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DECORATING WITH TOILE in BABY'S NURSERY

Fabulous items to use for decorating with toile are readily available including toile baby bedding sets and accessories. In fact there are so many with such confusing names, that I've made a list below to help you find your favorite color combinations such as the pink tea party toile fabric and a brown toile for a boys nursery theme.
I've listed the baby outlet where you can find each toile baby bedding set from Winnie the Pooh Toile to Topsy Turvy Circus Toile. So, use the link and search for the bedding sets and accessories by name once you get to their site. Decorating with toile is easy and fun, but finding the perfect set of toile bedding can be challenging.

toile nursery theme baby bedding pink baby girl crib

I've gathered some of my favorite toile prints in children's designs all in one place!

If you don't want to be restricted to decorating with toile in any one French toile print, there are also patchwork toile girls bedding sets that are less formal. This is great if you are going for a more casual look but still want to try your hand at decorating with toile.

Decorating with toile has been a favorite throughout the home for centuries. It's only recently migrated into our baby's nursery themes. Elegant nursery themes can be built through decorating with toile with lovely children's toile print fabrics that tell a story. National Velvet - Pink and Chocolate Brown Crib Bedding set (no green) suitable for most pink and brown nursery themes -Gender Neutral

Sticky Rice - Deep Rusts, Tans and Browns - Mandarin Frog Closures and Oriental Prints. This set would be lovely in a panda nursery theme with some large stuffed Panda Bears. Baby Boy or Unisex

Penelope - Floral Toile and Satiny Stripes in an almost plum pink, Gray and Ivory for a Baby Girl Nursery Rhyme - Unique Pink Sage Green and Deep Chocolate Brown

Party Time Blue - Baby Bedding in Gingham Checks and Coordinating Toile Prints -Baby Boy Nursery Theme

Party Time Girl - Pink Stripes, Polka Dots and Coordinating Toile Print Fabrics - Baby Girl Nursery Theme

Jessica - Lavender ivory and Green. Interesting blend of prints in Plaids, Checks & Stripes. Baby Girl

Circus - Animals-Nature-Nursery Rhymes-Fairy Tales Toile Design -Baby Boy or Unisex Nursery Theme

Petit Moi - Appliqued Bunnies- Vintage Pinks and Greens- Baby Girl. This toile baby bedding set would be darling in a bunny nursery theme!

Frida - Pink and Ivory Toile-Beautiful for a baby girl's Fairy Nursery Theme!

Honey Bun - Brown and Pink Set - Decorating with toile in a gender neutral nursery theme

Wonderland Park by Banana Fish-BEAUTIFUL toile for a baby boy!

Ashley by Celebrations - Pink and Green Set - Great Trim

Isabella by Glenna Jean - Pink and Green Toile Set - Tassels

Libbie by Glenna Jean-Pink and Ivory Toile-Polka Dots-Baby Girl

Tiny Dancer by Cotton Tale - Ivory, pink and toile. Not a scenery type of toile fabric. For a Ballerina Nursery Theme? The words "Tiny Dancer" are embroidered on the bumper. Baby Girl

Genevieve by Banana Fish-Blue and Rose-Floral Toile - Baby Girl

Park Avenue - Ivory and green with some Yellow Toile print bedding - Decorating in toile for a Baby Girl OR a baby boy

Green Valley - Green, Pink and Ivory Toile Set - Baby Girl

While once considered to be a fabric available only to the upper classes, toile baby bedding as well as adult and other juvenile toile bedding sets can now be found at some discount stores. You can find mink,chocolate or bronze velvets and posh coral pinks in Topsy Turvy Circus toile bedding sets for a baby girl or boy in almost any baby center this season.

If you have a completely unique custom nursery design in mind, there are many ways to get the look that you want. When shopping online be cautious in loading up one toile prints. For instance, you may not want to use a busy toile wallpaper AND a toile print comforter or bedding set. Get ideas from the pictures of beautifully decorated nurseries, but don't copy them. Compare several pictures and use your own decorating ideas for a unique room that is original and of your own design. Shop online for discount prices, but put your room together using your own imagination and original decorating ideas!

