Thanks to Toni of Design Dazzle for featuring Claire’s nursery!
When Naomi Coe and Gerri Panebianco of Little Crown Interiors agreed to offer one lucky sproutstyle reader their digital design services, I was thrilled to say the least! I hope you’ve enjoyed being along for the ride - shadowing Naomi and Gerri in putting together a coheasive, well-planned nursery from the ground up. Take a peek at the finished designs for our winner!
Little Crown Interiors:
Hello again! In post 1 and post 2, we shared our modern, unisex Digital Nursery Design for Jill Stein, the “Style My Space” Winner. Today, we’re so excited to share our completed design. But first, a little background…
Prelude to the Design:
On a Friday morning in April, we opened our email and found a fun surprise. Dee Devine of sproutstyle had announced the winner of our joint giveaway called “Style My Space”. Here’s what the winner – Jill – had to say:
“While I live and work in NYC and have worked in fashion for the past nine years, my sense of style (unfortunately) does not translate to a talent for home decor! I know what I like when I see it, but putting a room together like the girls at Little Crown is a talent that far exceeds my abilities. My husband works in finance so he’s no help
In all seriousness, I absolutely love what they’ve done with the nurseries I’ve seen in their portfolio, and it would be very cool to see what they could do with the space in our loft! We’re not going to find out the sex of the baby, so it would be an exciting challenge to get their input on how to design a fantastic, gender neutral room that suits our taste (sleek and modern but very baby friendly!).”
The email was both flattering and exciting, especially as we love a good challenge. A gender neutral nursery definitely requires a special level of care, which we love to give! Plus, designing a complete nursery for a client outside of Southern California is a specialty of ours that we love to use.
You’re going to paint it what color??!!
9 times out of 10, the words “gender neutral” bring to mind visions of mild yellows, and subdued greens. But this time is totally different. With input from Jill about her style (and existing paint color in the space), we came up with the color palette, which could not be more unique. Believe it or not, we have found a way to make these unconventional colors both coordinate beautifully, and truly provide a space in which Jill’s baby could comfortably reside, never knowing that this room was designed without knowing the gender.
Putting the Pieces Together
As we showed in the earlier posts, the modern design called for sleek furniture, and the gender neutral theme required a measure of caution.
The big picture
As nursery interior designers, there’s always a moment where we look at the design and say to ourselves “what is it that makes this amazing”? In this case, the off-beat color scheme was our go-to answer, but what really “made” it for us was the skyline wall decal. It’s sophisticated, and modern, but let’s be honest – it’s super kid-friendly. We imaging this child playing in their room: one day pretending they’re in Paris making crepes for breakfast, the next pretending they’re in a far away city gathering treasures to bring home to Mom and Dad.
The nursery unveiled
Without further ado, here are our computer models of Jill’s room…
Closing Our Laptops
Our work on this nursery interior design project is done, but Jill’s has just begun… Our hope for these expecting parents is that they enjoy every moment of putting the nursery together: that they will laugh while painting, marvel at the difficulty that even very smart people experience while building a crib, and dream about the memories they will build with their son or daughter over years to come in this very room. And, of course, we hope she will send finished photos, which we will gladly share with all of you.
Thanks again, Naomi and Gerri, for your amazing designs and practical tips. We hope to continue to learn from you both in the future! Special thanks to Jill Stein for allowing us to tag along in the process!
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Another update from Naomi Coe and Gerri Panebianco of Little Crown Interiors on Jill, our Style My Space winner!
Little Crown Interiors:
Hello again! We first introduced this Modern, unisex Digital Nursery Design in a previous post – Part 1 - where we shared with you the “before” photos and nursery floor plan. Now it’s time to move on to the best part: the stuff. Please keep in mind that we were able to create the entire design remotely – Jill, the homeowner, is in New York, so without meeting face-to-face, our exclusive design methods allowed us to create the perfect design for her!
Jill informed us that she is not finding out the sex of the baby, and that she has modern taste. She also liked this Oeuf Sparrow Crib. The combination of these ideas created our design inspiration…
Sparrow Crib in White by Oeuf
Next, we went to work on the color scheme – which turned to be the very unusual palette of grey with accents of plum, coral red and turquoise.
Finally, we started choosing the furniture, artwork, accessories and lighting. Here are just a few of the items we chose for Jill’s Nursery Interior Design:
Coral Bird Crib Bedding Set by Super Natural
World Map by These Are Things
Luca Glider by Monte Design
While it might be tough to imagine how all these things will work together, we promise – this is a very chic design. Plus, our next post will feature a rendering of Jill’s room – so you can see how everything will look!
That’s it for now… Be sure to check back regularly to see the progress of this gender neutral baby room, and to get expert design tips from Naomi Coe and Gerri Panebianco of Little Crown Interiors, who will guest-blogging through the entire progress of their interior design of Jill’s nursery. Love the choices so far – especially the vintage map!
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Back in May, sproutstyle joined with La Vie Cherie Magazine and Little Crown Interiors to give away a complete nursery interior design for one lucky Mom-to be. The winner – Jill – needs a gender neutral nursery, and wants a modern nursery design to fit the style of her New York loft. Naomi Coe and Gerri Panebianco of Little Crown Interiors have an update for us about the progress of the design!
Little Crown Interiors:
As Jill is in New York, and we are in Southern California, the design was created using Little Crown Interiors’ Digital Design Service — completely remote design all via phone and email. Today, we wanted to share the beginning stages of Jill’s modern, unisex nursery.
First step: Evaluate the photos. Here are two “before” shots of the empty nursery just waiting to become a modern, gender neutral nursery! We took a lot of time and care to make sure we really understood the space, as well as Mom’s design taste and motherhood needs.
Next Order of Business: Develop the floor plan, which needs to be very intuitively designed. We placed the items according to our highest safety, convenience and aesthetic standards, and worked around the AC unit which takes up the wall under the window.
That’s it for now… Be sure to check back regularly to see the progress of this gender neutralnursery, and to get expert design tips from Naomi and Gerri of Little Crown Interiors, who will be guest-blogging through the entire progress of their interior design of Jill’s nursery. Thanks for the update, ladies!
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Congratulations to Jill Stein, whose sprout is going to receive an ultra-cool nursery designed by Little Crown Interiors! Why is Jill the deserving winner of this $750 dream design? Check out her entry email below. The ladies from Little Crown Interiors are geared up for a fun few weeks of design…we’ll keep you posted on Jill’s room every step of the way!
Why should my little sprout’s room get a digital makeover? While I live and work in NYC and have worked in fashion for the past nine years, my sense of style (unfortunately) does not translate to a talent for home decor! I know what I like when I see it, but putting a room together like the girls at Little Crown is a talent that far exceeds my abilities. My husband works in finance so he’s no help In all seriousness, I absolutely love what they’ve done with the nurseries I’ve seen in their portfolio, and it would be very cool to see what they could do with the space in our loft! We’re not going to find out the sex of the baby, so it would be an exciting challenge to get their input on how to design a fantastic, gender neutral room that suits our taste (sleek and modern but very baby friendly!). We are located in downtown Manhattan, in Tribeca.
Congrats again, Jill, and we can’t wait to see your gender-neutral space!
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