Can you show a pic of the whole room? That paper can go contemporary or traditional, with a printed duvet or sometime more solid and simple. If you are going for a simple look, these white duvets with soft grey border would fit the bill.

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Here's the whole room. I want to bring in navy but this duvet isn't doing it for me.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/876664226/blush-pink-gray-duvet-cover-set-twin

This soft rose would be so pretty in there. Layer it with a quilt with some other colors and lovely pillows.

https://www.potterybarn.com/products/belgian-flax-linen-floral-stitch-quilt-soft-rose/?pkey=s~bedspreads%20and%20comforters~128

The vibe … could be used with any colors you want:

Your room needs softening up — curtains, pillows, art, lamps, etc. It could be beautiful. :)

Why navy? It seems like such a strong color with your soft pastels which look beautiful together.

Spoonflower. Looks like this might give you pink, navy navy, and maybe echo the wallpaper also.

Given the colors in room, as well as the dark furniture, I can’t see navy doing anything for the room. If you are set on it, use sparingly, but there are so many better combinations.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/873767800/bedroom-pillow-sham-navy-blush-pink?epik=dj0yJnU9SEwyTHJkWXprRFAzcmFUYTNqU0FRMnVhdVJBN1pzMGomcD0wJm49Q3BkTDhfVFJra0s5WXktaTNHVEhrdyZ0PUFBQUFBR1E1OFFz

I think navy does make sense in here as a third color but you'd need to add it to a few other places in the room for it to make sense and have it not be as dense as the duvet you are now using.

We have linen bedding in a mix of dusty mauve (pink) and sand (creamy off white). i think you need something more feminine.

The navy blue you show is not right—too much contrast and different style.

https://www.onequince.com/home/belgian-linen-duvet-cover-set?color=dusty-mauve&tracker=collection_page__home__all-products__20

This is why designers caution to NOT select your wall paint until you have selected your bedding. Now you have painted yourself into a corner and will have to tie yourself in knots to get a solution that could have been simple.

• The pink you selected leans plum in your room, so it's imperative not to select anything that is a 'shell pink' that leans to coral.
• Navy IMO is just not an option as you try and squeeze 'romantic' out of a room with a very dark stained bed. I would not select anything dark to go with this.
• I would disassemble the bed and use just the headboard and a metal frame and store the footboard and sides.
• Your colors are Pink & Gray. I would leave it there.
• I would select a gray and white striped ticking style duvet and accent it with some stellar, romantic pillows.

What about teal boue ijstead of nav. My bedroom is various shades of ponk with oatterned teal and my wallpaper is Chinoiserie with pink silk background. kaster bath complements with pink and teal

Ky walls are painted a rather innocuous cream. I have a cream faux tjrow 😂😂

Helen, start your own post & load some images of what you're working with. None of us can read your mind.

Have you got spell check?

I wasn’t asking for input. i was providing information on my pink and blue color scheme that isn’t navy

Why would i start my own thread? 🤷‍♀️

@Helen Pink silk wallpaper sounds incredible!

@B Gold I think Beverly is on to something with the color of your bed being off for the space. Would you consider painting it? I confess that your first picture had me swooning but once I saw the bed and carpet the room went south very quickly.

"My designer and I had very differing opinions and now I'm left alone in the middle of the project. I was going for a romantic feeling."

You are "left alone" because you are trying to jam a square peg into a round hole?

Want to get mad? I missed my guess?

You aren't going to get "romantic" from the dark heavy/rather masculine sleigh bed, nor the dark side tables.

The question then becomes: How badly do you want a soft romantic look? Did she tell/ask you that?

Sell the bed or paint just the headboard to a pale gray. Sell the side tables. Or, get a pale gray upholstered headboard and store what you have. Some pretty white side tables.

Navy? It really belongs in a different room. : )

This is romantic below..... in varying degrees. What you got when the designer left? The "I can't make up my mind " room. Sorry. Change it, or let go of navy. Actually, do both.

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Hi. It sounds like the designer may have told you, "I can't make this look romantic with dark furniture and navy". Is that correct?

If so, I do agree with her and it was good that she was honest.

It is really important, at the outset of a project, to have inspiration photos that a client likes, with specific attributes of the photo the client likes.

That does not mean that the the inspiration photo/s are copied, but that they will inspire the design. All light and airy and pink and white? That is what the bedroom will be.

Was this done as part of your process?

