Painted furniture

This has been my all time favorite project!
To give you some context: I have two toddler boys & feel like I’ve been decorating with blues & greens for the last few years, so when we found out we were expecting a girl this time around, you guessed it- I knew I wanted to make her nursery extra girly, with lots of blush & feminine vibes. Back when I first started looking for nursery inspiration, I quickly realized there were SO MANY different adorable directions I could go with the room. I kept changing my mind between a preppy, classic look and a trendy boho vibe. It was a tough decision because I was truly loving both styles!  I decided to combine the two styles (not sure if this is allowed in the interior design world but I did it!) and I completely LOVE how it turned out. It has it all- the pink board and batten wood walls and gingham wallpaper push the classic, traditional girl nursery and the soft natural wood details incorporate the boho vibe. I grew up dancing, so I knew I also wanted to incorporate some ballet details. I did this by adding the ballet barre & mirror, as well as tying in some classic dancer dolls. The scalloped details add more of the extra girly flare and really ties the room together. A lot of what is incorporated into the nursery is what my 5 year old self dreamed about having in my bedroom growing up. I sure hope our little one grows to like her room as much as I do, but at the end of the day if she doesn’t- it’ll just give me another excuse to decorate her room all over again.

I wanted to create something bright and colorful for my daughters room.  I found a mural on Pinterest that inspired me for the rest of the room.  I painted the mural on my daughter’s wall and used the same paint colors in the rest of her room.  I refinished an old bed and found the perfect sunshine yellow dresser at Savers.  My husband created an amazing reading loft for her above her door.  We put a king size mattress up there and it is a hot spot for reading and sleepovers with her friends.  It is hard not to smile when you walk into this room!

Robert’s nursery was the first room we completed in our new house. My sister-in-law hand painted the accent wall and I painted the dresser in the same color blue. The shelves are filled with sentimental pieces, like my childhood teddy bear, a framed Hermès coloring book that was a wedding gift from a friend, and Robert’s favorite book “Mommy in my Pocket,” written by his grandma. The gallery wall is a collection of pictures and frames from different places that I’ve collected over the year, including Pop Art prints of our two dogs Moose and Bear. There’s a lot going on in this room but somehow I think it all works!
*Please note the room was styled for these photos – the plant is not normally within reach of the crib.

We wanted to combine our love of antiques & refinishing furniture with a bright imaginative color scheme to create a modern fresh space for our baby girl.
We purchased the hutch on Craigslist and refinished it ourselves. The changing table was my mom’s from when I was a baby and we gave that a refresh as well. The animal prints were purchased from a vendor along the Seine River on a trip to Paris, and the Beatles quote above the crib was handmade by us. The rocking horse was an exciting find at the Brimfield Antiques Fair!
 
 
 
 

This is my daughter’s room in our new home in Charlotte, NC where we recently moved from a much smaller space in Brooklyn.  This move was a big transition for my daughter, so it was very important that it feel familiar and cozy, yet exciting and girly at the same time. Many, if not most, of the design elements in the room, including the drapery, artwork, and chest of drawers, were either handmade or painted by myself or a family member. It is truly a room made from love, with personal touches that could not have been found in any store.

An all-American boy’s vintage nursery that will grow with him, and will help teach him all about the special men in his family.

A nursery of coral, teal and white.  A bright, fresh space for the expected arrival of a sweet baby girl.

Just enough girly.  Aqua walls with white furniture and touches of pink, green, and brown.
 

Almost 3, London was still sleeping in her baby nursery and in her crib with the front taken off.  It was time for her to feel like a big girl!  With potty training underway and a new baby brother, we wanted to give her a fun space that had TONS of DIY and had a very small budget to do it!

We created this room for our sweet baby Sarah Emily – due any day now. The curtains and other items are hand sewn/made.. and most of the furniture was repurposed. We wanted a soft feminine room. We were inspired by another PN room – Chloe’s Room.

It all started with a $10 vintage Humpty Dumpty lamp found while browsing on Ebay. At that point, I had the nursery theme for my baby-to-be before I even knew that he was a boy. I spent lots of time during my early pregnancy searching flea markets and online sites for vintage prints, furniture and accessories to add to the room. Custom bedding in soft primary colors and matching frames for all prints brought cohesion to the room. Finally, my mother-in-law tied everything together with a custom hand-painted Mother Goose mural based on a vintage book cover.