Baby Room Decorations

Decorations for a nursery with an old-fashioned school room theme

Rock your baby to sleep in a room with charming decorations. Newborns sleep up to 20 hours a day so most parents choose a soothing theme for the nursery, bringing out the brightly colored toys at playtime. Murals, wall hangings, mobiles, lamps and decorative soft toys are all good decorations for a nursery. Choose items that match your theme to create a truly unique room for your baby.

Wall Hangings

Many items can decorate nursery walls. Amusing vegetable crate ads are charming in a room with a garden theme. Hang maps in a room with a nautical theme; the pastel colors suit a nursery. Woven throws are a sweet touch for an old-fashioned room. Frame paper dolls for a little girl's room or old-fashioned train ads for a boy's room. Calendars and picture books are also good sources for prints to frame.

Murals

Paint a mural to add depth and interest to the nursery. A forest-themed mural can be just a pattern of pastel leaves to highlight some fairy tale prints or realistically painted trees framing a story-book cottage. Paint rows of vegetables in a room with a garden theme. A seascape with a few sailboats is wonderful for a nautical theme.

Mobiles

Make a mobile that ties into your room's theme. Hang small soft toys from the ceiling over the crib. Use little pigs for a fairy tale theme or little dolls in a girl's room. You can also use lightweight plastic toys attached to a mobile frame. Vegetables are cute in a garden room or sailboats in a room with a nautical room. Just be certain all toys are baby-safe, just in case they fall into the crib.

Lamps

A lamp is necessary to provide indirect light when tending to the baby at night when you don't want the baby to wake up completely. Turn this necessity into a decoration. A lamp store can make a lamp out of almost anything, or you can do it yourself with a kit. Use a fairy tale figurine or a model ship. Turn a watering can into a lamp for a garden room. Use a doll chair in a girl's room or a football helmet in a boy's room.

Toys and Other Decorative Items

For a unified look, match the baby's toys to the theme. Buy a set of storybook puppets for a fairy tale room. Collect toy boats for a nautical room. Make a toy garden hoe into a clothes rack in a room with a garden theme. Rag dolls in sweet floral dresses suit an old-fashioned nursery. Put decorative shelves high on the wall to display fragile items such as antique trains or collectible dolls. Toys handed down from previous generations are a wonderful personal touch.