The Nursery Project

Oopsy Daisy Canvas Prints

Oopsy Daisy is a range of beautifully made children's art print by Maria Carluccio. Each are reproduction print on canvas stretched across wooden frame.

I love how they are so richly colourful, but yet subtle in their childish boldness. "Garden Girls" is a fine example of girliness that balances being girly and fun just right, without going into the saccharinely cute.

The "Campfire Kids" is another art that actually tells a story. It doesn't just hang there passively, it's enganging. You can make up a story just by looking at it (and most likely your child will ask a few question about what's going on there).

Another one of my favourite is "Nesting". If I'm having pastels in my own bedroom I wouldn't mind hanging this one up. One of the more abtract looking, it's simply gorgeous.

Oopsy Daisy also explores the more familiar territory of ABCs, caroussels, princesses, harbours, animals, in a not-so-ordinary manner.

Available at Oompa Toys.

Hybrid-Home Limited Edition Prints

It can be tricky to find wall art for a nursery beyond ABC's and the usual animal characters. That's why I love the Hybrid-Home silk screen prints for their modernist yet juvenile feel. There 18 different designs, ranging from Oma and Olaf the Owls to robots, haunted house and the breakout game.

They are limited edition, each copies numbered and signed by the artist, Dora Drimalas.

Definitely worth the $40 it costs. Available at Design Public.

Uten.Silo Storage System

The Uten.Silo Storage functions as your everyday cloth wall pockets, without the number one ugliness factor of it: sagginess.

It's molded plastic with various dimension to fit pretty much every small thingamabobs you might find scattered across a child's bedroom floor and desks. And your child might never grow out of it. It's still as useful to a twenty something college student as it is to a three year old.
Originally designed in 1969 by Dorothee Becker and Maurer, it's pretty pricey at $295 for the small piece, but if it's any consolation, it also comes in red.

Available at ModernSeed.

Retro Room Aquarium: Training Fish Included

There will come a time when Peanut asks for a pet. While having a pet is a good way to learn responsibility, I'm sure most of children's first pet died within the first month (speaking out of experience).

If bikes can have training wheels, why can't there be a training pet? I'm not talking about the robot puppies, but a fully decorated aquarium complete with a plastic fish. When a child is finally ready to embrace the responsibility of an animal's life and death, simply replace the dummy fish for real fish (or leave it behind for companion).

Retro Room Aquarium, $20 from the aptly named Wishing Fish.

Zid Zid Kids Mini Poofs

Children practically live on the floor. No matter how many designer chairs you bought for the nursery, they spend most time playing on the floor anyway. So if space is too tight for proper table and chairs in the room, a rug in the corner with some poofs thrown in could serve as a cosy reading corner as well as play area.

The Zid Zid Kids poofs are made for children in mind. They are soft and just the right size to cuddle with or roll around the room. Zid Zid Kids is the labor of love of Julie Klear and Moulay Essakalli, an artist/designer couple who founded Zid Zid Kids after moving to Marrakech. I love the colourful designs, which infused Morrocan traditional flavour as well as pop art eye catchy-ness.

Available from $78 at Design Republic.

Mijnes Cushion Covers

These gorgeous cushion covers don't come cheap, they're made to order, and a 30x30 cm costs about €45 a piece (40x40 is €65, 50x50 is €80). But they look like they're made with love (well, literally, they made of woolfelt).

Mijnes (pronounced like 'minus') also does diaper bags, wall hanging, storage boxes...