For our little boy’s nursery, we combined modern patterns and color combinations with playful, fun tactile monsters – friends he can look at and touch as he grows in these first few years. We now jokingly call his new monster friends his “monstourage.”
annie56
I am a first time mom from Seattle, WA, who loves design and crafting. Since I don't have much of an artistic outlet in my career, my little boy's arrival was the perfect creative outlet.
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Jan
Very cute! I love the monster’s and the stripes made the room. I also like the pom pom’s that you put on the curtains and all the extra details.
Kristin
I adore this space! Your monster theme is too cute without being over the top. Very creative and unique. Great work mama!
annie56
Thanks, Jan! The pom poms are a felt garland from Crate & Barrel’s Land of Nod store. I just cut them into pieces and clipped to the curtains and mobile. You will also find the red “gumball” lamp there in a variety of colors. :)
Juliene
Such an awesome space! My favorite part is the stripes!
Diana
You did a great job! The room looks adorable. I love all of the colors! Where did you find the white day bed?
annie56
Diana, the daybed is from IKEA and a great deal!
Diana
Thanks Annie!!!! I had actually seen that daybed on the Ikea website a few days ago – I am on a quest to find one that it nice, but also reasonably priced! I couldn’t even recognize it amongst all the great decor you have! I have some more questions for if you don’t mind. (I was actually considering buying that daybed, but I had so many questions about it and I don’t have a Ikea nearby. I didn’t want to order it online without knowing the answers to these.)
(1) Did you buy a regular twin mattress for it or did you buy one of the Ikea foam mattresses that the website recommends (i.e., Sultan Florvag or Sultan Fonnes)?
(2) If you bought one of the Ikea foam mattresses, which one did you get and it is comfortable enough for daily use?
(3) Also, the daybed product info states that it can be used as a double bed if you buy one of the Ikea foam mattresses. Do you know if you have to buy a queen-size foam mattress to use it as a double bed or does the twin-size foam mattress essentially fold out into a double bed when you need it to? (I was very confused about how the doublebed conversion works!)
Thanks in advance!!! :)
Kellyb
Sooo cute!!!!!
Cheryl
The room is adorable… You have done a fantastic job, it’s so creative. Where did you get the wall paper from?
Rebecca Meier
Great room!! (I have the same crib – Mercer – in my son’s nursery and I LOVE it!
Nicky King
Love the monsters :)
Where did you get the closet storage from? Or is it custom-built?
Cassie
Where is that crib from?!? Please tell me it’s available online, and not just a Seattle store?!?
Christina
I adore everything about it. The incorporation of monsters and just how colorful it is!
Where did you get the crib sheet and blanket?
Jenny
So fun! Where did you find the green rug? I’m looking for one in a similar shade.
annie56
Diana,
Diana, we got the IKEA florag mattress but added another mattress topper to it. It folds up when the daybed is normal so it’s okay for daily use as a daybed, but it’s too thin to be comfortable once you pull the bed out. The part where the drawers are will pull out to make the bed double the width so you’ll need King sized sheets if you use it like this. Our one complaint is (like many IKEA pieces of furniture), the shape of the bed is a little abnormal so it’s tricky to find bedding for. That said, it’s really a great piece with the storage underneath and the ability to pull it out for sleepovers. We also have the matching end table by our rocker and love it. We’d definitely recommend it for any child’s room.
annie56
Jenny,
Jenny, We have a total of three green rugs in the room. The largest one under the crib was only $99 at Crate & Barrel and the round rug under the rocker was also from Crate & Barrel for about $50 around the holidays. The smaller round green rug under the changing table just happened to match and was only $10 from IKEA – a great deal. Can you tell I’m a bargain shopper?! :)
annie56
Cheryl,
Cheryl – the walls are actually all painted, no wallpaper. We just taped off 12 inch stripes on two walls and painted every other stripe with a shade of turquoise slightly darker than the original. The initial color was a match of the mod dot pillows we’d already purchased so we just took it back to Home Depot and asked them to make it a more saturated paint about two shades darker. We weren’t sure how it would look but it turned out great and only took a few hours to do. Plus, when you’re only painting stripes, you can get away with only buying a quart or two of the second paint color rather than another gallon so it’s pretty inexpensive.
annie56
Christina,
Christina, the crib sheet, changing pad cover and blanket are the mod dots collection from Skip Hop which you can easily order online.
http://www.skiphop.com/product/completesheet_moddot.html
annie56
Cassie,
The crib is from Babyletto and called the Mercer. You can order it online at Amazon.com and I believe on Walmart.com – such a great collection for parents looking for a stylish furniture set without a crazy pricetag:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=babyletto+mercer&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=8042408597&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1153518894642767672&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&ref=pd_sl_1adahkihjy_b
annie56
Nicky King,
Nicky, you guessed right – the closet storage was custom built.
Kelly
LOVE the nursey! so cute. Is the vendor still available to make those cute monsters? If so can you share the vendor? Love the wall art too!
Adriana
what color did you use on the walls?
greeneyedmom
What a great nursery! I LOVE the color selections and the simple, not over-the-top monster theme. And what a great space you had to work with in the first place…nice job using the angled walls to your advantage with those bold stripes. How fun and truly unique!