I would do a real pink! She may love it forever (ask me about my purple shag carpet), or she may change her mind in a few years, but that could be true with a paler color too. Then white, lace, glam, fluff -- find out what components resonate.

Here's Barbie pink:

or you could just desaturate it a bit:

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Good luck, have some fun!

I’m looking forward to her thoughts when she gets home from school. I let my oldest go purple about her age and basically since high school she can’t stand it, that’s my only fear. We are working on her windows now, so I’m curious her next choice.

Somewhere I saw really cite Barbie wallpaper. I think it even had vintage barbie outfits on it. Let me think where, but you could just google.

Given her age I wouldn't go all in with bright pink. I'd find some Barbie's & Barbie outfits she likes and use that to start from. Or pick out some scenes from the movie she likes and use that as inspo.

This sounds so fun!

How about pink curtains, a pink lamp and throw pillows like the ones @acm showed? Then you don't have to repaint when the concept fades from favor. Purple might be next anyway. :-)

Found the wallpaper plus a whole line of fun stuff!

https://www.wallshoppe.com/collections/barbieshoppe?page=1

If nothing else you should find some inspiration from something here :)

I love the trellis wallpaper, but also the monogram pattern. You don't notice the B's until you look closely. It just looks like a design.

I love that Barbie collaboration wallpaper!

Let her find inspiration pics. Do it her way, take a ton of pics, and make sure it is easy to repaint.

How many opportunities do people get to live in Barbie Land?

Sweet, sweet thread. :)

Love all the ideas above.

Another, if you’d like the wall color to grow with her, is a pink from Farrow & Ball, such as Sulking Room Pink, Setting Plaster, etc. If you’re on IG, do a search, lots of rooms come up.

If using another paint brand, I’d look for pinks more on the dusty or blush side.

Then add Barbie accents, frame large sections of wallpaper (panels), and textiles and accessories she likes.

Please keep us updated!

My DD is grown now, but as a kid, I painted her room blush pink, then a beautiful purple, then a soft sage green. All choices we made together. No matter what color you choose, they might want a change at some point. :)

I wanted a pale, pale pink shade for a bathroom so I went with Faint Coral SW 6329. A contractor saw it he said "My daughter is bothering me for a barbie bedroom this is a pink I can live with." and took the color. Needless to say I repainted the bathroom for something less Barbie.

I normally hate accent walls, but this situation calls for one freaking Barbie pink your heart out neon girlie wall. I love that she is really creative. I'd give her a budget and have her look online and in Home Goods for the kinds of things she wants to decorate the room with. It will be a valuable experience to learn how to budget and appreciate how much things cost.

oh I LOVE this! So many great ideas above -

If she is a fan of the movie, which I thought was very well done - maybe she needs something like this for the walls :)

This could be a good opportunity for her to see what she is capable of, rather than what she is limited by.

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I would let her have it the way she wants it. Kids are with us for a short time, and then they are grown. If it means repainting in 2 or 3 yrs, then I would just repaint. I once had one that had stars and stripes everything. I hated it, he loved it. He is fully grown, and gone for years now, but, he still remembers that room.

When I was 11 I got to choose my room colour. I chose a colour I loved from paint chips, and when it was done I didn't like it. It was too intense, and I hadn't yet realized that there were over 50,000 square inches of wall in my room, so the amount of colour in the chip was multiplied that many times. My Dad was the painter in the family and he had a lot on his plate so I I didn't even think about asking for a repaint. (Thinking back, he probably would have done it!)

Instead of paint chips, show your daughter pictures and give her time to think about living in it as a 16 year old. Pictures of rooms painted all Barbie pink, versus pink accent wall, versus neutral walls with pink accessories. Just so she's going into it with her eyes wide open.

I like the way this room has the accent wall, and the furniture provides more of the Barbie look. She could use peel and stick wallpaper on some of her furniture surfaces to give this look. More creative than just painting the whole thing Barbie pink.

What about a canopy bed with this shade of pink in place of the bookmobile. Pinterest.

When I was 11 I got to choose my room colour. I chose a colour I loved from paint chips, and when it was done I didn't like it. It was too intense, and I hadn't yet realized that there were over 50,000 square inches of wall in my room, so the amount of colour in the chip was multiplied that many times.

This. My number one rule is never let a child select any color they want for their walls. They do not understand the properties of color and that some colors are more appropriate for a smaller item like a table and not four walls in a room. They also do not understand how color and light can affect mood and emotions. Finally, they may not yet be able to appreciate how the other finishes and colors in the room will work with their wall color. I recommend showing them a compete, balanced plan and palette with some light and some dark pink tones. At the end of the day, their room should feel comfortable regardless their theme.

My daughter had Barbie pink shag carpeting in her room with white walls and one hot orange accent wall. She loved it. She opted for this when she was 9 or 10 and we were certain she'd be sick of it by they time she hit high school, but she never did! Pink is still her favorite color. I say go for it. Paint is cheap and if she changes her mind in a few years, it's a weekend of painting it over.

I like kids to have a sya in their rooms but I like neutral walls and the color or style of the year in things easily changed so bedding, wall decals an area rug can all be in that theme easily. I will say this theme will not last 5 yrs take mt word for it. I did my grandaughters rooms and 1.5 yrs was the longest either of them loved the same decor.

Sounds like a great memory making experience, shopping, dining, conversation!

I would paint the room, walls, ceiling, and trim all one white color. My first thought would be SW Alabaster.

