Deal of the Day: DwellStudio Clover Blossom Crib Set

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Every day, the San Francisco-based site features deep, deep discounts on one or more items -- mostly bedding and wallpaper -- from hip companies such as DwellStudio, Inhabit, Area, Unison, and Graham & Brown. The discounted items are floor samples, overstocks, and like-new returns. The deals last one day only, and only while supplies last.

Today's score is DwellStudio's really lovely Clover Blossom Crib Set. Normally retailing for $350, it's $140. If there's a baby girl in your future, get on this.

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Etsy Find of the Day: Jamtart Baby

Not just for the nursery -- these winsome pillows from British Columbia's Jamtart Baby would look fetching accenting a grown-up bed or a living room chair.

Green Chick Pillow

Miss Queen Chick Pillow

Each pillow is based on an original illustration, measures 10-by-10 inches, and costs just $15.

And is it wrong for me to wish that my kids were still little, so I could buy each of them one of these sweet Little Buddy Security Blankets (Sings Like a Daisy, left, and Evie Makes Me Smile, right, both $38)?

On second thought, maybe I should just buy one for myself -- after all, we never outgrow the need for a little comfort and security.

See all of Jamtart Baby's handmade creations right here.

House Voyeur: Guthrie's Bright, Bold, Budget Nursery

One-year-old Guthrie Souza is a lucky little boy. His mom, interior designer and blogger Jana Souza of Concord, California, has created a room for him that's colorful, fun -- and all boy (just like Guthrie).

Here, Jana shares the process of creating her son's nursery:

"The initial inspiration for Guthrie's room came from the metal 'Dream' sign that we found in a store called Magnolia in downtown Benicia, California, when I was pregnant. [Editor's note: Benicia has great antiquing, too -- definitely worth a day trip if you're in the area.] The entire scale of the room was driven off of that.

For the wall colors, we did horizontal stripes on top of warm green, with a blue accent wall. The green is Benjamin Moore's Kiwi, and the blue is Benjamin Moore's Watertown. For the stripes, we used Sherwin Williams' Jonquil, Benjamin Moore's Coyote Trail, and Watertown again.

The secret to doing stripes is using painter's tape, taping very well -- especially if your walls aren't perfectly smooth -- and glazing the edges of the tape with an acrylic polyurethane; we used Benjamin Moore's Stays Clear in low lustre to avoid any shine. Make sure you use enough so that it really seals the tape and prevents any color bleeding. Stripes are not fun to do, but they are fun to have!

Next, we found pseudo-modern nursery furniture that wasn't outlandishly expensive; I love the modern cribs and other baby furniture featured at high-end retailers like Giggle -- but honestly, we can't stomach spending that kind of money for a nursery.

So I went digging through many a website and finally found a crib-and-changing-table combo from Million Dollar Baby at Walmart. It doesn't really hold a candle to the quality and finishing details of the modern designer nursery furniture that I admire -- but it works for the room, has contemporary lines, and a white-and-wood finish that pops, which is what we wanted.

The antique rocker belonged to my husband, Tony's, grandmother, and we use it daily. And I when I saw this miniature, Eames-like shell chair at a secondhand store, I just had to have it.

I'm generally not a fan of themed kids' rooms, but Tony is a real guy's guy, so I wanted something very boyish for Guthrie. Vintage airplanes were a unifying idea that worked for me. I found the vivid planes and patchwork bedding and the 'Vroom' pillow at Pottery Barn Kids. I loved the colors, and the 'Vroom' wound up being prescient -- Guthrie's always on the move!

To mix it up a bit, I added the vintage clowns and the boat on the long IKEA Lack wall shelf. They just spoke to me in thrift stores and I couldn't resist.

I love so many of the fun, modern rugs available for kids' rooms -- but again, they're very expensive. So instead, I picked up a few of these small Ringum and Roskilde rugs for less than $10 each at IKEA. The customized Radio Flyer Roadster was a first-birthday gift from Guthrie's grandpa and grandma.

For the window treatments, I decided to double up on some linen panels from IKEA and shorten them for a more casual look. I considered monogramming Guthrie's initials on each side, but then I got the idea to do multi-color, multi-sized Gs. Off I went: stencils, fabric paint, and 12 hours later I was done -- although I forgot to put plastic under the panels and now we have permanent Gs on our living room rug (nice!).

We had a blast doing Guthrie's room, and know it's going to work well for him as he grows into the little boy he's becoming."

Thanks so much for sharing your baby's room with us, Jana!

Cool Stuff: Oras Mobiles

Whether you have a nursery to decorate or a window or empty wall that could use a little ornamentation, these mobiles from Oras will add bright pops of color, gentle movement, and graphic form.

The mobiles come with ovals or squares in a variety of hues and are strung from a clear acrylic rod that's supported by inconspicuous aluminum wall brackets. They're available for $180 at various retail locations or from creator Vilija Marshall's brand-new online shop.

Cool Stuff: David Netto Goes Downmarket

What’s not to love about the myriad of mod nursery gear hitting the market these days? The price, for one.

Chic as it is, cutting-edge style for the minis rarely comes cheap, and $500 mobiles, $1,500 rocking chairs, and $4,000 cribs aren’t unheard of. Aside from the ubiquitous IKEA offerings, though, affordable modern nursery furniture has been lamentably hard to come by.


Enter designer David Netto -- who, after launching his own high-style, high-ticket NettoCollection five years ago, is now rolling out the comparatively cut-rate CUB line. Featuring simple, MDF-and-pine construction and pleasingly minimalist lines, the collection includes wall-mounted stacking shelves, a crib-cum-daybed, a changing-station-topped dresser, and a toybox-chair combo. With prices ranging from $299 to $575, these pieces are fresh -- and refreshingly attainable -- building blocks for the modern nursery.

Available at eGiggle.