Now that grey has had its day are we all into Sulking Room Pink and

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panelling?

Planning some decorating whilst furloughed and looking on Instagram for inspiration - fake panelling and F&B Sulking Room Pink are very popular!

Anyone else a fan? What are colours or styles for interiors are you interested in at the moment?

Sticking to my just barely grey walls as so neutral and just accessorise with colours

I love my sulking room pink, love the name too
It’s way more purply than it looks in the photos

@thinkful

A sulking room is a boudoir isn't it so the name doesn't sound too bad to me. Could imagine it in a bedroom

I am toying with painting my bedroom black with blush pink ceiling at the bed side then graduating it so the other side of the room has black about 1m up the wall with the rest blush pink with lots of cream accessories. But it could turn out disastrous!

Blimey, that's bold!

That panelling in first pic is horrendous 🤢
Pass

Painted my dining room in Railings 10 years ago - at that point struggled to find a decent navy upholstery fabric and ended up buying a retired Laura Ashley fabric on ebay to do the job. Really irritating that it suddenly became popular and now looks dated.

LondonMummy I'm about to paint my living room navy. I grew up in a house with brightly coloured walls (think yellow, orange, green...) and have lived in magnolia rentals ever since. I can't wait to get the walls done in here! My mother has already told me it's too dark and is going to look silly, this is coming from someone who painted their landing tangerine... I give no shits what other people think. It's my house and my space and I want to feel happy in it

@NC4Now that’s a much nicer colour, in my opinion. I’d paint my room in that.

@Dixiechickonhols

notanothertakeaway I was junior school age in early 80s and a pink and grey bedroom was the height of fashion. I had some pink and grey bedding/curtains.

We bought our first house in the mid 80s - it was the 'show home'. The bedroom was grey and pink; downstairs was apricot and pale blue. Yellow and blue came a bit later. We dodged stencils and weird blotchy paint effects. And we didn't have weird paint colour names.

I'm not a fan of the panelling or the pink. I wouldn't want either. The panelling in particular looks awful and would hugely put me off a house.

I just painted two rooms in one of the F&B pinks. It wasn’t inspired by what’s trendy, but by what works in my predominantly north facing house. Paint is only paint, so if I ever grow tired of it, or get annoyed because everyone else has also painted their house pink, I’ll just change it.

That panelling on the other hand looks like much more of a pain to install or remove. I think I’d have to absolutely love it before I would go down that road 🤔

What I don't really understand about trends like this is people putting paneling up in a house where it doesn't seem to make architectural or historical sense.

It's not that I object to any changes in fashion, even if I don't like some of them, there is nothing wrong with changing paint colours in a few years, or design changes as time goes on, that has always happened. You sometimes need to replace things, and paint, so if it's suitable you can update.

But I picture people putting that paneling in a 1960's house, and it looks weird of course, and then in 10 years they will take it off again because it is off-trend, which seems wasteful.

@7Days

I've seen a lot of biscuity oaty neutrals lately in place of grey. The do look fresh and warm, a nice change and cleaner than these horrible internal organ colour schemes.

I think that grey has run it's course, and people want something warmer.

I like the panelling, but that pink isn't for me. It's like a mix of terra cotta and that "dusty pink" that was so popular a few decades back. Late 80s? Early 90s? Whenever it was... Anything close to "dusty pink" feels dated to me, but I guess it's coming back around again!

I'd rather keep the grey. Or go for white or cream or ecru/parchment. Just something neutral on the walls. We started with bright, bold wall-colours back in the mid-2000s, so I've had my fill. Neutrals all the way, now. Saving "statement" colours for decor that can be switched out with less effort.

I hate the sulking room pink colour but would love a sulking room! Could do with a few in my house!
I personally like blues, greens and whites. But it just depends on the light of a room, the size, whether it's modern etc etc.

I like that pink.

Though I the day to paint everything white.

Tend to

I have a 300 yo house with damaged stair walls and think I need some panelling.

Lovely article about historical panelling here on Old Houses Online:

www.oldhouseonline.com/.amp/interiors-and-decor/paneling-wainscoting-old-houses

@BeaMends there is a F&B paint called 'setting plaster' which is like proper plaster colour - I love it!

Other posters have pointed out that "sulking room" is the English translation of "boudoir", but surely that colour is called puce.

I like Scandinavian and Nordic interiors. My house is currently white with lots of natural notes to organic features like wood, fabric and house plants.

This trend will age like milk. It is neither here nor there enough to even be called a trend.

I love me a navy blue/bottle green velvet sofa 🥰 with gold accents

Haha!! We've just repainted and covered up down pipe with Middleton pink!

Oh how funny. Good for me, though, as it looks like it will be a lot cheaper to reinstate the wainscot in my new (old) place if it's popular now. The walls are just bare stone and it's sadly cryptlike and cold. It would most likely once have had Georgian panelling - it is Georgian. It actually probably would have been framed out as it's a small room with millions of cubbies, which is going to cost me much more than I want even so.

I much prefer pink as a neutral in our cold Northern light here.