Navy and Green on David's Scene

It is funny how you do things so differently the second time around, or at least I did.  David's room was easy and a lot of fun for me to put together.  Before I even knew I was having a boy, I spotted this sweet little wall hanging at a lovely store in Rice Village, Olivine.  It was only $20 and I fell in love with it, but did not get it at the time.  The literal day I found out it was a boy, I called them and put the last one on hold, then ran and picked it up on my lunch break.

Why elephants?  Not because they happen to be trendy right now, but because Cary loves them and always has.  He has a really neat little collection of elephants that he has been adding to over the years and I most certainly did not want to do a football theme, his other love.  This was Cary's boy, so I wanted it to reflect his personality in some special way.

So, my main goal was to coordinate the chair, aqua ottoman (I intentionally bought incase our 2nd was a boy) and furniture from Margo's room.  I also knew this time that I did not want to spend a fortune on bedding as I was not too impressed with Serena and Lily for Margo.  I was so happy that Pottery Barn Kids came out with basics that almost mirror Serena and Lily.  I am definitely more happy with the bumper and skirt, but am not crazy about the way the sheets fit or their softness.

Nonetheless, I started out wanting to do green and aqua to coordinate the ottoman and the elephant picture.  After showing friends some inspiration, I ended up leaning more towards navy and aqua, which I just couldn't seem to make work and settled on navy and green with aqua accents.  What resulted was my inspiration board which evolved a lot.  I returned the pillow because the colors were not right, picked a different mobile and decal, and got polka dotted sheets.

As with Margo's nursery, I went to ETSY for the decorative items and I love love love the mobile and pictures I found.  The toy bag was an inexpensive find on Amazon after I almost spent a small fortune on a basket at Restoration Hardware.  I bought the white hooks in my original inspiration design from Anthropologie, but returned them when my mother-in-law found some neat wooden ones that provided great contrast.  I purchased an identical bookshelf from PBK that Margo has and reused a Restoration Hardware lamp that was in our guest room.  I also purchased a wall decal with a big letter D and David's name but it does not work in the layout of our new house, so will probably never get used.


His crib in our old house when it was all perfect and bright!



David loves his room!

Crib in the new house, a bit more lived in.

I spent very little time on putting this together and I think it came out great!  I think I might even like it more than I did Margo's nursery.  So I present to you...David''s nursery.  I hope he loves it as much as I do.  One thing is for sure, he loves looking at his mobile and the contrast of the elephant pictures.