Retro Baby Nursery

by Ann

Retro Baby Nursery

I found and bought many of the items for my retro baby nursery used at different secondhand stores, thrift stores and fleamarkets. Some of the items that I used to decorate the room that you see in the picture were given to us as gifts and others were hand-me-downs passed along from friends and family.


There is also a collection of stuff from my childhood that I put on display for sentimental reasons.

RETRO BABY NURSERY THEME DECORATIONS

What IS Retro?

Wall Paint Colors and Vintage Nursery Wall Decorating Ideas

The name of the paint color that I used on the accent wall to the side of the baby's bed is called "Elegant Brown" (Flutex wallcolour 7s, tone 3) from Flugger. Before being converted into a nursery, the room used to be a little office. The wall paint was left over from from its previous life and I am very pleased that it works as well in Nanino's nursery as it did in our home office.

The tree branch wall stickers were bought at Panduro at a 70% sale last year at Panduro. The decal is actually two (2) pieces that I put
together.

The whimsical "Bambi" hanging on the wall (15 kr) is one of the many items that we found in thrift shops and second hand stores.

Other wall decorations like the flyers we used to make the eclectic arrangement were collected from stores, cafe's etc. that we had visited and the the "S" wall letter came from Kremmerhuset.


RETRO BABY NURSERY FURNITURE

We got the (originally wood tone) baby bed from some friends and the cabinet and the bedside table from thrift stores. I gave the little bedside table, the cabinet and the crib a makeover myself using paint and some wallpaper.

The dresser to the left (that is barely visible in the nursery pictures), the flower pot and most of the toys all came from thrift shops. The toy box on wheels was made from an old, wooden soft drink crate.

RETRO BABY BEDDING DECORATIONS


As I mentioned, there are several items in the baby's room that were from my own childhood. Two of these items would be the the cute dress that you see hanging on the front of the baby's crib that my mom made for me (I bought the hanger from Norway designs) and the bumper that was in my own crib when I was a baby.

Items that I bought new would be the Barbapappa teddys from Nille, the Mushroom nightlamp from Flamingo.no, the Bed canopy (two curtains from Sparkjøp) the and veil bracket for the cots from baby shop.

I love color and the vintage orange sheepskin rug from Australia serves to give the retro nursery a lively pop of color as well as softening the wooden floor.

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