Baby Space: Finding, Furnishing, Decorating, and Equipping a Place for Your Newborn [Paperback]

Ellen Liman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2000

Brimming with marvelous ideas on how to prepare the perfect space for your newborn, Baby Space is a step-by-step guide to creating a charming, comfortable, and child-safe nursery the whole family-including baby-can enjoy.

More than 200 ideas and room sketches

What equipment to buy and what not to buy

Checklist of nursery essentials

Sources for baby equipment and Web listings

Practical storage ideas

Ways to childproof your home

Exciting projects for do-it-yourself- decorating

Creative ways to recycle hand-me-downs

How to divide space for sharing with siblings

How to map your own plan for space that will grow with your child

You can make the most efficient use of your available baby space by drawing your floor plan on the grids or by experimenting with arrangements of the cutout furnishings templates provided within.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

In this update of her previous book, Liman provides a comprehensive planning guide for the arrival of a baby. She suggests practical, innovative ways to find space, such as making niches in living rooms, other children's rooms, and even the bathroom. A checklist is provided with all the equipment, furniture, strollers, and playthings needed to care for a newborn. Scant instructions are provided for decorating techniques such as painting, but these directions can be found in other books, such as Annie Sloan's Decorative Paint Effects (LJ 1/97), using Liman's ideas on color, fabrics, and materials. A list of furniture and equipment resources is provided that includes mail-order catalogs, stores, and Internet sites as well as templates for planning furniture arrangement. Nurseries contains beautiful color photographs of all types of baby rooms, which will make it a nice complement to the black-and-white drawings found in Liman's book. Baby Space is highly recommended.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"Practical, attractive solutions to the problems of finding and decorating a space for a baby." -- --Dr. Benjamin Spock

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; 2 edition (August 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060956275
• ISBN-13: 978-0060956271
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,831,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A clever little book for first baby., December 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Baby Space: Finding, Furnishing, Decorating, and Equipping a Place for Your Newborn (Paperback)

Some obvious ideas of where to put the baby along with some ingenious ones I would never have thought of. It's a good first book on decorating for the first born with really charming illustrations - inspirational.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Baby Space : Finding, Furnishing, Decorating, and Equipping, September 11, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Baby Space: Finding, Furnishing, Decorating, and Equipping a Place for Your Newborn (Paperback)

This book is a joke. The ideas for making items for a baby's room is right out of pre-school. Margerine tubs for a mobile?!!!
Are you kidding me?! Don't waste your money on this book like I did unless you want to know how to turn your bathroom into a nursery (yes it's in there!).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good ideas for those on a budget, March 18, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Baby Space: Finding, Furnishing, Decorating, and Equipping a Place for Your Newborn (Paperback)

Contrary to the other review, not everyone has a lot of space and money to decorate for their baby. If you have the desire and a little creativity, some of the ideas in this book would work very well. With my first child, I thought I had to follow all the "rules" and most of my decorating & furniture came from stores which is fine but expensive. For my next child, I am going to put some of the ideas in this book to use. I love the idea of hanging a colorful canopy over the crib with dowel rods. Babies don't care that what they are looking at is made out of a butter tub as long as it's interesting and stimulating. Children grow too fast to spend a lot of money on infant decorations.