purple bedroom?

jackieb

WASHER wrote: »

My Daughter has the same colour as the second photo on her walls, and the same colour in the roller blind. I have to have the same coloured carpets throughout the house, I can't stand the bedroom doors open and seeing 4 different colours of carpet, so we have honey/biscuit colour carpets which complements the pine furniture in all the bedrooms. I would say my dd rooms is one of the nicest in the house, the colour is so peaceful looking, but warm with it. The rest of the house other than DS room is in neutral shades, I'm useless with colour.

All our walls we've already done are neutral too. Carpets are mostly inherited, and far too expensive to replace all at once. We're slowly trying to get rid of the previous owners choices but it's going to take a long time! We just decorated my boys room last week. We still had the mustard carpet and bright yellow walls of the previous owners.

I'm not looking to replace furniture as she has built in wardrobes and the pine furniture she has is solid and good quality. Also, we've just spent a small fortune on her brothers room - hoping to get everything done for daughter's room for well under £500. My daughter will get a new mattress, lights, carpet, bedding, paint and accessories.

jackieb

Fire_Fox wrote: »

With respect how much time are you going to spend in this room? Paint the walls the purple of her choosing and then choose the carpet and furnishings afterwards. If she hates it she is the only one who has to live with it, and it really doesn't cost that much to paint it all out again in a year or two. At 14 I'd have loathed my mum toning down my choice of decor, its akin to choosing her clothes.

I know. I'm torn. I want to give her what she wants, but at the same time she's a solitary soul and sits for hours up there. I don't want to make it gloomy.

At 14 I wasn't even allowed to put a poster on the walls. I had no say in how my bedroom was decorated.

WASHER

You can't go far wrong with solid pine furniture, I can sand it, wax it, and 15 years later it still looks brand new, I wouldn't have anything else, although I am told by my friend, its not fashionable just now, I don't do fashionable, I do practicle.

I have only painted the walls and added a roller blind and a few accessories in my dd bedroom, I wouldn't personally go mad with the colour purple, I bought some silverish/white voile for the windows, it goes every so well with the blind. My daughter friends comment on her room all the time, but I don't know if that is because of the decor or the tidiness, she takes after me with the tidiness bug, nothing is out of place, unlike my DS room, i just shut the door on that, I wonder when he will discover he has no clean pants cause they are thrown on the bedroom floor, their hasn't been any in his drawer for 2 days now:eek:

I wasn't allowed any posters on my wall at home either, my dd has a say up to a point, compromise is the key.

Fire_Fox

jackieb wrote: »

I know. I'm torn. I want to give her what she wants, but at the same time she's a solitary soul and sits for hours up there. I don't want to make it gloomy.

At 14 I wasn't even allowed to put a poster on the walls. I had no say in how my bedroom was decorated.

So what if it's gloomy, what do you think is going to happen? She is more likely to hate you for making her have a room she doesn't like/ her friends don't think is cool than because her room is a bit dark.

kiss_me_now9

My parents obliged me and my sister in decorating our rooms, when we went on a school trip (so, when we were 9 each - she's two years older than me though, if that makes sense).

Hers ended up lime green, purple with a pink carpet and silver stickers on the walls.

Mine ended up the same purple (I always had to have some element of my sister...) and hot pink, with a yellow moon and star border and a light green carpet

Her room is now beige with a cream carpet (I redecorated it all myself, it's now my room) and my old room is now lilac with the same carpet, as it's rarely used.

Let her choose her colours and d!cor, I agree completely with Fire Fox. At 14 she's starting to develop her personality and character so much that forcing her into a room that doesn't suit her tastes will just be a bit pointless. The one thing that I loved about my little bed room was that it was entirely my idea of colour scheme; I had all the ideas for it. It made it special

Savvy_Sue

I'd let her paint it whatever colour she wanted, on the understanding that she repaints it if it doesn't work out the way she wanted. At 14 she should be quite capable, given a minimal amount of supervision.

However, I'd make the first painting one wall at a time, and if you really hate it make sure you enthuse about how wonderful it looks and how you wish you'd been able to do this when you were her age.

westcountrymaid_2

We've just re-decorated our daughters old room for my GD when she stays (mind you she's only 3 and half) the theme was always going to be purple/lilac because of the bedding/curtains looks more like the 2nd picture but let my DH loose in Carpet Land and he came back with a plum coloured twist carpet (not what I'd asked him to get at all) must admit though it looks really lovely, we've got very very pale lilac walls, curtains etc.

Don't be afraid of a purple carpet, there are some lovely plum/aubergine shades around and ours looks nice even in a small bedroom and didn't cost the earth, I never buy expensive carpets for bedrooms anyway.

We have cream walls/carpet in our own bedroom with deep aubergine bedding and lots of purple/aubergine accessories(pictures etc) there is a lot of purple about at the moment Homebase have a lot of bedding etc. and ebay online shops have some nice duvet sets.

This is a picture from Focus DIY may give you another idea http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/content/ebiz/focus/page/hhmay05c/hhmay0501.jpg

Good Luck, I'm glad my DS and DD have left home now and I can decorate their rooms how I want them :j

ailuro2

Let her paint it dark purple if that's what she wants, use mirrors and reflective accessories to let the light in when she's up there with the blinds opened.
When it's dark outside she'll be using artificial light anyway, so it being 'dark' doesn't really make much difference.

I agree with your DH on keeping all the doors the same, but there's nothing to stop you putting up a curtain rail and curtains to hide it, is there?

Also, if it's real pine furniture why not sand it down, prime it and put sliver paint (or silver leaf if you're feeling flush) on it- it will go really well with any colour of purple and help reflect the light, and it can be used to bring the different bits of furniture together?

katiesmummy

I love purple, and my bedroom is aubergine and cream- the main wall is the aubergine one. I would have liked to have done the whole room purple but I don't get a lot of light in there and I didn't want it to look too gloomy. If you are really opposed to having the whole room purple why not just one wall, and lots of purple accessories?

Having said that, I insisted on having my bedroom painted black when I was 14, my dad obliged and I ended up paying for paint out of my pocket money a week or so later because I hated it!!

Savvy_Sue

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I'd let her paint it whatever colour she wanted, on the understanding that she repaints it if it doesn't work out the way she wanted. At 14 she should be quite capable, given a minimal amount of supervision.

katiesmummy wrote: »

Having said that, I insisted on having my bedroom painted black when I was 14, my dad obliged and I ended up paying for paint out of my pocket money a week or so later because I hated it!!

Give what I said earlier, that too!

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

However, I'd make the first painting one wall at a time, and if you really hate it make sure you enthuse about how wonderful it looks and how you wish you'd been able to do this when you were her age.

I should 'fess up here and say that we (but mostly me!) talked my parents into purple wallpaper (large pattern) and lilac paint for the hall stairs and landing when I was a teenager. Not sure what I was thinking of ... :rotfl: Plus I'm sure you can hang wallpaper better than the previous occupants of a friend's house - it was a large repeating pattern (so not exactly hard to match up!) and the pattern 'slipped' as you went round the room by about a foot, it made everyone feel quite queasy when they went in there.