Ironically, I am currently working with a client on a similar look: light and airy with touches of dusty rose.

Guess what: she had some very dark furniture she wanted to use. I did tell her that the furniture did not match her inspiration and that if we went ahead with that furniture, the space would not be what she desired. She saw that. We put the project on hold for about a year while she thought about it. We are now back to creating the soft, romantic space she wants.

When a designer gives you the "no" word? Consider that designer your friend. : )

As above, much like CDR posted..

Why? The designer is your travel agent. YOU choose the destination. She asks where you may like to stop along the way......

Perhaps you are headed to San Francisco! All of a sudden, after a long and somewhat less than enjoyable journey, you arrive in ( of all places ) Tijuana!!

GUESS WHAT? Not the travel agents fault. All you'll be asking is " how in hell did I get here?" And "how do I get out?"

Seems that may have been what happened here.

I would start over. The paint on the wall is clashing with both the wallpaper and the carpet. Your eye doesn't know where to go because there is not one color dominating.

Paint comes last and would likely end up painting the room a neutral and maybe highlight that wonderful tray.

It is okay to acknowledge you don't have design skills. You likely have many skills I don't have. I hire people to help me with those.

The carpet is a very strong element in the space and can't be ignored. Here is a space with pink accents, but the main color is gray. This is well done.

Please post photos of rooms you like. Only then will you begin your journey.

You can certainly have beautiful, romantic bedrooms with pink, deep blue, grey and heavy furniture. However, you have to use the right shade of pink to stand up to a deep blue and your pink doesn't have enough depth. You also need an incredibly skilled designer who can mix pattern, texture, and some additional pops of contrasting color like yellow, tan, or burgandy.

Here are some great examples. Is there anything you can take from these to apply to your room? What is your budget? Are you willing to repaint your pink? Add an area rug under your bed (on top of the carpet)? Remove your foot board, or buy a dark colored bed with thin lines and spindles instead of solid swaths of black?

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I agree with Kendrah that you can evoke a romantic mood even with dark furniture. You can achieve it by selecting the right floor and wall coverings, bedding, window treatments and accessories.

Here are some examples:

Replace the blues and browns with pinks and grays, add a geometric or patterned rug in your colorway, touches of gold, silver or black, scalloped trim on bedding, and soft window treatments and you could have a very pretty bedroom.

I personally think that a creative designer can work with what you have to give you what you want.

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I guess I have a different idea of a romantic vibe than some here. I don’t consider overly light and bright gray and pink everywhere with cheery and cutesie and furry to be very romantic… that feels more juvenile to me.

My preference is more of a sophisticated adult look. And dark furniture can absolutely work — see the rooms I posted above. All have a soft, lovely feel with dark furniture.

But we need more info from the OP. Maybe they like the PB Teen aesthetic, I don’t know.

We all might be getting too caught up on the ’romantic’ thing. Maybe the OP just meant touches of it or something else. Hopefully they can provide more context.

I agree with Diana........with the caveat that the client allows the designer to work with the not up for discussion elements! The givens. To bring the best of the inspiration concept to the room, in ways no client can usually conceive/achieve on their own. To bring the best look to what a client may ALREADY own.

To hamstring the designer with "instructions" defeats the purpose of having/paying the designer.

Paint out the pink to a pale silver. Leave the bed and night stand.! Pile the bed in all white linens....Add a big dollop of pink . Add crystal lamps.

Personally? I don't do accent walls. They are to me, an automatic "I couldn't make up my mind"...or "I am short of money" look, therefore I'm admittedly from the view of pick one, create an envelope. Do that AFTER You've got carpet or rug and decorative main elements of bedding decided, because paint can be mixed to a fraction of a fraction of any hue : ) Even navy. Define the romance, differently

Below? A sexy dark take on romantic. Not your Girl Space. A man and a woman,,,sexy. Navy charcoal. ....wine. Silk, grass cloth, velvet.

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Jilly and Kendrah provided some excellent examples and I hope the OP will consider the directions they're going.

And... why call out a poster about using spellcheck? Can we expect you to do the same each time we have to try to decipher one of the regular pro's garbled posts?

So WHY are you listening to the "call of navy" AT ALL? Why is it even on the bed?

You surmised you didn't need it, there is no reason every color in a house has to be in every room! You don't need it.

