Do you think it's bad to paint a toddler boy's room pink?

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We don't particularly mind repainting a few months/a year down the line. Our son is 3 and really into science (I mean the child science things you can buy) or age appropriate science videos, so we thought would be nice to do a science theme, plus I have lots of things that would fit! The best colour for the walls is this darker pink, it matches really well with the potion on the duvet set. My mum has asked why we would purposely paint it pink

I’m the interests of you not having to slap 20 coats of the next colour on the wall when you redecorate, I suggest just one feature wall pink!

It starts with pink walls, then it will be the Barbra Streisand CDs and endless re runs of the Wizard of Oz and before you know it, your son will be a reductive stereotype of a gay man.

Your mother is being ridiculous.

That said, dark pink sounds as gloomy as fuck.

Please don't paint a room pink if you have a little boy.

His penis will drop off or he'll catch the gay.

Dark pink feature wall? I honestly think an entire dark pink room would feel like living in a womb. It wouldn’t be very restful!

"Bad" in what way?

Pointless if he hasn't asked you to, yes. Impractical for the reasons mentioned, yes. Bad is a moral judgement. I'd say it is morally neutral.

Hth.

Like others said, avoid dark colours in general I'd say.

Not for us but you do what you like with your sons room - what did he want?

Literally just going out of your way to go against the stereotypes for the sake of it. Why!? There is nothing wrong with blue for boys and pink for girls as babies. Now as they grow uo and change their minds/make their own choices then that is different. And any colour goes with 'science...'

There is nothing wrong with blue for boys and pink for girls as babies

Of course there isn’t. There’s nothing wrong with any other colour for girls, or any other colour for boys as babies either though.

Painting a room to match a duvet is a very strange call to make. Painting because the colour makes the room look bigger/ brighter/ the colour is loved by your son, all much better reasons....

I must have been far too woke with my boys. Both of them openly say their favourite colour is pink, even in front of their friends. They are Y4 and Y8, so I don’t know when this peer pressure is going to kick in.

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But WHY?

As a few people have said, this smacks of trying to prove a point, and is a bit naff tbh.

My son's room was pale pink when we moved in and he loves it. I wouldn't really want a dark pink or puce colour though, just from personal preference!

I wouldn't do it.

There's nothing wrong, in principle, in painting a boy's room pink, especially if he has chosen the colour himself. However, if the boy hasn't actually requested pink then it does seem a bit 'try-hard'.

Also be prepared for the fact that though your DS may be happy with a pink room now, once he is 5-6 he may well reject it and request a less feminine colour.

(As an aside, I have worked in a few different science labs and most of them have been painted in some variant of white or pale blue- none were pink).

I wouldn't paint any child's room pink unless specifically asked for. It's very much a love it or hate it colour.