Pimp My Nursery (Kidlit Style)

So I’m sitting at the reader’s advisory desk today (it’s a small library so I do 2-4 hours a week) with a co-worker and we get to talking about nurseries.  She has a friend who turned theirs into a paean to hunting.  We’re talking arrow theme, faux bearskin rug, and antlers antlers antlers.  This leads to a discussion of nurseries that are based on pop culture themes (for your daily shot of wonder/horror see the Buzzfeed post 20 DIY Pop Culture Themes For Your Baby’s Nursery).

My babies, for the record, did not have “themed nurseries”.  My sense of design is so lacking that basically all I’ve ever done is slap some art into frames, stick ’em on the wall, and call that a job well done.  Yet like a lot of non-crafty / non-designy folks, I have great respect for people who have an idea and see it through.

So what happens when people take nursery inspiration from different works of children’s literature?  Behold the following!

Harry Potter

Oh, take your pick.  This is hardly a new idea.  The article Parents Create ‘Harry Potter’ Nursey for Their Muggle-Born Little Wizard or 27 Ways to Create the Perfect Harry Potter Nursery will guide you in the right (or wrong, depending on how you look at it) direction.

Dr. Seuss

For this one, you may need to know how to stencil.  Stencil reeeeeally well.  Seuss lends himself to the nursery setting, though.  Check out the post Bryson’s Baby Seuss Nursery for an explanation on how it can be done.  These images are just the tip of the iceberg.

Where the Wild Things Are

The ferns in picture #2 were a nice touch.  I like how for Wild Things, the general feeling was that a mural was imperative.  Only photo #3 thought to make Max’s tree filled room the mural for the baby’s room, though.

Goodnight Moon

This one should have been easy.  After all, it’s actually set in a nursery.  But finding folks willing to work with that color scheme isn’t quite as easy as you might think.  These were the only two GNM nurseries I was able to find.

Now here’s the secret to this post.  Pretty much, just type in any famous children’s book and add the word “nursery” and you’ll find something online.  Watch:

Type in “Giving Tree Nursery”:

Type in “Rainbow Fish Nursery”:

But why stop with picture books?

Type in “Hunger Games Nursery”:

Type in “Twilight Nursery”:

Now let’s get silly.

Type in “I Want My Hat Back Nursery”:

Type in “Winnie-the-Pooh Dr. Who Nursery”:

Shoot.  I didn’t think that would work.

Type in “Struwwelpeter Nursery”  . . . .

. . . .

. . . .

Nothing?

Whew!  That was a close one.

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