Now you back up, and take some of the suggestions above. You go shopping. You take a scrap of carpet with you, you take a little card painted with your pink walls. Go to Pottery Barn, to Bed Bath Beyond To Target.......to the big discount stores.

The REAL head start is when your realize a less heavy bed would take you a long way. A headboard, you paint yours, or buy an upholstered,. Add a dust ruffle in a white matelasse. The bedding is then 80 % white, add the pale gray and the soft pink. It doesn't all have to happen at once.

The point is? Communication. Words matter.

EVERY poster has assumed the wrong thing, from your post. Every single one has assumed YOU wanted the navy.

Think about that..........: )

And perhaps the fact too, that not all designers are created equal ability or skill. Much like surgeons.

It's fine to say " I'm not feeling the navy thing. Can you suggest something else? I'm the ONLY one using the room.

I would choose a duvet the tone of the white in your wallpaper.

The only way I really know your style of what you want is if you post a photo of a room you like. Otherwise, I am guessing or you are taking what I would choose. So, without other information, I would

-buy a duvet with the white tone of the wallpaper

-replace carpeting with a warmer grey that goes well with the wallpaper.

-buy accents for the bed in deeper grays

-paint the room the color of the white in the wallpaper

paint the tray in the celing a darker grey.

no pink.

I'd go for a hotel style duvet cover with gray trim and then add lots of ruffly pillows and/or throws in very soft, textured fabrics. I like the soft pinks others are showing in their answers.

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I'd STRIP the paper and kiss it goodbye! It never made sense with the bed ! Paint the entire room in a mere wisp of gray. The carpet is fine.

Now....... You're free!! Pile on the white on the bed. Add a pale pink duvet or quilt.

When you do this? Really LOOK at the layers on a well made , pretty bed. Look at the textures.

It isn't just ..plop on a duvet. : )

But you have to begin SOMEWHERE such as Pottery Barn

Then add a dollop of gray : )

@JAN MOYER The wallpaper is one of the only things I do love about the new room so I'm not stripping that off for sure.

Jan, the wallpaper is featured now because there's not much to look at. Once the duvet and pillows are added the wallpaper will take a backseat to the bed area.

If you LOVE the paper? Get the surroundings that make sense with it. Paint the bed, or ditch the bed. They are a bit of misfit. Sorry.......they are. What was the intent of the paper, because when you paper one lone wall, you have simultaneously declared it a feature. You've given that wall importance. Or you haven't?

Was this the intent ?

"Jan, the wallpaper is featured now because there's not much to look at. Once the duvet and pillows are added the wallpaper will take a backseat to the bed area." What? Which is it?

It becomes another I can't make up my mind, with no clear intent and that almost always leads to a decorating struggle combined with disappointment.

The paper is soft, sweet, light, girly, airy, feminine !!!! ........and the bed is anything but. It's also small scale, meant for four walls, delivering a soft overall background.

Truth is absolutely brutal. So is spending money to get a half &^% result and not the " I love it! It's what I always wanted!!!" space.

Would I have suggested the paper? Only if you were letting go of the bed, only on all four walls. ..........but you were not and you are not parting with the bed.

I'd say don't shop until you have a very clear intent for the space. Don't shop, even if it means waiting - your eyes are closed when you sleep. You will live.

I absolutely hate wasting money to get to "nowheresville". I don't let paying clients do it. So that's my free advice. Wait. Google inspo's. Ask yourself what you love about the WHOLE of any of those spaces. The feeling - soft, romantic, airy, glamorous, chic ...whatever.....then ask yourself why those feel that way and yours does not. : ) yet.

Tip? You love that paper? Get more of the paper. Do the entire room. Leave the carpet alone . Pile the bed with soft fluffy whites. Add pink ! .....add a deep plum...... add lamps : )

Love Sabrina’s suggestion of white hotel like bedding with a thick gray banding. Then…accent with pink pillows. And, as illustrated above, a dark wood bed can look fabulous with light pink and gray paint and wallpaper. Why not?? A classic look. Start with the illustrated white bedding. Then…search for pink and gray pillows, solids, different sizes, a complimentary print. One step at a time.

One of the reasons you are not getting the results you want is because you don't have clear objectives or you have clear objectives, but you don't know how to get there.

A huge part of my job as a designer is to find out what the client actually wants. You want to keep the bed and the wallpaper. I agree that alone is going to be a challenge.

What I would need to see to help further is

1) Photo of all 4 walls of the room and anythng else you need to keep.

