Nursery Inspiration

As most of you know I am not having a boy, but I was very inspired by this picture and squirreled it away.  I love the muted color, bold pattern rug and modern crib with rustic dresser.  I was also taken by the huge longhorn painting; it would have been the perfect homage to my husband's alma mater

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Bodacious Bunkroom

This space is so cool and the perfect kids' room for any vacation home.

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Varsity Blues: A Future MVP Nursery

Recently I completed bumpers for a baby boy that to me, said future All American MVP.  The bedding is really very simple, yet very baby without the in your face themed bedding.   We started with the following fabrics and left the decorating open to many options. 

And here is the final product.  So cute if I don't say so myself!

A Bold Boy's Room

I love the bold and dramatic look of this boy's room designed by Massucco Warner Miller.  It's sophisticated and mature in a juvenile way, IMO.

Room to Dream via Elements of Style

Erin with Element Interiors design firm and her famous design blog has given us a little boy's room to boast about.  She custom designed this amazing space for the Room to Dream Foundation and you can read all the fabulous details here.

Custom Accents for Designer Bedding

These lovelies are on their way to their new home today.  The little girl's room already has this beautiful duvet and euro pillow set from Seth and Grayson, but mom wanted a few more accessories to tone it all done a bit.

We custom made for her two linen shams and two bolster pillows along with a beautiful linen bedskirt trimmed in bright pink grosgrain ribbon.  Unfortunately I couldn't snap a pic of the bedskirt.

And for her son's nursery we made this monogrammed pillow to coordinate with the Ben crib set from Serena and Lily that was already purchased. 

The Ben Collection from Serena and Lily

Theme Room Done to Perfection- HGTV Dream Home

A new year brings a new HGTV Dream Home and naturally I love to cruise the online tour and soak up all the design details. I was especially excited to see that this year they did a child's room with a theme. A Toy Story theme, but done in a childish-sophisticated manner (now that’s an oxymoron) so it's not in-your-face over-the-top Disney. I can appreciate a child's room decorated with a specific theme in mind, but always with subtle details.

Notice how if you just remove the toys the theme is gone and the room is still a perfectly designed room that will grow with the child.  Nothing else needs to change, nuetral elegant bedding, bright and cheerful walls and simple window treatments.

The bed and bedding is my favorite part of the room.  Orange, turquoise and white bedding with just a touch of black. By the way, this is my favorite way to dress a child's bed with pillows.  Euro Sham in the back helps to anchor the bedding, standard sham and then the accent pillow for that little pop of color in a fun pattern.

To take a virtural tour of this room click here.

Get Your Daily Style Fix

Hi friends!  I am super busy right now working on bedding so I'll leave you with some inspiration today.  This nursery was created by my blog friend YourStyleScout.blogspot.com.  This is her son Jullian's nursery she designed herself!  I think she did a fabulous job and I LOVE the colors.  Plus this room was featured on Project Nursery's Real Rooms!  Check out her blog it's a great daily read. 

Design Has Gone to The Dogs!

Here's a peak at a twin bedding set I am delivering tomorrow. The dog print is one of two fabrics we used for a reversible coverlet so we took the dog silhouette and create a custom appliqué/monogram for the pillow sham. Pretty darn cute!

Sophisticated Safari Nursery

Here's a little bedding update I promised a long time ago. You can read about the first posting here. Here is the final product. I think it's pretty darn cute!

Navy and Orange Nautical Nursery

Since I’ve been favoring designs for girls lately, I thought I should throw some love to the boys. So here’s a nautical nursery that’s all sophistication and royal regatta with nothing “dingy” about it. Get it? Okay bad pun. Click on the photo to get the full details.

I try to avoid theme decorating at all costs. If it’s not done properly it can look very cheap. It takes a great designer to pull off a room designed with a theme and make it look fabulous. So here I’ve designed a boy’s nursery that isn’t in your face nautical theme, just sophisticated and modern with subtle hints.

I chose a gorgeous Ralph Lauren large navy and white stripe as my starting point. The chair pictured on the inspiration board is obviously not a rocker but you can see how striking the fabric is when laid on the horizontal. Coordinating fabrics are the geometric orange and white and flax linen. I love the organic look of flax linen.

As for the walls I would add a white bead board all the way around the room covering ¾ of the wall height and the rest of the walls painted a soft oatmeal color. The bead board gives the room an east coast Nantucket feel. The paint swatch to the left of the chair is Oatmeal by Serena and Lily.

The crib is from Restoration Hardware and I think it’s safe to say I am head over heels in love with it. It’s sophisticated and the best part is it converts to a full size headboard! The rug is a soft wool but in a very natural color favoring a woven seagrass. If this was a toddler’s room I would have shown a true seagrass rug, but since it’s for a baby I went with the wool.

Instead of a chandelier or hanging fixture I chose a flush mount antique nickel star. It reminds me of how you would see the North Star late at night in the middle of the ocean on a yacht. I wish! A few other design details not pictured would be adding long curtain panels with grommets. The grommets remind me of a boat’s sail or a true sailor’s knot as curtain tiebacks.

Shopping Guide:
Fabrics: www.CalicoCorners.com
Monogram: JacquelynReese.com
Rug: Pottery Barn
Light: Circa Lighting
Crib, Changing Table, Porthole Mirror and Fan: Restoration Hardware and RH Baby and Child
Art: www.NameYourDesign.com
Bead board Toy Box: Land of Nod
Mobile: Gap.com
Hat: RalphLauren.com
Shirt: Janie and Jack
Paint: Serena and Lily
Garden Seat Table and Arrow Sign: Ballard Designs

Lion and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Remember way back when I wrote about a precious jungle theme nursery I was working on? If you missed it you can read about it here. The final pictures have arrived and I must say, I think it turned out precious!

I have to give a BIG thank you to the mother of this beautiful bedding, Courie! Thank you for opening your home to us. I hope the bedding brings you and your family great joy. And we can't forget Karen Beyer of Karen Beyer Photography. I blogged about her beautiful work here. It was her talented eye that caught the true beauty of this bedding. Thank you Karen, you are awesome!

There’s No Place Like Home

Recently one of my favorite blogs did a focus on interior designer Robyn Karp and I was blown away. Not by the obvious talents for adult spaces, but by the rooms for children. They are gorgeous! He or she (not sure if Robyn is a man or woman) knows exactly how to take a kids room and make it innocent, sweet and fun for the little ones and still ooze high style for mom and dad.

One of my favorites is this little girl’s room ready for a toddler in the first photo, then change the bed and it’s ready for their teen years. Perfect!




And here are more of her fabulous designs.

Daddy’s Lil’ Copilot

I just finished a crib set for some friends and I’d thought I’d share the pictures. Below is the original inspiration bedding set from Pottery Barn Kids. PB Kids doesn’t make this set for cribs so we custom designed our own. The Mommy-to-be purchased a full size bed sheet set and the rest we customized to her liking.



I think it turned out really cute! Dad is a pilot so of course aviation was incorporated, but not made to be the entire look. This was also my first try at making crib sheets; a fitted crib sheet. I’ve tried it before and they are very hard to make with the varying crib mattress sizes you can buy today. Surprisingly these were a cinch to make. Maybe I’ve gotten better over the years.

Enjoy!

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