How To Create a Personalized AND Versatile Nursery
You're planning your nursery and you want to go all out. You want to scour flea markets and baby boutiques for all of those pieces that will express who you are as a parent and welcome that wee one with stylish glee. From the largest furniture piece to the smallest wooden block, you want it to be perfect for baby.
Yet you want this carefully-constructed room to grow with your child. One of the biggest mistakes parents tend to make when designing the nursery is limiting themselves by accumulating too age-specific of spaces. So how to make a room perfect for the moment AND for long-term, with style? Try these three hints when thinking baby, and thinking big.
GO VERSATILE WITH BIG. Make the larger purchases in the room ones that can translate across the ages, such as dressers, reading chairs, rugs, bookcases. Even grown art can have its place. A low dresser can accommodate a secured and removable changing pad on top. Skip the separate changing table, and even pay less for the crib. Go for an Eames lounge chair and ottoman rather than a rocking chair...
PUT THE PERSONALITY IN THE DETAILS. You can create an extremely personalized nursery through the details (which are so fun to shop for). Vintage toys for shelves, old picture books, banners, pillows and throws. Even a modern mobile can find a place in another part of the house later.
BE A KID AT HEART. When you have the practical details down: have fun. This space will by necessity evolve over time, and should be approached with the lightheartedness and glee of childhood itself.
Yet you want this carefully-constructed room to grow with your child. One of the biggest mistakes parents tend to make when designing the nursery is limiting themselves by accumulating too age-specific of spaces. So how to make a room perfect for the moment AND for long-term, with style? Try these three hints when thinking baby, and thinking big.
GO VERSATILE WITH BIG. Make the larger purchases in the room ones that can translate across the ages, such as dressers, reading chairs, rugs, bookcases. Even grown art can have its place. A low dresser can accommodate a secured and removable changing pad on top. Skip the separate changing table, and even pay less for the crib. Go for an Eames lounge chair and ottoman rather than a rocking chair...
PUT THE PERSONALITY IN THE DETAILS. You can create an extremely personalized nursery through the details (which are so fun to shop for). Vintage toys for shelves, old picture books, banners, pillows and throws. Even a modern mobile can find a place in another part of the house later.
BE A KID AT HEART. When you have the practical details down: have fun. This space will by necessity evolve over time, and should be approached with the lightheartedness and glee of childhood itself.
Similarly, this room speaks of classic boy, not just baby.
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