Let’s take a look at a few key tips for making your nursery a luxury one.
Selecting the right colour palette
Aesthetically, you’ll build your nursery around a few keycolours. Certain pastel shades tend to match nicely with the nursery vibe.
Blues and purples usually work well. Try to avoid loud and garish colours.
These might be a little too stimulating, and they can risk looking cheap. There
will be plenty of opportunity to add bolder shades to the space later on, as
accent decorations.
Your colour palette should be cohesive. Build it around
existing items of furniture, with furniture paint used to complement the shades
you’re apply to the walls. You can find designer-friendly colour-picking
services online. Just be sure that you test the colours on the wall before you
finalise them.
Choosing the right furniture
The most important item of furniture, naturally, is the cot.
But you might also think about other pieces, like wardrobes and other storage
furniture. A fitted wardrobe might be the best option for luxury, especially if
your nursery is in a slightly awkward space. The best thing about a fitted wardrobe is its ability to free up space elsewhere in the home. It’s
the most space-efficient solution possible.
Lighting
A combination of different lighting solutions will help you
to fill out the room, and create the required sense of space. Hanging lights,
wall lamps, night lights and gooseneck lights for story-time, will all combine
to create that sense of luxury at every time of day.
Don’t Forget Safety
Before you finalise your nursery plans, it’s worth
conducting a short risk assessment. Imagine something has gone wrong, and then
work backwards to determine what it might have been.
The most common culprits are cots that don’t conform to the
required safety standard (whichin this case is BS EN 716-2:2008), and slippery rugs on wooden floors. In
the latter case, you can install a few friction-inducing pads beneath the rug
to correct the problem.
You might also be concerned about electrical sockets. But
provided that these have been installed correctly, and they aren’t reachable
from the bed, you shouldn’t have a problem. Avoidplug-socket covers – they tend, paradoxically, to make plugs less safe,
because they open the shutters that protect the live terminals in a standard
plug socket.
