My husband’s only stipulation for Brigsby’s nursery was that he have a sky above his head. Beyond that, he stepped back and let me run with it.
So, the sky was yellow. But it needed something … so I nailed plastic swallows to the ceiling. And then came the blue walls, but they were lacking something, too. So I bought a stencil — one individual stencil — and stenciled hundreds of little red patterns on every wall. It was torture but I wouldn’t admit it until it was done.
As we started pulling the furniture together — which was mostly all hand me downs or bought off of Craigslist (except the crib, which was a gift) it started to remind me of a carnival. That made me happy because we started the whole thing with no real theme in mind. So I made some pennants and stars with felt and hung some lights.
It’s surprisingly relaxing and soothing — especially at night with just the string lights on. It’s a quiet chaos.
The rest of the pictures and resource list here.
AHHHH! I LOVE THIS!
Oh my! Beautiful! Wondrous!
Oh my god….I’m in LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is soooo pretty! I love it!
This is PHENOMENAL! I love how you didn’t stick with just one theme like stars or monkeys or stripes or whatever and really just did what made you happy — and then it turned into a theme all it’s own! Well done!
This looks like you had it planned from the start. Incredible that it came together by accident! The banner/flags/pennants are adorable.
Fabulous room! I love it!
Sweet merciful crap.. that’s the coolest baby room ever! I want to steal it. Or at least have a slumber party there! The lion statue… the dresser/change table, the cowhide… man. All your hard work paid off! It looks great. Your kid will have many sweet (and imaginative!) dreams in there!
This is, by far, the most wonderful nursery I have ever seen, in life or in pictures.
I LOVE it!
Gorgeous ! I love it.
That is GORGEOUS on so many levels!
The white dresser is such an eyepiece.
Um… can I move in? Please?
This nursery has been happily burned in my mind since I saw it in the OBM Flickr pool ~ I simply adore it. We’re doing a theme-less saturated-colors eclectic nursery, too… so it’s super inspiring to me. AWESOME job, Jamie!
OH MY GOSH!
I want this as my bedroom lol!
THAT IS *GORGEOUS*!! So envious.
This is insanely awesome; also, total aces on that stencil job. I swore it was wallpaper from the first few photos.
its rooms like this that make me wish we owned a home. my apt would never let me do anything like that.
I know exactly how you feel, Kali. There is only so much one can do in rented spaces, hey.
I completely adore this room. In fact, I wish it was my room! Also, that chest of drawers is sublime.
Ack! This is the most amazing nursery I’ve ever seen. LOVE IT. So great to see something so different and creative! And it’s nice because it seems like the kind of space that a kid can grow into.
This is so beautiful!
I am in LOVE with this nursery!!! It’s amazing! Shit, I want that to be MY room! (Minus the gnome because they’re creepy.) Great job! =]
Thank you so much everyone! you all just made my day 🙂
This is beautiful! Brigsby is one lucky baby!
I love this, and I to wish this was my room, I’m inspired
I love this so much. This made me super glad we are moving when our baby is 2 months old and I have a second chance at designing her nursery. Always gotta look at the bright side, right?
Adore adore adore this room! Wonder if my wife would go for this in our room? Nice work Jamie :o)