9 Homes in a Range of Hues That Are Anything But Barbie Pink

If the new movie’s Pepto-colored marketing parade has you feeling nauseous, rinse your palette with a dose of something different.

Jul 21, 2023 - 15:51
9 Homes in a Range of Hues That Are Anything But Barbie Pink

If the new movie’s Pepto-colored marketing parade has you feeling nauseous, rinse your palette with a dose of something different.

In front, a patterned brick pathway leads through a cactus garden to the main entrance, which is marked by a low, horizontal facade with wooden accents and splashes of color. The orange-red overhang is inspired by a torii (a traditional gateway to a Japanese Shinto shrine).

Barbie is back, and with it, a frenzy of pink. It has a lot to do with the new movie, of course, which somehow just hit theaters even thought it feels like it’s been five years since images surfaced of Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie rollerskating through Venice in aggressively bright fits. The hype has actually been decades in the making, but ever since Barbie’s cotton candy world hit shelves, the Mattel dolls have found a home with everything from Lego sets to Airbnbs designed after Barbie’s Dream House. If the sticky-sweet pink hues are turning your stomach, get some relief with these nine homes in any other shade.

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The wallpaper is the Heavens Dondi Colorscape from Flat Vernacular. A Vitsoe modular shelving unit will age with the child’s storage needs.

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