Nursery Inspiration. I need to be inspired

haleymay18 · July 2011

Where are you finding your nursery design or ideas? I am at a loss. I spent hours & hours & days & days planning Gigi's nursery and now the thought of taking it all apart & making her a new toddler room & then putting together another nursery for a boy is a bit overwhelming. I would feel better if I had some good theme ideas or something to inspire me with the nursery.

Lexie Marie · July 2011

I know how you feel well sort of (minus the having a child already part). The nursery has overwhelmed me since I started planning and realized how F'ing picky I am. I'm not one to do bedding/decor to "themed". I've actually been pieceing things together. I decided to start looking at furniture first and then find bedding that I thought went nice with it. I am actually thinking of keeping the bedding simple (polka dots, or stripes) and doing things throughout the room to match in a way... if that makes sense.

tosh24 · July 2011

What's your decorating style? Something sophisticated yet modern? Something unmistakably little boy? Or something fairly neutral (on the walls) and boy accents?

slperry09 · July 2011

I love looking at Pottery Barn kids right now. I'm not going to do a theme per say but a boy bedding in plaid I found at Pottery Barn kids and frame pictures of my husband as he grew up in different sports. I might even throw in a couple of the grandpa's too... But I don't want to make it look too sport-y.

haleymay18 · July 2011

tosh24:
What's your decorating style? Something sophisticated yet modern? Something unmistakably little boy? Or something fairly neutral (on the walls) and boy accents?

Modern. Not "ZOMG! This room clearly belongs to a boy". I don't want to do sports or dump trucks or any theme really. I am just struggling because everything seems so overdone. I like monkeys but I don't want monkey wallpaper, kwim?

Phelia325 · July 2011

https://www.ohdeedoh.com/

and pottery barn kids

lmanchen · July 2011

I cruised around BuyBuyBaby and Babies RUs online and looked at all the bedding collections, a lot of them now include things like artwork, wallpaper, drapes, lamps, you name it.

Lexie Marie · July 2011

haleymay18:

tosh24:
What's your decorating style? Something sophisticated yet modern? Something unmistakably little boy? Or something fairly neutral (on the walls) and boy accents?

Modern. Not "ZOMG! This room clearly belongs to a boy". I don't want to do sports or dump trucks or any theme really. I am just struggling because everything seems so overdone. I like monkeys but I don't want monkey wallpaper, kwim?

What about doing something like a wall decal of a monkey ina tree and keeping your bedding simple... maybe just the crib sheets and a plain color bumper? Put monkey stuff animals in a basket next to your glider or chair....little stuff like that maybe?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/60849848/vinyl-wall-art-decal-sticker-tree-with?ref=sr_list_38&ga_search_query=monkey+wall+decals&ga_page=2&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade

Conniebird · July 2011

I get a lot of inspiration from this site

https://offbeatmama.com/filed/photos/pimp-my-kids-room

It has some amazing ideas and the best part is it's all done by real people! Personally I am stealing the leaf canopy idea for when we move DS out of the crib. It is a bit quirky, but good for inspiration.

seansbabygirl · July 2011

Pinterest is amazing for inspiration. I have a board where I collect all my ideas for nursery design (not sure what we're having yet) and things to do, projects, activities, etc. https://pinterest.com/wakeupjuliet/for-the-peanut/

EvenAngelsFall · July 2011

seansbabygirl:

Pinterest is amazing for inspiration. I have a board where I collect all my ideas for nursery design (not sure what we're having yet) and things to do, projects, activities, etc. https://pinterest.com/wakeupjuliet/for-the-peanut/

This site is amazing!!! Had so much fun on your board!

kylayton · July 2011

Go to hgtv.com! I've spent a lot of time there. There's a section called Rate My Space and you can look at tons of pictures of nurseries. There's a section just for modern style with tips on how to create a modern nursery.

Also, I love to just look through google images. I searched "modern nursery" and found tons of cute pictures!

asyph107 · July 2011

Let me preface this website in a couple of ways.

Under no circumstances should anyone IMO pay this much money for infant stuff. However I got the catalog to help inspire me to take elements I like for DS's nursery. You can do similar things with fabrics, decor, paint, etc. And as much as I love this stuff DS's nursery is still super plain and so will the next LO's be. I am a function kind of decorator. Its nice to dream too of what could be if you could choose anything for your nursery and other decorating needs.

https://www.poshtots.com/baby-furniture/18/poshcategory.aspx

tosh24 · July 2011

Lexie Marie:
haleymay18:

tosh24:
What's your decorating style? Something sophisticated yet modern? Something unmistakably little boy? Or something fairly neutral (on the walls) and boy accents?

Modern. Not "ZOMG! This room clearly belongs to a boy". I don't want to do sports or dump trucks or any theme really. I am just struggling because everything seems so overdone. I like monkeys but I don't want monkey wallpaper, kwim?

What about doing something like a wall decal of a monkey ina tree and keeping your bedding simple... maybe just the crib sheets and a plain color bumper? Put monkey stuff animals in a basket next to your glider or chair....little stuff like that maybe?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/60849848/vinyl-wall-art-decal-sticker-tree-with?ref=sr_list_38&ga_search_query=monkey+wall+decals&ga_page=2&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade

This is what I was going to suggest. What about finding a fabric that you like and choosing things for the room based off that colour palette? I like to keep things clean and make rooms visually appealing by adding pattern and texture rather than too much colour and/or accessories. You could choose fairly simple curtains, bedding, rugs, etc. and then just subtly accessorize with the monkeys like Lexie suggested.

Here is what I'm going off of for my inspiration (just overall style). I like the simplicity of it, although I'd probably add just a touch more in the colour/texture department (but I like that it's a teddy bear room without being a crazy teddy bear room, YKWIM?). My idea is to introduce some gender-specific things after LO is born (since we're Team Green).

pennynjon · July 2011

I have been obsessing over the nursery for weeks. I don't like a lot of the boy stuff out there. Like cars or planes or sports. I did like some animal things and I wanted blue and white. We have decided to go with an ocean/beach theme. We picked a cute whale bedding set from PBK. I posted pics last night. And off white furniature. We are going to gey some things from eysy for the walls. There are lots of cute monkey and tree decals on etsy.

haleymay18 · July 2011

Thank you for all the help ladies! There are some really awesome suggestions in here! I especially love clicky links and PIPS!

Thank you girls!

kwcw · July 2011

Here is my little man's nursery inspiration board

https://pinterest.com/kwils/nursery-inspiration/

robynlynn83 · July 2011

Etsy. I found the fabric I wanted on there and am designing the room around it for our boy.

secretsout · July 2011

I get a lot of my inspiration from https://www.ohdeedoh.com/.

teetime345 · July 2011

I just googled boy nursery ideas and cllicked on images and started looking through them. I found a lot of inspiration there for colors, decor, etc. A lot of the images come from various stores, but the best images I found were from people's blogs. It was fun!