Nursery Inspiration!

I've been window shopping on the web for awhile now trying to find the perfect nursery design to suit both mine and Joe's taste. It took awhile for me to find one I loved because I wanted something simple yet bold with pops of color. Joe's favorite color is orange so of course we HAD to incorporate that in there somehow.

After a couple of hours surfing the web (what else was I supposed to do during my bed rest down time???), I came across an awesome nursery that had almost everything I was looking for. The walls were a pale duck egg blue with a tinge of green and bright pops of orange were scattered throughout the entire space. I immediately book marked the page, so that I could show Joe when he got home.

Fortunately,  Joe loved the room and colors as much as I did. The only thing he was not a fan of was the zebra rug... I guess that was just a little to "girl" for his taste.

Once I found a design we both agreed on, I began to look for ways to make it more unique to my taste. I wanted some sort of theme, but I didn't want something that's been done over and over again. If you remember Payton's nursery, hers was done in a ladybug theme which suited her perfectly! I wanted something that would equally suit Kashton even when he gets older.

After some more searching I came across these cute little plush monsters called Ugly Dolls. Since I have been calling Kashton Little Monster since before I knew he was a boy, I decided a monster theme would be perfect! I didn't want to just plaster the room with Ugly Dolls and so I decided to incorporate some art and memorabilia from the book "Where The Wild Things Are", which has been a childhood favorite of both Joe and I.  I am still trying to find other ways to incorporate more monsters into the room, but I'm pretty happy with my ideas so far.

Below you'll find some pictures of the nursery that we will be using for inspiration. Fortunately for me, the lady who decorated the room for her little boy gave the names of the paint she used, so I'll be able to use the exact same colors!

Here is an inspiration board I put together that has some of the items on our shopping list that will go in the room. I will be using the green fabric to make a fitted sheet for the crib. I found a really cool tutorial for making no-sew fitted crib sheets, so I'm going to get various fabrics in the color palette to make custom sheets (so easy and pretty cheap too!).  I've also been dabbling in Adobe Illustrator, so I'm going to make most of the art prints for the walls myself and just use Ikea's white Ribba frames because they are so inexpensive and I love the look of them! I have a ton more DIY ideas for both the nursery and Payton's room that I will share once I get to the point of actually doing it.

I haven't quite finished the inspiration board for Payton's room, but when I do, I will for sure post it. It's going to be very girly with a gray and yellow color palette... I can't wait to get started!!! xoxox