Baby Nursery Decor (Part Two)
Desired Ambiance
An important factor is to aim for a general ambience you want your baby’s nursery decor to evoke. Do you want your nursery to seem peaceful? Feel optimistic? Or playful?
One way for you to achieve this is through the creation of a mood board. It’s a helpful tool to construct a design and keep you focussed on your original thoughts, colours or textures for your room. Save clippings from books, magazines and images from websites of beautiful things that catch your eye to help convey your adjectives. The clippings needn’t be objects to buy or photographs of rooms, they can be anything you desire. They may include patterns in fabric, some paint samples or a flower or two.
Stick your images onto paper or pin them to a corkboard to create your mood board. Better still, create two boards to describe different ways you could approach your nursery decorating idea.
Spend time during this stage — it’s best you live with your inspiration sources for a while as ideas take time to mature. Display them so you can see them every day. As time goes by, edit your mood board as ideas lose favour.
Lobster and Swan’s inspiration for the above mood board came from an apple and almond tart and its description “slivers of cherry red apple look like delicate petals have floated down onto sweet, crisp pastry.”
This, combined with the indulgence of Marie Antoinette makes for a perfect imaginary ladies’ own entertaining room. Can you hear the clinking of teacups and clattering of conversation?
Create your mood board to illustrate your desired ambiance.
Photo by Lobster and Swan
More on Planning a Nursery
Part One: Your Style
Part Two: Desired Ambiance
Part Three: Your Budget
Thanks for the mention : ) I’m happy to have been useful!
Have been reading through your posts, some great tips here for nurseries and keeping those little ones occupied.
I’ll pass your site on to my friends with bebe’s to flick through too : )
jeska — January 17th, 2008
Thank you Jess! Glad to have found you - you definately have a good eye and bundles of motivation. Keep it up!
Sharon — January 17th, 2008
Great idea.
We’ve been looking for ideas to decorate an empty space on one of the nursery’s empty walls. The mood board is perfect & cheap too. :)
Andri — January 21st, 2008