Art is for babies
Lord knows I love me a good baby room. Not those pink or blue sorts that give me chronic fatigue just thinking about them, of course. The kind that plant the seeds of surrealism and aesthetics in the baby brain, right beside the Paw Patrol files, close enough so that they can one day stage a successful coup against Mayor Goodway and her stupid purse chicken. One can only hope that the art and the pretty things will slowly chip away at the Paw Patrol files and gradually transform the baby into the self-righteous art snob mini-me you always dreamed of. A friend of my husband’s was genuinely mad at me for the slightly terrifying Lithuanian animal masks and Polish egg-lady posters that I decorated my kids rooms with. But I’m pretty sure their nightmares are more Paw Patrol-based than Polish egg-lady based. And egg-lady has been the source of many great toddler Q&A sessions. I find myself whimisically lying about the egg’s contents only to find myself entangled in the explanations of how human women were entrusted with the incubation of dragons.
The point is that I think the baby room has one of the greatest potentials for creativity but is probably the most boooooriiiiiiing soul-crushing rooms of most people’s houses. Here are a few examples of good baby wall art to inspire even the dullest of babies. I include a picture of my children’s rooms in the old place and the current place. My favourite is probably the small Turkish rug in my daughter’s room with some strange Ottoman house on it. My daughter told me she wants to go there one day. I look forward to one day transforming into miniature versions of ourselves and jumping into the alternate universe of the rug with her.
Slightly terrifying and entirely fabulous.
Children’s book art
Don’t get me started on how magical children’s books are. Why not put that shit on a wall?
Textiles
Embroidery, rugs, quilts, tacky vintage art.
