What color was your room growing up?

Mia2700 · May 2011

Did your parents paint it upon your arrival, or was it already that color? Did you get to re-paint it at somepoint?

Mia2700 · May 2011

Right now we've painted every single room in the house - other than the spare room. It's a mint green with an accent wall with a shade darker green wall. I don't see the need to paint it as it will become the baby's room in like 3 years so why go thru the hassle when it's a nice neutral color now!?

Anyway, it had me thinking about childhood rooms/paint colors.

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My room was bright pink growing up. One wall had velveteen rabbit wallpaper. I hated it. I painted it green when I was 18 since that was my favorite color. Now that I'm 28, pink is my favortie color. Funny, right,.

Xan921 · May 2011

I have no idea what color my nursery was or if I even had my own. My parents were pretty broke when they had my brother and then me less than 2 years later and I know they lived in a small apartment and then a small townhouse and had to get help from my grandparents, so I am not sure I had a typical nursery; I've never seen pictures of it or anything. Things started looking up for them when I was around 4 though and they built and moved to the house that I lived in until I was 12. I got to pick my bedroom color then and it was a light purple with a purple and pink heart boarder and a purple canopy bed; I was very much a girly girl. After they divorced, I had my own bedroom at my Mom's and my sister and I shared a bedroom at my Dad's. We never painted the one at my Dad's because he rented and I never wanted to paint the one at my Mom's because I kept telling myself I wasn't going to live there much longer; apparently I thought those 6 years between 12 and 18 would just fly by lol, so I just left it white. I would never let my Mom buy me new bedroom furniture either because "I'm just going to move out soon anyway" I don't know what the he!! was wrong with me lol.

alecat9 · May 2011

I think my room was a very very light blue (almost white). I have too much older sisters so the rooms were pretty generic, not baby-centric due to my sisters being in middle school already. We also changed rooms a lot, at one point in middle school I ended up in the master bedroom.

MC22 · May 2011

When I was a little kid, it was decorated in Strawberry Shortcake...but I'm not sure what color the walls were.

Then we moved to a new house when I was in 2nd grade, and my room was wallpaper - this really terrible pink floral wallpaper. I guess I liked it at the time.

When my sister left for college when I was going into sixth grade, I moved into her room. At some point, we painted it blue with white sponge paint on one wall, so it looked like clouds. I had a sunflower bedspread. I think it stayed that color (but with new bedspreads) until I graduated.

kjhharris · May 2011

My parents were big on white (well, actually off-white) walls. When I was about 7 my mother took me to the paint store and I selected three colors of pink to paint the walls in my room. Each wall was a different shade of pink. Before we moved it went back to white....

nfp147 · May 2011

I don't know what colour my nursery was, but in the room my sister I shared until we left home there were too many posters of NKOTB and the other hunks on our lives to even see the wall colour!

Patineuse1124 · May 2011

My bedroom was yellow when I was little. I think I got to pick a new color when I was in middle school (and mom was painting all the rooms in the house), and then it was a light teal. I got to re-paint it a pale blue when I was in grad school for my masters (and moved back in with my parents so I didn't have to take out student loans as I could afford either housing or tuition but not both).

Boynton1286 · May 2011

I didn't have a nursery, my parents lived with my grandma when they brought me home. They moved into a rental and from pictures I have seen, my walls were wood, classy wood paneling. In the next house (also a rental) they were white. Finally in 2nd grade we moved into our own house and it was wall paper that my mom tore down when I was in 3rd grade and we painted it a very light pink, I was into ballet, so I had a ballet themed room. It stayed that color until my sister moved into the room and now it is orange.

lavieboheme73 · May 2011

I didn't have a nursery. My parents didn't even have a crib for me until I was 3 months old. My dad saved every spare penny he had to buy me a beautiful Jenny Lind-style crib, of which he was very proud, but until then, I slept in a dresser drawer lined with blankets.

