Stacey Solomon unveils bold tangerine bathroom makeover – admitting she’s 'ready for people to hate' it

Stacey Solomon recently swapped Pickle Cottage for a new Essex mansion, and one of the first major transformations she’s taken on is in the boys’ upstairs bathroom.

Sharing her first look at the completed bathroom renovation, awash with a colour-drenched tangerine hue, matching the orange bath suite with vertical-stripe walls and matching accessories, Stacey acknowledged it wasn’t going to be to everyone's taste.

Fortunately, the dopamine decor was doing its job as intended for her and her family. She wrote, “I’m ready for people to hate this… But honestly I love it so, so much. As soon as I saw this tangerine bath set, I fell in love with it. I just couldn’t throw it away."

"I have plenty of rooms to be neutral in, but this is the boys' upstairs bathroom [and] they LOVE this colour, so I got to have so much fun in here bringing colour back to life," Stacey explains. "This room now just makes me happy as soon as I open the door. It’s so bright and cheerful".

Considering this bathroom is for her boys, Stacey was right to focus on bringing a bit of cheer and something that makes them happy.

Even with her bold choices for her boys, she still added subtle touches that help make a bathroom look expensive. In amongst the sea of tangerine, elevated touches like the brassware and shower head.

These refined touches contrast so beautifully with the unexpected colour scheme, making it look intentionally colourful and not haphazard or garish.

“When it comes to bathroom design, a few carefully selected pieces of brassware can make all the difference," says Barrie Cutchie, design director at BC Designs. "If budgets are tight, choosing to update brassware or to go for more expensive brassware compared to your ceramics can provide a more luxurious and high-end finish to your bathroom."

By adding the wall point in vertical stripes, Stacey has also kept some of the important style rules for a bathroom. A bathroom should always feel more open, airy and light. It’s a place to relax, to unwind.

While some typically do this by sticking to rigid neutrals, earthy tones or bringing in plants and other outdoor-in vibes, Stacey has opted to make the room feel bigger and brighter, drawing the eye up with the vertical stripes and the sunny colour.

While the colour is undeniably the first thing anyone will notice - and perhaps the only thing some might get stuck on - Stacey decorated the room with other fun flourishes and touches that make this room feel personable and perfect for her family.

The use of an abstract, fun-shaped mirror, for example. The soft, fluid shape feels young and playful, adding whimsy and breaking up the straight lines of the wall paint. Then there’s the amusing ‘Get Naked’ bath mat.

For those who take interior design very seriously, this might not seem chic. But Stacey is clearly thinking about the people who’ll be using each room - there’s always space for following trends in other rooms, but it’s a family home first and foremost.

Despite bracing for many to hate the room, Stacey’s fans were full of praise in the comments. One person wrote, ‘To be honest, it's nice to see something with a bit of personality as opposed to neutrals & greys that have engulfed the past decade!’

Another shared, ‘Omg it looks absolutely amazing! Never did I think I could love an orange bathroom suite so much! Well done’

What do we think, could this usher in the era of the 1970s colourful bathroom suite? Time will tell…