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 .