PINK???????????

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We are redecorating dds (3 1/2) bedroom. It’s not been done since her nursery and I think she deserves a new room. Problem is she wants it pink. Not even nice pink just straight up BUBBLEGUM BARBIE PINK!!!! The floor is vinyl click and Im not fucking changing it to bright pink thanks for your input dd. So what do I do? I don’t really want to paint the walls pink as last week she LOVED blippi. But this week she HATES it. Toddlers…… help!!!!

My son was allowed to choose his bedroom decor. At age 3 it was dinosaurs.
At age 8 it was A huge photomap of the world on one wall. At age 13 it was Khaki camo. The furniture and the floors stayed the same. He is 19 now and has just mentioned repainting his room in marine blue. I said this time he is on his own - my paintbrush days are over!

My daughter has 3 white walls and one pink feature wall, looks nice.

I think the F&B calamine is gentle and calming. Very nice.

At age 2 my son started asking for a pink room. I assumed he’d grow out of it.

At age 8 he finally got his pink room which he adores 🤷‍♀️🤣

Don’t assume your taste is better than hers… But limit the options you show her to ones you can live with. We ended up with a pretty cool pink wallpaper.

I did this when Dd was 4 she wanted bright pink walls, pink beds (2 shared a room), pink curtains, pink light shade, it was all very PINK. We put a green shaggy rug down, white wardrobes and draws in, eventually swapped out the pink beds for a white bunk bed, pictures on the walls. It didn’t look too bad in the end. The older one who choose the colours went through a I hate pink phase but she’s 10 now and chosen another shade of pink for the room, a more dusky preteen/teenager look for the room.

My daughters have a pink and purple bedroom (2 walls of each). I hate it they love it 🤷‍♀️

My daughter wanted a pink room..we compromised by painting 2 walls the pink she wanted and the other 2 a peppermint colour she also liked.

I think she would have got tired of an all pink room quickly.

Do 1 wall bubblegum others lighter.
Or all lighter and say sorry DD the shop had no bubblegum pink!
But how about choose a lovely duvet cover or lightshade.

DD is the same ago and would love a pink room but we private rent so it's a definite no. Instead we have neutral walls and floor, a pastel pink rug and curtains and I let her pick some pink pictures for her wall. Compromise and easier to change up as she gets older.

It's her room, glad you are letting her have pink.

FWIW - my daughter chose pink when she was younger. That godawful pink from your previous post. She had 3 walls that pink and 2 a lovely pastel pink.

She loved it. I hated it. Her room.

She now, in her teens, has a lovely sophisticated room that teen me is very jealous of.

I'd only use calm colours in a bedroom.

If you really don't mind he having bright colours I'd do the floor and walls gentle colours and accessorise with bubblegum pink lampshades/rug/bedding.when suddenly wants everything black it won't be too difficult to change.

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My dd asked for pink and so that's what she had. It's just a couple of days of painting to get it back to a neutral colour later. DD's room stayed pink for a few years, so don't assume it's a short phase.
If you don't think her choice of shade would suit the room though, most kids would be happy with one very pink wall and a much softer complementary shade on the other walls. Accessories and bedding will still make it look pink.
I wouldn't paint floors, just get a rug and I would keep skirting boards and doors and ceilings white, having learned from the mistake of painting a ceiling pink!

@Davethecat2001 That room is beautiful.

Nope. However I give zero fucks for how their walls look. My eldest is at uni. Her walls here are utterly fucked from years of being a kid. There are patches, scratches, holes where the pins went wrong, and all manner of scars that show it was a well loved and used space. It will get gutted and sorted out in due course, as there’s nothing that a wallpaper stripper, some sugar soap, a tiny bit of poly filler, and a new paint job (not cream or ivory, I dislike those) won’t eventually fix.

I will say though, I am the furthest person you could get from the notion of house proud. It’s a living space, and purely there for function as far as I’m concerned. I understand this is quite uncommon. I don’t judge people who like things to look nice; but I do judge people who expect toddlers to have the sensibilities of a Hinchclone.

Blippi is banned in my house and should be banned in everyone else’s too, the annoying creep.

Nothing to add about the paint colour

Ooh, that was precisely the shade we painted DD’s bedroom when she was about 6. We thought she had the rest of her life to worry about taste. 😂

As a teen she switched to white with a dark purple feature wall, and now her room is a fashionable grey.

Farrow and ball, pink ground is a lovely pink, Omer have it in our daughters soon and it’s lovely.

How expensive is paint, exactly? I've never bought paint myself, but surely it's cheaper to paint over horrible pink in five years' time than it is to replace horrible pink rug + curtains + cushion covers + bedding + lightshade + beanbag +accessories etc. etc.?

I don't think I'd be prepared to go with more than a "feature wall" of bright pink. I have a sitting room that has a burgundy/pink/maybe you'd call it raspberry pink? wall and I hated it when I moved in but love it now.

Dulux do a whole chart full of reds and pinks - there are a set called sumptuous plum in various shades I quite like, summer surprise, or eastern silk (which is too blue for my liking) but they do all have bold options which it looks like your daughter wants. I'd probably do that with a cream or white that goes with the floor for the rest.

I imagine this depends whether you like or hate painting. I don't mind rollering the middle, but I detest cutting in so the prospect of clearing a room out enough to spend my free time painting it Vs ordering a duvet cover, curtains and a lampshade on Amazon...

This is funny, as a child I wasn't ever allowed to wear white (I loved white dresses, tops, skirts...) because I'd "get them dirty" (I mean, there's this thing called washing?!) and now I have a pure white kitchen and A LOT of white clothes. I don't get them dirty, and if I do I wash them....

Select some pink paints that you're comfortable with having on the walls for the next few years and have some fun painting sample pot squares with her. When you're done get her to pick her favourite one and then paint the walls that colour. That way she still gets to make a choice but you've set the parameters :)

I mean that's fair enough if you really, really hate painting

It was only that the suggestions of buying lots of soft furnishings and rugs and accessories in a colour you hate seemed to be quite an expensive way to avoid painting a small room in a colour you hate. Though I suppose you can always sell them later on (but I hate selling stuff even more than I hate painting walls).

@Davethecat2001
that room is beautiful!!!!

I think I’ll paint it 2x walls pink and 2x another colour and keep everything else neutral so that it can change easily. Thanks all!

i think ill choose the other colour because I think if I let her it might end up being black and that would be hard to paint over.