Oliver’s Whimsical Woodland Nursery
A whimsical woodland-themed nursery for our baby boy Oliver.
A whimsical woodland-themed nursery for our baby boy Oliver.
I wanted to create a woodland nursery, but wanted it to be more sophisticated and of course gender neutral. I fell in love with gold rub and buff and realized how easy it is to make anything inexpensive look a little more upscale (even plastic!). I was definitely sticking to a tight budget so I DIY’d as much as possible and working in a tiny space for twins.
I had no real plan for this nursery when I started out beyond liking gray and orange. The first item I purchased was the cow rug and the rest of the room kind of evolved from there.
Many items in the room were repurposed. For example, the dresser and chest were my mom’s when she was a little girl, just repainted with new hardware. Likewise, the suitcases were already in the guest room. I had actually just moved them out of the way when we were positioning the crib and they ended up staying there.
We had originally planned built in bookcases but as my due date neared and my nesting reached critical levels, we opted for the plumbing pipe shelving for the sake of speed. Once installed though, I couldn’t be happier with the choice.
In creating a nursery for our new baby boy, I wanted to design a space that was bright, cheerful, neutral, and that would grow with him as he got older. The room is small, about 7′ x 9′, so space was definitely taken into consideration when choosing furniture. I hope Jacob has as much fun in his nursery as I did making it!
We wanted to create a room that was what we would’ve liked as a kid. The original idea was to make the room feel like it was a forest glade, but we didn’t have time to paint that detailed a mural and so much of the walls are window that it wouldn’t really have worked. We settled on three season trees: Summer, Spring and Autumn (I hate winter) and proceeded to populate with creatures – some by us, some by our friends. We also added some metal elements (like the clock and curtain rods) to give it a Narnia feel.
I wanted something with a vintage feel and plenty of heirloom pieces. I tried to avoid anything too theme-like but couldn’t resist the charm of little woodland creatures.
A woodland themed small, neutral space.
I wanted to design a room that would feel very peaceful and playful. I also didn’t want to overdo it with a theme, focusing more on colors and fresh modern design. Almost everything that went into this room was either handmade or something I found at a discount store. No big splurges here!
My husband and I wanted a unique, gender-neutral nursery that you couldn’t find at any baby store. My husband has a quirky fondness for garden gnomes so that was the original inspiration. Then along came the trees, birds, foxes and toadstools that created the rest of Kate’s Enchanted Forest.
A cozy, warm, and brightly colored baby’s room with a woodland animals theme and a hodgepodge of art and decorative elements.
My husband chose Carter’s Forest Friends bedding for the nursery, so I designed a room around that. The room is full of little critters in unexpected places.
I’m very excited to reveal our baby boy’s nursery since it’s been a “labor of love” for the last month and half. We moved into our new home Christmas week when I was 32 weeks pregnant, so there wasn’t much time to decorate, but I had a vision for months. There’s nothing like the nesting instinct to bring it to life and get a room decorated ASAP!
I wanted a nursery with gray walls, white furniture, and lots of pops of color!
We love the outdoors, so we wanted to create a nursery that was a prelude to what he would experience once he gets older. I loved all the owl theme decorations that were available for little girls, but we found very little with owls for boys. I love owls, so we made our own style that included owls and other forest creatures.
A gender-neutral “Sunset in the Forest” themed nursery.
I was asked to turn a small white room into an enchanting and magical forest based on the children’s book Where the Wild Things Are.
Simple yet sweet. Forest animal bedding with a tree mural.
We are expecting our first child and it’s a girl. We just moved into an apartment with a second bedroom and we were thrilled that we would be able to decorate a nursery. Crafting is a hobby of mine so I definitely knew I wanted to take a very DIY/hands-on approach to designing and decorating our baby’s room, while staying on a budget. I think our style and personality are reflected here. Hope you like it!
This nursery is for my 3rd baby, gender unknown. We were on a tight budget so we got what we could for free or cheap, and I made some items. The brick wallpaper was already in the room, we originally purchased for around $30 from Walmart. The four woodland canvases were dollar store canvases painted with dollar store paint, and decorated with felt scrapbooking stickers (total cost approx $14) Crib bedding is Litto Kids, purchased from Amazon.com with Swag Bucks (so free, but regularly $270) Wall Decal was also from Amazon.com & purchased with Swag Bucks (so free, but regularly $54) Mobile is by Djecko, and was purchased from Dandelionkids.ca ($30) Crib was an Ikea handmedown, refinished & Distressed with baby spray paint for about $20 dresser/change area was found at the side of the road, boxes were from ikea for about $7 each (using to store clothes/diapers etc) Rocking chair/purple pillows/teddy are vintage/family heirlooms, blue pillow is Ikea ($10) Blue burnout fabric was from a discount store, approx $10 Framed scrapbooking paper ($1 paper/$5 frame from Ikea As-Is) Curtains were from another room, originally Walmart for around $20 I believe. Rocking horse is a handmedown from Baby L’s brothers :-) We still need to get the new light fixture, but it’s not in the budget just yet!