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A designer baby room

Use these original touches for a unique feel

By Courtney EllisPublished: September, 2010

This last year we have been busy decorating baby rooms along with my own baby girl room. It’s so much fun to design for a mom to be. An expectant mom is dreaming of what their child will grow up to love and wants to capture that in their room. It’s the first space that this baby will sleep in and grow. I love for a baby’s room to have an elegant touch to them and to be able to adjust the design with the changing babies.

Here are some fun design tips for what we did in our baby rooms:
 
• Frame pages from a favorite childhood book – This client loved “The Velveteen Rabbit.” I purchased a new book online and added colored pencil lightly to the drawings to add some color.
 
• Get away from the typical rocking chair – I looked at this as something I would want to reupholster some day and have in her bedroom as she grows.

• Upholstered toy benches are great for storing toys and sitting on. We used the extra fabrics from the crib bedding to make this piece extra special.  

• Take a paragraph from a book and turn it into a quote on the wall – My client picked out her favorite quotes and we choose the size, color and font that would work best in each space. This particular product is not painted on, but applied like stickers. This is so easy to apply and take off when your ready to change the room.

• Don’t waste money on a piece of furniture for just the changing table – Make sure that the piece can be adjusted back to a dresser as soon as the diaper changing is over.

• Consider using the window space as the focal point – I love when the window height are just right to be able to add a piece of furniture that is framed between two drapery panels.  

• Change up those solid letters to spell out your baby’s name – We added some ribbon that matches the room and painted some simple butterfly on them.  

• Gallery style grouping of monthly baby pictures on a frame ledge – Here we had the frames all ready to go and were filled each month as new pictures were taken.

If you would like to see more pictures both of these baby room our on ellisdg.com

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