2) Photos of inspiration rooms you like and exactly what in them you like.

Without those, I would be guessing and that will not get you the results you want.

I agree with @ CDR.

My maximum number of concepts for any space are three. Usually just two. Why? Because after some significant conversation, digging, prodding, providing the words that go with a feeling, considering what a client wants to keep, or in some cases even what they SHOULD keep but didn't realize?

I should hit a happy button! I also tell that client, that if I do not hit their happy spot? ONE of us is not communicating.........and it isn't me.

Opinion here, but that paper isn't strong enough to be a feature. It can't even compete with the bed. It COULD perhaps on all four walls if you truly love it.

Feature walls........it means I want you to look HERE. I am bold for a reason. See my bed!

Example? Hard to escape intent or message here

Both above, completely different than a paper used simply as a soft background envelope to the rest. As below. ( hard to find a great example, the internet does get trendy)

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CDR is correct. Share the entire room in a few pics.

All I am saying? Commit. A room with no real commitment to a feel will always FEEL and show that lack of commitment.

Before changing carpeting, definitely have a plan for the entire room. I really think once you add linen drapery, bedside lamps, a bench at bottom of bed on under window, art, appropriate bedding and a rug, room will be fine. Suggest bringing home a few of everything and test them. It’s very common and will be a big help in your decision making.

Start with rug as your inspiration to help with style and color choices moving forward. Suggest some dark brown (to pull in furniture), carpet’s shade and close to wall color and it’s fine not to match exactly.

Suggest subtle bedding to work with wallpaper and for a calmer feel. How it’s combined is important as well.

Use dark metal, to comp to furniture.

Understated art above bed.

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@CDR Design, LLC Thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. If (and this is a big if) I were to change the furniture, I'd want to go with a tufted headboard. Would a grey tufted headboard be the best color to go with or something more white or ivory?

Hi. I'd love to be able to help you. But, I can't without knowing your goals. I know one of your goals is to keep the wallpaper. Beyond that, I am sensing you don't want to spend a lot of money.

Buying a new headboard might be a good idea. I don't know. I don't know what type of room you love.

People are posting pink on this thread. I don't even see that you have said you want pink in the room. (Althought I might have missed that).

In my opinion, rooms in a house do need to flow together. That does not mean that they have to all be the same.

Also, the wallpaper you want to keep is not really a statement for that wall. You will need either very simple art (not to conflict with wallpaper) or a high headboard. The pink paint does not work at all and I hear you are willing to change that.

You are considering changing your carpet. is this free? Why is there a 2 week timeline?

So, without photos of all 4 walls of the room, and a photo of a room you love, I am only guessing and I could be wasting your money.

I have been doing this quite awhile. The first thing I do for clients is a questionnaire and then, even after that, we look at inspiration photos.

Does this style appeal to you?

From CDR.......

"People are posting pink on this thread. I don't even see that you have said you want pink in the room. (Althought I might have missed that)."

"Also, the wallpaper you want to keep is not really a statement for that wall. You will need either very simple art (not to conflict with wallpaper) or a high headboard. The pink paint does not work at all and I hear you are willing to change that."

To echo ?

People ARE posting pink, as all assume you had some say in the wall color, and it is pink - despite not the best choice with the wallpaper that was ALSO not the best choice for its intended purpose. "

Let's ask its purpose. Was it simply because you loved it and couldn't afford to do four walls? Did the designer ( erroneously, sorry ) declare it a feature? It's a PERFECTLY fine paper on four walls. It would be darling in a little girls room, a small guest room, a bath ! It is simply not working for the purpose the designer, or you intended.

Your very own eyes, are seeking to discern the message, in a room that has no clear message.

The most affordable fix? Paint away the pink to the palest wisp of the gray in the paper.

A fabric headboard, in the white of the paper.

Bedding: Very pale gray, lots of white,..an accent. What's the accent? IS it pink? Or is it something else. It is definitely not navy.

Lamps...... crystal is lovely, so too a color, depending what that may be.

Again I will "echo" @ CDR.

We can't read minds, we've no idea process or conversation between you and the former designer. We are not seeing the entire room, just a wall.

One more question: What is the bath decor, off of this primary bedroom.............?

In short? You have to help us, help you. Here's a different version of above a "feature". Why? I didn't love the yellowy warm tone in the bedding.

Everyone sees differently......: )