Yes, it's a total coincidence that both yesterday and today's post are child-centric, although yes, I do love me some miniature humans -- and we are hoping and excited for a miniature Henderson too. So I finished this nursery a few weeks ago, but it's posted on Apartment Therapy today. While I kinda wanted to wait to post it (so you guys are totally overwhelmed with super high quality, yet very mommy-centric content), I also wanted to capitalize on Apartment Therapy's readership. You know. Get 'em hooked. So, for all the Apartment Therapy readers and my loyals alike, here is a nursery makeover. Here's what the room looked like before:
photo by Bethany Nauert
Oh, yes. It's VERY cute. And that wallpaper is awesome. The crib was the homeowners already, but it worked in the space. The rotating bookshelf is from PotteryBarn Teen, but we had it painted to work better in the space. We had a painter come over one day and paint, like five pieces of furniture, so I think this piece was like $250 to paint. Orlando spearheaded that whole thing and really did so much more than I did in this nursery. The baby bedding was custom from Etsy and the homeowner picked it out so I have to give her credit for that.photo by bethan nauert
Orlando also had this dresser painted to match the bookshelf, and let me be clear Orlando did A LOT of implementing the design of this room and house. I did the art direction, but he made it all happen. Hire him.photo by bethany nauert
It was vintage, I think $180, then painted two tones. Nice job Orlando, it looks great. My contribution to this space was the yellow bicycle lamp, of course. I found it at a thrift store for like $23 bucks or something, and then we just spray painted it and added a shade for $40. It might be my favorite thing in the room. The artwork was picked out by the homeowner, all from Etsy, but we framed them with inexpensive frames and hung them up.photo by bethany nauert
The twin storage bed is from Ikea and the hot air balloons are from Authentic Models (although it's a wholesale company so I'm not sure who sells them to non-designers -- but I see them around a lot so they shouldn't be too hard to find. In fact HERE.) The bedding is a West Elm blanket and their striped sheets. Then we bought Aina linen curtains from Ikea and the homeowner had them lined with blackout lining and hung them on an Ikea hospital track across the ceiling.photo by bethany nauert
The nursing chair is from Little Castle which the homeowner chose. I really wanted to get the one from PotteryBarn that you see in the moodboard, but they had none in the LA area to sit on to try out before customizing. And there was no return policy because each one was custom. Not exactly a smart business move. So the homeowner went with this one because her friend has it so she could try it out -- and it's crazy comfortable. The charcoal closet doors is chalkboard paint, which he is way too young to utilize now as he is only six-weeks-old, but later he will. Pics of the rest of their loft later, but what do you think of the nursery? When you are in the space it feels so happy and fresh, which is pretty much what we were going for.