Hmm,not a couple's bedroom, but specifically a man's bedroom?

Can he be Indian? If so no problem.

Single man, I guess he can be Indian. Post something that when you look at it you say to yourself: "this is done right".! That is, if you can find it.

Here's some:

Wall art

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Light pink paint

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Does this count? Not really a bedroom, but DH's bathroom off his office/guest room.

We were going for a more masculine look with the (soon to be installed) dark stained knotty alder barn doors, black slate floors, tumbled stone shower, brushed steel medicine cabinet and pewter sconces, but the crema marfil marble tiles and Edgecomb Gray walls have a slightly blush/pink/taupe undertone.

https://cdn.decorpad.com/photos/2012/03/11/778ec98df389.jpg

https://www.houzz.com/photos/rustic-chic-masculine-bedroom-design-eclectic-bedroom-boston-phvw-vp~2404771

Can't tell for sure but this looks like a man's bedroom to me.

If you can keep it as a pale pink accent, or part of a pattern, it can look entirely masculine in a hetro males bedroom :)

I'm not sure that men would *prefer* pink, but it certainly can be done. Key is clean modern lines, minimalistic design and no flowers. Rustic elements help as does brown.

You guys are good! I looked for a while and couldn't find anything. I love the very first pic with the pink art , bathroom with pink light wall and bedroom with blush blanket/throw. Actually I like them all. The one with a mauve wall and dark grey linen and art is fab also

I just Googled 'Man's bedroom pink' and came up with this photo from
01/05/2011 from one of our favorite contributors - Palimpsest! It was the only way I could save the photo, but the link to the post is HERE.

A lot of these tones are a stretch to call "pink", I think, except for Annie's post, at least on my monitor. However, I think a lot of "counter culture" younger millennial men are getting bolder with color, especially with combined with strong counterpoints and styles (black, neons, industrial, rustic, punk etc) --- probably nothing you'll find pictured in a fine design mag (lol). Otherwise, you might find some dusty rose, raspberry or salmon.

This could work for a guy, as long as friends never saw the room. He can lie and say his girlfriend picked the paint

Rustic

However, I think a lot of "counter culture" younger millennial men are getting bolder with color

So funny, because it's only in the past twenty years of so that colors have gotten so impossibly genderized. Plenty of men wore pink shirts in the 70s and nobody thought anything of it one way or the other. Pink bathrooms in the fifties weren't necessarily perceived as girly, any more than ruffled curtains were. You could be a he-man and have ruffled cafes in the kitchen of your bachelor pad and nobody would think twice about it. If you gave a man a pink towel he'd use it and drop it on the floor for you to clean up, same as a gray one.

I was recently reading a Nero Wolfe novel from the early 50s where the cold, relentless super villain had a pink and gray office and the only implication was "classy".

But I guess that with gender uncertainty comes the need to create strong boundaries on everything.

BTW I saw that Ralph Lauren is pushing pink shirts again, including ombre, in their current menswear line.

I like pink button down shirts on a man. Usually very flattering.

My husband always wears pink and purple dress shirts to work. Even the store he shops in is called Pink (Thomas Pink.)

Perfectly normal to wear those colors here.

I am guessing you are in Europe, Ellie. The very strict view on pink is largely American. I noticed in London and on the Continent, men wear a fair amount of pink and lavender. The other thing I noticed very uniquely European was a fondness for gingham in those colors and even in lime. Guys in the US would never wear pink, purple or lime gingham, esp not bankers in suits, but it was very popular esp in London circles.

your challenge is to post a pic of a man's bedroom with pink elements. Just a regular guy, not gay, not homophobic either.

Interesting, but you rarely see a photo of a "guy's bedroom" of any kind, esp a hetero guy. Hetero guy decor is a very very small % of shelter mags, in fact I can hardly recall seeing examples of any sort at all.

In India, I heard it said that "pink is their navy blue" and it is a very common color there. Even rickshaws and work trucks are decked out in colorful colors and flowers and tassels etc.

MtnRd- I'm in the city (Battery Park City) Manhattan. Hubs is in finance, works on Wall. Hence why we live here, 15 minute walk and he's at work.

If you go down there today, you'll be amazed at the colors you'll see. They even opened a Thomas Pink store a few years ago.

I can't walk through the area without seeing pastel pinks and purples. Ties are another matter- bold and bright.

I agree about London- but they're much more fashion conscious than the average American.

You know there was a time when pink was for boys and blue for girls. Ladies' Home Journal article June 1918 "The generally
accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason
is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable
for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier
for the girl." My husband wears, and looks good in, pink shirts. He likes quiche too. :))

I don't know, some of those rooms look gay to me.

ingeorgia, would be so interested to see the old LHJ re: pink for boys and blue for girl.

Meanwhile, I FOUND IT! My guy room with pink (and lavender)

I'm always up for a challenge.

