SMALL MODERN NURSERY

by Karen Taylor
(Boston)

Our small modern nursery has the personality of a much larger space! We live in a very small condo in the city and we converted the only available spare room, the study, into a nursery for the baby.

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Since the living room flows through French doors into the study, I wanted to continue the modern feel of the rest of the house into the baby's room while making the nursery a fun and comfortable room where we could hang out.

BRIGHT COLORS for OUR BABY'S SMALL MODERN NURSERY

We choose a bright orange (and very comfortable) glider by Monte and a Pali crib and dresser as they were both known for their Modern style and their quality construction. The lumbar pillow on the glider is upholstered in fabric that has bright green, blue, pink and purple stripes on it and I tried to re-use every one of those colors as much as I could in other areas of the baby's nursery.

HIGH CONTRAST

I also used a lot of black and white in the room'S decorations because I read that contrasts are easier for an infant to see.

DECORATING THE WALLS

I found the flower and bird tree branch wall decals online and I made the 3D butterfly wall decorations out of scrapbooking paper and wire. I incorporated as many bright colors into the neutral, gray baby nursery as I could using colorful baskets, toys and a beautiful framed print that is hung on the wall above the chair(also from Etsy).

BABY BEDDING

I fell in love with an owl print crib sheet from Pottery Barn Kids although the rest of the bedding was too "pastel" for my taste and we decided to go bumper-less due to all the controversy surrounding them recently.

I can't wait to meet our little girl and see if she likes what I've done with her small modern nursery!

From the webmaster:

The pops of bright color in the small space produced great results. Your design is a visual tutorial on how to successfully use color to make the most of however much square footage you have! Using the glider's striped pillow as your inspiration piece was a very smart move.

Thanks so much for sharing your modern baby nursery ideas in our baby nursery pictures contest. I'm sure that our visitors will see many, many details of your small nursery's huge personality that they will want to use in their own decorating projects.