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SquareSpongeBobPants · 06/05/2021 11:35

Yes i know.... not a real AIBU (sorry!!) but i need some ideas really quickly!!
I desperately need to decorate my daughters nursery but the houses previous owners painted her room pale blue. Im on a really tight budget and i wonder if there is any way of making pale blue cute and girly? I want it to grow with her so not too ‘babyish’

If anyone could share photos as inspo (I’ve tried googling and there’s nothing jumping to me)
It would be amazing!!

Thank you!

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Luckyonetwo · 06/05/2021 16:11

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MrsTrumpDuTurnip · 06/05/2021 16:17

@KingdomScrolls

A blue room isn't going to make her grow a penis ffs
How very helpful... 🙄🙄🙄 I'm sure the OP or others didn't know this before you pointed it out Any other gems you'd like to add?
Brogues · 06/05/2021 16:23

Fearne Cotton on Instagram recently papering over her (now older) daughters pale blue room which had been painted with clouds sounds just the ticket.

mogtheexcellent · 06/05/2021 16:31

Daughter is in a blue room. Is blue not for girls then Confused I must have missed that memo Hmm.

I bought rainbow and cloud decals off ebay/Looks lovely and everything in the room is mismatched bright clolours so nice and cheerful.

Check out let clothes be clothes and let toys be toys for other ideas and things that dont come in pink or blue.

Shoxfordian · 06/05/2021 16:34

@KingdomScrolls is not wrong

Blue is just a colour not a gender

LucyAutumn · 06/05/2021 16:34

I immediately thought of something Cath Kidston style

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KingdomScrolls · 06/05/2021 17:06

@SquareSpongeBobPants what makes me sad is the decades of work I've done with victims (the next of kin of the dead ones) and perpetrators of domestic and sexual abuse, the fixed 'gender' roles that are being drip fed from such a tiny age and how that feeds into women not valuing themselves , feeling trapped, vulnerable, compliant, silenced and how the male sense of entitlement, difference and superiority just reinforces all of that, but sure start as you mean to go on and make sure that your tiny baby's room is 'cute and girly' enough.
Maybe you could use that blue backdrop for a space theme, or aeroplanes or for dinosaurs and it might trigger an interest in engineering, science, history or you could pretty it up with gingham and florals and rainbows.

MrsTrumpDuTurnip · 06/05/2021 17:21

Bloody hell @KingdomScrolls, they only asked how they could make it cute and girly
Why make more of it?

SquareSpongeBobPants · 06/05/2021 17:21

@KingdomScrolls the assumptions you are making about my way of parenting just from me asking about how to change a bedroom is actually astounding.
You have no idea about how old my daughter is, the way i’m bringing my daughter up, you have no idea whether i have been subject to domestic or sexual abuse, you are taking a tiny snippet of my life and a tiny paragraph of writing and running with it.
Not that I should even have to explain myself, as the way i choose to bring my daughter and my son up is none of your business or concern, but my children will not be forced into specific gender roles.
I could argue, in fact i will, that i wouldn’t even consider using blue paint at all if i was that set on my girl being ‘girly and cute’ or railroaded into being vulnerable and silenced as you so put it.

My daughter can wear whatever she likes, she has been in her older brothers room for a couple of years now, exactly the way he had it, with decals of trucks, diggers and the like with blue curtains, a rug that has a digger on it, she has been read to using the same books about machinery and the way things work that my son had interest in.
Likewise my son now reads my daughters peppa pig books/puts on her dressing up outfits albeit way too small, he sings to frozen and which is stereotypically a ‘girls’ film.

My daughter has clothes with dinosaurs on, she wore hand me downs from her brother.

So don’t you dare come at me saying that i’m drip feeding her gender specific roles and teaching her to be compliant, vulnerable and trapped because she will be none of those things.

Go and sort out whatever is making you this picky and making issues out of absolutely nothing when you have no idea about me.

Many thanks.

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SquareSpongeBobPants · 06/05/2021 17:24

Also thank you for everyone’s kind input on this thread, i didn’t mean for it to turn into an argument but i was warned there were vipers on here 🙄

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SquareSpongeBobPants · 06/05/2021 17:26

@mogtheexcellent
Again, i haven’t said i need to change the blue 😳🙄🙄 if blue ‘wasn’t for girls’ we wouldn’t even be having this conversation as i’d have been rushing to b & q as soon as i found i was having a girl to splosh over it with barbie pink 🙄

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sapnupuas · 06/05/2021 17:39

@KingdomScrolls

A blue room isn't going to make her grow a penis ffs
Do you have any scientific evidence to back this up?

🤣

Watsername · 06/05/2021 17:45

When I was little I remember being asked to choose the colour of my room. I chose blue. Loved it :) I added to it by putting dinosaur postcards across the walls, and it was a great backdrop for my Apollo 11 model.

But that was me.

I like the ideas up thread about putting things like spots or flowers on the wall. There must be wall stickers like that available?

FeelinHappy · 06/05/2021 17:49

I've done 3 rooms blue for my daughter. The next one I think she will paint herself! Sky as others said. We added clouds and vinyl stickers of kites, hot air balloons and biplanes but you could also do butterflies, or a tree, or there are lots of "girly" birds, owls etc.

Koolandorthegang · 06/05/2021 17:55

@KingdomScrolls

A blue room isn't going to make her grow a penis ffs
Is it mandatory to have one of these arseholes on every thread now or what?
babycorn1 · 06/05/2021 18:34

My dd has a blue room (which I chose and decorated for her), she has pink bedding and lots of 'girly' prints on the wall, so the baby pink and blue theme a pp suggested. I love it!

PinkArt · 06/05/2021 18:48

Lots of lovely ideas here but all of the rugs, decals etc are likely to cost as much as a cheap tin of paint. Is that not an option if it's the colour that's an issue?

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