10 Best: ideas for a tree-themed room

  The branches may be bare at the moment, but I can’t help but think of spring and greenery. Although far removed from trad teddies and bunnies, trees are a fantastic unisex theme for a nursery – great if you don’t know what flavour you’re expecting. Designers love them as well – there’s a veritable [...]

10 Best: ideas for a rainbow-themed room

Red and yellow and… Who doesn’t love a rainbow? The thing I like best about them as a theme is that it’s so easy to customise pretty much anything to suit. Painted cot bars. Seven strips of fabric for a curtain. Paper lanterns. All cheap and easy updates. Check out Pinterest for some amazingly creative [...]

10 Best: ideas for a farm-themed room

I don’t know a toddler who isn’t enamoured of Old Macdonald, so a farm-themed room is a bit of a no brainer. Colourful and fun, it works brilliantly for boys or girls and you can ramp up the tractor count if you’ve got a petrolhead on your hands. I took this fantastic print from ByGraziela [...]

Hot New Shop: Little Yellow Birds

The latest online boutique to open its doors is a treat for lovers of children’s interior design. Little Yellow Birds was founded by Jenny and Harriet, two Mamas with a passion for gorgeousness in children’s spaces. When I first browsed through the site it was with a skippy mouse finger eager to see the next [...]

10 Best: ideas for a weather-themed room

Ever since I first set eyes on Swedish designer Gunila Axén’s frankly amazing Clouds pattern I’ve been smitten with the idea of a weather-themed room. In all honesty, you could kit out a nursery solely in Axén’s icon design – find bedlinen, curtains, lampshades, cushions and storage in a variety of colours at Little Baby [...]

A Peek Inside: The Pippa and Ike Show

When we heard about a slice of kids’ cool opening up on the Gloucester Road in Bishopston, Bristol I knew we would be making a beeline for it on our next trip. The Pippa and Ike Show is a new boutique already creating a buzz amongst the cool Bristol parents. Located a minute away from [...]

10 Best: Ideas for a space-themed room

Space. The Final Frontier. And a fantastic theme for a child’s room. There’s so much material out there that I found this really tricky, but here are a few extra terrestrial ideas. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Blast off! On the walls, you can’t go far wrong with Kakemono from innovative French company Carton Chic. Is [...]

Petit Collage cardboard monkey mobile

Can Lorena ‘Petit Collage’ Simonovich do no wrong? It appears not. Not content with producing amazing ABC posters and stunning book illustrations, she’s ventured into the world of the flatpack cardboard mobile (RRP £13, Chronicle Books), à la Junzo Terada’s Birds in Flight. I love these things – they make a fantastic budget baby gift and are [...]

Madeleine Stamer perspex bird mobiles

I think I actually gasped out loud a little when I came across these cut-out birds. At first glance, they look at like the most intricate paper-cuts à la Rob Ryan, but they are in fact a much more robust and practical laser-cut perspex.   Choose from a mobile of three complimentary colours, or go [...]

10 Best: Ideas for an insect-themed room

Ooh, my search for insect goodies brought up so much fabulousness it almost warranted two posts. But I’ve been firm with myself to bring you my 10 favourite finds if your little one loves all things creepy and crawly. Let’s start with the walls. This dramatic wallpaper by the wonderful Timorous Beasties is probably a [...]

Junzo Terada’s Jungle Friends

First came the Magical Menagerie. Then Birds in Flight. Now, the tremendously talented Japanese artist Junzo Terada brings us his Jungle Friends, five large punch-out cardboard animals ready for you to slot together without the messiness that scissors and glue always seem to bring. The flat-packed crocodile, elephant, giraffe, lion, and tiger are sure to [...]

Normann Copenhagen New Born Box

Tired of all the dull new baby gifts on the market? Danish design company Normann Copenhagen (they of the squishy rubber washing bowls) to the rescue! I am absolutely loving this cute gift set containing Ole Søndergaard’s classic laquered wood Plane (plus wire so you can hang it as a mobile) and a long-sleeved cotton [...]

10 Best: Ideas for underwater-themed rooms

If you’ve got a mini fan of the life aquatic at home then read on. I’ve hunted down ten cool deep-sea goodies for children’s rooms. Firstly, you’ll be wanting wall decoration. I love the work of London-based South African designer, Luzelle van der Westhuizen’s Mengsel Design – her bicolour silkscreen prints are simple and stylish. This [...]

Ideas for a Woodland-Themed Room

Now that we’ve saved the UK’s forests (yay for people power) I thought it was appropriate that we did a round-up of the best ideas for woodland-themed rooms – it seems that children’s designers’ love of this subject knows no bounds. Let’s start with the walls. There’s a myriad of tree wallpapers out there, but [...]

Junzo Terada’s Birds in Flight mobile

One of my close friends recently had her third baby and I wanted to find something fabulous and frivolous to go with the more practical (but obviously still fabulous) bits I had bought her. Step up Japanese artist Junzo Terada (he of Magical Menagerie fame) and his Birds in Flight mobile. Produced by the ever-innovative [...]

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