Get toile fabric swatches and go to one of the home paint or wallpaper sites and mix it up a little! Do traditional decor with a twist! Mix some neon shades with class toile design. It's possible to have a classic or traditional look and not be dull. In the past, the best paint color for the nursery using the girl toile in the above picture would have been a girly pink. A more modern approach would be to use a bolder shade that will make the whitewashed crib POP! I would suggest that the best paint color for this would be a shade I found in Ralph Lauren's Island Brights called Mai Tai or if that's a little TOObold, I would try the Relay or Amalfi Red.

Toile fabrics are often cotton printed with classic scenes of times gone by. The scenes when looked at closely tell a tale. No wonder decorating with toile has become such a nursery favorite. What better place for a fanciful, descriptive nursery rhyme of a print to be displayed on the comforter,wallpaper or curtains than in a baby's bedroom.

Toile pattern fabrics have been around for several centuries.

While other vintage prints go in and out of style, one color combination of toile or another is always appropriate in our modern homes and decorating with toile in our nurseries is one of my favorites.

If you happen to favor a vintage or victorian style nursery decorating ideas, black and cream toile look absolutely fabulous with some old sepia tone pictures. Paint your nursery wall in a creamy ivory shade, hang some antique look lace curtains at the windows and enjoy!

You say that you don't have any old family photos? Here's an idea, use a color printer and some parchment paper to copy modern photographs of your babies in a vintage style christening gown. The result will be instant heirloom quality photographs!

Classic centuries old French Toile fabric designs are extremely cool at the moment in baby nursery gear, decor and home decoration from Cottontail Bunny Toile to black and white toile print fabric.

There are toile print items available in custom baby crib bedding sets, personalized diaper bags, and opulent nursery linen. Vera Bradley and other hip designer diaper bags can be found to match baby bedding in Cottontail Bunny Toile fabrics, Central Park Toile and Circus Toile patterns. For all the style that toile offers it's amazing that you can find lovely, high quality toile bedding that's very cheap!

Use the same basic decorating guidelines when decorating with toile prints in our nursery decor as you would when using any other busy print. Most floral and figural print patterns give us many colors to pull ideas from in choosing our nursery wall paints and accessories. When decorating with toile you are most likely dealing with two colors in the fabric.

Most of the colors are available with backgrounds of white or cream. If you prefer a softer look, the cream foundation color may be for you.

Some of the contemporary toile prints use a background of soft pastels with a complimentary color designing for the pattern of the fabric. If you prefer painting your nursery in traditional light pinks and blues, this is excellent news! Decorating with toile is traditional, but there are so many new looks too choose from!

While once considered a choice for romantic, feminine decor, there is now a unisex or childrens gender neutral toile bedding fabric available with blue or pink backgrounds with the design printed in chocolate. The brown print makes decorating with toile in nurseries for boys possible.

Try bringing out the deep chocolate browns through some vintage family photographs that you've framed with tasteful antique frames. The subtle sepia tones and images have just the right feel for this elegant nursery treatment. With the use of distinctive accessories, painting the nursery in baby boy colors and using darker wood furnishings a toile loving mother can create a masculine bedroom for her baby boy. Enjoy the classic art of fine French Toile children's fabrics with baby crib bedding, quilts and drapery.

If you want classic and don't want to the way of Winnie the Pooh or Beatrix Potter, decorating with toile may be just the ticket!

Some popular colors used when decorating with toile fabrics are:

  • Periwinkle Blue and Yellow
  • Red and White or Cream
  • Black and White or Cream
  • Rose Pink and White or Cream
  • Rose Pink and Lime Green
  • Periwinkle Blue and White or Cream
  • Periwinkle Blue and Brown
  • Brown and Pink
  • Green and White or Cream

When you decorate with toile or any other fabric print, let the mood you wish to set, the surrounding room colors and natural lighting help you decide how to choose the toile color and pattern that will work best in your child's room.

Toile print is very “active” with loads of bends, curves and figures but the fact that it is two colors only makes it easy decorate with toile by blending it with other patterns. One idea would be to use ticking stripe material in the same colors as your toile fabric!

Pink toile and gingham crib bedding is a fresh new combination for spring. A pink and green toile baby comforter is combined with coordinating gingham checks. The twists and curves of the pink toile fabric is a bold contrast to the straight lines of the gingham checks! I would suggest a set of pink and green toile crib bedding to dress up the nursery before the Easter holidays.

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