I think if you only pull from a pale purple/lavender/lilac palette, like in the examples above, it's harder not to make the room feel childish. Darker, more muted purples tend to mix better with a wider array of colors, IMHO - pink included.

Agree with Red Zinger.

I think that as much as you, as a woman, want to decorate the house, you should consider the fact that your husband also has to live in a purple/pink house and he might not reaaaally like that...

It is quite girly, I don't know if there is a way around that. Yet to me the 5th photo of the dining room is the only one that is really TOO much.

Purple is pretty sensitive to the lighting of a room, but I guess that's true for all colors. Our sitting room is a gray-purple (SW6260 Unique Gray) and my husband likes it quite a bit. However, when we used the same paint in a sunnier room the whole thing read little girl lavender and had to be painted over. Those paint chips can fool you, there's a LOT of purple in that paint when natural light hits it.

I prefer using darker purples and pinks and sparingly. Like a nice deep purple throw or a dark pink vase. Not too much, just something subtle and understated.

When I was little I wanted a purple house and part of me still does. Of course, it would have to be a bid old victorian house. While the pink/purple combos above look far more polished than I could pull off I think there are color combos I prefer a lot more.

Usually the combo is a little too "My Little Pony" for me, but I really like #4

I think that if you are talking about accessories or decor items, it is a DO! It can be overdone so it is best as a POP of color.
If you are planning to have a purple countertop or other semi-permanent item, I'd probably rethink it. My husband wanted a purple bathroom (his favorite color) and I had to talk him out of the purple sink/tub surround. A purple rug? SURE!

Not a fan. Makes it look like whoever's living there is stuck in the 80s. I can see any of these vignettes on the cover of a Babysitter's Club book, or in a John Hughes movie.

Well put dappledandy!

Agree with @dappledandy

These examples make me want to go back in time 30 years and play with my Barbies.

@EsterH - or he might? You never know..and it's always foolish to assume.

I'm not a fan of the pastel palette, but I love the richer jewel tones in pic 6. I think a hot pink paired with a darker purple and other "peacock" tones creates a dramatic gypsy-ish vibe that I dig. Girly? Maybe, but add in metallics and strong, structural pieces and it goes to a more exotic direction.

I think the concept is generally horrifying (I haven't liked the pink&purple combination since I was about 5 years old, personally), but most of the pictured examples pull it off pretty well. It helps when the shades are muted and/or fairly similar, as in #2 and #3. Pics 5 and 10 here are my least favorite, as they are too reminiscent of the My Little Pony shades for me.

I'm in love with the rug in the first picture. I wish I knew the maker.

I have pink and purple in the living room, an orchid pink and a dark plum purple, and lots of white and hints of a pale Tiffany blue. My husband doesn't mind at all!

EstherH, you're assuming that the person doing the decorating has or wants a husband, boyfriend, or male partner... and that the person doing the decorating is female.

Unbearably ugly

Its pretty, but in a very cloying way.