It probably sounds awful but all the furniture in my LR is going to upholstered in an identical shade of drab green fabric (four textures though, heavy linen, ultrasuede, high pile plush, satin). This is because I have a Chan coffee table and tons of artwork, I don't really want any fixed pattern. And when I was picking out the carpet for the stairs (also drab green, wool velvet cut woven broadloom), they had another color that is salmony pink. And I keep thinking of it as an area rug under all the green.

Jojo, I remember you posting your fabulous house … wish it had been left alone. It was so cool. Love that old photo.

Pal, that really sounds great to me. I love drab greens and I hope you’ll post pictures. The varying textures sound so interesting.

I think the problem with pick will persist for at least the generation who are babies and toddlers now, because every single girls toy, Little Mermaid costume whatever is generally a nauseating combination of PeptoBismol and aqua.

I have a sofa upholstered in a very elegant pink. One Christmas, a guest’s guest (don’t get me started) drank almost an entire bottle of some blue alchohol (again, don’t get me started) except for the last glass which she spilled down the front of the sofa.

The sofa is in what we call ”the pink room”. The previous owners had papered the trio of rooms (room, laundry, bath) in the trio of papers that was popular in the ’80s. I’ve,been trying to turn it into French country, with that light red toile, a hooked rug in cream with the same light red French roosters, a provençal type pillow, etc., all off my local Fb market group. I guess al my neighbors left the French country trend, just as I started embracing it lol!

Oh, no, bpath. Yikes. 😬

Well, Jinx, no - STILL no rug in the living room!!! I have to make it a priority for the new year!

Ha, almost forgot, my home office is Odessa Pink too.

Jinx, Odessa is a village not far from Elmira😊 Sue, love that pink.

Arapaho, ha! :)

Sue, that’s a beautiful color (and I love that cushion).

I have such an aversion to pink, I would never use it or wear it and can barely appreciate its use by people who love it. Jojoco, I couldn't have your beautiful family home and keep it pink, but I could sure go for having that station wagon parked out front.

Sure did and it was beautiful! Before we remodeled and added onto the house, I had the old LR painted a blush color. Girly? Nope. I had a couple of forest/emerald green upholstered pieces, white plantation shutters, you get the picture. One reason it worked is because the room got a lot of sunlight.

So many pretty rooms!

My favourite English designer Ben Pentreath has a lovely pale pink drawing room in his country house in Dorset; he had the colour specially mixed by Patrick Baty of Papers & Paints where it's now sold as "Parsonage Pink’,

About 10 years ago he painted the sitting room in his London house Farrow & Ball "Pink Ground",

I know I can't go purely by my monitor and I have no idea what the light situations (natural/artificial) are in each case, but I like the shade of pink in the first photo better than the second. I think the second one is a bit too blue and "sweet". I think the more successful pinks seem to have some brown in them. That hint of brown seems to get around the problem that Pal wrote about,

I think the problem with pick will persist for at least the generation who are babies and toddlers now, because every single girls toy, Little Mermaid costume whatever is generally a nauseating combination of PeptoBismol and aqua.

I love pink and wear a lot of it but don't have a lot in my house. The pinks I wear are bright and cool-toned, while the few pinks I have in my house tend to warmer, really more coral/salmon.

Becky, great rooms … I agree, I like the first one best. I just discovered Paint and Paper Library recently and have been enjoying perusing pictures.

I was just now looking for something in my photo albums and came across this kitchen I’d saved a while back. I love the moody pink feel:

We could have an entire thread devoted to pinks used in Art Deco …

T&P Station, Fort Worth:

Sinclair Building, Fort Worth:

Building in Austin:

And of course, Southwestern styles, as it evokes the sunsets/skies/light:

Cute pink bungalow:

@Jilly that is the kitchen of deVol's Creative Designer, Helen. It wasfeatured on an episode of For The Love of Kitchens (my favorite show on Discovery+). Should be shown on DIY Channel when it changes to Magnolia Network in January.

Thank you, Allison … I forgot to save the source and was wondering where I’d seen it. I’ll look for the episode. I love her style!

That pink kitchen above is simply perfect. 💖

I always liked the warm blush that mtnrd used ...was it in the stone cottage?

I can’t remember, Annie, hope she sees this. My tagging isn’t working. I love that cottage!

This house showed up in ”For the Love of Old Houses”. Swoon.Swoon!

Wallpaper, and color! and look at the pinks.

I imagine this kind of, what would you call it, salmon? reads differently in differebt light. i love the plaid.

Pink easy chairs, but the room still reads masculine.

This is a little too pink, even for me.

I love the pattern, but maybe not a whole room of it.

Ohhh, wonderful pictures, bpath! It’s all so cozy and home-y. :)

I love the plaid, too.

Allison, that kitchen looks familiar, too, from a file of photos I saved a laptop ago. A team of designers shared their kitchens, but I thought they were from the U.S. I'll have to go hunting.

ETA this thread has caused to look at a barewall in my DR that needs just a little something...

I am late to the pink party! Young House Love used SW White Truffle for their trim paint in their beach duplex. I find this shade very soothing.

That is pretty, sewing! Such a calm and serene feel, but playful, too.

I love your strawberry pillow @Jilly. I too had the dusty rose and mauve bigtime so I do shy away from pink but in my first house I had a very pale pink bedroom. We bought the house in 1981 and sold it in 1990 so that was slightly before the dusty rose trend. I am trying to find the color it was, I know it was Benjamin Moore paint but they used numbers then. Anyway it was a very pale pink and it was amazingly calm but cheerful and warm. I think I remember having a green floral (with pink of course) bedspread and matching Priscilla curtains of course.. I keep looking for that color and the closest I can find, according to my memory is

BM Early Sunset

BM Fist Light.

