The stork is on its way and it’s time to welcome the bundle of joy in your life. And apart from the vitamins and the regular medical check-ups, it is high time that you start thinking about the nursery too. Have a blast with baby nursery themes ideas. The nursery should give your baby the feeling that the world is a beautiful and enchanting place to live in.
Now there aren’t really any hard and fast rules about baby nursery themes. Ideas in this regard can range from the downright wacky to the outrageously funny and from something very simple to something quite strange. But whatever be the décor, it is imperative that you settle for something that is intellectually stimulating and engaging for your little one, apart from of course, being safe and hygienic.
Speaking of baby nursery themes, ideas like painting the ceiling in sky colors with downy clouds or the night sky with a happy-faced moon and twinkling stars, find favor with many prospective parents. These are restful designs that go well with both baby boy and girl nursery décor.
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Really diverse baby nursery themes ideas can be doing up the room in fictional characters themes. Pinocchio, Snow White or Harry Potter for that matter. And apart from painting the characters on the walls or having murals set up, you can also extend the theme to the furnishings and the furniture of the room. Have your pick from the lot of cartoon characters also. You can have Winnie the Pooh grace the walls of the nursery or bring in a touch of the Orient with Aladdin and Princess Jasmine.
A chubby baby elephant peeping from behind the bush and a monkey swinging from a coconut tree. That’s a nice wallpaper for the nursery decorated along the lines of a jungle. Animal themes are popular nursery decoration themes, so are underwater settings complete with cheerful dolphins, vibrantly hued fishes and variously shaped corals.
Instead of going in for the popular themes, would-be parents can also look to their own interests for baby nursery themes ideas. Thus if Dad is bent on John Wayne, then he can have the nursery done up in Western theme complete with cowboys or cowgirls, as the case may be. If Mommy dotes on her garden, then it can be fruits, vegetables and flowers for the walls, the bedspread and the lampshade in the nursery.
When you are doing your baby’s den, it is crucial not to go overboard with your imagination. The goal is to stimulate the baby’s mind with the designs, shapes and colors and not overwhelm him/her. That is to say, arouse his curiosity about colors with splashes of color in and around the room. Do not have him shrink from an overdose of red in the room.
If you plan to have more children then doing up the nursery in a gender neutral décor saves on a lot of money. For one, when the next baby comes you do not need to go in for an expensive overhaul of the entire room and for another, a room in gender neutral décor won’t have little Jina feeling out of place in a car-themed nursery.
The nursery. A place where your child plays with dolphins and fairies, drifts into slumber under the starry skies and wakes up to the charming setting of a farm where cows graze and lambs bleat. Create this footloose, fancy-free world for your precious little with baby nursery themes and ideas.
by Manuel Kupka
