 Welcome back to Winner Home on Afternoon Express, the show where we follow three young designers as they transform three empty apartments at Val de Villes State into dream homes, using finishes provided by Plascon and Caesar Stone. And at the end of it all, we'll be giving away one of the completed apartments worth over three million rand to one lucky viewer. So for the next two weeks, it's all about the bathroom and today we're joined by one of our Winner Home judges for some colour inspiration. Denita's on the couch. Decorating a bathroom can easily go terribly wrong and choosing the wrong colour to paint the walls can ruin the common effect of the whole room. Here to help guide us away from disaster is the lovely Ann Rosal, Plascon's global colour manager. It's good to have you. Thank you. So let's talk a bit about this bathroom experience because I mean bathrooms are quite a difficult one to get put together. What are some of the no-nos and things that people are generally doing quite wrong when it comes to decorating bathrooms? Okay well if you think about it you start and you end each day in the bathroom. So when you walk into the bathroom in the morning you want it to be uplifting because it'll sort of set your mood for the whole day and at the end of the day you want something that's quite relaxing and calming so you can you know wind down. So beware of very bright bold colours. I mean you don't want to wake up in the morning and you know go to through the bathroom and you hit by this bright passionate red. You know you do want a bit of energy. If you want energy add some red accessories or whatever but beware of painting the walls all red in a bathroom or all yellow. It's just too bright and bold and it can go. That's sometimes when it goes horribly wrong. Yeah also when you're trying to focus there's like distracting to have on the entire room being so many different colours you don't even know where to where to be. What are some of the things that we can do in terms of choosing the right type of paint? What kind of colour should we go for? Okay well you want to create like maybe a spa like bathroom or relaxing all colours that really reflect well on your skin that's also something to bear in mind so you don't be careful. Yeah exactly so you look in the mirror and you look kind of greenish but you're kind of green wool so oh yellowy and you think gosh I might ill. I'm ill. So you want colours that have sort of a peachy undertone or pinky undertone that look good on your skin. In fact in our latest issue of Plascon Spaces magazine that we have out now we show you one bathroom and how you can totally transform it just by changing the colours of the walls. Oh really. So in our first one we show you just a plain old neutral bathroom which is great it's fine you know neutrals never go out of fashion it gives you that minimal look and very calming and relaxing and then our second look is when it really gets interesting when you add colour so there we have a grown-up pink called Savannah and pink is a very trendy colour at the moment as I said it's Pantone's colour of the year is rose quartz so it's linked to that so it's very trendy but it does look beautiful on the skin. Our third bathroom is also Pantone's colour of the year it's a sky blue they call it serenity we call it marmelo and you get a wonderful cool refreshing look when you paint the walls blue and it's like sky and water it just fits with a bathroom. Especially if you maybe have like more than one bathroom in the house it might be a nice one to have as a guest bathroom because if it is towards the beachy side of the world or if you've got a coastline a house that's a beautiful colour. It does it just it just fits the whole theme of the space and you know you really feel that water connection which is really good for you you know your soul really. And then our fourth bathroom that we showcase is one that's going a little bit different and we've we've used a military green called Starlight Express and it's really quite different but when you add plants and stuff it's almost like a no-acess so you know it's very relaxing calming green is very stress relieving so it's a great colour also for a bathroom and then it's up to you to choose which colour you would like to have in your bathroom. Sure nice ideas I think people are always stressing because bathrooms are one of those spaces where a lot of damage is potentially coming in there with water damage and coming down dampness is also a big one that that happens. What kind of paints can we use to protect our walls what are the hardy hardy paints that we can use? Good paint okay well enamels have been traditionally been used in bathrooms because they're hard wearing they are heat and steam resistant they're chip resistant they're anti-mold but we've all got to be eco-friendly. It used to be enamels you'd have to wash your brushes with turps and turps and all of those things are not great. Now it's fantastic we have a water based enamel called Valve Glow it's much more eco-friendly everything is water and it is just as hard wearing it's mold resistant it's heat and steam resistant it doesn't yellow you know the old enamels you painted white and it would go yellow after a while these stay white so it's great when new products are eco-friendly but they also as good as all the products so definitely go for a water based enamel in the bathroom. I like to take a lot of inspiration from the hotels because they really like to decorate their bathrooms and make them interesting and unique and a lot of them are using things like wallpapers and really getting wild with those sort of bathrooms what are some of the techniques we can use to to just really uplift our bathroom? Well wallpapers are beautiful but I must admit I'm one of those people who just cannot take wallpaper in the bathroom but a lot of wallpapers actually are paint finishes if you have a look at them they're like painted strokes and all of that and they're doing wallpaper we'll do it with paint okay there's an amazing amount of techniques you can do with paint so rather use paint you know you can do easy stripes or you could do a stencil in your bathroom with a metallic or you can do something really exciting and do a mural in your bathroom so that really there are endless possibilities of what you can do with paint to fix in the bathroom and what I love most about having you in the loft is that you make people so excited about just experimenting with the houses so I'm pretty sure everyone that's coming weekend is definitely going to be playing around a little bit either in the bathroom or in any other room of their house just to use color and different types of paint so thank you for joining us it's such a difference thank you remember you stand a chance to win a golden ticket into the winner home final draw when you buy a Plaskon product an sms the word Plaskon the last six digits of your barcode and your full name to 32979 visit Plaskon.co.za for more details on how it all works as well as much more inspiration, color forecasts and how to go about choosing the perfect colors for your bathroom. Well some really valuable advice there we saw on Monday that our design contestants didn't score particularly high for their use of color will that all change for their bathrooms let's see what they're up to. Minent Len Tully's bathroom is coming along nicely and he's choosing a soft neutral shade to complement the dark tones in his design. I'm picking my paints for my bathrooms I'm definitely going for an off-white I'm still stuck in between choosing whether I'm going for the worn wood or the silver bird I'm going for the off-white because it's going to help make my room bigger than it seems I'm also bringing the garden city that I have in my guest bedroom which is part of the concept I have to keep the consistency without throughout the apartment. Also busy at the paint stage is fellow contestant Joanne Fenter who is continuing her spa-like theme into the serene bathroom. So I'm using a white flask on valve aglow because my floor is going to be very dark and I'm going to have hint of light oak and concrete so I think white will work perfect with the space. I'm using valve aglow from Paskon because this is a wet area and my bathroom is looking great already. The contestants know the importance of choosing the right product to protect their bathroom surfaces and Rudolf Joanne has made a bold color choice. So almost done with the first coat here I think it works well with the tiles I've selected and remember that with my white tangerine fittings my 50% neutral 50% black stain on the floors everything will pop against this color and I think Paskon will like that. This is not the only color I'm going to use in this bathroom so you'll have to wait to see what the surprise element is. Well from today you can head over to privateproperty.co.z and vote for your favorite bathroom and by casting your vote you stand a chance of winning paint from Paskon to the value of 5,000 rand. You will also automatically be placed into the grand prize draw where you could win one of those completed apartments at Val de Vie with more than 3 million rand. Winner Home is proudly brought to you by Private Property in association with NED Bank. We'll be right back.