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Decorating A Baby Nursery: A Few Essentials
You're expecting a child and suddenly you
need to find the time and the budget for decorating a baby nursery.
However, before unleashing your credit cards, there are a few
essentials you should take into consideration when decorating a baby
nursery before you get into grander themes and strategies.
Consider the following decorating elements to avoid having to
redecorate in a year or two:
1. A Pleasing Color Scheme
This should be your first consideration when decorating a baby
nursery. Pale yellows, lilacs, or cream colors are a good foundation
and will be suitable for both boys and girls, infants and toddlers.
If you are determined to go with pinks and blues, you can make the
look more flexible by keeping the colors pale, and then adding
accent colors in bright primary colors.
You can find a large assortment of stick-on borders that are easy to
remove and change as your baby grows. Look at borders with blues,
yellows, lavender, and sage or grass greens. Then pick up the border
colors in your baby linens, lamps, curtains, mobiles, and dressers.
You can paint an existing dresser in one of the border colors, and
then easily repaint it when your child decides he or she has a
favorite color. You can also decorate dresses with stickers or hand
paint designs on the wood.
2. A Sturdy Rocking Chair
If you are decorating a baby nursery, you absolutely must include a
rocking chair. You will find this item to be a sanity saver as your
baby finally falls asleep in your arms. And you may even drift off
yourself if the rocker is sufficiently comfy.
Either make or buy soft, deep seat cushions and pillows for your
back in one of the colors on the walls' border. Try a print fabric
with an accent color for the seat cushion, and blue or lavender
solid fabrics for the back rest pillows.
3. A High Quality Crib
In decorating a baby nursery, the most crucial element is the crib.
Do not cut corners in terms of your budget on this piece. The crib
must be of the best quality you can afford and certifiably safe for
infants.
Cribs come in a multitude of styles, colors, and materials. Remember
that you don't have to match the rest of your furniture to your
crib. You can still have a clean white crib with a pale pine or oak
dresser. Mix up plastics and woods, patterns and solid to design the
most flexible plan for decorating a baby nursery.
4. Assorted Linens
Use your baby linens to change the look of the room when decorating
a baby nursery. Sew or buy a number of washable duvets so you can
change them often and wash them easily. Stock up on some plain white
fitted crib sheets for those times when you know you'll be tossing
them out. It's better than throwing away a beautiful patterned sheet
that matches a number of elements in the nursery.
These are the fundamentals to get you started on decorating a baby
nursery. After you have your color scheme and basic furnishings, you
can move on to the fun, incredibly cute design elements available
for decorating baby nurseries.
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