Emilia’s Swan Lake Nursery

I’ve always loved Persian style, and growing up taking ballet as a child, I knew I wanted to incorporate that into the room design. Soft pastels are my favourite colour pallet to work with and having that soft ballet blush tones is the main inspiration for the nursery. We went more neutral with the walls, that way if the room ever changes we won’t have to re-paint. I wanted to have fun with incorporating swans into the design but I did not want it to scream a swan theme. Number 1 rule of design, always go with a concept and never a theme. But this is also a little girls room so we had to have a few swan elements in the room such as textiles, art, bookshelf and mobile, these are all decor items that can be easily switched out. At the time when I started working on the nursery I was having a hard time sourcing decor item with swans on them, so this room didn’t happen over night. A lot of items I ended up making or were just lucky Winners and Homesense finds. Now swan nursery decor is so trendy making it is easier to find some cute items that would go perfectly in your little swan princesses room!

The Bookshelf is one of my favourite elements in the room. I made the base of the shelf using plain pine wood from the hardware store. Then I printed a swan silhouette I found one line of and traced it onto a thin piece of wood. Next we cut it out using a jig saw glued everything together and painted. It is the perfect place to display all of her prettiest children’s books.

I love how this space turned out it is so beautiful and elegant and will be able to grow with her as she gets older without too much work to change.