Melissa Pyne was kind enough to share her sons safari nursery with us. Wow... this room is such fun! What an exciting room to wake up in every day. Great color choices for a boys nursery and also perfect for a gender-neutral baby nursery. Clever idea to paint the murals on canvas - this way you can move them to another room, sell them (when baby grows up), etc. When the murals are permanent it's a little hard to do.Melissa's room description:
The paint color used in Sawyer's nursery was Duron Relaxed Khaki (this was already on all walls), we just painted over it. No primer was used. The green walls are Valspar Fiddlehead Fern. Valspar Milk Chocolate was used for the monkeys and vines, as well as the darkest stripe. The stripes were the Relaxed Khaki, Milk Chocolate, Fiddlehead Fern, Valspar Delta Sandbar (lighter brown), and Valspar Ginger Bite (peachy/orange).
We had a local artist, Jessica Rollins, paint the murals, the monkeys, and the vines. She drew everything in pencil, and then painted over her pencil lines. I knew I wanted monkeys "hanging" from the curtain rod, and we took it a step further to utilize the bamboo as the curtain rod. The roman shade on the window is a Matchstick Bamboo Shade from Lowe's.
We also carried the bamboo over into our wall hanging of "Sawyer". His name was made by fashioning the pieces of bamboo into the various letters of his name. We used two five-foot long pieces of bamboo (purchased for $4 each at Hobby Lobby) to create all of the letters. We glued the pieces together with hot wood glue (it's just like hot glue, except made especially for wood). We then tied raffia around the joints/glue to add a more rustic look to the letters and cover the glue. Once dry, we hung them from the pole using jute twine.
The murals were loosely based on the Lambs and Ivy Cocoa Baby line. I wanted friendly looking animals to greet my baby boy each day. Sawyer loves to look at the pictures while he is being changed.I liked the animals in the Lambs and Ivy line, but I thought the bedding would be too busy for the room. I chose Pottery Barn Baby Pique Nursery Bedding in bright green to complement the paint colors. The curtains are also from Pottery Barn. I know Pottery Barn still has the Pique Bedding, but I don't think the bright green color is available anymore.
The furniture is from Babies R Us and is the Baby Cache Manhattan collection."
Thanks to Melissa for sharing such a fun, creative nursery. The monkeys hanging from the curtain rod are the best!! I love her idea of the bamboo name - it works perfectly with the safari nursery.
