Pink walls...For and against???

[Amity]

Depends on your daughter - I would have died if my parents painted my room pink! However I was (and still am) the most non-girly-girl that I know...

If I had a DD I'd talk to her about what she liked - I'd prefer hot pink myself, I detest baby-girl-pink...

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I had little bits of pink in my room, but when we had people staying I was to sleep in my sister's room so the pink was minimal. I finally got some pink at 18, when we moved house. Mum hated the bed linen and curtains I'd bought for my room though, and changed it to beige when she re-decorated. We had a pink carpet when I was very young and Sis and I shared a room.

DS has a room that has a beige carpet, his walls are white with silver stars, and there's a blue transport border around. He has jungle/zoo/Noah's Ark on his bed. If we had a girl, it would be the same except she'd probably have a pink, flowery border. We're thinking more of resaleability of the house.

[nic]

When DD picked her room colours, she was not into pink at all (or purple for that matter) but the colours she ended up choosing was a colour called Pink Linen.. and it looks more like the light purple background on bellybelly, just a few shades lighter

We ended up going 3 walls with the "Pink" and a feature wall that is a dark purple, think it is called purple rain. It is an outside wall, with a window, so the dark colour doesn't have a huge influence upon the other walls if that makes sense??

We finished the window off with a timber blind, and some curtains that have sparklie bits all over them and alternated the colours between a greeny/aqua colour and a light purple. Not the best description sorry.

Anyway, my point is, if you want to do a pink, you could something that is a few shades different and looks nothing like PINK IYKWIM.. Break everything up with white is nice too. And find a totally different colour (like our aqua curtains on a purple wall) to add to the window that will still complement the wall colour/s.

I'm a HUGE fan of sample pots too. Spread as much as you can so you get a good idea. We let DD pick out 4 or 5 sample colours, and when we slapped them on the wall, one colour she absolutely had her heart set on, she hated as soon as it was on the wall. The colour i picked, which she didn't approve of when i asked for the sample, is one of the colours in her room now.
Have fun!

[YoYo]

I am against painting a room either Pink or blue for girl or boy......It only means you have to change it when they get older and are over it!!! I just think it's easier to decorate with 'things'.

With DS we kept the room in neutral colours and painted on some canvases our decorations.

We live OS and are coming home to have baby #2 (a pink one ) and the room she is going to be in has a beautiful pink (it's kind of a modern funky colour!) feature wall....it's called Aubergine (Dulux colour)....but that isn't my house! I plan on going out and getting some of those stickers that peel off to decorate her room.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Great idea, Minimax. My mum does that with her house: DS's room is all yellows and creams, but has a couple of Lightning McQueen canvasses up and a big steam train tapestry too. That way, if she needs to use it as a guest room when we're not there (which is most of the time LOL) she just changes the pictures.

[maz]

I asked mini me and she demanded pink...what's a mum to do

the only thing we have changed since is that she now has a matching fuscia pink blind and white butterfly curtains to match the pink and purple butterfly wall stickers.

here's a pic to show you the colour
Maryan 'maz' Bourke's Photos | Facebook

Its only paint....you can easily paint over it when she's older and if it makes her happy I say go for it.

[CrystalBoo]

DD has one wall in a strawberry milkshake type pink with all white furniture and white photo frames and mirror on the pink wall. I've had lots of positive comments - one person commented on how calming the room feels.
She has hot pink sheets on her bed with a green/white spotted quilt cover and I love the combination (and I never thought I'd do the pink thing at all if I had a girl) I don't think there's many colours that wouldn't go well with the wall, actually.
When she's old enough to request a change, that's ok too. It's only one wall.

[ubba82]

DD is almost 9 and we painted her room pink last Christmas. She loves it and loves having her friends over to show off her pink room! We actually bought a 4 litre misstint from the paint factory, perfect and cheap!!
The lady also gave us a tip, if you need to undercoat, just buy paint in a lighter colour than the coulour you are going to paint, so we bought a very light pink from the misstints too All up, the paint cost us $20!

[CrazyLady]

I asked mini me and she demanded pink...what's a mum to do

the only thing we have changed since is that she now has a matching fuscia pink blind and white butterfly curtains to match the pink and purple butterfly wall stickers.

here's a pic to show you the colour
Maryan 'maz' Bourke's Photos | Facebook

Its only paint....you can easily paint over it when she's older and if it makes her happy I say go for it.

Maz, that's the shade my sister was going to paint one of the walls if she was baking a girl. i am thinking i might make a hot pink wall for DD's room. Another wall is going to be orange with an indian wall hanging as a feature. One day I will get paint.........

I think the canvases is a good idea. I want to make a pixie mural with fairy lights in.

[AnyDream]

Thanks everyone for your input, maz the photo is great, gorgeous colour!

We are going to go a single shade of pink - softer - but broken up with non-pink soft-furnishings and accents in a cherry/raspberry red. We have an extremely beige carpet and the room is the darkest in the house (small window & faces south) so wanting to pick it up with some colour without having a really rigid colour-scheme. Also finding the right shade to bring out the colour without the room looking too dark is important. Have DH out this afternoon for a couple of sample pots. How exciting!!!

Mrsmac, like you we have spent a lot of time in rented houses (with varying degrees of mind-numbing neutrals) so yeah, craving the colour here too.

FWIW this is only step 1 in the bedroom reno thing... DD1 will be next, going to Ikea-ise her entire room and suspect that a much stronger colour scheme will be involved .