I find the "pink" perception interesting in a way. I honestly have the opposite reaction. I would see an excess amount of pink (or any other pastel) in an office setting as immature. That's not saying that any of you are. I, personally, have never been one for the cutesy stuff in any of my surroundings. I like rich or neutral colors and those are the ones I find calming. Pastels and/or overly bright colors remind me of children. The other admin here in our office brought in a lot of cute knick knacks and seeing them drove me batty. I don't like clutter and that's how it came off to me. Now that I'm in my own office and I can't see her stuff, it doesn't bother me.
When our parts runner started, she put a lot of pastel stuff around here desk over there (and she is young - 19 when she started here a few years ago), but at her desk its funny because its in the shop. None of her posts it, pens or other gets touched because none of those guys want to be seen writing with a lavender fuzzy pen on a baby pink note pad.
There is really no way to determine how others are going to perceive you until you've been around them a while.
Michelle
