Room of the Day: Girls’ Bedroom Plays With Color and Pattern

Working with a bold color like fuchsia and a variety of dynamic prints can be tricky, but interior designer Alicia Weaver found the right balance in this playful bedroom belonging to two young sisters. Weaver incorporated more than just the girls’ favorite hue, she also mixed in pieces picked up by their parents on their far-flung travels. Starting with colorful framed otomi fabric their mother had scored at a Colorado market and the girls’ own artwork, interior designer Alicia Weaver layered in playful patterns and used their favorite hue in a way that cozies rather than overwhelms.

Photos by Erika Pino

Room at a Glance
Who lives here: This is the bedroom of two sisters
Location: San Francisco, California
Team: Interior design: Alicia Weaver; Design/Build team: Artthaus

Even though there was enough space in the house for the sisters to have their own rooms, they wanted to be like their younger twin siblings and share one. The project began with two framed otomi textiles their mother already had, seen here above the headboard. The room is full of interesting textiles; you can see the reflection of a Beni Ourain rug in the mirrored dresser. “It’s important to be able to mix in a client’s existing pieces with new ones,” Weaver says.


In addition to the otomi pieces, Weaver knew that the girls’ mother mother was a big fan of John Robshaw’s worldly textiles, so she added a throw pillow from one of his collections to the armchair and kept his aesthetic in mind when choosing bedding. The girls’ mother found the colorful woven benches in Ethiopia. Working with the color palette seen in the otomi fabric and on the benches, and with a gallery wall she created from the girls’ own artwork, Weaver pulled together an exuberant mix of colorful fabrics.

“I like to layer patterns, and there’s not necessarily a wrong way to do it,” Weaver says. She pulled out a range of large and small-scale patterns in pinks and oranges from their quilts, which are an almost-perfect match to the framed otomi textiles.

White paint: White Dove, Benjamin Moore; ceiling paint: Razzle Dazzle, Benjamin Moore; quilts: client’s own found at a market; other bedding: ABC Carpet and Home


Weaver extended the pink to the custom headboards and bedskirts, then punched things up with patterned orange throw pillows and an orange lamp. The headboards, artwork and bedding pop against the white walls.

“The girls love hot pink, but it’s way too strong a color for all four walls,” Weaver says. Instead, she painted the fifth wall, the ceiling, in the hot hue. She pulled it down the top of the walls to meet the existing moldings. “The ceilings are quite high; this helped to bring them down and make the room more cozy,” she explains.

The choice for twin beds was a no-brainer; should the girls split up as they get older, the one who stays in here will have the extra bed for sleepovers. There’s also a trundle under one of the beds for an extra slumber party guest. The mirrored chest was a piece the homeowner already had; Weaver commandeered it for the girls’ room. Each girl also has a small dresser next to her bed for bedtime books.


A comfy kiddo-sized armchair provides another cozy spot for reading.

“You’re only as good as your clients allow you to be,” Weaver says. “A lot of people would freak out about using hot pink, but my client had great taste, put a lot of trust in me and we were able to go bold — the girls love their hot pink.”

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