Did you catch this home tour on Apartment Therapy recently? Did you notice the cool, mid-century modern crib mobile? We sure did, and we had to contact the homeowner to get more details.
Homeowner Rachel Thurston was inspired after seeing the idea on Old Brand New to create a version to hang in her baby's nursery as a crib mobile. Made of small plastic Christmas ornaments clipped onto a photo ball mobile, it's not only a colorful focal point in baby Nova's nursery, it's the perfect complement to her California atomic-era ranch house.
(Images: Rachel Thurston)
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Comments (12)
that is pretty cool! lets hope the balls dont fall off and into the crib while she is in it! choking hazard much?
I was thinking the same f'n thing! Those balls are way tooooo dangerous!
I think this nursery is so cool. It's hard to tell but it sort of looks like the mobile isn't actually over the crib??
I agree with CPEC that it looks like it could be over the floor but in view of the crib??? Besides it looks like a sturdy mobile and not like its going to just start popping off any second. pish posh ppl
I LOVVVEEE THE FLOOR!!
They will move it when the baby starts standing up and batting at it. Based on the height of that crib, this is a room for an infant who isn't standing. It's a cool mobile. Let's let cool be cool and not worry so much about being inadvertently killing their children with holiday decorations... the odds are astronomically against anybody, ever, choking on any of those balls. They could fill the crib with them and nothing would probably happen!
great, clever way to create a MCM mobile. and people...you need to CHILL OUT about the baby choking bit. i'm sure mom secured it well before she hung it. and on that note, eat some sushi while you're pregnant and enjoy life!
Thank you all for liking my little creation and for Nova's safety. Since I shot those photos, the crib has been lowered because she is standing. She's not even close to being able to reach it. It hangs half over and half off the crib. We actually spin it for her to watch and noting has ever fallen off...plus if it did they are too big for her to get in her mouth and she would never be able to swallow one. Her staying alive is pretty important to us. She is safe!!! And if I ever thought for one second she wasn't...mobile in the trash. That's all. xxoo.
I hate to think of what kind of panicky children you panicky people are raising.
Lovely mobile. What a great idea!
The safety police here needs to chill. This is not the point of this website. None of us has a clue how the room is being used, if it was staged for the photo, and so on. The parents definitely don't need complete strangers telling them how to keep their children safe. Are you guys walking up to complete strangers on the street to point out safety hazards involving their kids? I don't think so. Don't do it online either.
Rachel, the mobile is great, I pinned it and might make one for my son's room!
"They could fill the crib with them and nothing would probably happen!"- ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!? that thing hanging over the crib is straight frightening. "Safety police" - please! the point of thise site is to demonstrate a level of responsibility when promoting ideas to fashion driven parents who fail to acknowledge danger! and this is coming from a developmental specialist who is familiar with near death evnts related to choking hazards! Choking children are not in style!
This is the most perfect nursery I've ever seen on Ohdeedoh. There are so many simple and smart design elements. From that amazing dresser, to the curtain bunched up on the floor... and fantastic color balance. The mobile is also, of course, just right in there. Bravo, Rachel!