The Pieces You Need for a Stylish Nursery According to a former fashion editor.

By Ruthie Friedlander | Photo courtesy of @nicolelelagreen

In the realm of life’s grand anxieties — you know, like misplacing your recently purchased Summer Fridays lip butter balm or scuffing the toe of your favorite flat (the horror!) — decorating a nursery in a small NYC apartment ranks pretty high. Especially when you’ve spent the majority of your life working in and around fashion and your most daunting concern has never been about sleepless nights or diaper duty or the sheer terror of your carefully curated home being overtaken by an explosion of plastic, pastels, and playmats. Misplaced anxiety or totally correctly placed anxiety, my focus as I entered the second trimester of my pregnancy surrounded this: Was my sanctuary about to morph into a cheesy funhouse overnight? Babe’s first steps are momentous, but did they really need to be taken on a neon alphabet puzzle mat that clashed with my vintage rugs? Here, the pieces that made my nursery fashionable, functional, and yes, even baby-friendly.

Ruthie Friedlander’s Nursery Registry