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Architect's Toolbox: Bridges That Unite Home and Land

What’s it all about bridges that fascinates us? Perhaps it’s their ability to connect two things. Or maybe it’s their potency (Brooklyn Bridge), majesty (Golden Gate Bridge) and sophistication (Sunshine Skyway Bridge).

Just enjoy their big-scale brethren, bridges that connect a home to its land can evoke the identical sense of joy and wonder. While some are tenuous and ethereal, others are all about force and motion. At times the power of the bridge splits the home in 2, and sometimes the home is sufficiently powerful to force the bridge to change direction.

Whatever the case, bridges that connect a home to its site have always intrigued me. So let us look at some home bridges.

Randy Brown

A celebration of light and elevation, a luminous bridge connects a radiant home to its site. Entering the tube-shape bridge, with its translucent skin, reinforces the idea that one is leaving the planet at large to enter a world of light and geometry.

Axis Mundi

Can it be an observation tower, sculpture or a home? In any case, the bridge supplies that ever-so-tenuous connection to the ground and continues on, dividing the home into up and down while forming an overlook.

Ian Moore Architects

This bridge becomes a walkway that creates a dynamism that splits the home in 2. With a hint of what’s past, the bridge beckons us to start the travel and charge full speed ahead.

Joseph T. Deppe, Architect, P.C.

Although this bridge draws us in, the stairs up ahead block our view of what lies outside. Can it be a view of the sea? Maybe it’s a view of a preserve. In any case, the puzzle won’t be solved until we traverse the bridge and climb the staircase.

MN Builders

While the simple, shallow gable roof juts ahead to invite us in, this simple and elegant bridge helps us browse the abyss. And there have to be some pretty pleasant views of the town from indoors, given the views we receive from the bridge as we all journey to the door.

Ken Gutmaker Architectural Photography

As we cross this bridge, the inside of the residence is laid out before us. We get to understand where we’re moving nicely before we arrive and know that we will be thrilled with the views of the town outside.

Though the medieval drawbridge was not meant to welcome, now’s version can, with a more friendly and welcoming layout. This one traverses the stream bed below.

Sagan / Piechota Architecture

So what happens if the bridge does not make it all the way over to another side of the ravine? Maybe all of the movement’s energy binds itself into a coil that unwinds as it finds its way into the floor.

Jeff Luth – Soldano Luth Architects

Maybe the bridge is a decompression chamber that allows one to relax before getting to the destination. An elevated and floating platform with a ribbon to get a roof and an articulated structure that creates a different rhythm all fortify the bridge as only such a chamber.

Levy Art + Architecture

Last, what goes on below the bridge is at least as important as the bridge itself and what it connects. So if a garden or a patio or a water feature lies under, make that distance special. Don’t, as T.S. Eliot bemoans at The Four Quartets, allow the “large, brown god” river below the bridge be “almost forgotten.”

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Global Architecture Style: Victorian

For most people, the term “Victorian architecture” defines a diverse but singular style. The reality is that this term encompasses several architectural styles, all which were used throughout the mid to late 19th century. The name, of course, comes from the dominating British queen at the time: Queen Victoria.

Victorian homeowners were very social; dinner parties happened several times a week and consisted of pre- and postmeal pursuits. For these socialites, acquiring a home that has been impressive and constructed in the latest style has been key. (The ornate look was shortly spurned, however, by the evolution of new construction technology, especially the availability of affordable wood and the ability to incorporate steel into buildings.)

Though Victorian design is suspended in England, it rapidly spread globally as British architects began to emigrate to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Eventually, improved communications in the 19th century began to notify global architects of the most up-to-date and greatest styles and trends, and the Victorian influence grew.

Still, the exact Victorian period of time and names of architectural styles differ from country to country. In the USA, Victorian style was popular from 1860 to 1900. San Francisco in particular is well-known for its Victorian architecture. In Australia, the Victorian period has been recognized from 1840 to 1890. Melbourne’s world-heritage Royal Exhibition Building and Rialto Building are both good examples of classic Victorian architecture in Australia.

Most Victorian-era homes unite several different styles and attributes, but the following is a basic principle for the most popular Victorian architectural styles.

