Nursery Tour

Hi! I’m finally sharing Baby Heid’s nursery with you! These photos were taken nine months ago, so things have definitely changed.

When we started planning our nursery, people kept asking me what theme we were going with. While I love a themed party, I honestly just couldn’t think of a theme that I wanted to stick with for baby girl’s nursery. I knew I wanted it to be bright, fun, and to have a mid-century modern feel. I found a color palette that I loved (below) and started a mood board. During that process, I came across Within the Grove’s nursery wall and decided that an accent wall was the way to go. Shortly after that, we bought a dresser on Facebook Marketplace, which solidified our mid-century modern plan.

Color palette inspo

Nursery wall inspo

Mr. Heid and I plugged the dimensions of the nursery space and the dresser into floorplanner. From there, I searched for a crib and a bookshelf that we’d like and added those in. We added in the dimensions of a rug, glider, pouf, hamper, house plant, and side table and started rearranging things to come up with a functional and beautiful layout. Then, I dropped the floor plan into InDesign to play around with color choices and artwork. We finally agreed on what color each item should be and where they should go, and we set out to make it all happen.

Floorplanner layout

InDesign overlay

We started with the wall, researching different ways to construct it and testing a few paint colors before getting started.

For the color, we landed on the Behr Ultra interior eggshell enamel in Roulette. For construction, we decided on the following process:

• Design the wall in InDesign, using the dimensions of the slats for accuracy

• Use rollers and brushes to paint the entire accent wall

• Use a paint sprayer to paint the slats

• Use a nail gun to affix the longest slats first (we decided to only use 45- and 90-degree angles to make this as easy as possible)

• Use a nail gun to affix the remaining slats (we strayed from our original design a bit)

• Fill in the gaps and nail holes with wood putty and allow it to set

• Use paintbrushes to paint the filled gaps and holes (shoutout to my girl Jeannie for helping Mr. Heid when my very pregnant body wouldn’t let me!)

Once the wall was complete, we collected all of the other furniture and items and put everything into place.

I don’t have a before picture, but the nursery had a pretty open closet with just two long shelves at the top and a long rod to hang clothing. We wanted to have a bit more shelving and drawers to organize all of her tiny things. We found the MALM 6-Drawer Chest and SYVDE Open Wardrobe both from IKEA. Since our closet doors are bi-folds, we had to make sure the chest of drawers was centered in the closet or else they wouldn’t open all of the way. So my dad and Mr. Heid assembled only the shelving side of the wardrobe and attached it to one side of the chest of drawers. On the other side, we installed two mini hanging rods for her clothes.

Nine months later, and a few things have definitely changed. We’ve added some decor on top of baby girl’s bookshelf, switched out some of her books, added some decor to her corner table, switched out the speaker and supplies on her dresser, and added more items to her closet shelf. Overall, the aesthetic is the same - we’ve just filled it in a bit more. We still need to install her name on the wall — if you’re planning a nursery and think, “We’ll get to that later…” just keep in mind that life is about to be crazy busy, so it might be nine more months before you actually get to that thing…

Linking all items below and sharing comments on ones that can’t be linked —

ART

• Abstract Painting - made for us by a friend :)

• Alphabet Poster - Suzy Ultman for Petit Monkey

• Crab Painting - Day 5 Art

• Crayon Piece - Lila Shull

• State Prints - Bloomwolf Studio

CLOSET

• MALM 6-Drawer Chest - IKEA

• SYVDE Open Wardrobe - IKEA

CUSHIONS + LINENS + PILLOWS

• Cactus Baby Blanket - made for us by a friend :)

• Gardenia Square Tufted Velvet Floor Pillow - Safavieh

• Gray Brush Stroke Boppy - Pottery Barn

• Rainbow Swaddle - Clementine Kids

• Spotted Blush Swaddle - Clementine Kids

• Sun Cushion - Petit Monkey

• Zig Zag Changing Pad Cover - Bebe au Lait - similar

• Zig Zag Crib Sheet - Bebe au Lait - similar

DECOR

• Blanket Ladder - Store Wood UA

• Boler Vintage Camper Planter - Julie Richard Ceramist

• Freestanding Wooden Name Sign - Mod Wood Co. - not pictured

• Geometric Pink Bud Vase - atHome

• Marble Hexagon Coaster - Threshold / Target - similar

• Mini Travel Sounds Speaker - Sunnylife - similar - the speaker was horrible, so at this point it’s in the nursery for looks. We replaced it with this one, which is super high quality.

