new, large master bath and have already bought 4 antique brass sconces that will be in the mirror over the vanity and an antique brass chandelier for the middle of the room. Vanity hardware is glass, not metal. My question is which metal would be good for the faucets sinks, freestanding tub, shower? I was thinking polished nickel since it can look goldish and would go well with the goldish color of the lights, but now wondering if there is more of a contrasting metal you would recommend?
This post has been so helpful! Quick question: I mixed aged brass and brushed nickel in my bathroom. We put aged brass pulls on a cabinet above the toilet and want to add two towel hooks on the wall perpendicular at the same height. I think it could go either way and would depend on what you are using brushed nickel for in the bathroom. It seems like most of the fixtures are brass so my initial thought was to keep the toilet paper holder brass.
Hi there, I love your site and the story on mixing metals. In the kitchen do the appliances count as a metal. Appliances count for sure! Hi there , thank you so much for your info, i too am struggling with finishes. We have a new white kitchen going in , we have stainless steel appliances , faucet and sink , I would like to know if we could use brushed nickel handles to break it up. I also have a new bathroom we have polished chrome scones, faucet, and shower bar and shower head..
Would this work and if so what metal should I use for the towel bar, towel ring and TP holder. Loved the article! Wondering what your take is on when buying vintage pieces to mix in a room. My living room has lots of gold, as I like a French look.
Sometimes the pieces are different gold tones as I cannot get them to match. How can I work with the gold tones that I have in lighting, sconces and mirrors? Mixing tones is totally fine! If all the finishes are exactly the same, it can sometimes feel a bit overkill.
Many thanks! Hi Jess! Something darker or warmer could act as a nice counterpoint to the dominant chrome. I am incorporating brushed nickle table and floor lamps and brushed nickle hardware on the wood furniture which has a modern feel.
The light over the table is a mesh cylinder in a bronze color. My question is should the finish on the fan in the living room be brushed nickle to reflect the brushed nickle in the living room or bronze to coordinate with the lamp over the table. Both pieces can be seen as you walk into the room. Hi Judy! How do you feel about those two mixed? And which would you recommend for towel rings if we do use both?
Another idea: using black or bronze vanity drawer pulls. Too much? Hi Karen! Thank you for this excellent article and all of the helpful comments. Finding this is a decorating treasure and a huge help! I found a beautiful caged lantern in oil rubbed bronze to hang in the dining area and for the bar, I would like to use round glass pendants with matt black rods and brass accents. The fixtures are close together. Would it be better to get the pendants in gold instead of matt black and brass?
Thanks so much for any help you can give. Hi Anne! We definitely understand your concern. Matte black and oil rubbed bronze may be a bit too similar, so gold would be a great alternative. Thanks for the helpful article. What are your opinions on mixing oil rubbed bronze and black? We recently did our bathroom with all oil rubbed bronze fixtures but have now found a black mirror and black shelves. Is it okay to mix those two metals? While it depends on the exact finishes, sometimes black and oil rubbed bronze can be a bit too close to each other.
You may be better off with another metal that provides more of a contrast. Hi again, instead of asking my question in a different field I asked here but I will be very happy if you will answer me anyway. Hi, we are going to refurnish our living room, we choose a gray velvet sofa and chair for two sides and for the third side two white chairs with nickel legs. The cabinet dishes is also white and the windows drapes are between white to beige color. What about mixing gold accessories?
What carpet color will you recommend? Hi Seriy! Best of luck with your remodel! Hi Louise! Looks like a good plan!
No need for the light to match the door handles perfectly. These should play off each other nicely. Hi Freeda! See how the two shades look next to each other and if you like it, go for it! Just pick one to be the main finish and use the other as an accent. Thank you so much for this helpful article!
We are renovating our kitchen currently and have chosen a warmer white for the cabinets, stainless appliances all of which, except for the double wall ovens and trash compactor will have cabinet facings , white farmhouse sink with chrome faucet which will be on the island, countertops including the island will be Taj Mahal quartzite.
