HIPPEST CRIB ON THE BLOCK NO PRICE TOO HIGH FOR DESIGNER NURSERIES THAT GIVE BABY'S ROOM SAME FLAIR AS REST OF HOUSE.Byline: Sandra Barrera Staff Writer When Tori Spelling Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling (born May 16, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for being Aaron Spelling's daughter and for her role as Donna Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210. began planning her baby boy's nursery, she went straight for the hip online boutique Nursery Couture. "Because Tori and Dean (McDermott, her husband) are ultra-modern, funky people, they wanted to stick with the same theme for their nursery," Spelling's designer Katy Mimari says. Photos of little Liam Aaron McDermott's streamlined, modern digs were recently splashed all over In Touch, Us Weekly, and Life & Style magazines. You can't open a weekly these days without seeing which celebrity has the hot "new" baby trend. And one of the biggest trends is a parent-friendly, design-conscious nursery, says Target maternity clothing designer Liz Lange, who recently judged the baby nursery episode of Bravo's "Top Design." Be a 'cool parent' Nurseries have "become another room in the home that you want to reflect your taste as a cool parent," Lange says. "You're not checking your good taste at the nursery door." Among the tastiest additions to the modern nursery is midcentury furniture from ducduc, David Netto and Nurseryworks. And the high-end nursery also transforms as a baby grows. Cribs Cribs may mean:
"It's the mini-me thing, not baby rooms that are so babyish," Lange says. "It's another very tasteful room in the house." Modern wasn't Northridge mom Jodi Groff's thing. She had more of a "Zen nursery" in mind for her now- 3-month-old daughter, Marlie. So she hired Shalena Smith of Ga Ga Designs. Smith has designed nurseries for rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, tennis star Pete Sampras Peter “Pete” Sampras (born 12 August 1971), is a former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States. During his 15-year career he won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles in 52 appearances. Sampras finished as No. and actress Charlotte Ross Charlotte Ross (born January 21, 1968) is an American actress. She starred in NYPD Blue as Detective Connie McDowell from 2001 to 2004. She also appeared on Days of Our Lives as Eve Baron Donovan from 1987 to 1991. . She also designed one for Groff's now-20-month-old daughter, Estee. "I wanted the girls' rooms to be consistent with the rest of the house, and it would be out of place to do big graphic circles and Swedish furniture," Groff, 34, says. In Groff's daughters' nurseries, less is more. More than $16,000 went into Estee's elegant, uncluttered room with its $100-a-gallon metallic tone-on-tone striped wall, lilac shag rug Noun 1. shag rug - a rug with long pile carpet, carpeting, rug - floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) rya, rya rug - a shag rug made in Sweden shag - a fabric with long coarse nap; "he bought a shag rug" and custom pieces, including Bella Notte crib bedding and a chunky, white changing table by Ga Ga Designs that converts into a dresser. "No one is ever going to know that she used this as a changing table," Smith says, lifting the changing-pad frame off the top of the dresser. "What's nice is it grows up with the child." The same espresso-brown dresser with pink, rose-shaped glass knobs was used in the $12,000 room for Marlie. The walls are embellished in subtle curls hand-painted in the same metallic paint Metallic paint, also called polychromatic or "metal flake" paint, is used on the majority of new automobiles sold. Metallic paint can reveal the contours of bodywork more than non-metallic, or "solid" paint, and appears brighter in dull conditions. . On the espresso-brown Bratt Decor sleigh sleigh: see sled. crib is custom Maddie Boo bedding with an ecru Koala koala (kōä`lə), arboreal marsupial, or pouched mammal, Phascolarctos cinereus, native to Australia. Although it is sometimes called koala bear, or Australian bear, and is somewhat bearlike in appearance, it is not related to true Kids sheet. "I did spend a lot to make it what I wanted it to be, but I didn't spend a lot because I thought I had to," Groff says. "When we were picking out furniture, I told Shalena that my husband wanted espresso brown ... and she said Bratt Decor was coming out with what's supposed to be the new hot crib." She found out just how "hot" it was on a recent shopping trip to Little Red Barn The Red Barn was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in the early-1960s in Dayton, Ohio by Harry Barmier. Red Barn restaurants were in the shape of barns with a glass front and limited seating. in Calabasas, where she learned the crib had a 20-week waiting list. Rocking that rug Spelling envisioned a brown, blue and lime color scheme, modern pieces, dark wood, bubble motifs and a zebra rug by Jonathan Adler for her L.A. home. A zebra rug? "She previously purchased it," Mimari says. "She said: 'I know I want a modern nursery. I know I want to use Caden Lane bedding. But I'm in love with this rug, and I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how it's going to work.' " And yet it fit perfectly with the ultramodern Aerial Crib by Nurseryworks and matching changing table with the white-on- white circle designs, as well as the mini library by Oeuf. "The library has all these cubbies This article is about the variant on football. For the Major League Baseball team with the same nickname, see the Chicago Cubs. Cubbies (or Cuppies) is an informal variant on football originating spontaneously in different parts of the world. , so it was a fun place to put little accents like picture frames," Mimari says. "It made it a little more eclectic, which is cool, because it opens the door to more mommies who maybe aren't in the mix of things in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of or L.A. to go, 'Well, maybe I can be more modern and not have it stand out from the rest of my home."' B&B and baby Spelling's home nursery, which cost more than $15,000, was echoed in a nook in the master bedroom at Chateau La Rue La Rue may refer to:
