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Sure, you can choose between white pine and brazilian walnut using durability as your only metric, but some thought given to renewability, speed of regrowth, old-growth forests, transport footprint, ethical labour, American agriculture, and Amazonian rainforests might be nice too.

There's a balance of issues in play.

I hate blue. I always have. My sister always loved "Cinderella blue" and dark "sapphire blue" and so on - no particular associations with masculinity - but I never liked it. I find light grey-blues cold and dark blues gloomy. I guess that makes me very special indeed, per the previous commentators. I don't hate men though.

I don't think hating pink equals hating what is feminine. I've seen plenty of rooms that read as vividly feminine without any pink at all.

Some people have colours they just like or dislike. I would not, given the choice, decorate with much pink OR blue - though I would in my child's room if they asked for it.

I don't see how the coral is "not pink enough" - when I look at that room, I see plenty of pink, and not just that sort of pale-breath-of-pink in white some people use to tint girls' rooms walls. I don't think bright fuschia is the only valid interpretation of pink that a little girl would recognize.

A kid that wants a specific colour isn't necessarily invested in what shade. "Coral" isn't a huge part of elementary school lexicon. Test it. Offer a seven year old boy who's really invested in our current modern toy-marketing that colour room.

Neither enamel cast iron nor wood nor bamboo should go in the dishwasher. If you even have a dishwasher, which we don't. Our sink is smallish, but not micro. It's okay, but if I were adjusting its size, I would rather it be larger than smaller, even though its using up a lot of our counter space.

Amusingly, that green is the exact kelly my granddad had in his house. Green and white was apparently a big deal. That shade too. Grandpop Green, to me. He was not a man for subtle colours.

I can see the appeal of the white walls over the butter yellow, but I don't think removing the arches from the bookshelves really did much for the space, though the bookshelf is now certainly more styled. Exposing those lights in the shelves doesn't do anything for me.

I can see the logic for all white office supplies, but I think combined with doing the walls in white, it really cries out for keeping either the floor or furnishings dark. A light floor with white desk and clear chair is not enough to pop white accessories and white walls, IMO.

Don't tear down that fireplace or the mirror.

Do consider lightening the walls.

If it were me, I would go for a very pale grey rug (possibly with a lavender tone to the grey but not a purple rug) or a cream cowskin. Something light and non-combative.

However it if it were for my sister (who is into a more bohemian aesthetic) I would be scouting for an oriental rug with a purple element to the pattern. She would also be totally enraptured with your fireplace.

Either way I think the coffee table is a bit heavy for the space. I might consider a much lighter piece, i.e. glass, acrylic, silver detailing, something to make it feel less imposing and one less dark heavy wood element. Even a solid metal trunk like some of the ones Restoration Hardware is fond of, but in a silver finish, so it was at least a change of tone and material.

There's nothing wrong with liking dolls and teasets, though - they are no better or worse, inherently, than cars and rockets. Ideally the child should be able to pursue whichever interests them, but the continual devaluation of anything feminine as inherently less worthy is just re-branded misogyny.

Besides which, damn, even by the "girls shouldn't be surrounded with girly things" standard, this room is painted blue and themed in elephants. Every kids' stuff store I've seen wields a heavier girls = pink/sparkles/fairies/butterflies/hearts/flowers hammer.

I would have loved this barbie as a kid. I kind of love it now. I think its being marketed to me more than little kids anyway at that price point.

I still remember in the '90s when they pulled the line of tattoo barbies that came with transfer tattoos. I remember being very confused because how were butterflies offensive?

The black is nice enough. The back addition thing is a travesty.

Pretty vicious use of a Victorian, though, IMO. And judging from the interior shots, going to date significantly worse than a more sensitive period restoration.

I would be tempted to go with nature-themed to make the aqua gender-neutral sky. Like tree decals, though that's hardly blazing new ground. Or skyline/building decals.

Or water, and add coral and fish motifs.

A cool effect with white-painted furniture and white bird or fish decals would be soothing and approachable.

But I like white wood furniture for both genders. Green could also work, especially a nice bright chartruese or light beach-glass.

I love the concept.

I do think I would have made a tiny bathroom space for the toilet, using either a door finished to match the dark cabinetry of the kitchen or the privacy glass of the shower.

My parents full-timed in an RV over 30 years ago and they had the shower head over the toilet. I think I would take that compromise on space-saving over the toilet in the open next to the bed. Also it seems like it would really limit guest possibilities.

Still, inspires me to look into variations of the theme.