All exterior and interior door knobs will be matte black. My dilemma is about the cabinet and drawer hardware and the pendant lighting. If we went with chrome hardware for the cabinets to match the faucet, how would it look to have two lantern style pendants over the island in like a satin brass?
Sounds like satin brass would provide a nice, warm contrast to the primarily chrome finishes in the kitchen. We have recently put in black curtain rods with white curtains, which looks amazing. We also have two matching gold metal and clear glass lamps with white shades, each on top of a glass side table with black metal framing.
Specifically, we are looking to add 3 pendant lights over our island. To be safe, I have thought about going polished chrome with a clear glass shade for the pendants, and then going black or oil rubbed for the ceiling flush-mounts and dining room fixture. Do you recommend that all lighting is the same metal or would different look ok in such a small space? Hi Hayley!
Black could definitely work and would be cohesive with the living room, but if you like the look of the polished chrome, go with that! Thanks for such a helpful article! I was planning on using all brushed gold hardware, but have found a beautiful freestanding copper tub. Do you think brushed gold taps would work with a copper tub? If not, what metal would you suggest?
Hi Belle! Brushed gold could definitely work — it all depends on your taste. Nickel could also be a nice, cool contrast for the copper. Hoping for advice. We are currently renovating a farmhouse. The bathroom it very narrow and long and little head height. I love gold, white with a rich teal for the bathroom but money is getting very tight. I have already lost my battle for a bath. I wanted sanity unit and countertop sink. I am most likely going to have to diy the unit and was thinking of pallets but my husband just laughs!
Cost wise with having rustic unit I have chosen black taps etc and have searched for the cheapest black heated towel rail but I am still earning for teal, gold, white. Looked for gold heated towel rail and so far way out of budget. Your article makes me wonder if I opt for the cheaper chrome towel rail and go gold or antique gold taps etc.
Would any of this work with teal and white? Or do I need a complete rethink. The towel rail is an issue as it is on wall in front of door by sink. Please help. Hi Jacqui! Love the article!
I recently bought a house and want to update the kitchen. I wanted to do a deep navy island with brass fixtures and a white marble countertop. My kitchen cabinets are a like grey and I wanted to put the same brass fixtures to have a more modern look and tie in the island I am adding.
I will also have the marble cup tops in the kitchen as well. My sink, faucet and appliances are stainless. Do I need to re think my awesome brass cabinet fixtures and just go with brushed silver or something? Thank you for the help! Hi Megan! As long as you stick to two metals, brass would be a welcome accent to the stainless appliances. Hi, great article! I need some help. We just brought a house. My appliances are stainless steel. We went with a mirror dining table with a chrome base.
The chairs are dark gray with a dark brown wooden base. Our floors are dark brown wood. We love these gray sofas but the base of the sofas are golden. Would that look weird? We are also stuck on bar stools. Hi Anam! I need some help please! I have oil bronze in my kitchen hardware with pecan wood cabinets and black island with granite counter tops with grey, black, brown, and beiges.
The kitchen, family room, and kitchenette are all one room. My sofas are off white with light teal and Aqua pillows and seagrass rug. I want to put a Italian chandelier in the family room and pendant of verigated warm tones with speckles of black. I am also thinking of a RH trestle round natural wood. Will this marry with everything else going on in the room? Would you use black metal barstools? Kathy H. We have a bathroom with warm tone beige tiles. The Schluter piece my contractor used in that bathroom without asking me is in polished chrome.
How would it look if I did the rest of the fixtures in polished chrome and keep the brushed copper faucet as an accent? It is a small powder room. Will be putting up a mirror, sconce, towel bar and toilet paper holder. I am redoing a small powder room. We are doing navy wallpaper and warm taupe marble chevron floors. All hardware is polished nickel. Can I do a brass sconce above the mirror?
Should the mirror be closer to nickel or brass if I go the brass light route? Also, unrelated, but what color do I do my molding and baseboards?? Hi, I need help! We are building a farmhouse type of home.