Mimari says the star wanted her newborn to feel at home. For the B&B nursery, which tabbed out at about $8,000, Spelling chose the Platform Crib by Oeuf. "The reason we ended up picking it to go in the bed and breakfast was because she only had a 6-foot wall to work with in the master bedroom, but she wanted it to function like a nursery," Mimari says. "A nursery typically has a crib, a changing table and then a rocker in it. "But there wasn't enough to put all three, and so what was really cool about the Oeuf crib is that the changer Changer The name given to a clearing member that is willing to assume the opposite position of a futures contract within a larger alternative exchange, of which it also is a clearing member. is on top -- and it can be removed," she says. "And because it's a platform crib, it can float in the center of the room. It doesn't have to be pushed up against the wall." Sandra Barrera, (818) 713-3728 sandra.barrera(at)dailynews.com BABY CELEBRATION L.A. What: A showcase of the latest in nursery and playroom design trends. Where: Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. , Hall K, 1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . When: April 28 and 29. Tickets: $10 for adults; children 10 and under are admitted free. (888) 970-3976 or (530) 888-9780. www.seascapeproductions.com. WHERE TO SHOP Juvenile Shop Where: 13356 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks; (818) 986-6214. www.juvenileshop.com. Open: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday. Description: The original Juvenile Shop opened on Pico Boulevard Pico Boulevard is a major Los Angeles street that runs from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica to Central Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. It is named after Pío Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. in 1938. It moved to Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. in 1997 and specializes in custom furniture and bedding as well as high-end labels such as Oeuf and Netto Collection. Baby Ant Where: 18561 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana; (818) 609-0410. www.babyant.com. Open: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Description: Originally an online store founded in 1998, Baby Ant opened its brick-and-mortar location in 2004. The 6,000-square-foot store sells everything from bottles to bassinets. Labels include Bugaboo and Bratt Decor. Jenny Bec's Where: 927 Montana Ave., Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. ; (310) 395-9505. www.jennybecs.com. Open: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Description: Owner Jenny Mullennix started the company in 2004 and has built it into a 3,000-square-foot toy and furniture store. It offers custom designs and nursery furniture from contemporary designers such as Argington, Nurseryworks and Million Dollar Baby. Bel Bambini Where: 464 N. Robertson Blvd. West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. ; (310) 855-9272. Web site under construction Open: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Description: Just three months after its grand opening in December, this 3,000-square-foot store has become a mecca of high design for expectant parents. High-end designers include Oeuf, Argington and Stokke. Nomi Where: 6140 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles; (323) 782-1069. www.shopnomi.com Open: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Description: Opened late last year, this giant baby store is still expanding, doubling in size to 10,000 square feet. Designer labels include ducduc, Argington, Netto Collection and Nurseryworks. CAPTION(S): 9 photos, box Photo: (1 -- cover -- color) Decorating the 'It' nursery Upscale furnishings give baby something to grow on (2 -- 3 -- color) Northridge mom Jodi Groff spent $12,000 to decorate baby Marlie's stylish nursery, above. Tori Spelling, left, dropped more than $15,000 for son Liam's home nursery, and an additional $8,000 for its counterpart in their B&B. Michael Owen
(4 -- color) Posh: ducduc Morgan crib is $2,395 (toddler conversion kit is $1,500 extra). (5 -- color) Posh: Reversible cotton polka-dot blankets by David Fussenegger are $24 at ModernNursery.com. (6 -- color) Prudent: Reversible microfleece polka-dot blankets by Amy Coe are $9.99 at Target. (7 -- color) Prudent: Argington Sahara crib is $685 (toddler conversion kit is $198 extra). (8 -- color) Posh: Nurseryworks Two Wide Changing Table is $1,200. (9 -- color) Prudent: Offi Bebe Changing Table is $599. Posh: Reversible cotton polka-dot blankets by David Fussenegger are $24 at ModernNursery.com Box: WHERE TO SHOP (see text) |
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