Do You Have a "Girly Space" in Your Home?

Can you use white instead of pink? I use gold. I just got caught wearing my husbands necklace. He told me I had plenty...but I wanted to wear yellow gold and needed something on my neck.

Oh my gosh I love this question because Im the same way I sell Mary Kay and have a "Pink Room " All my stuff is pink in there. I love glitter and girlie things and I totally think that you should fufiill your desires in some way shape or form granted I cant turn my room into a glittered pink mess I do have my office and its very pink with decor lol and my product is pink and so is all the stuff that I make for gift baskets. Compromise with him get a pink throw for the living room and PJs your own personal things (my checks are totally pink lol) I even love Legally Blonde because of all the pink. Good Luck and Think Pink lol

PS You could always sell Mary Kay
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Im pretty obsessed with pink I just realized it ... :-)

I switch hit from "girly" into "seductive" or "passionate" or "luxurious". And I double things. I'll use a very masculine piece or color and pair it with the more feminine version or a feminine accent.

Here are some examples:

Bedroom: 2 comforters. Top is deep plum (ck branches), bottom (accent) is lavender with orchids (ck again... gotta love ebay, $400 bedding for $50), so the lavender peeps out from the deep plum. Tiffany bedside lamps. Leather club chairs. Satin kimonos. (I have silk ones, but they're not for everyday use). Filmy/gauzy white curtains + chocolate and crimson. The entire room is in deep purples and chocolate with little hints of red, with warm hardwood floors and wooden chests. There are little flashes of color. A pink and red dress hung outside the closet. A pair of heels kipped up on the lingerie chest. The red and turquoise kimono hung over the back of the chair. The gauzy white of the curtains blowing in the breeze. Creamy gold of sheepskin. <grinning> And while plum itself is quite masculine, lets get a grip. It IS purple.

Another room is equally masculine (big over stuffed furniture in deep colors, the TV, guitars and skateboards and snowboards on hooks on the walls), but it also has a museum sage green wall that I use as an accent wall. Black and white photography mostly (and a few guitars). But there's also one of my then 6yo neice at our wedding in a sparkly yellow dress, her red hair twisted in a crown of braids, holding a folding fan, in front of twinkle lights that is just girly personified. There's another of myself and a girlfriend sitting on a stoop just out of highschool laughing our heads off . There's a photo of my favorite Rodin sculpture. The throws on the furniture also soften the whole effect in super plush cream, or silky blues.

Our dining room table is a monstrosity (8' by 3.5' ... can and has held an adult standing on it) in black. But it usually has pink peonies in a vase, or poinsettias, or orchids, or blown glass (with sparkles) pumpkins in the center of it (depending on the season). It also has a vibrantly colorful tiffany chandelier over it. I'm working on getting a lavender persian rug with the center medallion in an exploding star for underneath it (it'll take awhile to save for that rug). In the (black to match) china cabinet there's a super delicate glass plate with a turquoise rim and red poppies. On wall holds my son's artwork (and 8yo artwork is very very lively). One of his toddler paintings is matted and framed in that room as well.

My house is, overall, a very masculine affair. But in each and every room has feminine accents. There isn't a single space in the house that is absent my own version of girly things. Even unfinished (I'm a DIY remodeler), every room has pieces of me set against a masculine backdrop. Which I greatly prefer the contrast over "neither of us" neutral.

LOL, my 'girlie space' is my creepy, leaky basement. That's where the washer and dryer are, and it's the only place in the house my kids won't follow me if I want to hide for 10 minutes. It's definately not fabulous, but I'll take what I can get! I love your girlie space idea though, I really really hope it works out for you. Maybe you can compromise with your hubby and have a girlie space in exchange for making your garage/basement his man cave ;)

My kids room is all pink, and we have Gorky stuff here and there, but would. I also love to live in a barbie world, yes n deed. Even our dog is a girl, so my hubby is surrounded by estrogen, so some stuff he has to give into. But I like the earlier post, I think I may do something like that.

let him make the basement into his what do the call it a man cave and then you make a room into a girly space pink never hurt anyone!

No. But then I was the girl that always hated pink and girly girl things never attracted my attention. I light candles when I take a bubble bath and that's enough for me.

I started with lace curtains in the bedroom. He was not happy but when they went up he actually liked them. The room was still white with an ivy border.
I also had in other houses a pink bathroom. It was very feminine with lace and pink and gold and moss green. He was fine with it in two houses so in this house I painted the dining room pink and mauve with those same lace curtains. Most of my dainty, white iron things are now in there. He is at the point where he doesn't care anymore, he actually said it looked really nice.

We have two daughters so I have painted their rooms to be pretty girly, too.

To be fair the piano room is also very military, all his awards are in there along with framed copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, a flag, etc. He also has an office that I refuse to touch. I did draw the line at dead animals on the wall in the living room.

I haven't done girly since I got rid of my pink Strawberry Shortcake curtains! But I think if you get a girly space, he should get a manly space (not fond of the "man cave" phrase). Or maybe a couple girly accents in a room - not enough to make him barf, but enough to put a smile on your face when you see it.

We share the office with pick walls (my space) and the basement with the pool table & video games (his space).