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Design Your Dream Nursery The nursery is a celebration of childhood. It’s a place to ignite the imagination between you and your baby. It’s a place to bond in the formative days, weeks and months following the birth of your child. Children grow up so fast. The nursery is a place to celebrate the natural freedom of curiosity found in children. Enjoy it while you can. The nursery has the power of transportation. Go places with your baby. Imagine the possibilities. Dream together!
In our Room Designer application, we’ve organized for you our initial thoughts on how you might want to organize the nursery furniture in your babyroom. We’ve kept it simple and so should you. You can always layer in more later as you get a better sense of the overall space and have lived in it for a while with your baby.
Getting Started
Measure your nursery wall-to-wall. Use your measurements to draw your room’s 2D perimeter on a sheet of paper. To keep the easiest scale for your rendering, 1 inch on your ruler should equal 1 foot. The size of the sheet of paper should coordinate with the scale of your room…big room = big sheet. Use graph paper if that helps you organize your measurements to scale.
Measure the room’s windows, doors, closets and built-ins and locate them on your 2D room rendering with either dashed lines or a bolder stroke of your pencil, marker or pen.
To the side of your 2D room rending, be sure to note dimensions (width, height, depth) of your room as well as the windows, doors, closets and built-ins. Make sure you are clear on the height of everything in the room, including the walls.
Also, mark the location on your 2D room rendering where all of the electrical outlets and heating/cooling vents are located.
The first step is to simply create the shapes of the furniture you’re interested in putting in your nursery. If you already own the furniture, measure the dimensions and note them in the margins of your 2D room rendering. If you need to purchase furniture, the retailer of your choice will likely have all of the dimension information that you need. Note these sizes as well in the margins of your floor plan.
Have some thicker stock paper on hand and draw with your ruler squares & rectangles that correspond to the size of the footprint of the furniture you plan on putting in your nursery. Again, keep the scale 1 inch = 1 foot. When you’ve completed drawing the various representative shapes of the furniture you plan on putting in your nursery, cut them out and label the back of these shapes with the first initial of the type of furniture they represent.
Now, experiment with placing these representative furniture shapes in and around your 2D floor plan room rendering.
If you’d like, you can photocopy your 2D floor plan prior to placing any furniture shapes in the room. You can also draw and cut multiple units of the same piece of furniture. This way, you can create more than one floor plan option.
When you’ve settled on any one of the furniture placement options, you can tack your representative furniture shapes to your 2D floor plan with glue or double-sided tape.
Tape out the Room
Once you’ve settled on one or two floor plan options, we always find it helpful to tape out on the floor the 2D footprint dimensions of the furniture you’d like to place in the nursery. Locate some light adhesive masking tape, reference your 2D floor plan and begin to use your tape to outline the placement of your furniture in the room. This is a good exercise to give you a real sense of how you’ll move in the room as well as how much space your furniture will take up in the room.
In relatively close proximity to one another, you’ll want to position the baby crib, changing station and rocker close to each other for ease resting, changing and feeding.
Your nursery should leverage two things…
- The personal aesthetic that you’ve already established for your home.
- Elevate this aesthetic in a fun, curious, imaginative, explorative and inspirational way.
We organized two general themes for you upfront. You can choose from either a CLASSIC or CONTEMPORARY babyroom. If your tastes run more traditional, the CLASSIC nursery should be your first choice. Conversely, if your preferences align with more modern lines, then the CONTEMPORARY nursery will be the likely alternative that you’ll choose. It’s wonderful to have these two options to choose from.
The next step we’ve taken to organize your choices is to categorize all of our textile surface pattern collections as either CLASSIC or CONTEMPORARY. Depending on your tastes, you choose.
Within each collection we typically offer more than one colorway. Pick a colorway that is the best extension of not only your personal taste, but also one that coordinates, in part, with the other colors found in your home. No matter what the colors are in your home, it’s part of a color palette that includes a full range of colors. Even if you don’t have any pink, orange, blue, yellow or green in your home, there’s a shade of each of these colors that will work within the range of other colors already found in your home.
Remember, our Room Designer application allows you to not only apply hundreds of different colored patterns to our textile nursery products, but it also allows you to paint the walls of the nursery with your favorite color that coordinates with the collection that you’ve chosen. With this vantage, you get an extraordinarily real view of what your nursery will look like in your home.
You can…
- Choose from classic patterns found in any room of the house.
- Mix and match these classic patterns with each other or with novel baby characters to add dimension and humor.
You can…
- Choose from contemporary patterns that reference bold geometry for inspiration.
- Mix and match these contemporary patterns with vintage nursery icons to mix generations and tell a fun story.
You can…
- Choose patterns that are reminiscent of your childhood.
- Pick themes that reflect your contemporary sensibilities.
You can…
- Be sweet
- Be nutty
- Be cool
- Be thoughtful
- Be considered
- Be playful
You should…
Lay the foundation for imagination
Celebrate the possibilities
Be a family
Have fun!
CLICK below on two important links that will also assist you in designing your dream nursery
CLICK HERE for “BY YOU” Customization and How it Works
and
CLICK HERE for your Customization Video Demonstration
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