Gender Neutral Nurseries

Lots of exciting things to post today! First up: Remember to enter MY CURRENT GIVEAWAY to win your choice of clothing from my Spring 2011 Collection. Click here to enter!

Next: A friend of mine from high school asked me over a month ago {maybe even two months...soz Kelley!} for ideas on gender neutral nurseries. I finally had time to get some images together and am thrilled to post them all! My favorite is the one above - obviously I love the eclecticness of it...mixing modern with traditional with vintage. J'adore. Given that it might not be to everyone's taste, I compiled my favorite images I had stored up below. And y'all, these were from my personal interior folder on my desktop, not my blog folder, so I did not make note of where the image came from and cannot give proper credit - terrible, I know, but please forgive! I feel like 99% are from Andrika of Nursery Notations so I will give credit to her for the majority. She has the BEST nursery design blog out there any day of the week and twice on Tuesday.

The Jonathan Adler zebra rug is an all-time personal favorite of mine, especially now that they came out with new colors. Squish has an orange one in his room. Sometimes I go sit on it all by myself just to tell the rug how much I love it. We have some nice pow-wow's and girly time. And tea parties.

Ok LOVE. I believe this home is in Austin, actually, from what I remember. 

Whenever we move I am going to FOR SURE do a wall of books like this. The shallow shelves are perfect for displaying books so none get lost as so often happens in typical deep book shelves. Ideal for playroom, nursery or young child's room. For some reason I am thinking the image with the diagonal striped border on the drapes is from Pink Wallpaper.

I MELT. Want to move in now. This is nicer than my own bedroom for crying out loud. As pretty as it looks, however, it is not practical if there are mobile children in the house. I would definitely fall and stab my eye out on that peacock figurine, and I would be scared that those sunburst mirrors would fall and impale the baby.

These below are children's rooms obviously, not nurseries, but I think inspiration can be taken from them and translate well into a nursery setting.

This is quite sophisticated and would be beautiful in nursery form if the walls, crib and carpet were all the same color or close to the same shade. 

Chevron is one of my all time FAVE patterns {as you can see from the sides of my blog} and I love this milky aqua color mixed with as bright as you can get orange. The toned down headboard is a nice touch as well. Great color combo for a nursery, and would translate well into the toddler room. Another option would be to paint a thick chevron pattern onto one wall in the nursery.

I totally love this. How great to just paint a huge massive stripe behind the crib against the wall??! I think I need to do this in our next home. Easy and chic and CHEAP!

Most of you have seen these photos before of our nursery:

We did not find out the gender of Squish or Munch, so this was my answer to gender neutral. I knew the rest of our house would be crazypants color, so I wanted to keep a very classic, soothing baby environment as more of an escape. I love it, but at the end of the day it's not very "me." When we move and I get to do another nursery for future babies, I will be more adventurous and make it more in sync with the rest of our home. Here is my take on a gender neutral nursery as I would do today {pretending that a budget does not exist....ha....} 

You know if this whole clothing line thing doesn't work out I think I am going to make my interior design hobby official. This is fun!! Sheridan French Interiors? Sheridan French Crazypants Color Design?? Oh ps I really wanted to find a great old-fashioned trunk to use as a toy chest, so that an older child could play in the nursery while mom is in there with baby and not feel left out...but didn't find a great one. If anyone has a good resource for this please share! 

{1}Love Pillows {2}Child's Sofa - for when an older child wants to be in the room with you while you are feeding the baby {3}Red Side Table {4}Stool that could also be used as ottoman for glider {5}Painting {6}Sports Car Pillow {7}Wasp pillow {8}Crib {9}Rug {10}Prints {11}Changer {12}Elephant Lamp nice to have a touch of baby-ness somewhere {13}Paint {14}Night Light {15}Ikat Pillow  {16}Table for setting bottle, etc. on while you burp baby {17}Glider

Head over to Nursery Notations tomorrow to see my guest post as well - a mommy/child outfit combo. Very cool!