10 greens for a bathroom

A pale greyed green, the colour of oxidised copper on a roof — hence its name. It is softer and greener than Glass, less blue, and it gives a bathroom the freshness of an old room. It is at its best in a bright bathroom, where sunlight turns it almost white, and it loves brass, which picks up the copper note.

Between grey, blue and green, the colour of a repainted stable door — fresh, calm, a little old. In a bathroom it is the ideal compromise between the green you want and the grey you dare: tinted enough for the room to have a colour, grey enough never to tire. With white metro tiles it is the green of townhouse bathrooms.

A soft, yellowed mid green, the colour of a young shoot — designed by the landscape designer Jinny Blom. It is the cheeriest green in this guide, the one that turns a bathroom into a conservatory, and it is superb in a bright room with plants, pale wood and white. In a dark bathroom it loses a little of its glow: prefer Museum there.

A dark greyed green, deep as river water in shade, named after the room it was made for. It is the green of a jewel-box bathroom: on every wall it envelops, and makes the white of the bath and the brass of the taps glow. In a small windowless bathroom it is lovelier than a white that would make it sad.

A saturated, bright and joyful blue-green, the most luminous of our deep greens. In a bathroom it gives the sparkle of a palace pool or a hammam: with white marble, brass and a big mirror it is a room for celebration. It was made for a bathroom with light and guests to impress.