You’ve hankered after a particular cot, know exactly how you want to decorate the walls and have the colour scheme all picked out – hold on to your nappy bag because one lucky reader’s most fabulous nursery dreams are about to come true! Kido Store, Dwell Studio, Little Nest, Dog & Pony Photography and The … [Read more.]
Posted by Katrina Whelen on August 1, 2010
in Misc, Nursery
Also tagged baby toys, blankets, bookcases, books, bouncers, chairs, change tables, competitions, cots, drawers, Dwell Studio, Eames, Kiddimoto, Kido Store, linen, Little Nest, Oeuf, photography, rugs, shelves, wall art, wall decals
Making a soft space on the floor for playful youngsters, providing texture and a splash of colour, rugs are the non-permanent essentials of decor.
It’s like this. You know exactly what you want but store after store only offer disappointment. “It shouldn’t be this difficult,” you say to yourself. I was in that situation not so long ago during my very long search for the perfect rug for my daughter’s bedroom.
In the continuing quest to avoid mass-marketed nylon rugs with action heroes on them, Babyology brings you a selection of floor coverings that look and feel great, from a company with practices you can feel good about too.
A chandelier made from acrylic Gummi Bears? Such a crazily delicious idea although I’m not sure what a fixture like that would do for my healthy diet prospects. Still, isn’t it just a truckload of fun? Now if only I had a room big enough to put it in!
Wooden flooring is a popular choice in homes these days and definitely has lots of advantages. It’s good for those prone to allergies, it looks great and it’s fabulous for cleaning up the not-so-little messes left behind by little people. But it also poses some difficulties, especially in sleeping and play areas. After all, kids … [Read more.]
There are two types of people when it comes to rugs. Those who see a rug merely as a floor covering where anything will do and those who see a rug as an opportunity for textile art. That’s me standing in the latter camp.
Straight from the ‘Damn, I wish I’d known about this before I had my baby’ files is this ingenious idea from My Brood. The perfect thing for people who aren’t particularly visual but would love a visually arresting nursery, the My Brood Interiors Packages help you create the perfect space for your child.
Rugs are a valuable decorating tool for adding the right kind of polish to a room, and for making hard floors softer for babies. They are also an incredibly useful way of sectioning a space, so can help provide physical boundaries for young children when needed.
This is a wonderfully novel idea – making a knitted playmat. My sons have one of those mass-manufactured mats with roads on it for playing with cars, however Teeny Tini has put love and imagination into the Finley Blanket, which is hand-knitted and uses no pattern whatsoever!