It’s the color that designers hate to love.
The one you don’t quite know how to work into your decor.
The color that can go terribly wrong or dashingly right by understanding how and when to splash it or drench it into your design.
It’s the hue born of combining fiery red with the purity white. And it embodies the passion and pureness from both its parents.
From pale to peachy to punchy. Faint, fuschia to fancy.
Glam it up or tone it down, it’s a versatile, playful color that is oozing with charm, femininity, and romance.
You’ll be tickled pink to see how the mood of your decor changes from one pink to the next and these 12 striking examples will show you how to get it right.
Pale Pinks
Pale pink plays off the purity of white and has a subtle naivety with approachable, soft warmth to it.
Combine it with white and splash it in with a faint sofa, a geometric tile floor, a floral wallpaper or a painted wall.
#1. Faint and quaint
Source: Milk Magazine
#2. Pale geometric is subtly eccentric
Source: Stokperd: House Rasmussen
#3. A pale floral wall says it all
Source: Honestly WTF
#4. Make a partially tall, pale pink wall
Source: SF Girl
Peachy Pinks
Find your inner “peach” by adding peachy pink tones with your wall art along with subdued, yet striking ethnic rugs.
#5. Perfect peachy pink will get your surefire wink
Source: Luna Zorro: Molly Berry
Fuchsia Pinks
It’s the playful pink that brings out your inner child. Paint your door pink and hang a swinging chair nearby.
Pair it with a Berber rug from Morocco and a sweet side of pink poof.
#6. Fuchsia in your berber, look no further
Source: House of Hipsters
Work it into your abstract art paired with a tufted fuchsia-colored vintage sofa, one-of-a-kind kids chairs, and vintage accessories. It will remind you of sugar and spice and everything nice.
#7. Mild doses of fuchsia play up your playful inner child
Source: Vintage Renewal
Rosy Pinks
Everything is rosy when you mix rosy pink with darker hues to create a feeling of serenity and relaxation in your home.
Pair a pink chair and pink walls with small doses of charcoal grey art and accessories.
# 8. Pottery and prints are the perfect charcoal hints
Source: SF Girl
Add a pink clawfoot tub backed up to a charcoal grey wall and geometric tiled floor.
#9. A rosy claw foot tub in a gorgeous charcoal hub
Source: Katie Woods
Pair up pink and deep emerald green for a dreamy harmonious space.
Oh, and don’t forget the pink plants in a variety of tones.
#10. Add emeralds and rosies to a house full of posies
Source: Design Sponge
Hot Pinks
It’s gettin hot in here.
As pink gets more firey like father red, it evokes a feeling of passion in your decor. The deeper the pink, the more passion, and energy it radiates.
Create a room of seduction by mixing a black bed frame with hot pink bedding, curtains and a handsome yet feminine vintage rug. Add sheepskin accessories both via your pillows and throw rugs.
#11. Passion pink is as hot as you think
Source: Semikah Textiles
Photo Credit: Carley Page Summers
You’re sexy, and you know it!
Drench that hot pink and black together for a sexy, vibrant love den. Black patterned wallpaper, black patterned rug, pink and black accessories from Morocco all pair lavishly with hot pink doors and curtains.
#12. A drenched in pink sultry den, saved for the end
Source: La Maison Boheme
Play With Pink
So there you have it in a pink nutshell.
Playing with the tones of pink against white vs. black accessories will have you feeling anything from…
Subtle and innocent; to relaxed and serene; to feminine vibrant and child-like;
to one sexy mother fucker.
So whether you want to revisit the carefree ways of your childhood or feel refreshed, euphoric and sultry, you’ll be seeing your decor a lot easier through your rose-colored glasses now.
