This is our interview series in which we bring you nurseries and children's rooms successful designers , entrepreneurs and mothers. Through this series, our guests featured will disclose some of their design secrets and share stories of how their nurseries came to be.
Jodi Kendall is a writer based in New York City where she lives with her husband and infant son Townes. You can find her online writing on various sites such as National Geographic Wild Nat Geo Dogs websites, Science Mysterious and inside NGC, and online publications like Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine and Bare Essentials Magazine . His book, an average quality serialized story on Storybird, is named Some Pig in the City , and the talented illustrator Katy Betz is. The whole story is now live and free to read online!
The talents of Jodi lies not only in writing. It also created a carefully organized, eclectic space and special for his infant son, which she graciously shares with us today.
How did being a writer impact design your nursery?
As a professional writer and avid reader, raise our son in an environment that encourages reading and creativity is extremely important to me. We have several comfortable places to curl up and read a book in his room, and there is a wall shelf length where everything within reach is an open game for the discovery and interaction. My work as a writer also took me around the world to study wildlife, so that animals are a big part of his room, too!
Tell us about your design process. Did you start with a central element or an idea that served as your inspiration?
Stokke Sleepi cradle of our son served as the main inspiration for the room. We bought it when I was pregnant and we lived in a small one bedroom apartment in Manhattan. He grew up with him every step of his life, a mini-crib when he was a small newborn to size crib when he was an active and energetic baby now a junior bed, which suits its size, stage of development and age. We love that bed has always been a familiar space safe for him , and it was a total space saver we over the years too! With its unique oval shape and Scandinavian design, the Stokke Sleepi was the first and absolute must-have item when we thought that the recast of the baby room could look like, and it all went from there.
now that everything is over, what is your favorite thing in the room?
The teepee. We play hide and seek, cuddle and tell stories, take naps, and play with cars and dinosaurs there. It is our family strong!
What is the first thing people notice when setting foot in this room?
Typically, the exposed white washed brick wall that is actually true! We live in a prewar building on the Upper West Side, and guests are always surprised when I tell them that this removable wallpaper of The Wall Sticker Company. We even fooled the great building thinking it was real! I had to explain that it detaches from the wall as a sticker.
You have unexpected obstacles during the creation of this piece? How did you overcome or turn to your advantage?
The room is small and narrow, so we changed the floor plan several times trying to maximize space. All toys, books, toy animals and cars can feel overwhelming at times, especially when they are in a big mess on the floor so I put on the shelves along the wall to the right of the door. When you enter the room, it still feels a little organized because of your line of vision, even if it is total chaos right next to you. I strategically placed different containers for storing toys and organization throughout the room. The radiator in the corner is a horror, so that the canvas teepee great help mask this area a little and massive closet doors wooden honey color. As tenants, we can not change too much in our apartment, so using removable wallpaper and purchase a large 8 x 10 mat helped make the warmest and most welcoming room.
What do you like most about the design process?
It was fun to curate significant objects for us and utilize our various design influences put together. A sketch drawing in the library of my son is something I bought at Brooklyn Flea is it beautiful Soldiers' & Sailors Monument in our neighborhood, a city landmark that we see every day. Feathers in the glass jar are guinea fowl on a farm where my niece and her family were staying, and she sent to me because of a scene I wrote in my book Some Pig in the City. There is also a picture of my husband when he was a little boy and a picture of us when we were newlyweds (who is there more than eleven years now!). The little rocking chair and gray coat boy are both vintage pieces that have been adopted into my family.
Is there anything you learned during the design of this nursery will help you with your next upgrade of the room?
We just bought a house in the woods of Connecticut! We really enjoyed living in Manhattan, it's where I got pregnant, gave birth to my son, and we've raised him since childhood, but we are ready to move forward and will move our permanent residence after the New Year. our new home is a modern deck house in the middle of the century, with large windows and wooden beams ... We can not wait to move!
Images Photography by Forged in the North
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