Dijeau Poage Construction

Second Empire
This style developed as American towns began to expand in the size and style. The Second Empire represented a new kind of urban architecture, inspired in fantastic part from the apartment buildings in Paris and other western European cities. Often, these were highly ornamented buildings with a tall and horizontal facade, topped with a mansard-style curved roof. Long dormer windows frequently sat at the peak of the building, and bay windows were common too. These homes generally had a rectangular floor plan with a central hallway and double entry doors.

Gothic Revival
These ancient Victorian houses reinvented the basic structures of medieval temples and churches in a more approachable way. They frequently have the stereotypical Victorian attributes: multiple colors, textured walls, steeply pitched roofs and complex vergeboard (also referred to as gingerbread) below the gables. Board-and-batten siding was a popular feature, but it was generally used vertically rather than in the more traditional flat style.

Queen Anne
The Queen Anne style is thought to be the most recognizable of the Victorian-era houses. These houses were very popular from the 1870s through the 1900s and were heavily influenced by British architect Richard Norman Shaw. The style is often characterized by ornamentation and surplus — steep rooflines and porches with decorative gables, circular towers, decorative windows and entry doors, bay windows and a huge array of colors and textures.

Between Naps on the Porch

Stick Eastlake
As materials became more accessible and affordable, craftspeople became more creative with the uses of framing and wood, which can be understood in Stick Eastlake houses. These homes have more decorative trusswork with a mix of horizontal and vertical planes. The roofs normally have a steep pitch and easy gables. Shingle style is quite similar, due to the unusual utilization of affordable wood products. In these houses, the entire exterior can be coated in shingles.

HartmanBaldwin Design/Build

Folk Victorian
As substances became less expensive, working-class families were able to build and design their own houses. Victorian romanticism was combined with classic English cottage and American homestead style to create the Folk Victorian. These homes, usually found in more rural settings, blend functionality with ornamentation, including gingerbread-accented wraparound porches and the vibrant use of local materials. Nonetheless, these homes are often more simply designed than urban houses of the same period.

McDugald-Steele

Italianate
Italianate Victorian houses were considered a combination of classical and formal styles, and were frequently inspired by state villas from the Old World. These houses were constructed in rectangular segments to mimic the look of Italian-style villas. The arches of traditional Roman architecture were often blended with the detail which became possible with new construction technology of the moment. Other common features include large porches with decorative eaves, paired arched windows, Corinthian columns, horizontal or low-pitched roofs and a central square tower or cupola.

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Provide Your Little Garden Some Room

Garden design has evolved through the years to suit our changing lifestyles, however we could still learn in your timeless garden layout of yesteryear. Although the dimensions of gardens and upkeep time have been reduced, and the way we utilize them has shifted, the ideas from past designs can be extremely important now.

Fixing a small garden or parts of a bigger garden for a room did not only occur in the late 1960s with the work of British designer John Brookes. In the early part of the last century, the designs of the partnership of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens and the job of American garden designer Lawrence Johnston, that created Hidcote gardens in England, were based around the compartmentalizing of areas — creating, in actuality, the first”garden rooms”

Following is a peek at some small gardens that use compartmentalizing along with other ideas previously to create a beautiful complement to houses now.

Arterra Landscape Architects

Structuring garden rooms. The potency of compartmentalizing lies in blending the powerful structure of hard landscaping with gentle plantings. It is evident even in this latest of garden designs.

Outer space Landscape Architecture

Structure is the most important factor in regards to designing a small garden. The bones of the garden hold it together in all seasons and weather conditions. The squared paved area here combines different parts of the garden through its structural use of powerful lines.

Jobe Corral Architects

Creating the bones of the garden. The designers of yesteryear used paving, walls, pergolas and rills to create these bones. Now we’re more inclined to use decking, gravel and elevated beds. Within this yard the powerful blocks of gravel along with the proper water characteristic hold the design together.

Tobin + Parnes Design Enterprises

Softening the outlines. Once the arrangement is set, plants may soften outlines and hard edges, and include colour and year-round interest. The crops in this strategy add to the proper paved layout without overriding or hiding it.

The Garden Consultants, Inc..

Selecting crops to fit the design. Restricting the range of crops can help strengthen the layout. Small garden design needs discipline in plant choice. Too many forms will lead to a fussy design that doesn’t feel easy on the eye. In this garden the use of a few species enables the plants to combine with all the paved areas and walls.

