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

[Fuckallthetories]

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!!!!

Certainly easier than painting furniture. But not easier than doing it with accessories
painting itself doesn’t take long in theory, but to prep the room properly, including covering carpet, moving furniture, protecting areas where paint isn’t wanted , and then properly cutting in, and then doing second coat, and then cleaning up after is NOT a quick thing. It’s a pain in the arse. Unless you’re the sort of person that doesn’t prep and slaps paint around

Id try and get away with a pink duvet cover and rug and keep walls/flooring neutral. Perhaps compromise on the curtains?

I had a little pink obsessed one but the bedroom was shared with big sis and so kept all neutral colours except for free choice duvet covers.

BuildersTeaMaker, my DM learnt to paper because she hated painting so much. She said it was still a lot of work, but you never have to do a second coat. 😄

Why are you giving a 3 year old a choice?

One wall pink, with pink accents. Did this for DD when she was small and it looked lovely. We had a beige carpet. Don’t even consider changing the floor!

In their bedrooms, yes. I’ve got a whole house colour scheme happening in the communal and grown-up rooms but why should I inflict drab greens and muddy browns and natural linen on 3yo DD who wants purple walls and rainbow curtains, if I can afford to do it? Different question if it’s an affordability thing but if I’m spunking on F&B for my room I can’t be a skinflint who won’t do purple Dulux this year for hers, then whatever-colour-she-wants-in-three-years Dulux next time.

There are cheap bathroom 'mats' which would work as pink rugs.

All 3 year olds get super excited about cream and neutrals. All of them.

Littlegreene have some lovely pinks
www.littlegreene.com/paint/colour/red-pink

My childhood bedroom was light purple because my mum picked the colours when we moved in. It never got changed, changing it just never came up, and I didn't and still don't feel somehow put out for not being able to choose my wall colours.

My mum would let me choose my bed sheets etc I suppose. I remember some that must have clashed with the wall colour something terrible. Who cares - it was a kid's bedroom!

Since you've already asked her though, it seems fair to follow through. Can't you pick a subtle, pale pink? Say it was the closest colour the shop had. I'm sure she won't hold it against you!

@RosesAndHellebores That was really mean of your mother. Great that you have the kitchen you want!

God, there's some miserable people in the world.

I've had this exact thing and it goes without saying a 3 year old doesn't dictate what happens rw decorating.
Lovely pink duvet cover and accessories yes

@FictionalCharacter that kitchen was 30 years ago. Now I just have uplighters and downlighters in the kitchen that I can switch from pink to blue to purple .

This thread has reminded me that I once painted my bedroom in the pink kitchen house "Rose white". There was more rose than white and it was like going to sleep in a bowl of Angel Delight - had it redone in cream within three months. Oh the 80s when everything was: apricot, apple, rose and bluebell white!

My DD (now very grown upj had a bubblegum pink bedroom and vivid lime green bedding. It looked awesome. All white furniture.

We are normally a Heals / Habitat kind of house so an unusual choice for us. She loved it. We loved it p, and when we stopped loving it we painted over it. They are only tiny once so I'd go with the pink 😬

@Fluffluff

uoure another one that can't differentiate beteeen dictate & 'be allowed to choose'. Not all parents are dictatorial twats with a stick up their arse

This is why you only give 3 yos a choice between two options you are equally happy with.

And not all parents are made of money where they can paint a 3yo's room bubblegum pink on their whim and then justify repainting it in farrow and ball 18 months later when child has changed their mind. Not to mention people who are renting, or those with children sharing bedrooms. These are the parents who don't let toddlers dictate, not dictatorial twats.

Have not Read the full thread. Painted my 10 year old’s room in Dulux berry crush. Lots of white relief (ceiling bed furniture etc). It looks great. And with the white furniture it would take a day and not much money to paint walls whatever colour she likes when/if she ever goes off pink

When I was about 3 my parents wanted to repaint my room and had a decorator round. He asked me what colour I wanted my room and I immediately said "pink". He told me he had run out of pink paint and asked me what other colour I would like. I thought about it for a while and said yellow.
As an adult i now realise that was a load of twaddle my mum doesn't remember it, but reckons she must've made eyes at him when I said pink, as there's no way she'd have had a pink room.

We used to have a bedroom with 2 bubblegum pink walls, 2 white walls and a grey carpet. It looked great!

are we not allowed to like the colour pink ?

Omg love that room! And my favourite all time colour Arsenic. Dreamyyyy!

@threegoodthings

FFS. It is not 'allowing a toddler to dictate' if you ASK them what colour they'd like their walls. It's allowing them to choose.

if you can afford paint you can afford the colour they want, it's no more expensive than any other colour.

tge next paint doesn't need to be 18 months time, at 4.5 you can tell them it's not ready to be repainted yet.

no one has to use F&B paint.

if you are renting, you don't ASK them to choose the colour of the paint.

fluff fluff said it goes without saying you don't allow a 3 yo yo ' dictate' decirating chouces.

that's HER opinion. Mine is that ASKING & letting them choose is NOT them 'dictating' and if people can & want to allow their kids some choice, why shouldn't they??

people who can let their kids choose & wont because THEY JUST WONT because it doesn't fit THEIR colour scheme are dictatorial twats IN MY OPINION.

@JustOrderADoor no need for all the shouty caps. Do you have some unresolved childhood trauma of your own about not getting the walls of your choosing?