Bedlinen: if you don't do the ubiquitous crisp white bedding look, what do you do?

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Because I'm starting to find it all a bit dull.

Lovely bold Marimekko flower prints - 70s and cheerful.

It's all pale. Creamy walls, light coloured carpet. White bedlinen. It's inoffensive but I don't like it.

I can't shut out the cats. They spend more time on that bed than we do- an average of 18 hrs a day, lucky b*ggers.

Walls are a v dark bitter chocolate colour, but room is big so can take it without looking like a dirty protest in a prison cell

Odd how something inoffensive can be unlikeable.

what abollox to rioning
oh no just hang it out well

Not in my bed. On my bed.

Arses schmarses, if I have to sleep with DH's nekkid ringpiece in it then I cope with that of 2 cats

primrose yellow, never ironed!

We use whatever castoffs my mother and aunt send us.

They have good taste and get bored quickly.

I have a penchant for Nautica, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren. My mother's more a Pottery Barn type of person.

But my aunt's right up my street.

The cats do NOT put their arses on our pillows but the children do. DH gets v upset when DD wees in our bed.

What about this?. With terracota walls and creamy curtains.

All white here, only because its the easiest way to match things. Never really looks pristine with two ginger cats and two DSs of 3 and 1 in the house.
Tend to cover it up with silky bedcover which hides multitude of sins....

You get a duvet cover that is a nice colour (not too light, not too dark). Make sure it is tumble dryable.

Wash, tumble, stick on bed. No messing around, is quick and looks fine.

Next's best browns and creams here

I have cream bedding, a few sets, all identical so I never lose pillow cases. I do have strawberry curtains, so not too dull.

My curtains are in a bronzy Villa Nova fabric, design looks like peacock feathers (but not in peacock colours, IYSWIM).

sounds good NDP, do you have details/link?
We have some gorgeous peacock feather wallpaper:
www.cole-and-son.com/search_results_name.asp?productname=mimosa&form=4
Anything like your fabric?

Blimey, does no-one else on here have periods (or loss after childbirth)? Ours are deep red or navy (as are the towels) so that they can't get stained.

Crip white requires ironing, so out of the question for me. I do rumpled muddy/pale colours with darker sheets. Have a nice pale green duvet with leaves embroidered on it and a pale muddy blue one.

Ours is all different shades of blue and purple (we have bought some/some donated). But all sort of goes together somehow!

Black silk everything.
Mmmmm Im a sucker for my bed its may haven.

white- usually crisp, with a smattering of cath kidston floral print !! white sheets, pillowcases and duvet cover, ck throw, curtains and cushions!

there its out in the open, i like cath kidston floral prints- phewww!!