Neutral Travel Themed Nursery

Hey friends! I’m so excited to share our little baby nursery— because let me tell you. It was a LABOR. OF. LOVE.

This room upstairs, used to be my at home art studio, so as you can imagine, it was A MESS! There was paint all over the floors, tons of holes in the walls from hanging my paintings, and there were supplies and junk everywhere! It was in desperate need of a new paint job and a lot of TLC.

The quarantine came at a great time, because it allowed John to have time to fix everything up (and gave him lots of projects to do). He filled all the holes in the walls, sanded and painted, added a new light fixture, and even added a new electrical plug by the window area. I was impressed with his handy-ness! The paint color we used is Sherwin Williams “City Loft”.

Then came the fun part for me— all of the decorating! I knew I wanted to do a very neutral travel themed room, with hints of blues and grays, so I had been collecting old maps and framing them for a while. We also already had an old shelf that we painted white and an antique dresser for the changing table.

From here, I started figuring out the style by getting the big stuff out of the way. Back in February I went to Paxton Home and picked out our crib, rug, and swivel rocking chair. It was so nice seeing everything in person and getting to style the nursery with all of their amazing home goods. If you are local to Lexington, I highly recommend giving them a follow on instagram and checking out their AMAZING selection of affordable luxury. You really can’t beat the prices and quality!! The swivel chair, for example, has kid proof fabric which I know will be highly appreciated once Max gets here! And the crib is convertible to a toddler bed and a full size bed! The rug is SO soft and pulls the perfect amount of blue-gray in! (It is an 8x10 for sizing reference).

For the remainder of the decorating, it was so hard not being able to go to the physical stores and pick stuff out with everything being closed, but I made due by ordering online. It was also really sad for me because I LOVE a good excuse to head to Homegoods and TjMaxx…. but I got through it. haha!

All links to where I got everything are below!

First thing that I did was paint the triptych abstracted world for above the crib because I wanted to pull all the colors of the room together… and I wanted something light weight that wasn’t glass to hang over the crib!

I am now selling prints of these world maps HERE!

Our light fixture is from Target, but is not showing up anymore so here is a similar one HERE and HERE and HERE — ( I am obsessed with that last one!).

Bed skirt found, HERE.

The crib is from Paxton Home… their website is HERE. It is such great quality and is even convertible to a toddler and to a full size bed, which will be great for the future!

I have also linked two similar cribs , HERE and HERE.

Shelves are from Target, found HERE. I made the little M on our shelves from collaging old maps on a paper mache letter found on Amazon, HERE. Binoculars are vintage.

Original globe was painted by me! You can order one of my custom globes through this link HERE.

Baby monitor can be found, HERE.

Our standing light was from amazon, linked HERE.

Our cute pouf is from Target, linked HERE. I wanted to bring out some more warm tones, so this one was perfect to pull the gray, cream, and tan color in.

My dress is linked, HERE.

Gray rocking swivel chair with kid proof fabric is from Paxton Home.

Similar found HERE and HERE.

Rug is from Paxton Home and is an 8x10 in size! Such great quality.

Faux tree is from Michaels, linked HERE and basket, HERE.

Graco swing, found HERE.

Travel themed sheets found HERE.

Crib mattress, HERE ( I had the hardest time choosing, but really like this one!).

Gray baskets found HERE.

Sound machine found, HERE.

I got our curtains from Target HERE… and I made sure they were blackout ones!

Curtain rods are from Amazon linked, HERE

Changing and weighing station, found HERE.

Faux fur rug, found HERE.

I painted 6 travel inspired watercolors for the little nook area and framed them with large matted, gold frames found HERE. They are our favorite place on each continent that we have been!

I am selling these as prints HERE. And am also offering custom city originals, HERE.

Hand-painted wooden sign made by Craftin’ Morg. Instagram found HERE.

I hope you all love the nursery and that it helps inspire your own! Thanks for following along! Please leave a comment if you would like to know where anything else is from! We are ready for baby Max!

xoxo

Kayla