When I was first married several years ago - I painted my bathroom a very soft lilac color - it had a built in old painted wooden cabinet - so painted it lilac also - and put black paint on the doors - then I decorated with flourescent purple/pink flamingos and used purple towels - it was so striking - it didn't take long before I had my girlfriends copying after what I had done - we all had old pained cabinets in our houses, so short of taking all the paint off - we just painted over - was very appealing to most. Even my mother loved it -