Here are some decorating ideas and suggestions for baby bedding nautical and seaworthy that will have your nautical baby nursery theme and decor at full sail! There are so lots of excellent ways to bring memories of sailing and salty air into your baby's nursery. It's very tempting to load the shelves, walls and furniture up with model sailboats, anchors, rigging, lighthouses and other boating motifs.
The colors that you use in your nautical decor are just as important as your decorative items. Think of the colors come to mind when you remember the last day you spent sailing? I'm sure that it's no surprise that various shades of blue come to mind. Which shades of blue that you select and what colors you use to accent depend on your nautical inspiration piece, which in this decorating project will most likely be the nautical baby bedding set.
FLY YOUR FLAGS HIGH
There are many baby bedding sets that will tickle your little mariner complete with quilts, bumpers, dust ruffles and crib sheet sets. Many have all of the nautical themed decorative items that you will need to put together your baby's nursery. Some of my favorite fabrics for this style of decor are covered in colorful flags that you could imagine flying from the masts of sailing ships from all over the globe.
If you don't care for flag theme baby bedding fabric, pick up some vintage flags to use as wall decorations. You could use a row of identically sized banners as a nautical nursery window valance.
PAINTING TECHNIQUES for the NAUTICAL NURSERY'S WALLS
Again, take your cues for the best paint colors for your nautical nursery design from the baby bedding fabric print.
Since most sailboat baby bedding sets have a color scheme based on blue, white or pale yellow walls would be excellent, but always take your inspiration piece with you to the home improvement store to get a good color match.
Murals for a nautical baby nursery might includes pictures of a seascape. Anchors, lighthouses and New England style cottages reminiscent of a day in the dune of Cape Cod would all be great companions in your baby's room.
NAUTICAL NURSERY LIGHTING
Take a lamp that you have on hand and transform it into a nautical theme lamp with the easy addition of a lighthouse or anchor finial. Brass lamps are excellent and you can use them in other styles of decor should you give the nursery a makeover and toss the nautical theme.
NAUTICAL THEME NURSERY FURNITURE
Dress up any plain wooden chest of drawer with the addition of nautical drawer pulls. Plain polished brass button pulls or custom knobs in the shape of a sailboat or other boating motifs are a cheap and easy way to update a baby dresser or other pieces of baby furniture and bring up to speed with your nautical baby bedding for a baby boy or a girl.
DECORATIVE NURSERY ACCESSORIES
Collectible lighthouses on display shelves,vintage lifebuoys over the head of the baby's bed and tugboats will all be in keeping with your boating theme and you can still use nautical themed or Navy Flags and Naval banners for color.