Butterfly nursery themes are an excellent choice for the decorator looking for something original yet natural. The wings of butterflies are like snowflakes in that each one’s designs are completely unique.
What a fabulous way to introduce your baby to the outdoors while bringing color and fun to the room. Once your baby boy or baby girl grows, there’s no need to discard your collection of butterflies. With a little imagination on your part, these beautiful insects can evolve as decorative accessories for many room themes.
BABY BEDDING SETS
As with most nursery themes, choose a baby bedding set that you like. Don’t feel that you must find a cribset covered with monarchs in order to begin your butterfly nursery décor. That’s the beauty of this theme! You can perch a dainty little butterfly or ladybug in various nursery displays that add to most themed rooms or a baby nursery butterfly garden mural.
NURSERY THEMES FOR BABY BOYS, BABY GIRLS or NEUTRAL THEMES
Your butterfly decor will work with any of the following unisex nursery ideas:
Are you wondering if butterflies would be masculine enough for a baby boy’s bedroom? Think about it, aren’t butterflies and other occupants of nature fixtures in all of the themes mentioned above? Wouldn’t the honeybees in the Winnie the Pooh Nursery theme be right at home with a butterfly and a ladybug or two? Even a bear would include several varieties in his inventory of forest creatures!
NURSERY PAINTING, NURSERY WALL DECORATIONS and COLOR IDEAS
Suggestions of the best nursery wall painting colors would of course depend on how strong your chosen butterfly’s coloring would be. As long as you stay close to colors found in nature, there’s really no way to go wrong. For instance the most vivid yellows blend well with a painted blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds. The oranges and reds will never clash with the natural green of a grassy meadow. Your color restrictions would be in matching and coordinating your colors with your nursery artwork, your baby bedding and window treatments.
The painting impaired such as myself can take the easy and cheap way with some nursery wallies or wallpaper cutouts. If you prefer a three dimensional look, paint some picket fencing a pretty color and paint a pastoral scene to surround it.
If you prefer a monochromatic scheme, mix and match some butterfly stencils. If you are an old hand at stenciling, add more color as you wish.
BUTTERFLY ACCESSORIES
Go shopping for artwork featured in different species of butterflies. Contract a professional or an artistic friend to paint a contemporary canvas wallhanging or a one of a kind original growth chart personalized with your baby’s birth details and name.
NURSERY FURNITURE
Don’t feel you are bound to use white nursery furnishings. Be BOLD! Use the same striking colors and contrasts that you love in your flying friends! Lime greens, bold yellows and warm reds can all be used if a nod is given to the color wheel and the wild colors of the beckoning outdoors. It’s just paint! Use color boards and give it a try for a few days at a time. If you don’t like it, take another route. Have fun!