Anyway my point is- it was a lovely color to live with.

Salon, yours sounds like what I used in my DD’s bedroom when she was a baby. It was such a sweet color, I loved it. This was mid-‘90s, and we had beautifully stained Jenny Lind crib, looked very nice with the pink. :)

I love pink but only have it as a wall color in my master closet. It's a soft blush but still pink, and lovely.

I found the old thread for the stone cottage: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2570098/itty-bitty-stonehouse-c-mon-in

It was BM Gentle Butterfly....

Thank you, Annie!

Bumble, blush in a closet is such a great idea.

Farrow & Ball posted a slideshow of popular 2021 colors, I love this front door — Sulking Room Pink.

Goofy name, but better than Dead Salmon, I guess.

Not pink, but I had to share this from the same slideshow (not same house). I can’t stop looking at it … the moldings, the floors, the door trim details … perfection.

Carpet in that room before they discovered the original parquet floors. As an aside, I have seen countless times pros on the DD board advised posters to get rid of their old parquet floors because they’re ”outdated”:

More of the above house if anyone is interested:

https://instagram.com/beetrootandblack?utm_medium=copy_linkk

Look at this entry —

I just highjacked my own thread. 😆

Happy New Year, everyone! Some more pink inspiration ….

Martyn Bullard uses pink often, even if it’s just a pillow or floral arrangement.

Love these bathrooms of his (the stripes are paint, not wallpaper). For lots more gorgeous decor, check out his IG page.

Of course I thought of this thread when I saw this on IG this morning.

Sue, that’s gorgeous. Love how pale it is, and how it looks with the wood floors. Going to check out that page!

Jinx, Janet Hill is an Etsy artist; I adore her work and have a couple of her prints and have bought several greeting cards too. I think she may have done some products for Anthropologie, too.

Sue, I’m enjoying looking through her art, love her style. Thank you!

This one really caught my eye:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKlz-pVMTiP/?utm_medium=copy_link

Oh Sue, her work is incedible! Jinx, you need the series, "The Kidnapping of Edward Pink", all of them! Thank you both for introducing me to Janet Hill.

Oh good! I love her titles, too.

I have this in our main bath:

And this in my closet:

And a ”mini” size of this one (and look, a pink bubble).

Oh, love those!

Love the horse print, love yours Sue!. They are unique, eye-catching and give you such a warm feeling. Here is Ladybirds

Her florals are... well look at A Wild Bunch

and Cricket

Those are wonderful, Arapaho! Her use of color and shading is amazing.

...oh and Sue one for you :)

Francine and Her Frenchie

This beautiful mauve color showed up on my explore page:

It’s Valspar ”An Unfound Door”. Odd name, but beautiful in this room (the moody lighting helps).

She has lots more pictures of it:

https://instagram.com/house_of_whimsy_and_whiskers?utm_medium=copy_link

ETA: Another gorgeous pink, SW Sandbank:

Well obviously I love pink in all kinds of applications! My husband rigidly adheres to the notion that pink is not for boys in any way shape or form. His clothing is all shades of black, grey, white, brown khaki and beige and if he wants to really cut a rug--burgundy! He leans that way in decorating too, which is so not me. I am loving this thread!! I find pink, in the right combinations, a very soothing color. Pink and green reads fresh, pink with neutral natural tones is very bunny nest soothing, IMHO. Pink and blue, not so much, that's kid's nursery. I made a big mistake thinking that I could "tone down" a pink walled room with blue accents. They both stand out garishly when you do that . . . toning down means using shades much closer on the color wheel. I found that whole mauve, teal and grape color scheme did not wear well, although I like all the colors individually. It was too much contrast for my aesthetic. My last house had teal trim and carpet in the master bedroom, with a mauve and grape flower border wallpaper over white walls. I nicknamed the room "the aquarium." I would have repainted the trim but it was extensive, including a bay window with seat and trim below, all in teal. My bedding in there was mostly pink. It looked OK. Now I have cornflower blue carpet in most of my rooms and that does not play nice with pink IMHO unless you are doing a baby shower . . .

Edited to add that the pink color in the room I needed to tone down was BM "Old Country" which is supposed to be a warm peachy pink but read "pepto bismol" in the room I used it in. Since my dad painted the room, I had to keep the wall color but managed to tone it down with browns, burgundys, camel, gold, beige, terra cotta, etc.

Here's a whole farmhouse redo blog using the pink and cornflower blue color scheme. While I enjoy looking at it, I just didn't find it worked for me IRL, my RL.

https://hookedonhouses.net/2016/04/22/old-country-house-blogger-selling-fabulous-farmhouse/

That’s a charming house, thanks for sharing it! Agree, not my style, but it has a happy feel and I like that it’s a reflection of the homeowner. :)

Here's my EIK hutch, painted BM Cherry Burst, not quite the pale pinks featured in this thread, which I also love, but though I'd share anyway.

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Love that, lakeaffect, it’s fabulous … such a great shade of pink!

Thank you, Jinx, It's not *quite* as bold in person, haha, but let's just say you can't miss it, and I really like the way it shows up against the BM Old Navy Walls, tho it's hard to see in that pic, so I included another one. I also see I was in the middle of putting my globe collection up top, they usually reside in the den, but I had holiday decorations to put up, so I put them atop the hutch for a little round of decorating musical chairs.

Oh, wow, the blue walls are fabulous, too! Love your style, so glad you posted. 😍

#1 DD just painted much of her new home a pale pink. She and her artist bff decided it was the perfect back ground for her future decor plans. Palest pink can be paired with many colors.