Eva’s Nursery
Sealy Designer Eva Healy is expecting her first baby in the next few weeks. We were so charmed by the way that Eva decorated her nursery, that I asked her to share her ideas with you.
Convinced I was having a girl, I had visions of a girly, flirty nursery complete with frills and accents of pink throughout. Much to my surprise and my husband’s shocked pleasure, the ultrasound revealed that a little boy was on the way!
I knew right away that I didn’t want to do the “typical” boy’s room with baby blue walls and the popular car or train theme. I scoured magazines and websites for inspiration and finally stumbled on a Benjamin Moore colour concept that I could visualize in a nursery. Since about 80% to 90% of the baby’s first months are spent sleeping or lying on their backs, I really wanted to make the ceiling a point of interest (not to mention that I wanted to accentuate the vaulted ceiling and height in the room). I used Benjamin Moore’s new Natura paint in 2146-40 Pale Avocado on the ceiling and OC-39 Timid White on the walls in a flat finish. I then painted thick 18” stripes of the same OC-39 Timid White, in a semi-gloss finish on the horizontal. Because of the sheen on the paint, the semi-gloss colour looks quite a bit lighter in the daytime and more subtle at night, creating quite an interesting effect. The room is also quite large so I hung a large oversized bubble light fixture hung on the vaulted ceiling to light up the whole room and add interest.
Next, I contacted a great lady named Ruth Wright of Nannycakes Designs
(nannycakesdesign.blogspot.com) and met with her to choose some fresh and baby friendly fabrics for the bedding and drapery in the room. I wanted the nursery to be somewhat gender neutral, but also wanted to make it funky. I showed her an image of a great mobile I had found on Etsy.com(www.etsy.com), and our colour scheme was born.
Our main fabric, a cute polka dot consisting of blue, green and yellow dots in varying sizes would serve as the bumper pads and romans, and all other fabrics would either complement or contrast. I really wanted there to be a pop of colour in the room so we added the large orange bows and a band of orange in the bedskirt as well. A patchwork quilt of all fabrics used in the room (as well as a few other complementary solids and stripes) pull the scheme together. A simple sheer with an smaller embroidered dot finishes off the windows.
To finish off the room, I found a great tree mural with a whimsical monkey hanging off the branch and overlooking the crib.
Eva
Convinced I was having a girl, I had visions of a girly, flirty nursery complete with frills and accents of pink throughout. Much to my surprise and my husband’s shocked pleasure, the ultrasound revealed that a little boy was on the way!
I knew right away that I didn’t want to do the “typical” boy’s room with baby blue walls and the popular car or train theme. I scoured magazines and websites for inspiration and finally stumbled on a Benjamin Moore colour concept that I could visualize in a nursery. Since about 80% to 90% of the baby’s first months are spent sleeping or lying on their backs, I really wanted to make the ceiling a point of interest (not to mention that I wanted to accentuate the vaulted ceiling and height in the room). I used Benjamin Moore’s new Natura paint in 2146-40 Pale Avocado on the ceiling and OC-39 Timid White on the walls in a flat finish. I then painted thick 18” stripes of the same OC-39 Timid White, in a semi-gloss finish on the horizontal. Because of the sheen on the paint, the semi-gloss colour looks quite a bit lighter in the daytime and more subtle at night, creating quite an interesting effect. The room is also quite large so I hung a large oversized bubble light fixture hung on the vaulted ceiling to light up the whole room and add interest.
Next, I contacted a great lady named Ruth Wright of Nannycakes Designs
(nannycakesdesign.blogspot.com) and met with her to choose some fresh and baby friendly fabrics for the bedding and drapery in the room. I wanted the nursery to be somewhat gender neutral, but also wanted to make it funky. I showed her an image of a great mobile I had found on Etsy.com(www.etsy.com), and our colour scheme was born.
Our main fabric, a cute polka dot consisting of blue, green and yellow dots in varying sizes would serve as the bumper pads and romans, and all other fabrics would either complement or contrast. I really wanted there to be a pop of colour in the room so we added the large orange bows and a band of orange in the bedskirt as well. A patchwork quilt of all fabrics used in the room (as well as a few other complementary solids and stripes) pull the scheme together. A simple sheer with an smaller embroidered dot finishes off the windows.
To finish off the room, I found a great tree mural with a whimsical monkey hanging off the branch and overlooking the crib.
Eva
posted by Karen |
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