Blasen Landscape Architecture

We could take ideas from topiary gardens of yesteryear and only use evergreens trimmed into shapes that will unite the small garden layout. Or seem to famous gardens such as Vita Sackwell-West’s Sissinghurst, where her white border is a great lesson about how to restrict planting to one colour to unify a small space.

Bright Green

Utilizing focal points. One of the final lessons to be learned from the gardens of the past century is that the use of a feature or focal point within a small area. Most small gardens are enclosed by a hedge, fence or wall, so they don’t have any natural focal point leading to eye through your garden. A sculpture, water feature or, in this case, a stunning outdoor couch creates an internal focus.

Arterra Landscape Architects

Looking back to move forward. This small garden brings together all we’ve heard from the past. The construction is very powerful, linking all areas of the area. The hard landscape is softened by the restrictive plantings, along with the lime green chair provides a great focus. By return we could move forward in the way we design and utilize our smaller outdoor spaces.

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Spring Blossoms Burst Into the Big City

A temperature of 70 degrees in early March? Yes, please! Spring has come early to New York City, and all of the usual signals of the season have appeared well ahead of schedule. While the Northeast would generally need to wait for a couple more weeks to get blooming magnolias and short-sleeve weather, this year we’ve said good-bye to chilly long before the first official day of spring. (Hopefully, there isn’t another freeze around the corner.)

It appears the whole city is embracing the sudden warmth: Gardeners can be watch puttering in their yards; hardware stores are swapping their snow shovels and ice melt bags of potting soil and garden shears, and parents are happily bringing their kids to the park. On top of that, everything is blooming or beginning to bud. Here are some of the signs of spring.

Timothy Sheehan, ASLA

While everybody loves a host of golden daffodils, these two-toned daffodils with white petals surrounding a dark yellow trumpet are a new alternative to the usual all-yellow blossoms.

Crocuses are often the very first blossom to blossom in Brooklyn. The educated anglers of the New York City Parks Department understand that planting them makes for a bigger impact than single scattered bulbs could.

The Home Editor: City & Small Space Consulting

The branches of most trees are still bare, however, the first indications of life are beginning to look, such as these small blossoms. You can cut a couple budding branches and then bring them inside, where they’ll pop open in a few days.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Magnolia trees are near blooming in much of New York. In only a couple of days they’ll seem just like these fine specimens from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

The Home Editor: City & Small Space Consulting

An unusual, green-petal Helleborus foetidus is a chic alternative to the anticipated spring bloomers such as daffodils, crocuses and tulips.

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Perennial bushes are about to come into bloom. What is apparently a rhododendron is showing signs of life with buds and new development.

The Home Editor: Small & City Space Consulting

Pots of narcissus are prepared to be scooped up by gardeners who want a quick spring repair. These pretty plants are fantastic for display both inside and outside. Start looking for ones with unopened buds to find the maximum bang for your dollar.

The Home Editor: City & Small Space Consulting

Planted tulips haven’t come into bloom yet, but it does not mean that you can’t enjoy them. This flower shop is prepared with cut tulips and potted hyacinths, so even nongardeners may enjoy a jolt of spring.

Dreamy Whites

If you’re bringing spring blossoms inside, there’s nothing prettier that blossoming branches. Be sure to generate a fresh cut at the branch’s foundation and crush the end with a hammer to allow more water to put in the stem. Change the water every couple of days to keep blossoms blooming.

Dreamy Whites

Forsythia’s slender branches are so plentiful that a few will not be overlooked from the bush. Cut the stems on an angle and then remove any floral matter or leaves that will sit under the water line prior to putting them into a vase.

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Get in Line

Whether your look is classic or contemporary, stripes are a blueprint that may work for you. In the bedroom, striped walls add interest and order into a space without creating too busy a look at the location where you rest. Soft and vibrant in neutral hues, stripes go virtually unnoticed, but painted in vivid, contrasting colors that they take centre stage.

You are able to add stripes into a room with wallpaper or paint. Wallpaper is a simple way to guarantee your stripes are tidy and regular. After painting, make sure you be meticulous about taping off directly, level lines. This may be trickier than you may suspect, so call in a professional if you are unsure of your DIY skills.

Wish to test stripes in your bedroom? These nine rooms offer inspiration.

