The Baby’s Nursery
Today we emptied the chosen bedroom of all the things spare bedrooms always seem to gather. You know, the room you hope to God visitors don’t open the door to! Everything from scuba diving fins to Christmas decorations.
This room will make a lovely baby’s nursery, plenty of natural light, on shady side of the house in summer (Queensland heat remember) and the added bonus of a feature wall of stained timber built-in-shelving …so handy for all the little things needed in a nursery. But it has a vile bottle-green painted feature wall painted by previous owners that thankfully can easily be painted over later. I’ve already been delegated that job!
As Erin wants a Beatrix Potter themed nursery but there is nothing around in that theme bar some Petter Rabbit sheets, and that’s about all. I managed to find 3 rolls of very rare F Warne & Co genuine authorised edition wall borders copyrighted 1990.
I’ve also found a Tom Kitten wall clock – on eBay of course!
September 13th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
That wallpaper border is FABULOUS! Where did you find it?
I’ve been looking for Beatrix Potter accessories, too and it’s really difficult to find anything that resembles the illustrations in the books.
I found some Beatrix Potter bedding and nursery accessories and Peter Rabbit and Nutbrown Hare Bedding and crib finials but I wish the manufacturers would follow the look and feel of the pictures in the books more closely! The crib finials were darling, but wouldn’t you know that they wouldn’t work with the posts on my crib.
Please post pics of your finished nursery when you get your border up!
September 14th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Thanks Leah!
I found the wallpaper border on eBay – it was a lucky find and cost me a small fortune! As you said, finding anything that resembles the original illustrations is almost impossible!
And yes, I’ll definitely post photo’s when the Nursery if finished!