Monkey Nursery

by Christa B
(Buffalo, NY, USA)

Monkey Nursery

Designing a gender neutral nursery is quite challenging. We are adopting and when we began designing our baby's monkey nursery, we knew it had to be gender neutral and created on a tight budget!

First, I found the Monkey See, Monkey Do Bedding Set
in bright blues, greens, yellows and pinks. I am not into pastels and wanted something fun and modern.

After I decided on the bedding, I was browsing the Pottery Barn catalog and found the wall color, "Stem Green by Benjamin Moore".

We took off all of the old window, door and floor moldings as well as the old door because they were in poor condition .

We painted the walls in stem green and then I decided to do a large white stripe in the middle about 3/4 up the walls. I framed the white stripe with a narrower stripe of chocolate brown. I figured if it was a girl, we'd incorporate splashes of pink. Then we found out it was a boy! so we continued with the shades of stem green, bright white and chocolate brown.

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Since we had to replace all of the old trim, I decided to do my own "crown molding" and extended the ceiling paint down about 1/2-1 inch and then edged it with a chocolate brown stripe to tie in with the border.

We purchased the Simplicity chocolate brown and white Kingston crib, the rocker was custom made to match and then we painted the dresser and bookcase with enamel paint in the same white and chocolate brown colors. The detail on the bookcase matches the molding we chose for the windows (the rosettes).