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Decorative DIY Nursery Storage Ideas – One Room Challenge Week 3

By Lydia

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These decorate DIY nursery storage ideas are easy projects and a great way to display your little one’s favorite books and stuffed animals!

Decorative DIY Nursery Storage Ideas

Hello there! It’s week 3 of the One Room Challenge hosted by Linda of Calling It Home and I’m feeling the pressure! Life’s been a little crazy between morning sickness, my baby shower and getting ready for baby so I’m down to the wire with our nursery makeover!

If you’re here from the ORC, WELCOME! And if you’ve been following along since week 1, thank you, it’s great to have you along for the ride and I absolutely love hearing from you!

This is the nursery inspiration in case you missed it:

Girls' Nursery Inspiration Board

I veered a little off my original plan for this week after getting so many adorable stuffed animals and books… I decided I needed some cute nursery storage ideas that would display them rather than tossing them in a toy basket or on a bookshelf!

Nursery storage ideas

There is the perfect size empty wall space next to the closet so I decided to hang some picture ledges for bookshelves and to make a simple DIY swing to display some of the adorable stuffed animals we’ve received. This was an easy project that took minimal time but I love the impact! I can’t wait to sit on a rocker and read to our little girl and cuddle her stuffies with her! 🙂

Here’s how you can recreate these simple decorative DIY nursery storage ideas: (affiliate links included)

Floating Book Ledges

Supplies

  • Floating Picture Ledges
  • Level
  • Measuring tape
  • Painters tape (Frog Tape is my fave because it’s so easy to remove and reposition while maintaining its tack.
  • Drill with small drill bit
  • Sharpie
  • Drywall anchors and screws (if you’re screwing into wood you can omit the drywall anchors)

Directions

First I hung 3 of these Floating Picture Ledges . I used the 21 ¾” size but they also come in 45 ¼” if that better suits your space.

Floating book ledges

Here is my absolute favorite hack for hanging shelves, pictures or ANYTHING perfectly symmetrically every time. This hack saves so much time, frustration and drilling mistakes!

Place a piece of masking tape or painters tape across the entire width of the picture ledge, trimming at the edges so that it’s the exact width. Mark where the holes are with a sharpie. Since the holes are so close to the top on these shelves, I lined up the the top of the tape with the top edge of the shelf to make it even easier when you’re placing the tape on the wall to drill the holes.

Picture and shelf hanging hacks

Next, remove the painters tape from the shelf and tape it to the wall where you will hang the shelf and ensure it’s level.

How to hang shelves

Drill small holes where the sharpie marks are and then screw in the shelf with wood screws or drywall anchors and screws. It’s that easy! Since I was hanging 3 shelves I used a measuring tape to measure the distance from the edge of the wall to the nail hole to make sure the shelves were even and I measured the distance from the top of the shelf to the top of the next shelf to make sure they were equidistance from each other and that’s where I lined up the tape.

How to hang shelves evenly

It was so fun to fill the shelves with some of the books we’ve received so far!

Floating book shelves

Hanging Stuffed Animal Swing

Supplies

  • ¾” dowel rod
  • White satin paint 
  • Paint brush
  • Cardboard box (optional)
  • 10 mm Jute rope
  • Packing tape
  • Scissors
  • Hot glue gun and glue stick

Directions

If necessary, cut the dowel rod to the length of the picture ledge with a saw. Paint the dowel rod with 2 coats white paint.

Toy shelf supplies

When painting any kind of rod or narrow cylindrical object, my favorite hack is the cut a criss cross shape in a shallow cardboard box just big enough to fit the rod and insert the rod into the hole so that I can paint all surfaces of the rod with it standing up. Once the top is painted and dry, I simply flip it over to paint the bottom half!

Painting hacks

Once the rod is dry, tie the rope around the end of the rod.

How to tie a knot for hanging shelf

I decided to hang the stuffed animal swing from the bottom book ledge but it can easily be tacked to the wall too if you’d like it to stand alone. I slid the rope between the shelf and wall and down the other side.

How to make a hanging shelf

Tie the rope from the other side in a knot around the other end of the rod. When cutting rope, it’s a good idea to place some packing tape around the edge where you’ll be cutting to avoid fraying. I secured the rope knots onto the dowel rod by adding a little bit of hot glue.

How to keep rope from fraying

Now the beginning of our little girl’s stuffed animal collection is on beautiful display for us to enjoy!

DIY Toy Shelf for nursery

So week 3 is a wrap, 3 weeks to go until the grand reveal. I have a LOT to do, I hope you’ll stay tuned!

Simple DIY Nursery Storage Ideas

Don’t forget to check out the other beautiful transformations underway on the One Room Challenge page, they’ve already got me itching for my next projects! 😉

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  1. Mary says

    October 27, 2018 at 7:05 am

    This couldn’t be any cuter! What an adorable idea!

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      October 29, 2018 at 5:13 pm

      Thanks so much Mary!

      Reply
  2. Sara says

    October 20, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    Wow! What a amazing and clever idea! That project looks adorable! Super job!

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      October 25, 2018 at 12:46 pm

      Thanks so much Sara!

      Reply
  3. mydesignrules says

    October 19, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    those friends sitting on the “swing” are just too cute. wish i had time to steal that for the nursery I’m working on for the ORC! LOL. Can’t wait to see the entire room.

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      October 29, 2018 at 5:18 pm

      Thanks so much Kenyatta! I’ll look forward to seeing yours too! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Elaine @ OMG Lifestyle Blog says

    October 18, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    The bookcase was cute enough but the swing with the animals . . . OMG! I love it! The room is looking fabulous! Can’t wait to see the rest of it!

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      October 19, 2018 at 12:17 pm

      Aw thanks so much Elaine! I hope baby girl will love it someday, too! xo

      Reply
  5. Jaclyn B says

    October 18, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    That is such a cute idea!

    We have the same gray bunny, named (of course!), “Bunny”. It’s my daughter’s favorite snuggle buddy.

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      October 19, 2018 at 12:17 pm

      Thanks so much Jaclyn! It’s the softest stuffie isn’t it?! We’ll see if it’s my baby’s favorite but it’s definitely mine! 😉

      Reply

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