Tag: baby furniture

Whoever said baby furniture couldn’t be chic must have been rather unimaginative indeed. Today, we’ve rounded up a host of awe-inspiring high chairs to help instigate a little decorating kick all your own. While some may be a bit out of reach for the typical mom, if little else, each is nothing if not a conversation starter.

First is the distressed ivory high chair with animal print upholstery from Nicole Reid. It’s a seat fit for a tiny Kardashian, what with its (literally) fierce appeal. No ducks, frogs or smiling sunshines for this kid.

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Check out these mobiles from Melange Collection. We have the puffer fish mobile and our daughter loved it when she was younger – she stared for hours and hours at it.

Of course, that was mostly what she did, then, sit and stare for hours on end. We’ve since put it away to make her room more “toddler” and less “baby” but you can bet it’ll come back out for an encore for baby number two…

As an added bonus, these mobiles are Fair Trade, meaning that purchasing one helps a mother make a living for herself and provide for her family in Peru.

I saw this article in the San Francisco Chronicle today and thought I’d pass it along. Not that I have any experience with tweens or teens (my daughter is not yet 2, but boy is she working in it!) so I could be missing the mark on this. Still, the advice seemed pretty solid…Here is their advice:

1) avoid themes
2) invest in furniture
3) learn to compromise

If you’re consumed with back to school stuff and want to include a re-design of your child’s room, then think simple. Gone are the days of train motifs or princess rooms – nope, apparently your child wants no theme. Just the basics, with a little flair thrown in. Well, maybe they don’t know they want it yet, but the simpler the better when it comes to designing a room that can grow with your child from 5 all the way through to the teens.

For the walls and floor use their preferences (like pink or blue or purple or racecars) as touches rather than the whole room. Try painting just one wall a color and leave the rest white (or some other neutral). As for the furniture, go for quality. Buy good, solid furniture that can last the years and, possibly, be repurposed for another room in the house after the babies go off to college.

And compromise. If they love flowers, don’t go all out with flower wallpaper – look at some removable flower decals. There is probably some wiggle room between what you want and what your kid wants…though, good luck with the negotiation phase of that!

Overall, I really responded to the idea of making a room that can last the years and the many whims your child will go through. I’ve mostly started down this road with our baby, getting just a few pieces of furniture that are special (see the post on designing your first nursery), though it is good to be reminded to stick to the basics. Let me know how your project turns out!

photo credit: Tammy Manet