apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Neon peach. By mistake. I took the quilt my mother made to the paint shop with me, matched the fabric, and viola, we have a shade of peach I've never heretofore seen.

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The photo makes it look down right nice and normal. But it isn't. I'm currently planning to repaint.

Blah. Blahish Beige. That is the color. We've been good renters, painting is forbidden, and we have such a good situation that we haven't wanted to rock the boat. But I'm beginning to contemplate rocking a bit. So we have a bit of a blank canvas right now. A summer project, the injection of some color and the transitioning of the room from infant needs to toddler ones.

A beautiful, vibrant granny smith apple green by Ralph Lauren. I wanted a color that toddler would love.

Our daughters walls are a sky blue, with white clouds painted on them (using white paint and glaze with a rag)

Peach ceiling, pale artichoke green walls with a golden straw carpet. And white loopy loop swirls painted on the walls in a very random scribbled way. Very fun, light and all, but my four year old daughter now says that green is her least favorite colors-of course! She says she wants red walls. That's what happens when those sweet babies grow up, they all want to redecorate!

ours is a super pale warm blue - like mist.

creamy grey-green

A Donald Kaufman colour, which doesn't have a name, rather a number which I forget. The inspiration was the nursery Donald Kaufman did for Alexander Julian, which better colour reproduction in a book showed to be sort of pink but which the poor colour reproduction in the pages of a magazine made look like a sort of lavendery shade (closest colour I can come up with). Looks awesome with the bright turquoise of the crib, which was also in the Julian nursery. So much for my daughter's nursery, back home in North America (3 1/2 now, she has 2 hot fuschia walls).

Now my son's nursery has one black wall; I love it so much, that I think I will paint a second one to make the turquoise crib *pop* more (the other walls are sort of off-white; I may try to repaint them a better white -- we are now leasing a house in Europe).

(aha! I finally come coment-to-coment with the person who registered my name!)

My son's first room was a denim blue color. I moved him into my old office because of size constraints -and that room is a green color that I made myself with pigments. It is a green with a lot of brown in it. I love it and kept it that color. He's going to be 3 in 9 days and wanted a "cowboy" room- so we added more brown and red colors (and tons of cowboy stuff) and it looks surprisingly good. I know he doesn't seem to care what color the room is- he just wants his "stuff" around him.

am i the only one who will admit to not having a nursery? one of the baby cards we received was a pop-up of a nursery. for a while we kept that on display and said it was our daughter's room.

lb-hahaha. My husband built a small (about 6" tall) model of our house before we built it and I kept it on my office desk and told people it was close to actual size. It was extreme small & cool.

Nope, I'll admit it too. We have no nursery. One crib is in the living room and the other is in the bedroom. We live in a one bedroom apartment so we have to plan where our son will sleep according to how much homework my husband has that night.

We painted our nursery in Martha Stewart's "Hemp Rope"...a nice khaki color that looks great with white trim.

The accent colors are blue, green, and eggplant and look terrific with the walls.