Wall colours for a shared boy and girl sibling bedroom?

[Missnearlyvintage]

Hi all,

The kids want to move into a bedroom together which I think is really sweet (DS age 6, DD age 2), but I'm struggling with wall colours that are gender neutral and please both children!

Mint green was my initial thought, but the rest of the house has quite a muted colour palette, (greige carpet, blue/grey, grey/green, and warm white walls and neutral curtains), so I'm worried it'll be too luminescent!

Their bedroom is the one straight in front of the stairs so we will see whatever colour it ends up being, every time we come up the stairs...

Thanks in advance!

Green is good, but go for a more muted green if that would suit you better. There are loads of lovely greens out there. Nice and calming too, which could be good for bedtime! Use brighter colours for duvets

How about an off white, like a cream or a sand color?

Just let them choose?

Literally any colour, since colours aren’t gender specific.

Psst. Can I let you into a secret?
All colours are gender neutral.

Gendered colours were whipped up, from being a minor thing to practically the law, as a means of making parents buy more Stuff- different colour clothes, different colour toys, different colour pencil cases etc etc etc.

I was going to suggest asking the DC what they'd like, but on second thoughts don't; black, red, and purple children's bedrooms are very hard to live with.

Thanks everyone!

I did think off white, but then realised that the wallpaper in there is off-white at the moment, (albeit a 1980s relic), and it looks very gloomy and cold when the sun isn't shining. (DS especially is easily frightened so the colour needs to be something that still has a 'happy vibe' even when it's cloudy/dark outside).

I think I'll have to do some research on muted greens, thanks.

Re. 'gender neutral' - having already had lots of discussions with 6 YO DS about why all colours are for everyone, not split between boys and girls - he still has a view that he would not like certain coloured paints on the walls as that would make the room too 'girly'. He's at an age where he has started wanting to have friends over for dinner, and I wouldn't want for him to feel embarrassed to show them his room, hence it being easier to just choose a gender neutral colour.

I would consider a nice gentle blue, as it's mine and DS's favourite colour, but then I would feel bad then for DD who loves pink and lilac so I don't think it would be fair on her to paint the room in just DS' favourite colour, and 2 tone feels like too much work, and also possibly foolish as the kids like to change their bed lay out quite often (beds together to make a superking, or singles separately) so I wouldn't want to spend all the time doing it, only for them to change where their beds are and for it to all look silly!

I would probably do something in Navy and pale grey or white. Or even a dark grey and white. They then could each ha e some of their favourite colours as accessories on their beds.

Pale blue (or one that’s slightly turquoise) , grey, a pale green would all look nice I think. What about putting a wall sticker on each of their “sides” of their room...Loads of the wall sticker companies (we used sirface graphics before for their airplane/star ones with names on ) do wall stickers in any colour combination you like...so you could even go with the same wall sticker for each....

Green is foos, like Mumsnet OP green? Or a pastel yellow? :)

Aaargh *GOOD not foos haha

We've got a 'jungle green' feature wall in the living room, could you do similar? With 3 neutral walls and accessorise their bedding/cushions/pictures etc? Also, I'm decorating our house to move into, and where possible in the kids rooms I've bought kitchen or bathroom paint as it's wipeable!

I (female) shared with my two siblings (male and female) for my whole childhood. Our very best wall decoration was a royal blue and bright yellow combo - some blue walls with yellow stars all over, and the other yellow with blue stars. It was awesome.

I’d look for a warm but muted yellow if it looks a bit cold .

Mine share (6 & 4). They have three walls in Dulux Goose Down. The last wall is a chimney breast with alcoves. The alcoves are white, I made a stencil of cloud with six raindrops (a4 sized). The cloud in the grey then tester pots in blue/orange/pink/green/yellow/purple for each of the raindrops. Put the stencil all over each alcove. We then picked out the blue for the chimney breast itself. Very very gorgeous.

Can you do two walls in a very pale grey, then do the wall closest to your son's bed a pale blue, and the other a pale pink, and put some sort of divider in the middle so it's clearly 'his' side and 'her' side?

DDs room is sky blue
DD2 is grey and white
DS is orange and cornflower blue
Rest of the house is muted colours

It's a kids room, no one cares if it's luminous green, black or rainbow - paint it any colours they like and have down with it

Graham and brown do some awesome wallpapers. Black and white stripes, silver stars, gold polka dots and other things that would suit either, I'm also a big fan of grey you could put some different decals above each of their beds?

A colour they both like. Get some paint strips and choose.

P.s, Colours have no gender.

Pale blue, you can put girly bunting on your daughter's side of the room, posters on your sons or some space/shark/dinosaurs stencils or decals in white or dark blue. You can put pink or white decals on your daughters.

My dd and ds shared and had 2 blue walls and 2 off white. They had wall stickers on one blue wall with clouds and lots of flying things (hot air balloons, planes, butterflies). Pink goes nicely with blue so pink bedding on dd’s bed can be very girlie without the whole room looking like a pink explosion. When dd then moved to her own room she still wanted a blue wall.

We painted our smallest darkest bedroom a lovely buttery yellow. It has been my daughter's nursery, and now my younger sons room and he loves it. Always sunny.
A nice pale sage green would go well with any blue or pink bedroom accessories you might have

a pale sage green could look lovely, your daughter could then have whatever colours she likes in her bit to accent it and your son his bit. I agree green is a nice claming and grounding colour which is great with kids.

Sage? Apple white?

Pale/baby blue with white furniture. Just had our kitchen painted in dulux clear skies and it really suits the neutral palette of the rest of the house...I totally get what you mean about it needing to fit with other rooms when the door is open.

I think yellow! Or maybe two plain walls, and two different coloured walls, if your son wanted red and your daughter wanted green just do one each for example? Might look odd but it’s their bedroom!