How to use pastels to create a beautiful nursery
Pastels are soft, desaturated colours that can convey a feeling of softness, tranquillity and harmony, while remaining delightfully playful. Perfect for a baby’s nursery!
How to style your pastels
Perfect Pastels
You can use differing pastel shades of the same colour to create a calming, serene and sophisticated nursery aesthetic. You can use beige or grey as a base for the room, and you can add varying textures to create contrast.
Playful Pastels
Pastels share the same undertones, making them the ultimate ready-made colour combo. This means you can throw them together in a whimsical way to create a playful yet still serene nursery environment.
Our Top Tips
✔ Mix different pastel shades – Layer soft blues, pinks, or mint greens for dimension
✔ Add warmth with neutrals – White, beige, or taupe create a cosy foundation
✔ Play with textures – Linen, wool, and rattan add depth and interest
✔ Introduce contrast – A pop of wood, brass, or deeper tones keeps it balanced
Shop the look
Green Chic
- Sebra baby & Junior cotbed - mint green
- Nursery Rocking chair - with 'teddy' texture
- Washable cotton rug - 'tropical green'
- Little Lights - Lion
- Pouffe 'Mr Snail'
- Washable cushion circle green
- Sebra changing mat seabreeze green
- Wallpaper - Safari
- Changing table basket - boucle naturel
- Picture Hot Air Balloon Journey - xl
- Canopy set - beige
- Wooden Puzzle - jungle jambo - croco
Playful Unicorn
- Sebra baby & junior cotbed - birchbark rose
- Washable cotton rug 'puffy love'
- Handmade crochet moses basket - baby pink
- Musical mobile rainbow
- Little lights - cloud
- Cashmere pompoms blanket - blue
- Little Lights - butterfly
- Royal Aero large balloon - rainbow pastel
- Cotton muslin swaddles 'above the clouds'
- Cake Unicorn - wooden toy
- If I were a unicorn book
- Picture Ice cream cart
