First, I decided that the colors needed to be bright, peaceful and lots of fun so I chose ocean light blue, blue and lime green. I decided to have horizontal lines across the accent wall which created a fun and inventive environment. The painting was the easy part, after that comes the fun...shopping. I must admit that it took longer than I thought since I decided to go with mostly organic furniture which is harder to find. I decided to mainly go with White furniture to give a clean crisp look. I chose a sleek modern crib and dresser in the Ouef Classic. The glider I searched the longest for. Everything that I saw was boxy, old fashioned and made of fabrics I did not like. I ended up customizing an EQ3 Karbon chair in white leather, which is very easy to clean. The side table was very mod and white and I really liked the shape. For a light fixture I fell in love with the Le Klint pendant and it became one of the biggest focal points in the nursery. I finished up the furniture with colored floor tiles by FLOR and customized toy boxes by VIA.
After the furniture arrived everything, it was time to personalize and really make this a unique nursery. First I created a new friend for my son...he is a friendly robot and he would be found all over the nursery. I designed three fun scenes with the robot, printed them and framed them on white frames. I made a special alphabet art painting on canvas painted by his own mommy, I sewed him a robot pillow which I created from felt and fabric and a robot plushie out of fleece. I also made a crib skirt and cornice of the same blue fabric and white stripe I used for the pillow and carried it throughout the room to tie everything together. There was a hideous old Air Conditioner unit on the wall that we could not remove, so I sewed a cover for it that looks like a cloud. To tie this in with the rest of the room and the blue color I decided to add more clouds to the theme. First I got different sized cloud decals from Dali Decals and to top it all off, I had a local carpenter create a special cloud shelf for me.
I then rounded out the room with a cute green lamp so I can read to my son while in the glider. I also purchased an IPOD Nano to download all of his favorite songs to and got the awesome I-Boo to use as Ipod speakers. I installed a white shelf over the cloud/AC Unit which I placed some pictures and wood toys on. Then I loaded his toy boxes and cloud shelf up with tons of stuffed animals and toys.
I think my favorite pieces in the nursery are the Alphabet Art/Robot items I created especially for my son, the cloud shelf and the Le Klint Pendant which is just so cool.
I hope you have enjoyed this posting and it can inspire you to do something special for your child.
Resources:
Le Klint pendant
Oeuf Classic Crib
Oeuf Classic Dresser
EQ3 Karbon Chair (swivel/glider)
VIA toy boxes
Jonathan Adler bookends
bla bla kids Mobile
Wood Cloud shelf by Jeff the carpenter
Floor by Flor Tiles
Clock - Pilot design
Cornice -Made by me
Robot Pillow - Made by me
AC cover - Made by me
Alphabet Robot Painting - Made by me
Stuffed Robot - Made by me
Robot Frames - Made by me
Any questions feel free to contact me.
