PRETTY IN POMEGRANATE
Thinking beyond the parameters of pink, Toronto designer Tara Fingold parlays plenty of pattern and grown-up colour into a little girl’s stunning bedroom.
A little girl’s stunning bedroom goes beyond the parameters of pink with plenty of pattern and grown- up colour
straying from tradition is something any designer savours. So when Tara Fingold’s clients bought this house and entrusted her with decorating their young daughter’s bedroom, she assessed the space with gusto. “I wanted something really fun and playful, and my clients were open to skipping run-of-the-mill pink.”
With a brief that upended colour expectations for a girl’s room, Tara devised a fierce palette. “A patterned pomegranate fabric I chose for the drapery became the starting point,” she says. It fuelled everything from the teal walls and eggplant-hued sofa to the pretty fabric on the custom bed frame. “Lots of colours in both vivid and pale tones, and plenty of mixed-scale prints create energy here,” says Tara. “Mixing and matching is always better than just plain matching.”
It’s an ethos evident in the room’s furniture choices as well. Tara mixed in existing items like the sofa and ottoman, which she usurped from the living room. “I had them reupholstered, which was more cost-friendly than buying new furniture.” These pieces also underscore Tara’s belief that kids’ spaces don’t have to be kid-centric. “You don’t need to furnish a little one’s room with baby-specific designs,” she says. “In fact, I think children prefer proper furniture.”
In this case, that’s definitely true. Because the clients were living elsewhere during the project, the room redesign became an unintentional surprise. “When we finally revealed it, the daughter was ecstatic. There may be grown-up elements here, but this is definitely a little girl’s room.” With not a pink wall in sight.
“Mixing and matching is always better than just plain matching.”