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I have babies on the brain. But since our parents read this blog, let me be clear that this is by no means the start of “Bump Watch 2011″ for Ryan and I, rather it’s attributable to the fact that two of my best girlfriends will be lovely mummies in the next couple of months (can’t wait!).
Part of my excitement about meeting these new little people involves thinking not only about what they will be like, but where they will live, first and foremost in their nurseries at home. Thus, in the spirit of all things nursery, I’ve listed a few creative decor ideas I’d consider were I designing my own nursery:
1. Eschewing the traditional changing table and instead repurposing a long and low vintage dresser by adding (and securing) a changing pad on the top.
2. Building this oh-so-cute wall-mounted bookshelf to hang next to my favorite reading chair.
3. Making my own seasonal mobile or customized snapshot mobile.
4. Adding a daybed to the nursery where we could nap and relax with baby. This could later easily be converted into a child’s bed and painted fun colors that would suit a boy or girl.
5. Making a chalkboard out of a vintage frame, designating a chalkboard wall in our baby’s room, or painting the ceiling with chalkboard paint and leaving messages and personal drawings for him or her to discover.
6. Shopping for vintage children’s books and having pages we like copied and enlarged for art for our nursery walls.
7. Making silhouettes of him or her (and the rest of the family) for art in the nursery and all over the house!
8. Using this shrink art idea for family photos, cards or words of inspiration for baby as wall art.
9. Making a stuffed animal tree (similar to this) by hanging a wooden dowel with randomly spaced hooks screwed into it from the ceiling and stitching plastic hoops onto baby’s stuffed animals to hook onto the “tree.” (My mom made one of these for me when I was younger).
10. Collecting vintage letters to spell out baby’s name.
Any special touches you would (or have added) in your nursery?
XO, Heather
