DS wants a RED bedroom, need to convince him it would be better as a feature wall

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DS (6yr old) wants a full on Red bedroom. I think it will look like a cave and would normally only choose neutrals. So I would like the red to be contained to 1 wall (he has red curtains and grey & red bedding and I'm prepared to paint the trofast toy storage red too, so there would be red elsewhere in the room too). But he says he doesn't want "boring white/magnolia" on the other walls.

What colours can I put on the other walls that won't be overpowering, dark, too "in your face" or clash? Or how can I persuade him white or magnolia is best for the other walls?

Will this happen? Little Britain Lou and Andy

Id let him have the red, not my room not my choice. My daughter wanted a rainbow room and that is what she got, once my son is old enough to decide what he wants I will do what I can for him also. I only draw the line at character wallpaper.

Id let him have the red, not my room not my choice. My daughter wanted a rainbow room and that is what she got, once my son is old enough to decide what he wants I will do what I can for him also. I only draw the line at character wallpaper.

At six one of mine wanted fluorescent yellow walls and a black ceiling. I'm ashamed to say I resisted

Red actually isn't too difficult to paint over. Though if he'll go with one wall that might ease a few headaches.

Does your 6 year old always make adult decisions? He’s 6 years old. Red is a ridiculous colour to paint a room (and known to raise blood pressure). You’re the adult, you decide.

Homeofmyown they are Little Greene atomic red and I think the blue is called Brighton.

Red and white/magnolia is hideous. E other go all red, red and turquoise/grass green/warm yellow/dash of dark purple or don't go red at all. If you are going to red don't be a square about it.

Red and magnolia is not hideous. Might not be your taste but it is not hideous. Or square.

Wow this brings back memories. My daughter chose a bright red, grey and white colour scheme for her room when she was 12. She loved it. When we were moving and I had to make it all neutral to sell I didn't like it so much, especially the bright red woodwork!!

Funnily enough she is not quite so open minded about colour schemes for her son's room

Northern whilst pretty much every aspect of a 6yr olds life is ultimately down to adults decision, it's nice for them to feel they have a voice, that they can be heard and have some choice in some of the things that affect them, even if it then ultimately teaches them about compromise. He certainly knows when I actually say no it means no.

Ultimately I want him to have some say in his bedroom and I want him to be happy with how his bedroom looks. I also want it to be within the parameters of what I find acceptable. I appear to have achieved all that now, with DS also getting to feel that he was able to chose how his room will look.

This thread has shown most of the people posting do let their DC be involved in choosing how their room looks. Even Dulux have a book for DC to fill out to help them design their room with their parents - so I don't think it can exactly be rare either.

One of my ds’s has a bright orange room, at his request...

It’s slightly headache inducing, but he’s the one that sleeps in there, so what’s the harm?
I’d prefer red it was me, tbh.

Gold

Bread that's actually pretty amazing! Did you get that colour carpet specifically to follow on from the rainbow? Brilliantly done.

Tubby thank you. Will look at those.

Stripy a black ceiling? I'm not surprised you resisted. I really couldn't do that! In my world ceilings are only allowed to be brilliant white. Thankfully DS has never even considered that a ceiling could be a different colour.

My son wanted a red bedroom at exactly the same age as yours, I went and bought loads of red furnishings first, bed linen, curtains, lamp, rug.....
He was so excited about that, he didn't even seem to notice when we painted the walls a nice grey. It looked really nice, he's a teenager now and I wish he would have some colour......his room is now completely black!!!

Oh God, that rainbow room is fabulous!

What about a nice grey with letterbox red door (only on inside) and maybe red around inside of window?
You could get creative and paint the door too look like a letter box! And maybe a few red stencil stars around the bed?

DSS chose orange for his bedroom and it looked really good. Tempered it with more calmer coloured bedding.
It was hard to paint over though!

I had a red room when I was about 12. There was a lot of white too, and that 1980s red/white grid pattern fabric for the curtains and duvet cover.

Whenever I was a teenager I had two walls red two walls magnolia, worked quite well

My ds wanted BLACK!
I got black furniture, pale grey walls, a black and grey striped carpet and red curtains and bedding. He was 16 not six .
I’d let him have red if he wants it.

OP

Just a thought, I once slept in a little girl's room that was a sunset. It was fab, really dark red near the floor up to about a metre than it faded through various reds and oranges.

This was a tiny boxroom but it really worked. Similar tot he one in the link but brighter and more contrast.

www.thedesignfile.net/tag/how-to-create-an-ombre-accent-wall/

A red room could look great! (Biased, it’s my favourite colour). Depends on the level of light in the room - if not much, it could be cave-like. Paint one or two walls red (say the wall with the window & the opposite wall). Paint the ceiling & other walls white. Red bed linen etc. If he doesn’t like it, paint a third wall. That may do the trick. (Fast forward, if you say a blank ‘no’, he may still be throwing that at you when he is 16, 26 etc).

This thread keeps on reminding me of Redrum from The Shining film.

I would do as pp have said with the 1 wall. In a previous rented house we couldn't paint the walls so in the boys bedroom it was white, they had white wooden bunk beds and drawers and the white storage cubes from Ikea, i put different colour baskets in the storage unit and we got some of the canvass from Dunelm I think and painted them primary colours and hung them. It eventually made a very boring room very colourful and they loved that they had helped!

He is 6. He doesn't get to choose interior design FFS.

Paint in a light grey and give him red curtains, red bedspread and red cushions and some mainly-red posters/artwork!

You could even get him a red chair and bedside table as those are cheap to replace later.