Alfonso DiLauro

Here slim vertical stripes add drama and height to this sleeping package. The extra-tall headboard increases the feeling of height, while the solid-hued mattress linens ground the appearance.

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The Virginia House

This infant’s room may do double duty as a guest bedroom when equipped with a spare bed. Keeping the décor neutral and sophisticated in beige and cream stripes prevents visitors from feeling like they’ve been annexed into a romper room.

Marie Burgos Design

Vertical lavender and white stripes make an airy texture in this loftlike bedroom. The color of this wall stripes also echoes the hue of this bedding for a coordinated but not too matchy-matchy appearance.

Amy Lau Design

The vivid colors of the eclectic children’s bedroom reflect its Miami locale. Designer Amy Lau shows that irregular painted wall stripes can be a lively way to add interest to a room.

Scheer & Co..

Bright blue and white stripes give this room a distinctly nautical feel. If used in a bedroom, this daring wall remedy should be tempered with silent, strong or patterned bedding.

The Lettered Cottage

The smallest of bedrooms may benefit from the inclusion of subtle stripes. Here the lightly hued bands of color draw the eye upward, giving the illusion of space at a decidedly cramped room.

Erika Ward – Erika Ward Interiors

Orange and blue lie opposite each other on the color wheel, and as this chamber shows, complementary colors are always a powerful pick for stripes. Consider experimenting with yellow and purple or green and red stripes — but obviously be cautious with the latter to prevent looking Christmasy.

Overhead stripes and the architecture of the space play . The result is to focus on the area’s sloping ceiling and add a feeling of height. The designer was clever not to stripe the walls as well, which may have made the room seem like a circus tent than a calming bedroom.

Stripes feel modern in this modern-looking bedroom. The pairing of numerous pastel colors with elephants and dark forests is a unique choice.

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Place Into Play

Once upon a time, a piano was a rather ubiquitous fixture at the everyday home. With no TVs, computers, video games or even telephones, music was the conventional form of amusement. While we have a lot more entertainment choices now, there’s still something quite grand in regards to the good ol’ piano.

Whether you choose a slick black lacquer or shiny maple end, or a conventional grand or classic vertical, a piano may give your room pizzazz. Join me as we check out the top ivories on .

Alexandra Lauren Designs

Pianos create a delightful addition. The tinkling of the ivories can fill a house with music. The beautiful curved sides of a baby grand may add a stunning feature to an otherwise dull room. However you spin it, a classic piano may bring beauty to your area.

Birdseye Design

Choose the ideal Style

Grand pianos are the Cadillacs of tools, offering controlling fortes and candy, accurate pianissimos. Allowing a grand piano to own an open space produces a serious statement.

Two Story Cottage

When space is limited, consider setting a baby grand in lieu of a chair in a circular installation.

InterDesign Studio

An alternative for tight spaces is an upright grand or cupboard grand. The lid lifts off the top to permit the music to spread over the space.

Begrand Quick Design Inc..

In case you’ve got the space, there’s not anything more amazing than a grand piano with the lid open. Situating the piano at the corner allows the purest sound to float through the entire room.

Choose the ideal Color

Think carefully about the end you choose for your piano. A wood tone that complements your décor can make the piano a vital component of your design rather than an afterthought.

Brilliant, glistening black is the best choice to make contrast within an all-white room.

AOME Architects

Choose the ideal Place

If you are blessed with a music room or nook, your piano will love it there.

Situating a piano near a large window offers the participant a wonderful experience and provides lots of lighting for reading sheet music.

Blend hobbies by putting a baby grand in your library. Can not you just picture afternoon hours full of literature and music?

Martha O’Hara Interiors

Maybe your office would be the best place for a piano, and you would prefer an alternative to the traditional seat. An hour to operate and an hour to play makes for a charming afternoon day.

Jenni Leasia Layout

Want a serenade during foods? Try out a piano instead of a breakfast table. The dimensions and square shape of the conventional breakfast nook are just right to get a baby grand.

Don Ziebell

Living rooms are the perfect spaces for this classic tool. Entertain guests by opening the lid toward the seating arrangement.

Dillard Pierce Design Associates

Spread the music! In case you’ve got two family rooms, then convert one into a full-scale music room. Or perhaps you never eat in your dining room. Give it to your own guitar collection and a wonderful grand piano.

