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Fresh English Garden Nursery

This room is mostly a collection of things that we found secondhand. I found the bed on Craigslist before we were really ready to start putting the room together, but I couldn’t pass it by. We had decided adding a twin bed to the nursery would allow us  sleep in the room with baby if we needed to, or just a place for guests. Both dressers are vintage and chalk painted by me. The changing station tucked into the closet was the boys, I found it at a yard sale years ago. Bedding is all from craigslist and ebay. The crib is new from IKEA. As we are adopting, the crib had to pass strict home study rules. I fell in love with the Coco Dot nursery line from Pottery Barn..and the coordinating BonBon from Pottery Barn Teen. I mixed them up a bit with the BabyBlooms sheets, I love how the floral coordinated perfect with the ribbon colors and my canvas print. The Beatrix Potter items are from my oldest son’s nursery and some are vintage Eden toys…

Beachy and Whimsical Surfboy Bedroom

I designed and decorated this room for my own “big boy” when I was pregnant with my second, and was looking for something that two little California beach boys could grow into and ultimately share.  I was very inspired by a photo of the bedding in the Serena and Lily catalog but put my own spin on it with black furniture, a rather random collection of surfer and beach art and photography, and a hand-painted surfboard.  The walls are bold green and there is an occasional hint of orange in the room.  Photos by Jackie Culmer Photography.

Daniel’s Vintage Airplane Nursery

We were using this empty upstairs bedroom as a workout room and had done absolutely NOTHING with it since we bought our home 4 years ago. When we found out we were expecting our first child, we wanted to make it a very special space for our baby to grow into. My husband and I worked for 3 months measuring, sawing, painting, and planning and I think we did a great job for carpentry novices! The room is a very small 11×11 so we wanted to add a lot of storage space and make it bright and airy. The closet was fairly deep, but not very big overall. When we took the doors off to paint, we found that it really opened the room up, so we decided to leave the doors off and design a built in wardrobe in the space instead. Additionally, we added panel style wainscoting and a built in storage bench on a wall that wasn’t very usable. When we found out we were having a little boy, we decided on a vintage airplane theme and classic colors. We absolutely adore this room and hope you do too!

Birdies and Owls

Creating a nursery for our first child to enjoy beyond the infant stages of her life. My wife helped with this but due to her busy work schedule (she is a nurse) and strict exercise routine, most of the work was left to me. I am certainly not an expert designer, and I realize it is far from perfect, but I did the best I could with what I had – a somewhat limited budget, a tiny room with poor lighting and (yuck) berber carpet.