Daily Dose: Airy and Pink

Let me put this out there. I like pink. But, I don’t like pink in my decor/home. I wouldn’t paint walls pink, wouldn’t have pink accents. It’s just too girly for me. But just because I wouldn’t do it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. For example, Nicole of Making it Lovely has pink all throughout her house. And her husband tolerates it! But she pulls it off fantastically. I just couldn’t do it.

With that preface in mind, today’s image is of a pink-filled living room.

This room pulls it off, totally. I don’t think a guy would hate this room, though I’m pretty certain it wouldn’t be his first choice. The pink is light enough that it’s not offending, and the stripes in the couch bring in a multitude of colors that modernize and warm up the space, drawing your eye away from the pink.

The purple and green accents are well played — speaking from experience, getting the proper balance of purple and green is hard, that is the color scheme in my place! (Until this weekend when the green walls go white again..) I also really like the clean, straight lines on everything here. The couch, the coffee table and end table, the chair — it just works!

I recently got sick of green, from having a full living room of it, and now that I’m moving, I’m going cool with greys and tans and blues, while the boyfriend and I just painted one of his walls almost the same shade of green I am getting rid of! What about you? What color do you like in a room but wouldn’t put in your own home?