Decorating your baby’s nursery can be a powerful way of starting to bond with your unborn baby. When nesting kicks in, use it to its full advantage to pour all your energy into creating a beautiful, personalised room for your new arrival!
As a newborn photographer and children’s photographer, I see a lot of nurseries. I’m so often struck by how much care and attention have gone into creating gorgeous rooms.
As a bit of an interiors addict myself, I’m always noting charming details and fun ideas.
Trends for nursery decor
- Bunting, stars and garlands: They’re here to stay!
- Animals: Everywhere! On prints, bedding, toys, blinds. Most children love animals, so it’s pretty much a fail safe choice for a baby’s bedroom.
- Blush pink with pale grey or gold: These are pretty colour combinations, and very soothing. Gold is wending its way into baby nurseries too – in little splashes like lamps, and in larger areas like patterned wallpaper. Grey can be a good colour choice to incorporate for making the bedroom a bit darker – some babies sleep better in a room that’s not super bright.
- Outdoors: Bringing the outdoors in with tropical designs or giant florals on wallpaper brings a wonderful freshness to the room – as does having lots of real plants in the room too.
- Bold colour choices: Even on a feature wall, like a dark grey wall, bold colour really brings a nursery to life.
- Playful paint designs: Triangles of different colours, or geometric designs with different shades (you’ll need a confident decorator for this) look great in a nursery.
- Sky: Clouds, moons and rainbows are classics, but have that very charming dream-like quality that works so well in nurseries. A moon pillow is something of a design classic!
- Grown-up rugs: Brightly coloured rugs can keep a nursery feeling as though it’s still a part of your home, reflecting your own tastes too.
- Gender-neutral colour schemes: With more and more attention being paid to gender stereotypes and expectations, gender neutral bedrooms are becoming increasingly popular. Quite right too!
A little freebie: a comprehensive guide
Free PDF: Tips For Decorating Your Baby's Nursery
This free guide includes:
- More nursery decor trends
- Tips from an interview with a designer maker
- 7 top nursery suppliers and stockists
- Links to 5 great articles on nursery design
I hope this inspires you with your own nursery plans 🙂
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