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Depending where you live, your summer fun is over and your kids have or will be heading back-to-school soon. As a mom myself, I am excited for my son to start kindergarten and simply hoping he can avoid using the word “poopy” in front of the teachers. Yes, he is only five and his maturity level isn’t quite there.
 
I got to know another mom who is doing a double-take of her young son who will attend preschool this fall. Jeannine Benoit Adams, is the mother to Ethan a beautiful and spirited four year old. He is also now a big brother to a baby brother who joined the family just this past July. Those are both big responsibilities and some new life skills are on the horizon for him this year.

To get Ethan ready for the school year and his new role as big brother mom and dad called upon YouthfulNest to hook him up with a big boy bedroom of his very own.

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It's time! Time for their first born to transition into a big kid bed and pass down his crib to his baby brother-to-be. With the Adams' family now living in their new Chicago home there is plenty of space for two new kids' rooms with one dedicated to a baby nursery. Which is exciting and a bit daunting to mom Jeannine. That's where YouthfulNest steps in to help Jeannine achieve the nursery design of her California dreams.

Jeannine is one stylish mamma. Which makes sense since she is also the owner of Ready Pretty, an online service that helps women everywhere dress better. Once she drops off her son at child care the rest of her day is filled developing marketing campaigns; coordinating the launch of new services; appearing on local T.V. shows; and writing fashion focused articles for a couple popular blogs. Just another day in the life of this modern mom.

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Maybe you've seen on social media that I have been working with a client in Chicago. Her name is  Jeannine Benoit Adams and she is a real, busy working woman. She is also the mom to the most adorable four year old little boy and pregnant with their second little boy! Being that she owns an online wardrobe styling company, Ready Pretty, she is all about working virtually. Which is where YouthfulNest's virtual services comes in. Our services allowed her to sneak in time to make design decisions for two youthful spaces a big kid bedroom and a nursery. All doable when it worked for her and her schedule.

As with all virtual design projects, Jeannine first completed our online Project Overview questionnaires and submitted them via her cell phone. After I studied them we booked a call to discuss the projects based on her specific input.

We discussed budgets, visions, timing, functionality, room likes and dislikes, etc. As well as went over what she can expect from the whole online process.

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Rachel Parcell’s baby boy Jackson's nursery is a dream. It’s elegant, on trend and functional; it has it all. We dream of our baby’s nursery of being celebrity-status worthy but we don’t all have the budget to shop the same pieces.

Fortunately, you can get the essential nursery décor you need to for this celebrity’s nursery look without the hefty price tag. With the celebrity's nursery coming in at over $10,000, we can get you the same look for less, approximately $7,000 less! Below see how we do it.
 
First, let’s take a look at the celebrity’s flawlessly designed nursery.

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​Princesses, animals, outer space oh my! Kids’ rooms are a great place to express your child’s little personality and get really creative. But just like adults, your child wants a bedroom that they can retreat to. One that is functional, but fun and inspiring. Here are some things to keep in mind when designing for your child’s bedroom. 

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Today we are revealing this beautiful baby boy's Neutral Nursery completed with our online design service. Of course it didn't start out this way. In fact, it was the perfect pink and pretty room – for a little girl.

Our client, Liz Lentis and I had connected over our love of saving moms time and money. Liz is the co-founder of LittleList.com, a site dedicated to introducing moms and moms-to-be to new products at exceptional promotional prices. When I learned Liz was pregnant with her second child, a little boy,  and tackling a big makeover I filled her in on how our convenient, virtual interior design services would be the perfect fit for her busy schedule and time sensitive design needs. Since she knew she would be tackling a complete overhaul including new furniture and new wall color, she decided to go with our most popular edesign services rolled into the YouthfulNest Premium package.

"The space needed such a dramatic makeover and I didn't know how it would be without the designers seeing it in person. But I was able to send send inspiration via Pinterest and the YouthfulNest team nailed it in terms of my vision for a neutral nursery." -Liz

I was looking through dozens of room images taken the day before at a photo shoot capturing the Jarrett’s new nursery, when I received a text from Stephanie, “Thank you for a great room! I just felt like sleeping in there last night ;)”. I simply replied, “You’re welcome!” I then smiled and thought to myself, ”You’ll get plenty of chances to sleep in that room!”.

We have a new friend and partner in nursery design crime, Destination Nursery. Destination Nursery invited us to share some tips on designing a Nordic nursery. Here's a sneak peek of just some of at what you'll see featured.

So what’s all the fuss about Pantone Color of the Year 2016? To start with, for the first time ever it isn’t one color, but two colors of the year, Rose Quartz and Serenity. They are also two hues that seem close cousins to baby pink and baby blue, both traditional, gender defining colors. You might think as a designer of baby nurseries and kids bedrooms that I would find this thrilling and all the upcoming decor prospects that will be flooding the market would have me giddy with excitement. Ironically, I am not.

As a rule YouthfulNest tends to use less of the classic pink for girls or blue for boys as inspirational colors. Our design efforts for nurseries look to incorporate a-typically colors for youth spaces such as black, citron, grey and mint green. Which means ever since I learned of these two major players that would largely impact my world I have been biting my thumbs, nervously trying to visualizing how they would inspire an entire room.

Let me take a step back and share with you some history and significance to the Pantone Color...that is, Colors of the Year.