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.]
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!