It's fun to flip through magazines and blogs and check out lavish nurseries put together by big name designers or professionals, but it's easy to feel a disconnect in the face of their polished perfection. (What? Your nursery doesn't have two vases of fresh flowers?). But don't let that stop you from taking inspiration from them for your own more humble home.

This room was designed by Lucas Studio in West Hollywood and was part of the Stately Homes by the Sea Designer Show House this past spring. The room is sophisticated and extravagant (not to mention huge) and may feel unattainable. But if you feel drawn to it, try to suss out what it is you are attracted to. The shapes, the mood, the color palette, the mix of textures, the giant pelican painting? Pull these ideas from it and think about how they can work in your home and budget.
To see more of this room, check out Lucas Studios' portfolio.
(Images: John Bessler. Via House of Turquoise)

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Wait, what?? This doesn't even look like a nursery! It looks like a living room with a crib, changing table, and rocking horse shoved over in the corner!
Does anyone at Lucas Studios have a baby? Lots of draperies to be pulled down and sharp corners. This isn't a room where a toddler could play alone for a while. Maybe the nanny will be sleeping in the daybed.
I don't think the designer has kids. It's a space designed to hide the fact that a baby sleeps there.
Gorgeous room. Just take out the crib, and it's simply a lavish living room like robinm said! This doesn't look very kid-friendly at all.
I do love that crib though.
I think this is stunning! I'd love to have a nursery like this. Babies and toddlers don't really care what their rooms look like, so it may as well be pleasing to the adults who will be spending time in there.
I did have a lovely plant in the nursery until my son started to crawl and found the dirt to eat. :)
I like the color palette. Not necessarily for a nursery but for a very lovely living room.
About the only thing I'd want in my nursery is that cool pelican painting. Those sharp things over the changing table give me hives just thinking about putting a baby under them.
This room is hilarious. I can't imagine anything less suited to an infant.
What a beautiful HUGE room! Just keep in mind that the room will be redone when the baby is a toddler, and again as a young child oh, and I am sure again as a young teen... I assume people who have this kind of money don't care about the sharp edges and such since the room wont be like this long ;).
This made me laugh out loud - yes, it is a pretty color palette with lovely and interesting furniture, but it's a complete hazard to a baby and/or toddler! The pointed flower-mirrors above the changing table?? Shudder..
Lord Fauntleroy, thine nursery awaits thee.
If you go to the link, it has a pic of the closet, which is amazing...and practical.
Dannyva, that is a blown up American White Pelican painted by John James Audubon.
Thanks popsicle. :)
It looks so "decorated by a decorator". Even though certain elements are cool, the rooms I see on this website that are done by non-decorators have so much more charm.
I don't like the decorator nursery trend of the weird hanging canopy/drapery thing over the crib (or couch, as in this case). I think those things look so looming and awkward. Celebrities seem to like them in nurseries, maybe because it makes the room look expensive, but I find them so tacky and overdone. The whole couch/canopy area is pretty yucky for me.. dark brown wall, uncomfortable looking couch with way too many pillows, fussy canopy. The pendant light is cool, though, and inspiring.
The rest of the nursery I really like. Sharp corners are actually okay for the first six months of life and then parents can adjust as needed. And the first six months with a first baby can seem like six years, so I say enjoy those sharp corners while you have the time.
The crib is really cool. Also love the peacock, pelican painting, sunflower mirrors, curtains, Moroccan inspired tables, Moroccan inspired pendant light. I think these elements could be incorporated into a whimsical and relaxing nursery.
I think it really is that couch canopy that's turning everyone off. Any nursery that includes one of those canopies usually gets a big thumbs down on this site. And I hate them, too, so I understand that...lol
If the canopy and couch area were removed and the two little end tables were replaced with a round table, I think almost everyone would be loving this room.
I feel sorry for any child that would have that room. That room is decorated for mommy and not the child, despite the fact that mommy has 10 other rooms in the house that are also decorated for her. That would be a mommy who isn't up for sacrificing one room of her home so her baby can have a colorful and child appropriate environment. We wouldn't want our house to look like a baby lives in it now would we?
I agree Honey Haze.
This isn't meant in a snarky way, but it's worth pointing out that this is from a show house, not an actual residence. Think "tour of homes" or "home-a-rama"...designers take on a house or a room in a house and decorate the holy heck out of it, and frankly they're more concerned about showing off the latest trend or color or technique than anything else. I've worked on home shows before, and frequently no thought at all is given to the practicality or real-life use for a room. The point here, I think, is to tell people it's ok to look at a goofy, impractical picture and find a color that speaks to you, or a beautiful print, and make it work in your real-life home. Have fun with it :)
This is so inspirational. I am thinking of incorporating the nursery in the living room because I only have a very small 1 bedroom. Apartment therapy, pls. Showcase more homes with nursery in the living area .