Alan Mascord Design Associates Inc

Adding a piano in your living spaces may make a rich, welcoming setting. It’s challenging to get a piano player to withstand playing a beautiful tool, so place your piano at which guests may access it, and you’ll have music before you know it!

Whichever design, colour and location you choose for your piano, the accession of the tool to your house creates a bold design statement and provides a literal tool of creativity right in your fingertips.

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Contractor Tips: How to Choose and Install Windows

Windows are a major investment. They will need to bring the outdoors in when you desire, but also have to keep the elements at bay when you don’t. The alternatives for design, performance and function can be overpowering. Below are five things to consider before you purchase replacement windows, and suggestions on deciding whether to repair or replace.

Lingo to know:Sash: A moveable frame that holds the window glass; a double-hung window is made up of 2 moveable sashesMull: To combine two or more windows togetherMuntins: Strips of timber which split the sash into smaller sections of glass, which are known as litesR value: A measure of the efficiency of insulation; the higher the value, the more insulationFlashing: A thin layer of metal or other waterproof material that retains water from joints at corners and varies in substance

Divine Design+Build

1. Placement. Using a casement window, the entire one-piece sash works out by twisting a deal. It can be tricky to start a double-hung window when leaning over cabinets in a kitchen, so the casement can be a good choice there. Think about the outside implications, however. Can the open sash obstruct a path when people walk by? Do you intend to own window boxes? You do not want the window to mow down your pansies.

Cary Bernstein Architect

2. Ventilation. If you want a opinion but do not require ventilation in the region, a stationary window can be a good choice. Fixed windows can be combined with operable windows to save money. If your window, fixed or otherwise, is within 18 inches of the ground or near a window seat, you will have to order tempered glass for safety.

Buckminster Green LLC

Here, hopper-style windows function as transoms to give venting without compromising safety. Before purchasing windows, consider how you will install the transom over the door. Are there a space in between, trimmed out as in this movie?

When you intend to mull the transom window right to the top of the doorway, make sure that your salesperson understands and supplies a mill trim to cover this joint. Or better yet, have the mill mull the door and transom together. This link can be a tricky one to make on the job.

Ana Williamson Architect

3. Environment. Rainsunlight and temperature shifts can take their toll on both windows. If you’d like the appearance of a painted timber window, consider aluminum-clad wood. There are many color options, along with the paint job will last considerably longer. Trim pieces such as brick molding can also be available in precisely the exact same material, therefore the entire meeting is low maintenance.

Every climate differs, and the direction your window faces comes into play also, so consult your salesperson for the ideal choice when it comes to efficiency. In general, you will want a window which includes two or three panes of glass space in between. The cushion of air between the panes functions as an insulator. Gases such as argon are a much greater insulator. Start looking for a movie in addition to the glass which reflects the warm summer sunshine on the exterior and keeps heat in during the winter.

Stonewood, LLC

If your budget allows, elect for a timber window such as this one. The original wood windows in most historical houses are still going strong, while decade-old plastic replacements are being replaced again.

Debra Campbell Design

4. Energy efficiency. Historical window sashes were split into several small panes of glass because big pieces were hard to make and expensive. If you want to re-create this look however maintain energy efficiency, the ideal choice is a simulated split window. Muntins are implemented on the inside and outside the glass, with a spacer in between the 2 panes of glass so that the expression of a true divided light is achieved — unless you look carefully.

dSPACE Studio Ltd, AIA

Should you have to replace your windows, make them as efficient as possible, but if raising efficiency is your goal, do not start by replacing your windows. Historical single-pane wood windows can be weatherstripped and paired with an exterior or interior storm window to achieve perfectly good R values.

Gast Architects

5. Installation. A good window with no good installation will not last, so look at this: Whatever type of siding you’ve — timber, vinyl, even brick — water will get behind the siding and run down the wall sheathing supporting it. So think about the path that water will take as it gets to you personally window.

Building wrap, such as Tyvek, ought to be lapped over so water can not run behind the window. Flashing tape ought to be employed to seal the window installation flanges to the sheathing. If you are remodeling, install metal head flashing to divert water around the window and pay particular attention to caulking.

Murphy & Co.. Design

All windows have some weight over them bearing down, therefore a structural header or lintel is necessary to disperse that burden round the window. If you are enlarging the dimensions of an existing opening, possess an engineer calculate what size the header or lintel needs to be. Here a large timber lintel adds character to the house. The stone sill here is an superb choice as well — lots of water will run down the front of your chimney in a storm, and stone, unlike timber, will never rot.

