A Moody Mexican Nursery

Hola! I’m so excited to share our nursery refresh with you! I wanted to post sooner but our little bundle of joy came a few weeks early so I just took my time with the finishing details.

There really wasn’t anything wrong with the old nursery design but I just felt tired of it and I knew I’d be spending a lot of upcoming time there so I felt that it could use a refresh. I took it from light and airy to moody and dramatic.

Here’s the room before.

And here it is now!

The biggest change came from rearranging the furniture! It opened up the room so much more and has a better flow. Never underestimate the power of rearranging, it can transform a room! The one furniture switch I made was the crib. I sold the old one and bought another used one for the same price, but in a more modern style. Having the crib in a different direction helped me decide to have a feature wall. I decided on a dark color to add some drama and mood to this room. The color is “Tricorn Black” by Sherwin Williams. I chose this color because the rest of the room had small black accents so I decided to pull that color out as the main feature. The other accent colors of terra-cotta and green came from the colors I saw in the Mexican painting that we got on our Honeymoon, that I already had on the wall.

I made the plant hanger and the sunburst mirror above the crib. I wanted a mirror for above the crib but couldn’t afford any of the ones I found. So I went to the dollar store and found a mirror for $2 and a $1 pack of bamboo skewers and made my own. I glued the skewers to the back of the mirror in varying lengths then hung it up. The snake plant was a mother’s day gift so it made the perfect addition to the other side of the room.

On the other side of the room, the only little change I made was adding a few more pictures and souvenirs to the gallery wall.

The gallery wall is an eclectic mix of frames that were all thrifted. The oil painting from our honeymoon was handpainted by a local artisan. He painted it with only his fingers, no brushes, and it only took him about 20 minutes! I still love it.

I’ll leave you with this view from my chair, where I spend most of the day and some of the night these days. You can also see the light switch from this view, which seems like a random comment, but we changed the regular switch for a dimmer switch so I can feed my baby in very low light at night! It is actually my FAVORITE part of this room refresh! I always found that any lamp I tried was too bright and would wake us both up too much, and I didn’t want to have a side table taking up more space so this was the perfect solution! It’s the little things, right? 🙂