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Let Personality Shine

Description

Mom Carly injected a little personality into her baby girlā€™s room with some big design ideas! This is no cookie-cutter girlā€™s nursery. Note the big wall graphic modeled after the DwellStudio crib bedding. Or how about that molding which makes the tall ceilings a little more cozy? And finally, the angled crib: Have you ever considered angling your crib? Just some fun design for thought and a beautiful, soft, original nursery to inspireā€¦

Design Inspiration

When I thought about what my future daughter might be like, I envisioned a playful, laid back, unique girl and I wanted the room to reflect that personality. I also wanted it to have personal touches and not seem ā€œgenericā€ or too ā€œmatchy-matchy.ā€ It started with the Dwell Charlotte bedding and just grew over time as I added new pieces to the design.

Decorating Style

Casual and comfortable. I usually lean towards more neutral colors, and had originally planned on a chocolate brown and ivory nursery, but I decided to branch out and have fun with this project! I like a room to reflect personality and not feel like a museum.

Project Details

Paint: Sherwin Williams Buoyant Blue
Glider: Best Chairs
Bedding: Dwell Studio Charlotte
Wall Graphic to match bedding: Custom Painted with white semi-gloss paint
Mobile: Etsy
Stuffed animals: Blabla
Name artwork
: Etsy
Book shelves: Pottery Barn Kids
Lamp: Ikea
Clock: LL Bean
ā€œYou are my sunshineā€ artwork: Etsy
Name ABC blocks: Etsy

Favorite Items

I really love all the pieces I found on etsy ā€“ the artwork that spells her name (so whimsical and ageless!), the mobile, the ā€œYou Are My Sunshineā€ print (our favorite song to sing to her), the ABC blocks with Amy Butler fabric on them that spell her nameā€¦ all the personal touches.

Advice

Girlsā€™ rooms donā€™t have to be pink to be girly and everything doesnā€™t have to match! Resist the temptation to buy everything from one ā€œthemeā€ or color. Add pieces as you go and make the room reflect who YOU are or who your child is. Have fun with it!

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Saturday 9th of January 2010

Carly says:

December 24, 2009 at 9:28 am

Graphic – photocopied the design from the bedding onto a sheet of transparency paper (clear) projected the image onto the wall with an overhead projector traced outline in pencil filled in with white semi-gloss paint

it helps that my dad does wall graphics for a living! : )

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Saturday 9th of January 2010

Kym Loyd says:

December 17, 2009 at 1:58 pm  

Can you please tell me how you got the graphic on the wall so beautifully?

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Saturday 9th of January 2010

Carly says:

November 20, 2009 at 6:41 pm 

The crib was a hand me down from my niece. I sanded it and painted it off-white (it was originally natural oak). It is the Generation Next crib from Baby’s Dream: http://www.babysdream.com/Products/GenerationNext/Default.htm

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Saturday 9th of January 2010

jammie says:

November 20, 2009 at 10:54 am  

Can you share where the crib was purchased from? I love it!

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Saturday 9th of January 2010

Crisy says:

November 19, 2009 at 9:39 am

This nursery is gorgeous! I love the bedding and the mobile! the etsy finds are great!