Hawaiian Nursery Decorating Ideas

by Jon and Molly Kramer
(Madison, WI)

We used our love for tropical settings and the ocean in all of our Hawaiian nursery decorating ideas. The nursery's decor had to be gender neutral since we didn't find out the gender of our 1 week old baby boy, Owen.

Our home is in Madison, WI but we have a fondness for tropical settings and ocean animals, especially Sea Turtles.

THE COLOR SCHEME FOR OUR BABY BOY'S HAWAIIAN NURSERY

We made the decision to work with a turquoise blue and chocolate brown nursery color scheme brightened with a mix of white furniture.

HAWAIIAN NURSERY WALL PAINTING TECHNIQUE

The floral pattern that we painted on the wall and lampshade was designed using a graphics design program on our computer called Adobe Illustrator.

I set the workspace to the dimensions of the baby's room taking the windows into consideration. After about 40 hours of design time we were able to move on to the next step.

We printed out the full size floral designs. Printing some of the large flowers took 9 sheets of paper that we then taped together. After they were printed out and taped together we spent many hours cutting out our homemade Hawaiian hibiscus flower wall stencils.

After we finished the patterns, we taped the stencils on the wall and then stenciled using white paint. We used a liner brush to draw the fine lines in the design. We knew that we only wanted one wall painting using the design with a slight overlap of the floral design on the adjacent walls with a little splash of the design in the other corner and by the light switch.

After the wall painting technique was completed we took a similar, scaled down design and used it to paint a 360 degree design on the lampshade. This was very time consuming since we were painting on canvas and there was no room for error. A mistake would cause us to have to buy a new one and start over!

MORE HAWAIIAN NURSERY DECORATING IDEAS

Artwork featuring ocean creatures and stuffed animals were used to put the finishing touches on the nursery.

SENTIMENTAL ITEMS

One of the most meaningful pieces in the room is the changing table/dresser that his 90 year old Great-Grandpa made especially for Owen!

We hope you love our Hawaiian themed nursery as much as we do and that you will leave a comment telling us which of our baby nursery ideas you like the best which counts as a vote for our nursery to win the nursery pictures contest! Thanks for looking! Jon and Molly (and Owen!)