With the masculine grey on the walls and the right lighting I think this pink pallet in a bedroom for a man could be quite stunning.

Have to disagree with your MtnRdRedux. In SC and Ga. lots of men wear pastels, as well as small plaids and ginghams. One of our sons has strawberry blonde hair so he leans more toward pale coral/salmon instead of pink. Banks, lawyers, realtors, etc. wear pastels here and of course, the uniform of late spring and summer.......seersucker!

DH wears lots of pink, lavender, purple, lime. And lots of gingham! He is in banking in NY but doesn't have to wear a suit. Used to shop at Pink and a small store in SF when we lived there that was very European. It is funny bc there was another gentleman in his office that also shopped there and they'd often have the same shirts.

He also dresses in a pink dressing room, in which most of the closets are his, but it is off our master, and we are married so that doesn't count for your question.

Oh, and he is the one that wanted a pink living room! Saw it on the cover of House Beautiful or House & Garden and loved it.

Really? I never noticed Thomas Pink as being more or less likely to carry pink shirts... It's just a UK chain that I assumed was named after its founder. There's one near me in midtown but I only ever bought a (white) shirt for me there.

I'm at a HF now so dress is casual, but when I was on the sell side I never saw gingham on American men ... Not in NYC. ..but very much so in London. And,now that someone mentions it, yes, gingham is a bit southern, too. I'm going to start looking for it. Pink flatters everyone IMHO, it's waste to keep it to girls.

Back to the OP. Show me a professionally designed bedroom in any color that is a hetero man's bedroom. I'm sure there are some but very few... I'd wager I have never seen one in a shelter mag.

Thomas Pink does carry more colors and patterns for traditional dress shirts. Or at least they did until it became popular.

Like you said they're British, and British men are more open to wearing color.

Bossyvossy- is there anything specific you're looking for?

I too am curious as to what triggered this question in the first place.

No picture, but my next door neighbor is a single, straight man and he painted his bedroom pink because he finds the color soothing, he said. I don't recall much of the other décor - pretty simple bedding, brown wood furniture - but it looked fine to me.

It's kind of silly how we collectively give colors gender and why somehow a "female" color is awkward for men but "male" colors acceptable for women.

The subject just popped in my mind and I enjoy your imaginative postings. DH won't mind a pink shirt but it will never be his first choice on anything for himself. However he would be content in many rooms posted here if living alone.

As an aside, I can take blush ot any other hint of pink wall but when I volunteered at a hospital,'s skilled nursing wing, walls were that kind of pink so I make the unfortunate association between pink walls and sick/old.

Bossy, I love that room ...I thought about plaid to… But I was stuck on pink plaid that still looked pretty girlish. Deep purple with olive is a little bit more flexible.

I think the views of pink on men depends on where you grew up. Where I grew up (outside Philadelphia, PA), pink button down dress shirts, polo shirts, or ties were not out of the norm from the 60s on. I cannot tell you how many men had those pink/reddish trousers. My son continues that tradition. Of course, not for work, way back when, but for weekends and out to dinner. My husband and son wear pink regularly and have done so forever, it seems.

I remember the era of a pink tie being called a "power tie" for men.

I guess it is true you see more color in Europe and in the South on men -- except for the preponderance of black on everyone. Here out west, even in SF, you see a lot of gender enforced colors. It is breaking up a bit, but workplace attire is casual in many professions. With the 80s revival perhaps we'll see more of the colors you all referenced, like the RL shirts. As a check, I went to the Macy's website -- out of 993 dress shirts, 68 contained some pink. 518 contained blue.

Having written that, notice that with the millions of interior pictures on the web we had trouble finding a true pink single man's bedroom.

...we had trouble finding a true pink single man's bedroom...

Well is that because we are trying to attribute gender to a room where there is not necessarily any, so our own cultural biases are looking at pink rooms and saying "this is not masculine"?

Here is a fairly gender-neutral room that happens to be very pink. What would or wouldn't make it "masculine"? "feminine"? Picture the room instead in shades of, say blue. Would that then define it as either masculine or feminine?

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Well, the "80's" revival happened in downtown Manhattan years ago. Walk through the financial district and you'll see pink, lavender, yellow, and to a lesser extent gingham.
Shirts are pastel, ties are bright and socks are multicolored. It's alive and well here.

Gooster, I had no problem finding these rooms. Thing is, bossy wanted it to look like a straight mans bedroom. I read that as pink elements in a modern or rustic setting. Personally though, I think it's all perception. Fluorescent pink will look manly to many - all about what you're used to.

@Annie - That room looks like it belongs in a hotel to me. I don't see gender when I look at it.

My guy cooks, bakes and wears flowers like a girl but he'd never pick pink as a color.

@annie, don't see gender in that room. I see pink obsession, ha

I am female and I don't like pink at all and would never choose it for any room in my house :D