When your child tells you she’s having a child, it’s a sublime moment.
Flashes of your own dear grandmother run through your head. A quick take on yourself with gray hair and an apron is quickly rejected. A few moments on the idea of a continuum causes some eternal sparks to fly…
Then for me, the most important thought popped in: we get to design a nursery!
My daughter (future mother) and I are great collaborators. We enjoyed many long sessions talking about the furnishings and colors in their new home two years ago. She has her own style, which I appreciate, yet she often consults with me on various decisions. Now her home office would become the greatest nursery ever created!
I’m a huge fan of Land of Nod. I look forward to receiving their catalogs, and really love what the stylists come up with for children’s rooms that are imaginative without the cutesiness.
One of many wonderful Land of Nod nurseries
Another nursery by Land of Nod
My daughter sent me a photo of a nursery with chalky white walls, a hit of gray and a few gold and peach accents that the company had recently featured.
We could recreate it! Then the shock. My grandchild is a grandson. Good-bye gold and peach. Hello to – what? Another hackneyed mural with dinosaurs in construction trucks?
I mentioned to her that Land of Nod recently introduced a line of Charlie Harper items – graphics, pillows, quilts and toys. I have always admired the Charlie Harper design approach. Especially the animals. He’s taken cubism to the forest and created the most appealing, colorful creatures.
