To regret the colour of my bedroom

[minicooperpooperscooper]

We're moving into a new house and I spend a lot of time deliberating over which colour to paint my bedroom. Green is my favourite colour and a lot of things I own are green - clothes, my phone, my car, my old car and much more. I considered other colours but thought I should go with green as it's my favourite... what could go wrong?

Well the shade of green I've chosen is proving tricky to work with and I now see a lot of inspiration pictures on instagram making me regret my choice. You will see from the photo it's not horrible but the problem is I also want green lampshades, curtains, accessories etc. Which is too much bloody green. If I'd gone with a more neutral colour I could've had green as the accent! I'd repaint it right now but it's a big room and the paint was quite expensive, I got it from Valspar at B&Q and they gave me heavy duty instead of normal so it was a bit dear.

What do I do, repaint the room or just deal with it. I think I want cream carpet but don't really want cream curtains, it's a bit plain. I actually want deep blood red curtains but most people in my life are telling me they will look awful!

YABU - it's fine (give me ideas for which other colours I could incorporate)
YANBU - repaint it!!

I like green but this would be too much for me I’m afraid. As for adding green accessories I think I’d feel all greened out. It’s nice as an accent colour.

Christ of all the shades, will Robin Hood and his mates be hiding out in there?

Hindsight is wonderful, but its the tool always hiding at tyd bottom of the bag..a couple of costings of a decent white paint will sort it, then go for a hint of green perhaps

I'd either wallpaper one wall with something patterned, maybe golds but with an art deco design. Or paint one or two walls in white. Green and white looks crisp. I think it's too dark a green to have all of the walls painted that colour.
Best to do it now whilst the room is empty although once the furniture is in it may cover the wall space anyway. Maybe look on one of those websites where you photograph the room and change the colour online? Sorry I don't have a link.
Red curtains doesn't sound a good idea. Sometimes red can look ok with green as an accent colour but curtains would be too much as a block of colour. Gold goes well with green. Look at artists colour wheel pages for good colour combos.

I don't think anyone is treating it like that?

It's very normal to decide you can't afford something. Say she bought two cans of paint, that might be the best part of 100 quid, and if she had someone in to do the work, it's going to be more. Most of us don't have 100 quid to throw down the sink at a whim, do we?

I don't think anyone is catastrophising. It's like those threads where someone asks what you're having for dinner because they're starving and can't decide. They don't literally mean they are in danger of dying for lack of food!

I love green, my kitchen is arsenic, but your choice is quite strong and bright for a bedroom. I’d keep it, but knock it back with off white, rust (not red) and maybe slightly dirty blue grey accents. Less dentist reception and more 1930’s garden room.

“Throw £100 down the sink at a whim” is doing quite a lot of work here. She doesn’t even hate the color. She likes green, chose green, and is now wondering whether she might prefer something else because she saw some Instagram pictures. My point was that she can furnish the room, see how she feels, and repaint it later if she actually dislikes it. Nobody suggested she summon a decorator at dawn and ceremonially pour 100+ down the drain. Also if money is genuinely tight enough that repainting is unaffordable, why are we suddenly adding the hypothetical cost of hiring someone to do it? She can paint the room herself???

I’d repaint, OP. I adore green, and our house has a lot of strong colours, including a room and a hallway in different greens (F and B Bancha and an olive from another paint range), but I think that’s unpleasantly minty, and no attempts to mitigate it are going to work.

I'm confused: are you having a go at her because you think the thread is too trivial for your important attention, or because you somehow imagine she's unaware that she could repaint later?

You seem very hard of thinking.

She knows she can repaint.

We all know she can repaint.

She knows she can paint it herself.

She is just asking what we think of the colour. Right?

Green is lovely but I’d go for something a bit more sagey. Just google sage olive green for ideas and re paint it!

Go with Sparkling Sage Valspar 5005-3B.

Jesus Christ. That’s absolutely awful

She’s just asking for advice on how to style it. Perfectly normal request.

I'm the one who’s hard of thinking? 😂 Babe, I’m not the one who painted my own bedroom a color I chose, paid for and still like, then convened a panel of internet strangers to determine whether I’m allowed to continue liking it because I saw some nicer rooms on Instagram. None of us have to wake up in the damn room so none of us care. If she likes the green, keep the green. If she stops liking the green, repaint it. This is an entirely internal decision she has somehow outsourced to Mumsnet so yes, “what do you think of the color?” is a slightly hilarious question but thank God you arrived to explain the intellectual complexity of it to me.

I like it.
once furniture and bedding/ curtains are up it’ll be lovely.

Once you’ve got some wooden / natural beige type curtains and furniture it will look much better

I love green too and I like it. Id go for really deep bottle green curtains

You’re making this into a far bigger issue than the OP ever did.
She just wanted some advice around how to style it.

It's true, nobody cares that much about the colour of a stranger's bedroom. Except for you of course, as you've spent more time on this thread tonight than I have, and I am the OP.

I'm going to bed so thanks everyone for your ideas! Keep 'em coming, myself and Pinck look forward to reading your responses 😜

I quite like it. Rather than blood red curtains, I'd go for a darker rust or terracotta colour.

Lol, I'm American so that’s why I’m still awake, but what’s your excuse? 😂 You’re the one who painted the bedroom, started a thread asking strangers what they think of it, and then stayed up until almost midnightmonitoring their opinions on it. Do you not have work tomorrow or were you waiting for Mumsnet to reach a binding decision on the green before you could safely go to bed?

And “you’ve spent more time on this thread than I have” is especially funny coming from you. I’ve tossed off a few replies because it’s early evening where I am and I'm bored where as you’ve opened a public consultation on your bedroom walls and stayed up for the results. I think I’ll survive the hypocrisy charge. Sleep well and hopefully the committee reaches a verdict on whether you’re allowed to like your own paint by morning. 😘

I think you need to step out of this thread.

And after that, I think you need therapy.

Good luck with whatever it is that's making you overreact like this.

Honestly, I liked this thread, so please don't feel down!

(Since apparently we need to say, I'm awake with a gorgeous scrunchy 10-week old baby who does not know it is nighttime! But I hope you sleep well and wake up to some sensible replies.)

Therapy? Because I think asking strangers whether you should like your own bedroom color is funny? 😂 I’m already in therapy, by the way and have been since being diagnosed with MS four years ago, but thank you so much for your concern. We haven’t covered the psychological ramifications of disagreeing with someone’s paint choices yet, but I’ll be sure to bring it up at my next session.

I just realized my suggestion above of 'Sparkling Sage Valspar 5005-3B' is a U.S. code. I'm not sure if it's available in the UK. It's a very light sage green. It's a tranquil shade, very calming, and would go with any decor, especially a bright white.

I love green it's my favourite colour but I don't like the green you've chosen, I'd repaint it personally.

I have tranquil dawn by Dulux in my bedroom and it's fab.