The kitchen is going to have white cabinets with a gray island. One of the bathrooms will have a gray tile. The house will have several colors of gray paint. We were going to use Brushed nickel as all of our fixtures but my husband really likes the look of oil rubbed bronze.
Can we use oil rubbed bronze as our door, lights, hinges, faucets with so much Gray in the house? I just purchased a new house and it feels like the builder emptied out all of their miscellaneous hardware pieces. Door handles throughout are chrome, kitchen cabinets pulls are aged brass, stainless appliances, a copper sink, oil rubbed bronze faucet, all bathrooms are decked out in gold, and laundry and mud room have a dark silver metal.
Where do I start to clean up this mixed mess without spending a fortune? Pick two or three of the finishes you like the most and keep them as is. Then, replace the rest of the hardware to match.
I think focusing on the kitchen would be the place to spend your money. This is such a great article! We mostly have brushed nickel light fixtures in our kitchen, except for this one in the dining area — and they currently look nice together. This is so helpful and reassuring! If one is doing brass hardware faucets etc… in one room, is it preferable to do the same in each bathroom? Or is it fine to do stainless in one bathroom and brass in others?
Curious your thoughts on that! Many thanks for any advice! Hi Terri! Matching metals between bathrooms can be nice, but definitely not necessary. I recently purchased a gorgeous Knoll rosewood credenza with a white carrera top, chrome legs and pulls.
Think this would be a good partnership? I so wish we could add photos! Hi Cydnee! Sounds like this could work. Thanks for the great article! The room will have darker gray patterned tiles floor and white subway tiles wall. We love the look of matte black fixtures, and have all shower fixtures, vanity faucet, and light in matte black.
I spray painted the vanity hardwares and made them satin bronze. Please HELP! We just did a whole house Reno. All faucets and cabinet hardware are in chrome throughout kitchen and bathrooms. Door knobs and light fixtures are brushed nickel. Is this ok? This article is extremely helpful.
However, I am still at a little bit of a loss in my kitchen. Everything is chrome faucets with gold lighting or gold hardware or both. Will this look ok in reverse??? If I have gold lighting and gold faucet so everything above the cabinets in gold and then chrome hardware, will it look misplaced?? Hi Jessica! This article is very helpful! I have a question about an island chandelier in my kitchen. We have cream cabinets with oil rubbed bronze pulls and faucet. The appliances are stainless steel.
The chandelier I am looking at comes in this really pretty antique silver some gold hues coming through. Could I do that? The space does open to the family room and eat in kitchen.
I personally love non matching in a home. I am worried it will be too non matching in such an open space. Hi Brooke! Great read! I am using matte black door hardware and brushed nickel lighting throughout the house. The walls are super light gray and bedrooms are a touch warmer but still super light. Hi Barb! Glad you enjoyed the article!
Can I mixed polished brass lights and satin brass lights in a kitchen? One set of pendants above the bar and another above the dining table? There will be also stainless appliances, white cabinets,with satin brass pulls and an antique wood buffet and some antique barn wood shelves. Hi Beth! If you think it looks good, go for it! Hi Kathy I hope you can help… we are redecorating my daughters bedroom and she has her heart set on grey bedside tables with yellow gold legs with matching chest of drawers.
Would it be okay to have a desk in the same room with rose gold legs and rose gold bedside table lamps? While this should be fine, it really depends on how you think the two shades look next to each other. The shower trim and fixtures are chrome,cabinet pulls are gold, and vanity light fixtures are chrome. For my sink fixtures I have an antique brass and a black faucet. WHich one would be better to use?
I feel it may be too much going on? Decisions were made before i was really sure. We are redoing our downstairs after a flood. Our downstairs has some things that are gold that I was thinking of leaving but where we are doing new fixtures I want something more today but that does not clash with all the gold and brass.
I thought black but all I can seem to find is oil rubbed bronze and that seems like it would not really go. I need a ceiling fixture and two sconces for the landing when you go downstairs. They will be right by a closet with four brass door pulls. Also in the power room I need a faucet and wall sconces.
