The royal couple, Prince William and Kate Middleton, is getting ready to welcome the heir in July and have already started designing the baby's room and plan on decorating it with extraordinary furniture in their under-construction apartment at 1A, Kensington.
According to Décor and Style, the Duchess of Cambridge has hired designer Christopher Chanond to plan the nursery. Chanond is apparently using an "Around the World in Eighty Days" theme for the room.
Apparently, the silk rug on the floor resembles the map of a globe from the eighteenth century. The walls are being done up with designer wallpapers, each of the four walls representing Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe. The ceiling looks like the sky and also has a cluster of mini LED lights that replicate a starfield.
The baby accessories and toys have been made keeping in mind the heritage of the U.K. and the royal family. Accessories include a flotilla of hot air balloons, hand blown in glass to make up a pendant light. The nursery will also have steamer trunks for storing clothes, a castle shaped slide with flags of England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. A rocking horse is actually a unicorn that represents the royal arms of the U.K. which is set in a circle that depicts Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and a low table made with the trunk of an oak tree, which is the symbol of England and its strength.
Check out the renderings of the nursery, here.
Currently, William and Kate are living in a Nottingham Cottage, a modest two bedroom residence on the grounds of Kensington Palace. They will live there until construction of the 20 bedroom apartment, 1A in Kensington Palace is completed. Construction will probably take time to complete; therefore, the royal couple has commissioned a humble nursery in their cottage.
"They have a small nursery prepped, but it's humble. Kate felt it wasn't worth the money to go all-out," a source close to the couple said to the US Weekly.
Apparently Kate also wants to be close to her child in the first few bonding weeks.
For the precious first weeks, Kate wants the baby to sleep in their room," the source added.
