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Designing your nursery and rugs

Designing your nursery

You're pregnant and filled with joy about your soon to be new arrival. Your mind is filled with ideas about your nursery and rugs, and you want everything to be as perfect as possible. You've decided on a color scheme and now you want to select items that will match your nursery and rugs, but where to start?

To begin with, your nursery designs should be safe and functional. Then, with those to things in mind you can get down to the fun part, i.e. selecting a theme and accessories to go with it. Many people choose nursery themes with animals in them. Others choose nursery and rugs with flowers, butterflies, or fantasy animals on them. Still others select bright patterns and colors in geometric designs which will catch and hold the baby's eye.

Starting with the walls, you may want to use a brightly colored wall paper in your nursery or you may want to create a mural. Creating a mural is not difficult if you use stencils to help you with the project. However before you begin wallpapering or stenciling you may want to determine where the baby's furniture will be placed. After all, you don't want to have the mural's or wallpaper's effect hidden by a chest of drawers.

Once you have determined where the baby furniture will be located you can begin working on the walls. When the walls are complete, you can then select throw rugs to match. Even if the nursery already has wall-to-wall carpeting an eye-catching throw rug can add color to the room and enhance the design's overall effect. Just make sure that the throw rug is slip-proof so that it will not become a safety hazard. Remember safety and functionally must be your first concern when designing your nursery.

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