I love colour but I think I've been converted to the idea of a fairly neutral colour scheme for walls and carpet which you can then tart up with canvases, rugs, bed linen. Plus I don't like to go from room to room and be bombarded by a different colour scheme in each.

So I've done both mine and DD's room with soft green walls and brown carpet. Pinks, reds, purples all look good against this.

It took me 14 years to decide what colour walls/carpet I wanted so I was hesitant to choose something too bold as I knew it could be another 14 years to be bothered to change it!