• Modern Plant Stand - Fox & Fern

• Round Decorative Wall Mirror - Project 62 / Target

• Walnut Wood Taylor Accent Lamp Base - World Market

• Wooden Deer Family - Tiny Fox Hole

FURNITURE

• Brittany 4-Shelf Book Case - Novogratz - we found ours for half the price on Overstock.com and then painted the edges and sides white to match our dresser

• Dresser - We thrifted this piece!

• Essex 4-in-1 Convertible Crib - Delta Children - we stained the legs to match our walnut furniture

• Naja End Table - Christopher Knight

• Piper Recliner and Swivel Glider - DaVinci

RUG + PLAY PAD

• Ansi Trellis Rug - The Curated Nomad

• Lily Pad Play Pad - blabla kids

STORAGE

• Fabric Cube Storage Bin - Pillowfort / Target - similar

• Mauve Velvet Storage Bin - Crate & Barrel

• Teal Velvet Storage Bin - Crate & Barrel

• Stripe Coiled Rope Storage Bin - Pillowfort / Target - similar

TOYS + ANIMALS

• Lambs - Bath & Body Works

• Lucy the Lamb - cuddle+kind

• Pink Plush Octopus - this was a gift to us :) - similar

• Minikin Fawn - Jellycat

• Musical Lili Llama - Manhattan Toy

• Slumber Sloth Snuggler - Slumberkins

• Star Wars The Child Plush Toy - Mattel

• Touch n Go Light Up Dinosaur - CubicFun

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Cheers,

K

Perler Bead Sugar Skull DIY

Can we take a moment to talk about how beautiful Día de los Muertos is — both physically and spiritually? The holiday recognizes death as a natural phase of life and celebrates those who have passed away.

I won’t pretend to know the full extent of Day of the Dead festivities and rituals, but I love the belief that those who have died are to be celebrated. It’s obvious to mourn our late loved ones — to be sad that they will no longer tell our favorite stories, make their famous recipes, sing songs with us… There are many things to be missed about those who have passed, but we can honor and celebrate them by re-telling their stories, sharing the good times we’ve had together, making that same recipe for friends and family, singing along to their favorite song, and so forth. There’s this notion in Coco that you only truly die when you’ve been forgotten by the living.

But spirituality aside, the festivities are simply stunning — the outfits, the florals, the face paint, the sugar skulls... oh, the sugar skulls! I came across the graphic below on Hallmark’s Think. Make. Share. blog and kept wishing I could have the original!

But alas, I cannot. So I recreated them with Perler beads! If you’re looking for these beads, you can get them at any craft store.

My Perler bead plates are smaller squares, so I couldn’t flesh out the designs as much as I wanted to… or so I thought. Turns out, I completely ignored those little notches in my plastic bases that clearly indicated that I could have fit them together to make larger bases. The more you know… next time. Can you imagine a super huge Perler bead design? Hmm… I’ll have to explore that later…

So when you do this, you can take a sugar skull pattern that you like or create one yourself. If you’re going to make a pattern yourself, I recommend designing it on grid paper so that you know more likely what your end product will look like. If you’re drawing inspiration from elsewhere like I did, then you may have to modify the pattern to better fit on a grid. For example, my skinny guy doesn’t have asterisk eyes. Now had I realized sooner that I could have made a larger base, he very well might have.

Play around with the patterns, have fun with the colors, and remember to celebrate those who once walked this Earth. Todos somos calaveras!

xo

K