Pink Chinoiserie Walls

I love pink, as you may have guessed, and I love seeing the new penchant for painting walls pink in rooms like living rooms heretofore never seen in pink. But my favorite of all is pink Chinoiserie walls. The bedroom above of Carolle Thibaut Pomerantz in Veranda has a hand painted early 19th century Chinese panel. Here are more gorgeous examples. Also, visit my Houzz Ideabook this month on Pretty in Pink Chinoiserie and my Pinterest board on Pink Chinoiserie.

David Kaihoi

Michael Taylor

Amelia Handegan

Framed pink Chinoiserie panels

Ruthie Sommers

Parish Hadley

An inspiration board I created

Coral and Chinoiserie and My Redo

 I saw this vignette above and was absolutely smitten. I love the coral pink silk taffeta, the khaki Chinoiserie wallpaper, and the gold leaf table. I discovered it was by Nancy Pearson for the American Red Cross Designers Show House in Palm Beach - Traditional Home - 2013. Armed with this information, I wanted to see the whole bedroom.

I first found this enlarged view below and I thought - gee, I'm not liking the bed linens, the bed, the carpet, or the bed in front of the window.

Then I found this even larger photo and I'm still not liking the bed, the bed linens, the carpet, and the bed placement, and I also don't like the dinky chandelier and the fact that the Chinoiserie wallpaper is two unmatched panels.

This often happens to me where I see a beautiful close-up vignette but then don't like the rest of the room.

I would use my gold leaf Annie Selke pagoda bed (preferably not in front of the window), Leontine Linens with a coral monogram, a Marjorie Skouras Designs chandelier in pale blue, and a bound sisal rug. I would have either used one of the wallpapers for the entire room or as two matched panels.

Crazy day today - my painter arrives to start on my office, I need to work on my post for tomorrow's One Room Challenge update, and DC is bracing for its first snowstorm in two years starting tonight.