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Darling Baby & Toddler Rooms

oceanna
16 years ago

What could be more fun than decorating a baby's room? You can really let the creativity flow. Babies benefit immensely from visual stimulation.

Try a wallpaper border:

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Or go with wallpaper:

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You can buy stencils, or wallies, wallpaper, or wallpaper murals. You can print something off your computer, or use something from a coloring book and project it on the wall, outline it, then paint it. Your library may have some books on how to paint children's murals.

You don't have to have immense talent to make a baby's room really interesting, and it doesn't have to be perfect. Your baby won't be born an art critic! Multiple colors, shapes, horizontals, verticals, diagonals, curves -- all are good for your little one's mental and visual development.

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(Please don't tie bows on a crib; baby can choke on them.)

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If that doesn't strike your fancy, here are some rooms without murals:

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Please post your own pics!

Comments (38)

  • RNmomof2 zone 5
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    move on down!

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    What does that mean?

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Here are a few more...

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  • anele_gw
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    As always, Oceanna-- inspiring! Thank you!

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Thanks, Anele! I didn't think anyone cared about this thread.

  • bungalow_house
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Yes, thanks oceanna! Love the shabby chic nursery...won't find that one in a bag at Target. :)

  • bungalow_house
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Ok, after looking, I have to admit that Target has a couple of things that would work in that shabby chic room!

  • perky_2
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    not a baby room but sureus cute

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Perky, that's a darling room. I've been meaning to start a "children's rooms" thread.

    Bungalow, thanks for letting me know you're enjoying the thread!

  • goodwithweeds
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Oceanna--
    Thank you for all of your work on the "eye candy" threads. Don't think it's not appreciated! For me, it takes time to study each one--I just made it to this one. I'm getting all kinds of inspiration. I (who mostly lurk) would love to see a "children's rooms" thread! And anything else you think of! Great work.

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Thanks to everyone who let me know you're enjoying this thread! I did start a thread for older kids' rooms too.

    Here are some more baby rooms...

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    These are from Rate My Space:

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    76. 8648505 hand painted with her dad, who passed away when she was 6 mos. pregnant...
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    78. 8761645 hand done with the aid of a projector
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    More to come...

  • christy2828
    16 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    I love those nurseries!! I wish this thread had been around 3 years ago :) I would love to share what we did for my daughter's room. This is when it was almost finished.





  • oceanna
    Original Author
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Christy, that is darling! I love the ants across the window sill -- lol. Did you paint the tree yourself? The room is bright and imaginative. It's a wonderful place and I'll bet your little daughter just loves it.

  • christy2828
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Thank you, Oceanna :) We traced the trees from a coloring book onto a transparency and used an overhead projector to trace the image onto the wall. It is such a fun room, we all love it!! Just wanted to point out, the room was not finished in the pictures. The plug was covered and the shade strings secured before baby came :) The baby in the pic is my neice, just visiting!! Christy

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    bump

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

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  • oceanna
    Original Author
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Here are some more. Does anyone care about this thread, or shall I let it drift around the corner and go byebye for good?

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  • christy2828
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    I enjoy it!! Keep them coming, I'm moving next year and baby #2 is on the way :) Christy

  • angelcub
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Oceana, thanks so much for all your work! I am getting ready to paint and decorate the bedroom of my granddaughters. You've given me soooo many wonderful ideas! They are 4 and 1 yr. old. And the room is small so I loved seeing the different bed ideas.

    Thanks again! I truly appreciate all your efforts on this gallery side. Love all the other threads you keep going, too. : )

    Diana

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Christy2828, and Diana, my pleasure! I'm so thrilled to know you're getting inspiration from these darling pictures, and that you're also enjoying my other threads. I hope you'll both post pics of your rooms when you're done, and congrats on your pregnancy, Christy! Happy baby!!

    Here are a few more pics:

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    15 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    14 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    More sweet baby rooms...

  • gardenlover25
    14 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    The toddlers room are very inspiring. Actually I pick one of the designs to renovate my daughters room.

  • igloochic
    14 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    This is my son's room. To explain it...

    I wanted a 1930's Earnest Hemmingway type safari tent. In African safari tents (of today) they have mixed antiques with modern, typically fur rugs or old asian pieces, the walls and ceiling are "tent (canvas)" and they are held in place with a wood structure at the corners. In my dream tent, if you pull back the tent sides, you would find all of the happy animals of the jungle looking to come play.

    Because it's a 3 year old's room...the faces had to be friendly, and some of the animals were his favorite at the time (which is why we have lady bugs, chickens and monkeys all in the same jungle).

    So here it is:
    From the door you see this side of the room. The bed is Pottery Barn (I gave way to a modern piece so we could have a trundle for any future friends who are healthy enough to stay with the little poop) but the small amoire is an antique from grandma :)
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    This is a pic from the window side looking to the closet (those painted doors) and the giraffe (it's eating a flower). I made half a dozen huge pillows for him to play on the floor with in the future from different faux fir animal prints:
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    Close up of his monkey and his bedside table (a stack of antique trunks and a wonderful lantern light from target)
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    The wall opposite the end of the bed with the friendly lion:
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    The ceiling is fabric, stapled to the ceiling above and then lowered 7" at the wall side to make it feel more tent like. We don't have spiders here and it's hung tight enough to dust with a vacuum :)
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  • jlpearce
    14 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    On oceanna's first post, the third to the last room picture (pink, brown girl room). Anyone have a guess as to the paint color. I am looking for a nice brown like that.

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    14 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Gardenlover, thanks! Oh, how about posting a picture of your DD's room?

    Iggy, oh my gosh, girl! That room is beyond fabulous! Did you do all that painting? What is that in the center on the ceiling, that looks like bamboo? The room is a perfect fantasy jungle play land for a little one.

    Jlpearce, I have no clue. Did you open two browsers, one to that picture and one to the Browns thread(s) in the gallery? That might give you some ideas. Otherwise, I'd go collect some brown paint cards at the store and bring them home and compare them to what you're seeing in that picture on your monitor.

  • nanny2a
    14 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

  • kiko_gw
    14 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Hey, I just noticed this post above was my daughter's baby room at our old house!!

    This was the same room "toddler-ized" when the crib was switched out for a reading area created with two PBK cameron one-shelf bookcases (sorry, I don't have a clearer pic on this computer):

  • kiko_gw
    14 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Here are some pretty color combinations from Serena and Lily's latest catalog:

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    13 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    A few more cutie baby rooms...

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    13 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Here are a few more.

    This one is by Vern Yip:

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  • oceanna
    Original Author
    13 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    A few more...

  • emagineer
    12 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    bump

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    12 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

  • allison0704
    12 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Here is a picture and a link to DD2 baby's nursery:

    Here is a link that might be useful: Eclectic Gender Neutral Nursery

  • allison0704
    12 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    GW's own TexasHottie baby's room. Also linked below:

    Here is a link that might be useful: Sophisticated Safari Nursery

  • emagineer
    12 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    bump

  • oceanna
    Original Author
    11 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Allison, thanks so much for sharing both adorable nurseries. I really enjoyed both links and you are a very good writer. Congrats on the new grandbaby! I love Texas Hottie's safari animals -- she is so creative and talented. Those are just amazing.

    Emagineer, thanks for the bump!

    More cute kid rooms:

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