Top 2024 Nursery Decor Theme Ideas

Planning a nursery for your newest arrival in 2024? These on-trend themes will help you design a stylish and inspiring space for your baby.

The nursery is your baby's first room, so it should be a space that brings you joy and excites you about the new addition to your family. When designing a nursery, the theme you choose sets the tone for the entire room. From classic and timeless to modern and trendy, here are 5 of the most popular 2024 nursery themes to inspire your design.

1) Safari

A safari nursery theme is a fun and exciting way to decorate a baby's room. The key is to create an adventurous jungle atmosphere. Start by painting one or two walls in an earthy tan to mimic the open savanna. Add touches of green and a mural of vines and animals creeping up the walls. 
Choose a bright patterned rug that looks like African grasscloth. Wooden furniture with an espresso finish blends right into the theme. Don't forget the crib! Dress it up with bedding printed with safari creatures and leafy fronds. 
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Add lots of plush stuffed animals, both in and around the crib. Shelves mounted on the walls are the perfect place to display carved wooden figurines of exotic animals. Create a reading nook with a teepee tent, zebra print pillows, and soft jungle print blankets for story time. For the finishing touch, suspend twinkling string lights from the ceiling to look like stars over the savanna. Bring the adventure of the savanna right into your home, and give your little explorer sweet safari dreams.

2) Dragons

Personalised Dragon Prints

For a dragon nursery theme, there are many exciting design ideas to bring the magical world of dragons to life. Either by painting one accent wall a deep forest green, stencilling intricate dragon scales in metallic paint or opting for a full wall mural. 

Fill bookcases with dragon storybooks and line the shelves with collectible dragon figurines. Place a plush round rug that looks like a dragon's golden nest on the floor. Add touches like a handmade mobile of colourful fabric dragons, toy treasure chests, and a box of dress-up capes and crowns for the baby's inner knight or princess. 
Dragon Mobile / Etsy ToysFromMel

3) Woodland Forest

A woodland forest nursery theme is a charming way to decorate a baby's nursery or toddler's room. The key is to incorporate elements that evoke a magical, whimsical forest setting. 

Woodland Forest Prints
Start by painting one or more walls in soothing greens or blues to represent the colours of the forest. Add wall decals and wall art like trees, woodland creatures, and flowers to really bring the theme to life. You could also add a mural featuring a forest scene on one wall for major visual impact. 
 For the crib or toddler bed, use bedding with forest motifs like deer, owls, foxes, and raccoons. Hang twinkling string lights from the ceiling to resemble sunbeams streaming through a forest canopy.
For playtime, include soft forest animals and nature-themed toys and books. The overall effect should be a whimsical, relaxing space that looks like a walk in the woods and stimulates baby's senses. With thoughtful details and woodsy accents, you can easily create a magical woodland forest nursery theme.

4) Whimsical Whales / Ocean Theme 

 Humpback Whale The Day You Were Born Print

With a theme of ocean and whales, a nursery can be transformed into an undersea oasis of wonder.

 Floral Whale Print

Start with a soft blue or teal paint on the walls, evoking the color of the sea and sky. Accent walls can feature adorable wall decals of whales, dolphins, sea turtles and other marine life. 

Ocean Nursery Decor

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For the crib, find bedding with prints of waves, shells, sea stars and coral reefs. Hang a mobile above of fabric whales, fish and sailboats that dance in the breeze. The rug can depict a scene of the ocean floor, strewn with seaweed and seashells. 

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Fill shelving with charming decor like stuffed whales and dolphins, driftwood, faux starfish and sand dollars. Opt for curtains printed with breaching whales or sharks.

 Whale Tooth & Curl Trinket Box

A mural along one wall would be lovely - perhaps a scene of a whale family swimming together, blowing water from their blowholes. With such decor, baby will drift off to sleep dreaming of the wonders of the deep blue sea and its amazing creatures.

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5) Dinosaurs.. of course! 

Set of 3 Dinosaur Prints

A dinosaur nursery theme is a fun and imaginative way to decorate a baby's room. When planning the theme, start by painting the walls a neutral colour like tan or light green to represent the earth and forests that dinosaurs roamed. 

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For an eye-catching accent wall, add a beautiful mural with a Jurassic scene of verdant jungles and imposing dinosaurs. Add touches of greenery like palm leaves and ferns to bring the prehistoric setting to life.

Wallpaper Mural

Custom dinosaur prints like T-rexes, triceratops, and brachiosaurus in muted shades of green, grey, and brown can be placed on the accent wall or across all walls for impact. 

Dinosaur Alphabet Print

Dinosaur Prints

Beyond decor, fill the bookshelves with colorful books about dinosaurs to delight and educate baby. Stock the toy box with roaring dinosaur figures, a shape sorter with dino cutouts, and soft stuffed dinosaurs for learning through play.

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