Firstly I wanted to thank each and every one of you for your input

Tashy - excellent idea of buying a towel or something to trial the look with the dark timber.

Sopdet - hmmmmm another fairy room ?? I love DD's room, the colours from those stickers are gorgeous. I haven't seen any other "feminine" themes in the linen that I liked. Woodland would be great if I could get it looking girly without going OTT girly ...... particularly with what we're naming the little tummybunny


Without seeing the rest of the house its really hard to imagine but white or lighter coloured furniture doesn't match hence the reason for going with a darker timber in the first place (I tried it). We have really old cupbaords in all the rooms that are stained which (despite their ugliness) show the changes made by each generation (3rd put in the cupboards) that has lived here and I have been told that they are NOT to be painted making it harder again to find furnishings to match.

The room is actually the 2nd darkest room in the entire house as it only has the one window which faces East. Originally it had colour on the wall (light mauve) which seemed to make the room darker still. We won't be using coloured paint on the walls again but rather add colour in the way of wall decorations ..... partly because there is no way in hell I am going up and down a ladder with 11ft ceilings while I am pregnant (dh is far to busy to do any painting) and partly due to the bad light

This is the brightest the room gets in natural light https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...natural-light/

The bed linen will eventually change too depending on what the girls want in their rooms I kept an Ivory/cream theme in both rooms as I didn't know what the girls will like.

Anyhoo I am rambling ........

PLease please keep suggestions and ideas, likes and dslikes etc coming because EVERY opinion offers a different perspective and people have highlighted things I haven't thought about.

Nae x x x