Monster Nursery Theme

laurenq24

I found out that we are having a baby boy. I don't really like any of the typical themes and I didn't want anything to babyish. I like a funky style and after looking around a bit I was thinking about doing a cute monster theme. I love the ugly dolls, I think they would be adorable, but I am having trouble finding stuff like bedding and a rug, ect. It seems like for the monster theme the only thing I can find are stuffed animals. I saw that Target carried a few bedding options for a monster theme but I wasn't too crazy about any of them. I like turquoise and lime green as a starting color palate, but I am open to change. Has anyone seen any cute monster bedding or accessories around?

 

mbritto4

I hated all the nursery sets when I registered for DD (plus didn't want bumpers or a cheap quilt from those sets).  I had a Finding Nemo nursery for DD so I just found wall clings at Home Depot, painted the walls fun bright colors, found a Nemo lamp, and bought fun/funky crib sheets and a neutral crib skirt and called it a day.  Found a fun color block rug at Lowe's that she still has in her big girl room because it has a lot of bright colors (and its not tiny). 

sroszc

LOVE the idea of a monster theme!  You could try this one...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/61875931/lovely-flannel-fabric-monsters-gray?ref=sr_list_3&ga_search_query=monster+fabric&ga_search_type=all&ga_page=1&order=&includes%5B0%5D=tags

Or you could just do solid/striped fabric in the colors that will coordinate with your stuffed monsters.  That will probably be the easiest.

hjohn

We're also doing somewhat of a modern monster theme- have the ugly dolls as well and my friend who is a graphic designer is making some monster graphic prints for us.  For our bedding I kept it simple-

https://www.babybedding.com/black-and-white-dots-and-stripes-crib-bedding

And I used a lime green sheet instead of the white one since our colors are lime green, black and white.  

biblionerd

We sound kind of similar! I hate all the cars, dinosaurs, sports, etc. (no offense... just not my thing) and love bright colors. So I'm doing orange, lime green, and turquoise and accenting with owls. Are you artsy? It seems like without getting a premade bedding set you have to be! I'm going to make my own crib bedding with solid colors and do a solid turquoise shag rug. Then I'll make a felt owl mobile (best cute monsters would be easy), and do owl statues, wall decals, and accessories. If you can find fabric you can have someone make you a bedding set. Painting basic characters/things on a wall yourself is really easy too if you can't find monster/ugly doll decals. Just use an overhead projector, trace it on the wall, paint, and outline (if you want).

biblionerd

You could even go all ugly doll and have fun with that. Use these guys https://shop.uglydolls.com/products/category/Clip+On/322.0.1.1.74648.74609.0.0.0 and take the clips off and make a mobile out of them. It would be really easy to cut out the ugly doll shapes out of felt and just sew them onto the bottom of a plain crib skirt.  You need a cute ugly doll pillow too! https://shop.uglydolls.com/products/category/322.0.1.1.84432.0.0.0.0

Also, do a search on some fabric sites for monster. I looked on google images too and some fun ones came up. 

Bluediamondgirl

My friend did her son's room with a monster theme. She used the ugly dolls, as well as some monster-themed bedding and such made by Crayola that she found on Target online. It came out really cute.

evess5

You could do something like this...

https://forum.baby-gaga.com/about933001.html (she made parts of this but it's super cute!)

 

eturp

Cute idea! I was in BRU the other day and I saw some cute monster themed stuff (there might have been some robots tied into it also) not sure if there was bedding but definitely some cute accessories and as pp have said you could use neutral bedding and then accessorize. Of course now that I'm looking for it online I can't find it but it was easy to find in the store. GL!

laurenq24

Thanks, all great ideas!! I am still looking for stuff, hopefully it will come together