Name: Tyler (10 months)
Location: Great Neck, New York
We just moved into our new house and found out we were expecting about a year later. We had renovated most of the house and were so excited to redo a bedroom into a nursery!
For our son we wanted a modern yet playful design that didn't scream "baby!" so it could grow with him as he grew and we wouldn't have to update it right away. We got our design inspiration from different websites and blogs. Also, from design shows and magazines. Pretty much from all over! My decorating style is contemporary. I like traditional with hits of modernism.
All of the nursery furniture is from a local store on Long Island. It's Stanley Young America. The glider is the Monte Luca glider and ottoman. The bedding is DwellStudio. All the other items were gifts from friends and family after the baby was born. The Bubble Clock is from Garnet Hill. We had the walls and ceiling painted. The back wall is a chalkboard paint for when Tyler is older and wants to use is imagination. The light fixture is from Shades of Light. The curtains are custom made. The Tyler letters are from Etsyisan BooBahBlue and the alphabet wall is another Etsy find- A Work in Progress Gifts.
My favorite items are the alphabet wall and the curtains and shades. I love the ball fringe! It's so playful! I also love the light fixture which was a second choice. The first fixture we installed was too large for the room. It was a happy accident that we bought this one and I'm so glad we did!
The size of the room is our biggest challenge. Granted, it's for a baby, but the room is tiny. I was worried we had too much furniture and it was tough planning the layout, but it's all come together. Every time I sit in his nursery to feed him I feel happy and fulfilled. It's exactly as I could have imagined.
It's lovely - thanks Jennifer!
(Images: Dan Loh)
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I think parents put up an alphabet to help children become familiar with letters.
I personally love alphabet decorating. I don't even have kids and I sometimes think about putting one up on my wall. haha
Your baby is so freaking cute!!!!!
Well, it doesn't scream 'baby' but it's too busy for any room. At least your baby has a good name compared to some of the previous AT babies.
I agree..lots of these nurserys have stopped resembling kids rooms and show more like grown up rooms.
What ever happen to a simple kids rooms with the abundance of toys and stuff animals...harder to clean??
When this was OhDeeDoh the comments were so much more positive. Please separate this from Apartment Therapy.
This nursery is like the "low" from a hypothetical "high/low" feature on how to get the look of Jenna Lyons' "high" nursery (see post 67705 on AT) without dropping big bank. Yellow striped ceiling, mismatched cut-out letters and dark grey/black walls. The thing is this: the ways in which the painting of this nursery deviates from the "high" example are to its detriment and have nothing to do with budget. Specifically: All the walls appear to be painted dark grey whereas the Lyons nursery only has one black/grey wall, and even that wall has a white fireplace (impossible to duplicate on a budget, although the dresser might have achieved that with the right coat of paint) and tall white contoured floor mouldings (easy to duplicate) - the effect is an exciting contrast in the "high" example that is lost in the "low". Also (and I'm sure a lot of thought went into this), the direction of the stripes may not be as effective in the low as in the high - in the high, the stripes draw the eye to the windows, the light, and generally into the room. In the low they make an already narrow room feel even narrower and pull the eye toward a dark wall (granted, there is a baby sleeping along that wall, but still). Anyway, I get that the goal wasn't to straight up duplicate the "high" but, more of its successful teachings could have been absorbed. That said, as for the funky mismatched letters, I think they are more effectively used in the low than in the high - in the high they are a little self-conscious and affected, whereas in the low they are just a great alphabet on the wall and totally appropriate in a nursery.
I think that black triangle is an alcove.
@uberbunny I agree the "black triangle" is an alcove. I thought it was painted at first, but if you look at the position of the chair and the corner by the window it has to be or there wouldn't be enough space for the crib.
It's a cute room and they've done well with a small space.
I think it's cute and I like the ceiling and light fixture.
Thanks for the sweet comments on my baby! Just to clarify...the black triangle isn't at all scary...promise! It's actually is an alcove. We live in a tudor style home and it's the triangle. It actually makes a sweet nook for baby T. And, the walls look very dark in the pics but are actually a blue-specifically Normandy Blue from BM. As for the Jenna Lyons nursery- I had to look it up! Hadn't seen it before. I actually have a lot of white pops in the room. Baseboards and moldings and all of the furniture is a light wood with white. The other colors are pops of yellow and light blue. It's actually a very sunny, happy room and we're all pretty happy in it! Jenny