The toilet and window hardware is gold. The mirror we were going to use is kind of an antique brass. Hi Gael! So sorry to hear about the flood. Most all fixtures in the baths and kitchen are shiny silver but I love the rose gold tones. If we keep faucets, light fixtures, etc silver where should I try and bring in the rose gold? Warm or cool neutrals? Hi Verna! We are remodeling. We painted our kitchen walls repose gray and our trim is Dover white. Our cabinets are aged white glazed with brown and island is repose gray with brown glaze and fantasy brown countertops.
I have an oil rubbed bronze faucet and I have pendants that have a m ix of bronze, gray, white ect. Would aged pewter pulls look funny if I have an oil rubbed bronze faucet or do I need to stick with oil rubbed bronze pulls? Hi Katie! Your article is so helpful!! I do have a couple of questions about kitchen pendant lights.
My kitchen has double islands and it was only wired for 3 pendant lights over one island and 1 pendant light over the second island. Would that look strange? Also, would it be okay to use 2 different types of pendant lights over each island? Hi Praise! Anywho, I have already purchased all of my light fixtures, all being ORB with the exception of copper pendants that will hang over the island.
My cabinets around the perimeter of the kitchen are a very light, soft gray, almost a taupe-white kind of color, and the island is a darker taupe gray kind of color. The counter top is a white quartz with a minimal amount of gray veining. My current dilemma is that I found matte black hardware that I absolutely love, but am worried about it clashing with everything else I have going on.
Appliances are all stainless steel. Hi Darcie! Thank you for this article. We built a new house but chose brushed nickel for all the hardware and fixtures in the whole house. However, I started seeing blogs with houses with brass or gold fixtures and hardware, I fell in love with this color and went ahead and bought gilded iron kitchen island pendants.
We installed the pendants and while I love the color, I am hesitant to replace all the cabinet hardware with brass or gold to match the pendants because I feel it will look too matchy matchy. We bought 2 of these pendants that now hang over our island. We have an open concept kitchen with a breakfast area that opens into the living room. We also have 12 foot ceilings and have our kitchen cabinets built all the way to the ceiling that have brushed nickel hardware that are visible on the higher plane area same plane area where the gilded iron pendants are.
We are looking to make some changes and having real difficulty:. We wanted to choose a finish or finishes that would well with the gilded iron pendants.
Do we choose a finish to match our cabinet hardware or to match the pendants? Door hardware is still pewter, we ar eventually replacing the door but not yet due to cost. Fans have gold hardware. Our chairs are purple velvet on the front with gold and purple design kind of like damask print on back and our table is grey wood. Rug is cream and grey flowers. We are thinking of replacing the rug. I found mirrored chevrons that are rimmed in gold I wanted to put up on walks.
Was going to put up signage above our large picture windows and wall opening all windows and openings are roughly 3 feet wide at least but am struggling with deciding to use gold above windows and a pewter above wall opening or if I should just keep all gold? Should I pick 2 metals and keep finishes the same for this room?
Please advise. Thanks, Beverly. Hi Beverly! We currently have all oil rubbed bronze fixtures. I really love the aged brass faucets. If you want an of-the-moment design, look for hammered copper, antique gold, matte black steel, bright nickel, and natural iron — all trending right now.
For the remaining third of fixtures in your bathroom, choose a metal that complements the tone of your base metal and your overall bathroom aesthetic. For example, a nickel accent can brighten a traditional bathroom, while matte black will amplify the sophisticated side of a transitional space.
To balance the look, choose finishes with a similar hue, such as matching brushed nickel faucets with a matte brass mirror frame. How you incorporate your accent metal is up to you, but some common options include the knobs and pulls of vanity hardware, towel rings, lighting, mirror frames, shower trim, and accessories, such as soap dispensers or lamp bases. When deciding what tones to select for your primary and accenting metals, pull from other rooms in your home.
To achieve your goal of designing a well-balanced bathroom, let some of the other materials in the space influence the metals you choose.
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