How do I style this awful green colour DS has picked for his room?

[GreenMeany]

He's 12 and I stupidly said he could choose his new bedroom colour.

This is what he's chosen.

Dulux Kiwi Crush.

He has a white wooden high sleeper bed and I was getting him malm drawers in grey but I dunno now.

What floor/bedding etc will make it not look like toxic vomit 😂😭😭

Although I'd be tempted to use this green instead as it's more in keeping with my own style and less likely to date.

@GreenMeany 😎I do like it though. These could possibly give some ideas

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Tell him that he has to choose or that you will simply buy whatever happens to be on sale / available in the local charity shop... If hes old enough to pick a colour, hes old enough to pick some bedding etc.

(White, navy and various shades of blue, light yellows, darker shades of green, browns, greys etc. would probably work, btw.)

8 year old DS2 picked a very similar shade.
We did one wall - rest just off white, and some stripey green/blue curtains with several shades of both colours in.
Denim blue bedding.
Neutral floor/bed/furniture - with lime green boxes in the kalax unit.....

My bedroom in my last house had one wall painted in pretty much that colour - it was like that when I bought it but I never changed it because I loved it! I kept everything else very plain/neutral/natural - so off-white/ivory on the remaining walls, wooden furniture (wardrobe, desk and bed), cream rug. It was lovely (and more rainforest than toxic waste haha!)

I thought it was a lovely colour

I let my children choose their own colour. One chose well, the other had the door permanently shut on her barbie pink room. This is the reason we have doors imo😂

I love that colour. I used it for our family bathroom from when we moved into this house until we redecorated a couple of years ago. The resident teenagers and visiting grandparents all hated it, but I didn't run the household as a democracy. I co-ordinated with navy.

lol.When ds1 left for uni-i let ds2(then age 3)choose big boy room colour.He picked zingy(make yer eyes bleed green)and orange. (i went one wall orange.)-Iv got amtico everywhere except stairs-which works for us.the floor in his rooms a sorta orangey but marbelish so gha hints of other colours-bland really-so added a rug.it works well.The green actually went really well with wooden furnishing/pine type bed/drawers/wrobe(i got lucky on freegle n was fab ducal set which when we later swapped rooms i upcycled -into shabbychic --)

In my personal opinion, part of the fun of having children in a house is the mish mash of colours and furnishings the house ends up with. So, so cosy and nostalgic to me! Idk if this helps you at all but maybe you can reframe the situation and your perspective on it, and view it as being in the very midst of your children being at home, and making their visible mark on the house. Yes, it can be garish and clashing, but it also shouts "children are here".

Hopefully that doesn't come across as toxic-positivity, because I really do mean it! But yeah, sometimes it is just crap trying to manage everyone's aesthetic/visual impact on a house while still trying to keep it as somewhere you love to be and makes you happy.

I think this bedding set from Dunelm would go quite well - Clifton Duvet set

Not a childish bedding set (they do have a fab set with cows on it, but I suspect he'll outgrow it, if he hasn't already!)

At 12, he's reaching an age where you won't be going in his bedroom very often anyway, so I'd be tempted to live with whatever he's got until such a time as he starts expressing an opinion on it!

You can get away with it fine has plenty of posters etc….. My son chose navy blue 🙄 but it looks ok because great swathes if wall are covered in light coloured posters

I think it could look quite nice with some greys and whites, maybe broken up into stripes or blocks like these photos.

My son has that colour, we did it on one wall and then did something similar to this on the rest
Geometric wall Green

I like the white and navy that a PP showed a photo of

This.

He's picked a colour he likes, it's his bedroom, let him get on with it.

Loads of jungle/ rainforest stuff around at the moment. Imho it’s always better to go with an strong colour than try to tone it down with the ubiquitous grey or cream . Indoor/ outdoor jungle rug, jungle bedding maybe a 🦖 or two.
I have to admit I have a rainforest kitchen at the moment, due to inheriting green tiles. I really enjoy it and it’s fun collecting the accessories to bling it up.

Because it’s not his house that’s he’s paying for!

What is this new trend of letting children make household decisions like this??

I’d repaint it if it were me. Awful colour and nothing I have seen suggested here will change that. A darker, lest neon green?

Remember op it's a teen ds's room.. Very very soon you will refuse to do more than knock on the door.... Shove him an Argos book and your bank card!

Doesn't look too bad to me.

The dulux website recommends that Kiwi Crush tones nicely with Enchanted Eden which is a darker more forresty green - you could do the skirting boards in that to tone down the effect. Maybe find a wallpaper of rainforest frondy plants and do one wall in that.

At that age I painted my (previously painted orange) textured wallpaper dark blue, and decorated it with stencilled moons and stars in gold and silver paint. It probably looked a fright, but I loved it! I agree with others, let him have his room however he wants.

Navy and white furnishings. Don't stress too much about the furniture. I love the wood colour with the green, though.

DS chose a similar eye watering green years ago, we did the wall behind the bed green with the rest cream and bedlinen and pale carpet like the pic and it was lovely.

Why is everyone assuming I don't want to do it? If I didn't, I would day no. Its his room, he's a kid, of course he's not going to choose 'soft meadow ivory' or some such thing.

I was just asking what would go with it as its not a colour I personally like, but his his room and he's 12!

I did my nursery in a very similar colour, btw. Looked cool with other brights and white. Obviously not suitable for a teenaged boy. ;) The grey carpet and furniture looked fine with it.