Tot Nursery Bedding Sets Ideas
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | Always Online
When you’re preparing a nursery for a new little arrival, you will want to consider which theme, option, and style, will best suit your boy’s personality. If you have not started decorating room than you chose a set of bedding and decorate the room with the theme of the bedding. Here are a few ideas to help you pick a theme for your bedding.
When you plan to buy baby bedding, this is an excellent spot to begin as boys are inclined toward bold and strong color schemes. Don’t be afraid that it may be tacky - strong colors can be very fashionable. A remarkable specimen is brown and blue colored Trend Lab’s Prep School Blue crib bedding. The colors are a mixtures of caramel, chocolate, blue and white.
Animal themes are famous among both boys as well as girls, but the actual choice of animals varies according to the gender. Girls favor little, adorable animals like baby chicks and bunny rabbits whereas boys settle on large, furious animals like lions and tigers. Noah’s Ark themed bedding may be outgrown by a small boy too quickly so you may want to opt for something like a jungle theme.
Young boys will become enamored with cowboys at some point. Cowboys make a wild and fun option for a theme. Fabrics such as ultra suede, leather, denim and plaid lend a genuine appearance to the many available cowboy themes. Decorative sheets with a cowboy or western theme can be found in these baby crib sets. When you choose baby blankets in a cowboy theme, the most popular fabrics are fleece and flannel.
A favorite pastime of many men is sports - and this does not exclude little boys. Mom and dad choose their teams according to their choices making them team-specific. There certain bedding sets with a football, soccer or baseball theme making them sport-specific. For a theme that your son can grow into, a general sports theme is best because you can’t predict what specific sports your son will grow to love.
If your intention is to have more than one child, there is another way to buy infant bedding. Another option to finding a nursery theme that will grow with your son is to purchase gender neutral bedding that can be used for any future children. In this manner each child would be able to select a room theme of their own choice when they get to the toddler years and begin to have choices. Gender neutral bedding can include things like geometric patterns, alphabet and numbers, and famous children’s characters from pop culture and literature such as Winnie the Pooh.
Be a careful shopper if you are in the market for baby bedding for boys. A newborn boy won’t care if he has a frilly bedding set but as he grows he will quickly outgrow this type of bedding and it will become obsolete. Many cribs now convert to toddler beds as they use the same standard size crib mattress. Keep this in mind when purchasing bedding as you will want it to last more than a few years.