LDa Architecture & Interiors

The details on your window can give the install added character, but trimming is not just window dressing. The trimming over the window ought to be flashing, just enjoy the window . Your very best efforts will not keep out moisture, so be sure to leave weep holes open in the base of a window to allow that moisture out. Caulking weep holes can quickly lead to rot.

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Show Us Your Property!

Do family and friends always compliment your house and personal style? Does your house have that extra special creative spark? Share your special, diverse home together with the community by following the directions below, and you might be featured in our next”My ” ideabook.

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1. Show us your home spaces.

Upload a minimum of 3 photos of your house to your account and add the images to an ideabook. To upload photos, click on the Upload link at the upper right corner of the page.

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2. Click on”Edit” and On Your ideabook, inform us about your home from the box marked”Description.”

Inform us who resides in your home, the place, the dimensions, what sets your home apart from the rest, what you love about your residence, your inspiration, your design team (if you had one), layout issues or problems you had to overcome, and some other interesting details you’d like to share.

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3. Email the URL to your ideabook into [email protected].

What we are searching for: crisp, well-lit, high-resolution photos of homes with new and inspiring design ideas.

Submissions won’t be automatically printed to . Each submission will be reviewed by the editorial team for consideration, and in some cases, an editor will reach out to you to ask additional photos or to schedule a photo shoot.

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5 Nurseries Total of Ingenuity and Originality

We have seen a lot of wonderful nurseries about , and we have been lucky enough to have been given a much broader view at quite a number of these. Whether you’re trying for”It’s a Boy! ,” “It’s a Girl! ,” or you wish to be surprised, these include inspirational ideas and colour palettes for everyone.

Lauren Hufnagl didn’t let a sloped wall stop her from making something unique on it. She painted this wonderful, wall-spanning tree inside her daughter Violet’s nursery.

There’s never been such a fantastic selection of unique, handmade stuffed creatures on the market since there is now; Mr. Owl and Ms. Foxy are two great examples.

This nursery has comfortable spots for parents as well as infant, which is quite important.

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Jennifer Bishop Design

Interior Designer Jennifer Bishop picked this vibrant blue, brown and green color palette and a woodland motif for her customers’ gender-neutral nursery. 1 great design component is this knot-framed bulletin board. It was originally a metallic mirror the designer scored at HomeGoods. She painted the frame and filled in the center with cork.

Jennifer Bishop Design

Don’t have Hufnagl’s painting abilities? Only get your hands on some tree stickers, which are a enormous nursery trend right now.

What is so great about these? They provide a big, striking graphic that’s great for kids. On the possibility your kid wants a new motif as he or she ages, then you can simply peel them off without damaging the wall. These birch trees emphasize verticality.

Jennifer Bishop Design

Bishop transformed an old dresser to a chic changing table with some white paint, sanding, and faux bois paper decoupaged onto the front.

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The Virginia House

Over in The Virginia House, crafty mother and blogger Jillian Woods gave the baby’s room a neutral yet warm palette.

The Virginia House

After admiring similar but expensive models in stores, she crafted this amazing cellphone for approximately $4.

The Virginia House

Painted stripes create a fantastic backdrop for decorative items.

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Nicole Lanteri Design

Designer Nicole Lanteri demonstrated that a sophisticated color palette and stylish furnishings can work in a nursery school. Yellow, cream and grey hues cover grownup furniture and accessories such as a tufted seat with a zebra rug and a Moroccan pouf with nursery furniture.

Nicole Lanteri Design

Another dresser-turned-changing table becomes new life with a bright yellow coat of paint.

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Bedtime Bus Roll Poster – $25

author Vanessa Brunner has created an information-packed ideabook that can help you get this nursery’s look.

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Proud parents of Charlie, the Kopps preferred a colour combination of taupe and orange to more typical nursery colour combinations. They also knew it would be gender-neutral if they have more kids later on.

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Dubbed”owl-tastic” by Brian Patrick Flynn, a collection of those wise men adds a fun motif to Charlie’s nursery.

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Another tree decal fills the wall (painted Sherwin-Williams Tony Taupe) supporting the crib.

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