Name: Levi Duncan
Age: 3 months
Location: Pacifica, CA
Sunni and Greg sought a room that felt serene, peaceful and calm for their newborn son and they achieved this with their cool color palette and the addition of neutral browns to play into their loose woodsy theme. Their furnishings and accessories are a mix of do-it-yourself creations, fun finds and strategic purchases. Most importantly, the room reflects their taste and personalities.
Sunni offers more insight into Levi's wonderfully woodsy new home:
Inspiration: We wanted a serene, relaxing room for our baby. We have fun ideas for a toddler room when Levi is ready to play and interact with his space more, but for the first year our focus was to have a peaceful place for all of us. We are big animal lovers and wanted to loosely do something with forest animals as accents for the nursery, but we live right by the ocean and so that played a part too. This combo lead us to pretty pale blues, greens and browns with many, many animal friends.
Favorite Element: Open shelves with open bins for everything from blankets to hats to burp clothes (mine - makes it so easy to grab whatever you need and looks good too); glider for rocking baby to sleep and all the random animals instead of just teddy bears (dad's - likes saying goodnight with Levi to the otter, beluga, and groundhog (for real!) stuffed animals); drawer organizers for all the tiny clothes (grandma's - easy to separate the pajamas from the long-sleeved onesies).
Biggest Challenge: Like many people space is an issue as we have a small house with smallish bedrooms. The crib and dresser are pretty big so we had to work on fitting in other pieces and elements while still making the room feel open and inviting. Luckily we were able to use wooden crates, bookshelves and an Ikea unit that all have narrow profiles to offer lots of storage but not take up a lot of space. Keeping the middle open and using light paint on walls with deeper colors on the flooring help it feel spacious I think.
What Friends Say: "Can I sleep here?!" Our friends say they love the tranquility of the room and the handmade things.
Proudest DIY: The pillows! I made freezer paper stencils of a fox and a crane for the pillows to somewhat resemble the fancy (pricey) ones I have always wanted. The dreamy ones are screen-printed and lovely, but I like my version too.
Biggest Indulgence: Definitely the FLOR carpet tiles. We have 2 great danes and discovered the wonders of FLOR tiles years ago as a way to easily clean or replace a small piece of carpet in the event of any pet mishaps without having to pay for expensive carpet cleaning or renting a steam cleaner and so on. Now that we have our first 2-legged baby, we thought the same benefits could be useful in the nursery!
Best advice: Um, look to Ohdeedoh for inspiration?! Seriously, we just winged this. By putting together stuff we already had in other places of the house, stuff we made, and some key purchased items I think we achieved a cozy room that feels like "us" to welcome our first baby.
Resources: FLOR, Ikea, Pier One, Target
Thank you Sunni, Greg & Levi!
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I adore those unique alphabet/animal cards on the wall ledge! Where are they from???
I have looked and looked for outdoorsy/woodsy crib bedding. Where did you get it? It's adorable!!! :-)
Barrentree -- it looks like the Carter's set that is for sale at JCPenney.
I love the color palette and room details. Nice job! :)
What an adorable nursery for a lucky little boy! It's not my nursery, but I do know the answer to both of your questions!
I've been eyeing those flash cards from land of nod, they're called "the wild cards" and a friend was looking at that bedding which is made by carter's and is part of the forest friend's collection!
Thanks AP for featuring Levi's room! I had so much fun putting it together.
The lovely alphabet cards are by Lisa DeJohn and can be found here (among other places): http://www.buyolympia.com/q/Item=lisa-dejon-animal-flashcards
The bedding is Carter's as mentioned above. It was my favorite woodsy bedding of the ones I was able to find. Though this 'Willow' bedding is great too: http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/kli/kli8307bed4.html
I love this sweet room. It's pulled together yet completely uncontrived. Bravo!
So cute, I love the pillows, a great solution to the pricey pillows.
Emily @ http://456eleven.com
I love the wallcolor. What is it? This is an inspiration for my 2 year old's room who is a TOTAL nature lover!! Thanks for sharing!
The layout of your room is pretty much the same as our (future) baby's room so I appreciate the way you decorated the room. It's giving me hope that I can fit in a changing table/dresser, toy/book shelf and a crib! I also love that soft box with the leaf fabric! Did you make it?
PS: I also love that owl decal by the window. Do you mind sharing where you got it? Thanks!
Great room. I am inspired by the little bird painting. I feel like painting one for my little daughter. Love the pillows too. xoxo
Great job on the pillows and the entire room! May I ask the source of the cute corner bookshelf?
Would love to know about the wall color and the bunnies. So hard to find appropriate bunny stuff for boys. Thanks!
Corner shelf is an old one from IKEA
I'm glad people are enjoying Levi's room as much as we do!
--The corner bookshelf is from Ikea. It's 10 years old but I believe they still have the same one these days.
--The leaf storage bin is a wooden crate from Michaels that I painted, stamped and then lined with paper.
--The bunnies on the window are just cutouts I made from scrapbook paper. That photo is from around Easter and was my way of decorating the nursery for spring. They're gone now and I'm working on the next cutouts with a summer theme. The cutouts on the window seemed like an easy, cheap, fun way to add some changing decorations to the room.
Will post later today with the paint color - need to find the can in the garage.
Thanks everyone!
Oh and the owl decals were from a friend who found them at T.J. Maxx so no help there I'm sorry to say as I don't remember the brand. I did however find this one you may like: http://www.vinylwallart.com/owl.html in addition to others by searching online.
I could live in this room - it's timeless! Thanks for a lovely walk in the woods. Cheers!
Oh my gosh I love that clock, can I ask where you got it?
Thanks!
Can you tell us where you got the hummingbird/owl print? I love it!
I realized this is many months late, but the clock was a handmade gift, and the hummingbird and owl print is by Lee Jayred and I found it in a local antique store and loved it!