Mint and gold nursery

For Baby Emerson I wanted to create a nursery that incorporated my husbands love for safaris utilizing a color scheme of mint and gold for a feminine spin on the safari theme.
 

My sweet Charlotte’s nursery was a project of love! I had a fairly limited budget for her nursery (hellooo, second child!) but I still wanted to create a beautiful space. I purchased a few things, rehabbed some older pieces and got crafty for the rest!

When planning Charlotte’s nursery, I knew that I wanted her room to be bright and whimsical. I was drawn to mint, blush and of course, gold! I also wanted prints that communicated strength, determination, beauty and our love for Jesus. Although she was a super relaxed baby when I was pregnant, Charlotte is truly my wild child! Her energy matches the room we designed for her!

Here are some pictures of her mint, blush and gold, “wild & free” nursery. Sources/project information included!

 We purchased the crib here for $199! The book holder is from a thrift store, then was painted and I added a monogram decal. The Moses basket is an RH baby hand me down from Avery!

The white and rattan hamper was a find from Home Goods – I think it is technically just a storage bin, but it worked perfectly for her hamper!
 

 Gold Monogram Pillow // Dutaillier Glider (recovered in Nate Berkus for Joanns fabric, no exact match online, but I love this one)  // Ikea shelves with braces spray painted gold

The night stand was a piece from our old guest bedroom and was painted a light peach color.

I made the flower covered “C” and the hanging mobile! Both were super easy projects! I found the wooden “C” from Hobby Lobby and covered it with Hobby Lobby green moss. I then hot glued on faux flowers that matched the colors of the room. In order to get it to stand up, I had to use this kind of picture stand.

The mobile was also super easy! I took the inside ring of an embroidery hoop, and tied several different types of ribbon around it until the wood was completely covered. Then I tied three longer strings equidistant from one another, and gathered them in the middle to secure it to the ceiling. If you are looking for a cute non-DIY mobile…this one by BlaBla was top of my list!
 

 
The gallery wall prints came from Hobby Lobby, Francescas, Target & Etsy (Fruit of the Spirit Print here)

 I got all of the shelf styling pieces from Hobby Lobby, my baby shower or vintage stores!
 

I love the color this rough edge fabric banner brings to the room! This is one of the easiest DIY projects because you just tie fabric strips (however wide you want them to be), to a string, and then hang!
 

For Anna’s nursery, I was inspired by a mint and gold mermaid print I saw on Rifle Paper Company’s website and a bold, teal-colored rug we already owned. We had painted the walls of this small room a cream color with a hint of yellow before we knew the baby’s gender, so once she was born, I wanted to bring in more mint, gold, a few splashes or coral, and grays and whites for furniture and neutral pieces. The room is not large, so for seating I loved finding an Eames-inspired chair with a slim footprint. I wanted the room to be fun and not too baby-ish, so opted for a few Rifle Paper prints and and a gold dot wall for artwork. Since there was not room for a bookshelf, I used a mint colored book caddy under a window and a couple of wall shelfs. To make up for the lack of closet space, we used IKEA dressers with lots of storage and a wall shelf with a clothing rack to hang and show off her “statement” pieces. The room came together slowly, but makes me so happy whenever I’m in it with Anna.

Before I even got pregnant, I decided that my baby nursery walls would be mint color, didn’t matter if it was a boy or girl. So the color mint was my main source of inspiration.
After finding out I was pregnant with a baby girl, immediately the colors blush and gold pop in my mind. For sure I knew that didn’t want to work around the traditional pink, instead use mint, blush, and gold accents. I was inspired by floral watercolor wallpapers, fabrics, flamingos and feminine gold details. My main goal was to create a room that my baby can grow with, feel inspired, and have a fresh but feminine feel.
My suggestion is to find your source of inspiration, it can be a color, a print, art or fabric that will spike your creativity!

This is the nursery I created for my little girl.  I really enjoyed doing my son’s room and wanted something just as unique and special for my little girl.

We adopted and weren’t sure if we were getting a boy or a girl so I designed a gender neutral nursery!

Arley’s mint and gold nursery is a hodge podge of things we love- mostly painted hand me downs from her brother’s old nursery and things found around the house.

While pregnant with our second child, my husband and I decided (read: I begged him) not to find out the sex of our baby.  Therefore, I began to scour the internet trying to find any inspiration for a neutral nursery that didn’t involve the typical yellow and gray color scheme.
I finally fell in love with the gorgeous palette of gray, mint/aqua, and gold, knowing that if we had a girl (we did) I could easily incorporate soft pinks.