painting DD's room

mommymegan831 · December 2013

I'm surprising DD by redoing her room for Christmas. I'd like to do a light purple with bright pink stripes. I'll also be putting up Lalaloopsy Decals and she's getting Lalaloopsy bedding. Her room is very tiny in a rectangular shape. Her bed is along one wall in a corner, on one of the short walls is her window and a radiator. Her walls are all paneled. The panels are in random sizes, so there is a small panel followed by a large one, then a medium, small, large, medium, ect., it doesn't just go small medium, large, repeat.

How would you paint this room? I could paint just the small panels pink, or I could do approximately every 1 1/2 foot, although it wouldn't be exact and the stripes wouldn't be the exact same size. I could also just do one accent wall, but which wall would I do? I'm leaning towards the stripes and I feel like the decals will really pull things together. WWYD?

mommymegan831 · December 2013

the room I'd do light purple and the bright pink would be the stripes.

Right now her room is gray with white trim, a few simple flower and butterfly decals and pink bedding. She's very flashy and very girly so I kind of wanted that with her room, but still look put together.

neverblushed · December 2013

I moved into an older house that initially had a lot of paneling. I have painted over paneling in my home.

What I would do in your situation is paint the entire room purple first. See how obvious it is that it's paint over paneling when the paint color is purple. If the purple paint really makes the panels appear to hide, then I'd mark off pink stripes evenly and paint the pink over top of the purple. If the paneling lines are still obvious under the purple paint, I'd use the panels themselves as the pink stripes. I'd either do every 3rd or 4th panel, resulting in uneven stripes spaced unevenly, but working with the underlying paneling... OR... I'd do every small panel pink, resulting in the pink stripes all being the same size but spaced unevenly.

If you get finished with the purple and you think there's no way to make the stripes work without looking weird, I'd put decals on the purple and skip the stripes. And if you go forward with stripes, I'd wait on the decals until you see if the room would look eye-poppingly busy with that much going on.

Just speaking practically, I find that when my kids get too much junk on the walls, it actually makes the room seem more cluttered, and it makes them less likely to keep stuff picked up.

WhitePicketFence · December 2013

Personally, I'd skip the pink stripes. With a smaller room, I think it's going to look too busy and will make the room seem even smaller/darker.

mommymegan831 · December 2013

Would you do an accent wall or just stick with the one color? I'm also thinking maybe doing the room a pale pink with bright pink stripes, but that may be too busy too. I attached some pics of the room, the paneling really isn't even noticeable.

mommymegan831 · December 2013

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neverblushed · December 2013

Another thing to consider: you don't mention your DD's age, but she won't be into Lalaloopsy forever. In fact, I'd almost guarantee that she's got maximum 2 more years of liking that style. If you go with solid lavender walls and "Lalaloopsy" decals and accessories, it's MUCH easier to transition to something a little less juvenile when she's a bit older.

Lavender walls will look great with the Lalaloopsy stuff now, and it will transition well to other "big girl" styles later. Lavender with dark pink stripes... not so much.

mommymegan831 · December 2013

neverblushed said:

Another thing to consider: you don't mention your DD's age, but she won't be into Lalaloopsy forever. In fact, I'd almost guarantee that she's got maximum 2 more years of liking that style. If you go with solid lavender walls and "Lalaloopsy" decals and accessories, it's MUCH easier to transition to something a little less juvenile when she's a bit older.

Lavender walls will look great with the Lalaloopsy stuff now, and it will transition well to other "big girl" styles later. Lavender with dark pink stripes... not so much.

She's 3 1/2, I understand she won't be into Lalaloopsy forever which is why figure the decals are earily removed. She really loves pink, I'm thinking a very pale pink and maybe some bright pink stripes on one of the short walls, although I am really rethinking the whole stripped thing. I was just thinking stripes would look facier, but I guess with the small room it is too much and a little girl would probably be happy with her room being redone as a surprise with or without stripes. Do you think she'll out grow the pale pink? I'd really like to be out of this house by the time she's 8, so hopefully she could live with it till then.

WhitePicketFence · December 2013

I think pale pink is fine, especially through age 8. DD1's room has bubble gum pink walls and I certainly don't plan on changing the color anytime soon. Besides, you can always change out the accents/decorations in the room when she outgrows them rather than the wall color.

As far as stripes or accent walls go, I think they only work well in larger, brightly lit spaces. Otherwise, they just seem jarring and make the space feel even smaller than it really is.

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