At last :) With the arrival of our little dude, I can now openly share his nursery with everyone!

As you know, my obsession with the Native American culture and anything tribal is, well… obsessive. Everything about it I’m in love with, so when we found out we were having a baby I immediately knew the theme. Boy or girl, it was going to be tribal. At the time we found out we were pregnant, we were living in a 1 bed / 1 bath place leaving me only to my imagination (and Etsy) to concept what the room would look like! At the beginning of the year, we moved to a 2 bed / 2 bath place where I was finally able to start turning my concept board into reality. And when I say concept board, I literally had a design board created with all the elements that I wanted for his nursery. This is how it started…

I just love the simplicity of black and white, so I knew that would be my base. From there, I added on gold as my main accent. Then once we found out we were having a boy, I introduced colors of navy blue and mint.

About 99% of his nursery was purchased online making it super difficult to match fabrics and colors to see if all my ideas would actually fit together. I spent countless nights looking and looking and of course asking Jake his opinion.

The first thing I found that I immediately fell in love with is his mobile – eagle feathers attached to a dreamcatcher. The high contrast of black and white is perfect for babies who aren’t always able to sense color rather are drawn to things that contrast. Oh the love I have for it <3 Not only is it strikingly gorgeous and moves so magically (especially when a little breeze comes through), but it also has a beautiful meaning in the Native American culture.

// DREAMCATCHERS — Native Americans have a belief that the night air is filled with both good and bad dreams. They believe that a dreamcatcher is to be hung over your bed allowing it to swing freely to catch the bad dreams as they fly by. The good dreams will know how to pass through the holes of the dreamcatcher and slide down the eagle feathers to the dreamer, while the bad dreams will get tangled up and disappear with the light of the new day.

// EAGLE FEATHERS — Eagle feathers have a special place in my heart. They’re highly revered and considered sacred by Native Americans. Often times, eagle feathers are given to those in the tribe that lose loved ones and also those brave warriors. Eagle feathers represent honesty, truth, majesty, strength, courage, wisdom, power, and freedom.

For art, I knew I wanted to keep it simple. I wanted to add some playfulness of animals and bring in some color with the prints showcasing arrows and geometric shapes. For the centerpiece, this gorgeous gold deer. Why a deer?

// DEER — The Native American culture look to the deer as a spirit animal. The deer symbolizes gentleness, the ability to move through life and obstacles with grace, being in touch with your innocence, being sensitive and intuitive, having vigilance, and being highly sensitive.

// ARROWS — Native Americans are a deeply spiritual people that have meaning in just about everything, which I love. Arrows, for example, when pointing left are meant to ward off evil. When pointing right, it’s meant for protection.

And the quote at the bottom – something special to our family. It was one of the quotes that Jake’s grandma had marked in her bible that she read every day as to how she wanted to live her life. So beautiful and exactly how we hope to raise our little dude.

And one of my favorite pieces of the room is this chalkboard. I had originally made it 4 years ago for a family session I did, which has since been sitting in storage. When we moved, I knew I could do something with it but wasn’t sure what. In his nursery and with living in a loft, there’s a cement column that juts out that we thought “what on Earth can we do with this?” We had the idea to hang it on the cement to write on. And then Jake, aka: the best daddy ever, had the sweetest idea that each day we write something special on the board about Landon – whether it be something he did that day that made us smile, maybe a first for him, or just how having Landon makes us feel. And to add on to his already sweet idea, he suggest that we take a picture every day for the first year of his life to capture our emotions of being new parents <3 I just love that man!

Another area we were at a loss with was this little cove. What in the world could we do with it? It felt like lost space. So I came up with the idea of hanging iron baskets on the wall, which created additional storage for things like his swaddles or books.

And I can’t end the post without obsessing over my chair. When I first started designing the room, I fell in LOVE with a rocker from Pottery Barn that was tufted and just strikingly gorgeous!! We went in to buy it, and as we were selecting fabric… this chair was right there for us to sit in. And HELLO did we fall in love. It’s much larger and chunkier than I imagined, but the comfort is unmatched. It moves so much easier than the rocker did PLUS has slip covers so I can throw it in the wash if when it gets dirty. Knowing the attention that a baby needs and the amount of feedings required, we just knew we had to have a chair that we could sleep in. And this is it!

And because I love details, here are a few other shots from the room!

So there you have it, a look into Landon’s nursery that I’m so dearly in love with <3