Shop for all the great PINK, etc. compliments. In a few years, you can pass on all the Barbie to a friend and move on to the next design idea.

It's all about the gathering and insp that will make this experience one to remember.

any suggestions on laying out her furniture with the doors and windows. I have some paint swatches taped to wall and leaning toward accent wall for Barbie pink or maybe some of that great barbie removable wallpaper! Still waiting for her imput when she gets home. Ready to paint walls thursday so I have to have her and I make a decision on paint color very soon!

@Kristin Petro Interiors, Inc. I will second that! My sister let her two children pick the paint colors for their rooms. They were the most god-awful putrid colors. Children should not be picking colors. Get the theme they want and have a talented adult do the selecting.

post some measurements of the furniture for the layout help.

Is that a loft bed? You could keep the most BARBIE barbie decor in the area under the bed. That way it is like a special area but also not in the main view from the bed, maybe to help be restful.

Also thinking you could use removable wallpaper on the front panels of the armoire. And change out all the dresser knobs to something barbie fun.

Just think if you go for it, in a few yrs-- if your daughter no longer likes her 'Barbie' inspired room, she'll be able to assist in repainting the room. :-)

Hard to give furniture placement recomme dations without knowing the measurements of the furniture. Confused by the headboard, is it part of the platform bed or will there be two beds in the space?

How many posts do we read "Is this just a trend?". Trends are fun,but only if you do not invest a lot of effort and money implementing it. Here today, gone tomorrow.

Choose $ accents, like lamps, rugs that will work in her room when she is 16.

Buy a Barbie lamp shade. Not need to buy a pink lamp.

There are a lot of levels of Barbie enthusiasm.

I love Barbie. I do not love pink. Or plastic dream homes. I did not see the movie (yet). Not sure how to feel about Ken.

When I was little, I arranged leftover wood blocks from my Dad’s woodworking habit into furniture for open concept Barbie sized living areas. They were unpainted, but I covered some of them with gorgeous vintage patterned handkerchiefs that my Mom had.

My Barbie dream bedroom would have display cases with glass doors that let me display collectible Barbies. They usually have long dresses, often poofy, because I didn’t care for the jointed legs.

I was never into the printed words or the monograms or labels/logos.

I actually sewed the tiny Barbie clothes. It was hard. They had patterns you could buy.

Ask your daughter what she wants. Exactly. Barbie is over-branded.

Here is a display case idea.

Love this pic for inspiration. No pink.

The head board was the double bed that went under the loft. She does not want to set it up again. Not sure her bed is right but she doesn’t wNt to replace it. She just wants a desk underneath it. The upper bed is a twin. She is excited for all the ideas. She bounces so I thought some of these pictures would give me a better feel. I’m thinking framing or some of the removable wall paper for a accent wall. She said if not Barbie pink then all white! So maybe the alabaster suggestion will be what we go with and then Barbie glam it up! I’m thinking maybe a desk could be Barbie pink but want to guide this to be classy versus tacky. But she loves the idea of a pink shag rug. I’ll post her Barbie duvet which she is letting guide some of this.

An accent wall with Barbie wallpaper (peel and stick, of course) will make her happy. So will pink accessories. If you don’t want to repaint in a couple of years if she gets sick of a color, don’t do it. But there are SO MANY good compromises. Figure out what you will allow her to do and go shopping together.

My mom and dad let me design my bedroom when we moved (I was 16) and my sister went to college. It probably helped shape my love of design and color. I had one white/black/grey striped wall (old fashioned wallpaper, pink carpeting and three white walls. In retrospect, I felt heard and grown up and part of the move (which I wasn’t keen on). Giving age appropriate control is hard for adults but good for kids. Find the happy medium for both of you.

11 is old enough that decals/wall paper will be out grown very soon. I would accessolrize it up with pink curtains/bedding/fun lamp--sure but leave the base white. Find a cheap pillow that screams the babie theme and call it a day. Pink may last "Barbie" will not.

Here is a Candice Olson pink girl’s bedroom.

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It was more spectacular on the TV show. Worth watching if you can find the episode of ”Candice Tells All”.

I would totally do a room like that for myself if my style was going in that direction.

Another similar style should be on the Pink Peonies fashion blog, where Rachel designed her new build home several years ago. It was a lot of soft pinks and whites with traditional girly style. She had a great gallery wall too.

I'd get the bedding first, then select a pink that works with the bedding. When doing children's rooms, give them the illusion that they are choosing the color. YOU select three or four pinks that you like, then present them to her to pick from. This way you are happy with any of them, and she thinks that she picked it out herself. ;)

Paint all the walls in pink, get new wall-to-wall carpeting (it works great in kids' rooms). Then add any and all Barbie accessories that she likes. When she tires of Barbie, just replace the accessories.

I did this with my daughter when she was about 5 years old. She wanted purple, and her furniture was white, like your daughter's. My husband said oh no, not purple. My answer was it's her room, let her have what she wants. I think she had Rainbow Brite bedding (!) or some Laura Ashley, but whatever, we did the room in Ben Moore's Lily Lavender and she LOVED it. As she grew, we changed out the bedding but kept the lavender walls. It was only a few years ago, after she moved out that we redid the room completely.

Ya I can atest with in a year she will be embarassed to have friends over in an overly Barbied room. Focus on the pink--it has a bigger chance of staying power. The movie and FAD of Barbie will not prove to be permenant obsession for the populous and 11 yr olds are teens all too soon.

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