When my biological mom and my dad got divorced, we moved in with my grandparents and my dad and I had to share a room, which had bandana print wallpaper that I thought was unbelievably cool, and my dad had a poster of Linda Ronstadt on roller skates on the ceiling above my bed...don't know why I remember that, but it stands out to me.

When I was about 6 years old and my dad and stepmom were buying her parents' old house, I got to choose the color of my room. I chose an obnoxiously bright, eye-f*cking pink color that you can actually still see through 2 coats of white paint that have been applied over the last 20 years since I left home. When my sister was born, she got the pink room since it was closer to my parents' room, and I was given the other bedroom, which I fondly refer to as the "Crayola Room", due the fact that it was the same yellow and green color scheme as a Crayola box. I hated it so much that I wallpapered the room floor-to-ceiling with posters and torn-out magazine pages. It's now the guest room where my daughters stay when they visit my parents, and they have since painted it white with a pale blue tint...wish they'd done that when I was there!

chantico23 · May 2011

kjhharris:
My parents were big on white (well, actually off-white) walls. .

Mine too! My parents didn't like painted walls because supposedly they didn't resell as well. But considering we lived in the same house for 16 years, I think that's a silly reason. They actually did finally let me paint my room when I was around 14, but it had to be a light color, so I painted it light pink.

rccola1981 · May 2011

I lived in a trailer with wood paneling and brown carpet from 5-25...before that I swear I had a pink room with a pink canopy bed but no one else remembers this...now I have a beautiful blue room and I'm painting our nursery to be a light lime sherbet...I'm sure if we ever sell we'll be advised to paint more neutral in most rooms but I love color

Kristi_M1123 · May 2011

the room I spent the most time in (age 9-19) was mint green with a peach tulip border and peach swag curtains. I hate green. It looked and felt institutional.

So what color is my room now? Sage green. And I picked it out. SMH... I should have gone with a more neutral color.

StaceB2010 · May 2011

My sister and i shared a room till i was 8 that room was white it was military housing so we didn't paint anything. Once we moved from there the first place we lived with a rental it had wood paneling. and then they bought there house my dad still lives in. There I had my very own room! which when we moved in the room i got had up wallpaper on one wall, it was white with bears in pink and pink blocks of a-b-c... didn't bother me seeing i was only 8 mom put up pink lace curtains along with pink bedding.

then my teenage years hit and I panted the was with the wallpaper Black, with red sponged over it and got a black curtains with red valance hung a thing of fake red roses on a vine across the valance. and black bedding with red odds and ends in the room. and i left it like that till the summer before my last year of high school.

Then it was kinda of a lime-y light green color with tan accents (like the back off the door, closet doors, outlets stuff like that ) with tan bedding and tropical stuff like i had a coconut that was carved in to a monkey basket thing and pineapple scented candles. it was my Grown up room. lol

Now the room is the guest room its a light purple color with purple bedding and lavender flower wallpaper trim stuff... Boring right?!?! after all the other things it had done to it!

pondering_gal · May 2011

I've never (since I remember at least) had a painted room. Not sure why, I'm sure I asked when I was younger...

I did have a lot of posters on my walls, though.

Tisharp · May 2011

I have no idea what it was until after I was 2 and we stopped living in apartments. I'm assuming in the apartments, it was just white.

But I believe my room in the house was originally wallpapered with circus animals or something like that. In grade school, they let me pick my own wallpaper and this was my creation:

Rainbow Wallpaper - 1983 by Tisha_McFluffy, on Flickr

hz80408 · May 2011

Originally my sister and I shared a room (we also had awesome "trundle" twin beds so the one collapsed and rolled under the other for storage/more play space), that was a pale, pale, pink.

Then went my brother went to college I got my own room. We painted it a light lilac purple.

Senior year of high school we moved and at 17, I choose a bright watermelon pink (similar to my BM dresses). It was a Nickeloeden paint, specficially the name had something to do with Rugrat's Angelica.

Now our room is a Behr paint pale blue. Light blue is supposed to be a calming, serene color.

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