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A Small Modern Nursery: My Colour Journey with Para Paint

Beautiful ideas for a small nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

When my husband and I decided to move to our new home we only had two children. We had (and still have!) grand plans for our new home, including renovating from top to bottom and building an addition, which would add a third bedroom at some point. Before we even moved in I found out I was expecting our third child. So we found ourselves as a family of five with only two upstairs bedrooms! But somehow we still made our baby boy a small modern nursery.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

*This post was sponsored by Para Paints. As always, opinions are 100% my own. For more information, please see my disclosure page.*

With only two bedrooms upstairs, our girls were already sharing a room and a baby would probably disturb that quite a bit, lol. So we decided that the baby would stay with us (which seems normal, but I had never done that with either of my older girls!). Above is a photo of the far side of our master bedroom before we did any renovations to it. Since it was actually a fairly big room, we decided that this small space could act as the baby’s corner.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

If you know me… you know that I couldn’t just plop a crib in there! I needed to give it a little bit of personality. Almost like his own tiny nursery.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

The room was perfectly divided by the section of wall that jutted out, but I wanted to define the space even more than that. The best way to define a space? Paint.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

I didn’t take me long to decide what paint to use. We had already used Para Paints for all of the white walls in our home, and for the closet on the other side of the bedroom. Both times I loved the results! I could’ve gone with a different colour from my Whole Home Colour Palette, but I loved having a touch of blue on both side of the bedroom.

Shadow of the Night from the Color Journeys collection is just the most beautiful tone of navy blue I’ve ever had on a wall. The brown from our handmade crib looks beautiful against the blue. Absolutely beautiful.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

Once the crib had a home, we knew we could spend some energy on the rest of the modern nursery.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

All we really needed in our small nursery was a change table, a place for clothes and diapers, and a chair to nurse in.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

With all of the furniture in place, it can look a bit crowded, but it doesn’t feel crowded. It just feels cozy. Everything we need. Including the leather chair that my husband tried to get rid of once! I fought him on it because it’s honestly the most comfortable chair ever.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

Since we needed a side table, we added this little hexagon one that we built years ago.

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

Even though it’s a small space, this little modern nursery has everything our son needs, and everything his mama needs to look after him!

Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

Our final touch was to add a simple gallery wall after my son was born. The white pops so beautifully on that blue painted wall and pulls it all together!

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Beautiful ideas for a small modern nursery! This tiny baby room is off to the side of the master bedroom. Love the simple decor, from the navy wall to the brown crib and the beautiful gallery wall!

Hope you like what we’ve done with this small nursery!

Cat Watson

Sunday 21st of May 2023

How did you do the initial?

Marisa

Sunday 3rd of November 2019

Hi, I can’t seem to click on the link for the rug. Where did you purchase it from, I love it!

Lindi

Sunday 3rd of November 2019

It was actually from Homesense, so it's hard to find another similar one!

Heather

Monday 6th of May 2019

Love the crib! Will it convert to a twin later on? Would you possibly have a pattern or crib dimensions? Would totally appreciate it, thank you!

Lindi

Monday 6th of May 2019

I'm sorry, we don't! My husband built it off some plans he found - I'll see if he has a link to them :)

Bailie

Wednesday 24th of April 2019

Awesome! I love these frames. Where did you find:)??

Lindi

Thursday 25th of April 2019

They are from Chapters/Indigo!

Katie

Friday 5th of April 2019

What kind of stain did you use for the crib? Searching for a baby safe stain!

Lindi

Friday 5th of April 2019

We used Kona by Varathane! :)