Pink and red bedroom design
Pink and red is one of those colour combinations which shouldn’t work but, if done right, I think it really does! It’s definitely a ‘look’ anyway, a bold, statement look which some will love and some will hate. Personally for me, I’m obsessed with colour but actually don’t like a lot of it in my own home, so while I love this colour pairing you wouldn’t find it in my house except maybe in my daughter’s room in years to come, as I think it’s a really fun, more grown up angle on classic pink for a girl’s bedroom.
Freshen up a pink bedroom with pops of red like this room by Eklektik Studio
I used this colour palette back in September (which feels like a lifetime ago!), when I took part in the Interior Designers Hub ‘5 Day Challenge’. Interior designers of all levels - from professional to amateurs and everyone in between - can take part, and over the course of Monday to Friday will learn the basics of the interior design process (and I mean basics) while working on a real life brief. With a daily task and ‘homework’ to be submitted to the Facebook group where you can receive feedback, see other work and give and receive encouragement and support, it was a really fun thing to take part in, especially as I was just starting out on my interior design course.
The brief was from Laura, who loved colour and wanted to transform her bedroom into something feminine, a little quirky and which reflected her love of colour, but more subtly than the rest of her house. She also has an interest in biophilia, which sounds like a creepy medical term but is actually the practice of using of plants in design to promote the connection between humans and nature. I settled on the pink and red palette, balanced with some dark teal which I’d seen in photos of her other room, so I knew it would feel cohesive with the rest of her home, and some Scandi-inspired wood for furnishings and to break up the colour.
The first stage was to create a concept board, which is strictly no-interior images but instead is any imagery which really encapsulates the feel for the room. The client is supposed to be buying into an overall mood at this point rather than focusing on specific interior choices or furniture, and the concept board is the baseline for a project, for the designer to keep referring back to so we can be sure that every decision we make is bringing the room closer to the desired mood of the room. Interior design is all about how a room makes you feel when you’re in it.
By the end of the week (skipping past all the work in between these two stages), we’d created a design board, based on our concept boards. I ended up using more teal than red to make sure that despite the use of colour the room felt balanced and tranquil, which is important for a bedroom for obvious reasons. The colour red can be quite jarring and it treads a fine line between romance and panic, so I had to be light handed with how much I used!
I got some really positive feedback from everyone on the Facebook page and from Laura herself, although after seeing some of the other designs (there were hundreds!) and seeing the ones that Laura selected as her favourites, I think I could have pushed the colour even further. I said it in my previous post about my first interior design client, one of the hardest things to learn with interiors is about pushing myself out of my comfort zone and into someone else’s. But for my first ever attempt at the full whistle-stop interior design process, I don’t think my efforts are too shabby!
