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Creating a Baby Boys Nursery

Congratulations! You're going to have a baby boy! As soon as you get the news, it's normal to start brainstorming about how you will decorate your infant son's bedroom or nursery. Where do you even begin? There are a few good starting points that can make the process easy.

If the bedroom or nursery has recently been freshly painted and you don't want to paint again, designing a boy's bedroom around the existing paint color is an easy way to start. Identify the main colors in the room and select one or two coordinating or deliberately contrasting colors. In a room painted light blue, for instance, you could choose navy and royal blue as coordinating colors, or you could pick green and white for contrast. With the chosen color scheme in mind, look at baby crib bedding sets that would accentuate these colors.

On the other hand, if the room needs new paint, or if the room is already a neutral color like white, your options are wide open. Then it's fun to start out shopping for baby crib bedding sets you really love as your starting point. Select one or two main sets to outfit the crib, and then design your babys bedroom around the colors, patterns, or themes prevalent in those linens.

Starting out with a particular theme in mind, such as cars and trucks, sailboats, puppies, or fire trucks is also a great way to begin. Use your preferred theme to select baby crib bedding sets. Then paint the walls or woodwork to coordinate with the colors in the bedding and theme. You can even add a wallpaper border, stencils, or cutouts on the walls to match the theme you choose.

Finally, paint, stain, or purchase furnishings and accessories to match the colors, style, and theme selected. Get creative and add color and contrast with lampshades, rugs, and curtains. Select framed prints or knickknacks to give the room some added pizazz.

You can use traditional little boy themes, like trains, baseball, and cowboys since it's easy to find baby crib bedding sets with sports prints or mottos and traditional themes. Masculine color selections such as blue, green, and brown are also good choices, as are bold primary colors like red, blue, and yellow. Stripes, polka dots, geographic shapes, and animal prints (like zebra, giraffe, and tiger stripes) make fantastic, more modern options.

For parents who are partial to a more modern exciting theme, take a walk on the wild side by painting the room a medium shade of vibrant blue with white woodwork and trim. Deck out the crib with giraffe or zebra print baby crib bedding sets. Then accessorize with giant green jungle, like foliage stenciled on the walls, stuffed monkeys or elephants and other jungle animals, and curtains made from fabric that looks like big puffy clouds in a blue sky.

You can incorporate a deep green rug on the floor, whimsical framed prints from storybooks that focus on jungle animals, like Curious George on the walls, and wild animal print pillows piled on a window seat or in a comfortable chair for nursing or cuddling before bedtime as vibrant accents.