Modern Butterflies Theme Nursery, Hand-Crafted with Love

by Carol Spenst
(Little Rock, AR)

When thinking of decorating Lily's nursery, I knew I wanted to do butterflies theme for our baby girl, but in an untraditional way. I had seen a nursery on HGTV's Rate My Space that had a graphic alphabet mural done using several tones of the same paint color and I adapted that idea for butterflies.

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I projected images of butterflies onto the wall and traced them, then painted them in.


Lily's Nursery Color Scheme
For the color scheme of the nursery, I wanted it to be lavender and pale yellow.


Customizing Our Baby Girl's Crib Set
I ordered a plain set of baby bedding and then appliqued it with trees, flowers and butterflies. I used the same shapes that I had used to personalize the crib set on the nursery curtains and the lamp shade and bought an area
rug from Land of Nod.

Nursery Decorations that I Made Myself
I created much of the nursery wall art myself. I painted the monogrammed artwork with Lily's initials in colors to match the room's color scheme and I did a tree painting. I painted the tree by squeezing paint out of ziplock baggies to get the squiggly lines.

The Best Part of Our Baby Girl's Modern Butterflies Theme Nursery
All in all, I loved the overall effect of the butterflies, hand-painted artwork and the butterfly mural. I really miss this room! We left this house last year and I love the way their new rooms have turned out. But I definitely miss our butterflies theme nursery that we created with love for Lily.

For more pictures, you can visit my blog http://johnandcarolshow.blogspot.com/2011/05/our-old-house-lilys-nursery.html.

Thanks for looking!

From the webmaster:

Taking an ABC nursery wall painting technique and applying it to a modern butterfly theme nursery mural took vision! I love the way that you used color to blend Lily's initials, the painted tree and the large butterflies on the wall. Thanks for sharing your butterfly theme nursery pictures with us and I'm sure that the rooms in your new home are just as amazing as this one.