Comments on: Activity #377: Decorate baby’s room

By: Becky Senf

Becky Senf — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:44:28 +0000

I don’t remember anymore which catalogue it was that I saw it in, but Land of Nod or Pottery Barn Kids or some such used that blackboard paint to create huge silhouettes to decorate a kid’s room and I thought that looked great. Right now our (two year old) son still shares our bedroom, but we’re about to move and he’ll soon have his own room, so I’m overwhelmed with options!

I like the idea of a “children’s book” theme – I was thinking about doing similar with the dust jackets of Nick’s books. We end up taking them all off, and at the moment they are all in a box gathering dust. What else will we do with them. I figure we could cut the cover section off and frame his favorites.

Also Art.com has tons of poster art that would look great in a child’s room – you can search by subject – trucks, giraffes, butterflies, dogs – and find all sorts of relatively inexpensive posters.

I’ve also considered trying my hand at photographing an eclectic group of basic things – apples, toy trains, rubber ducks, a tree – and creating a set of photographs that could be framed together in a grid as a decoration for Nick’s room. If I ever manage to do it, I’ll post a link.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:50:15 +0000

Check out the Rocket Dogs from Arte Bebe. I saw them on Cool Mom Picks. Then again, I do have a penchant for characters that one could get sick of while dots and stripes are forever. My mom painted a huge palm tree and jungle animals in Holden's room.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:46:23 +0000

Very chic! I love it!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:27:56 +0000

My husband and I needed a neutral theme that wasn’t overdone. We love to travel and hope to return to the mission field with our kids someday, so we figured a travel theme was a good choice. We are using green as the main color and decorating with maps and globes. I even got crafty and put a map over a lampshade that had yellowed over time.

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:58:34 +0000

We decorated our sons room with art from classic children’s books by simply buying some calendars on clearance (for $1 each!) and framing the art using standard mats and frames from the craft store. The entire project – about a dozen framed art prints – cost a tiny bit over $100, and everyone comments on them. I believe the calendar we used was called something like “Celebrating Children’s Books” so it had art from a wide variety of artists, and almost everyone who comes in the room finds one that they point to and say “that was my favorite book as a child!”

By: kendra

kendra — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:31:36 +0000

I love your stripes! And polka dotted bumper pad.

I didn’t get too crazy with paint, but I went stripy with the curtains. After being inspired by my favorite store up here in St. Helena, the Vintage House, I went for a ‘vintage french’ theme for Charlie’s nursery. Yes, I know, a little weird for a baby boy, but hey, until he gets an opinion, vintage french it is!

Here’s my blog entry about it with photos:
http://shoppingfortwo.com/blog/?p=89

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:07:23 +0000

I like that a lot, too! Maybe we’ll do the same for our daughter’s nursery… er, bedroom. (She’s nearly 11. We never did get around to decorating. Of course, now the plans have changed…)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:42:22 +0000

My wife’s an interior designer, and we both wanted to make sure our baby’s room wasn’t all cutesy with animals.

Plus, if you do your baby’s room like the one you highlighted or one like ours, it’s not really a ‘baby’s room’. It’s a kids room, and you don’t have to redesign it as they grow.

http://365parents.com