Vintage Outdoors Nursery Tour

Would you believe me if I said the very first thing I did in our new house – before we even officially moved in – was start putting together the baby’s vintage outdoors nursery? Well, it’s true. We moved into our new home when I was seven months pregnant and nesting was in full force so I ignored the *literal* piles of boxes to be unpacked and worked on painting some moody green shiplap instead.

And now Theo is here, it’s perfect for him.

RUG | LAMP | CURTAINS |

The dark green paint, the gallery wall, the peg rail of swaddles, I just love it all and it’s a surprisingly relaxing space to spend your most sleep-deprived hours. To be honest, this isn’t a room chock full of aesthetic curated pieces and there’s a lot more I’d love to add to help fill out the space but it’s real life and budget-friendly and a perfect mix of old and new for now.

The launching point in designing Theo’s vintage outdoors nursery was finding a few national parks postcards at an antique store a few months ago – I knew they’d be perfect in a gallery wall and built outwards from there. A sweet friend of ours then made us the amazing quilt hanging on his crib out of some national parks fabric she found and I obviously had a theme going on.

Layout-wise, it’s a very small room and there was really only one wall where the crib could go so it wasn’t in front of a closet door, a window, or the baseboard air vent.

We installed a couple of shiplap panels vertically on that wall – literally just nailed them in place then caulked them at the seams – and painted it all Backwoods by Benjamin Moore (a color I’ve loved everywhere I’ve seen it used). The dark green is the perfect base for that vintage outdoors summer camp kind of feel, and I tried to repeat those rust, black, green and cognac colors in that color palette throughout his room.

The peg rail and dresser are both thrifted, the crib is his sister’s hand-me-down and the IKEA armchair turned rocking chair is an old DIY from Eleanor’s nursery.

RUG | LAMP | NATIONAL PARK SWADDLE |

One of my absolute favorite things in here is his name sign above the crib – I’d had that saved in my Etsy cart long before we even had a baby name picked, knowing it would hang in his nursery someday. I literally ordered it in the hospital when we finally settled on his name and it was just the finishing touch the room needed.

LEMON TOWEL | GREEN MUSLIN SWADDLE

We’re so excited baby Theo is here and using his vintage outdoors nursery (even if it doesn’t look like this most days these days), and we hope you like it too!

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