If you are an expectant mom who is struggling with choosing an idea for decorating your baby’s nursery, you are not alone. There are so many themes, colors and styles in baby bedding that making a final decision is sometimes downright difficult. One common problems for many moms is the desire to decorate the nursery without having it look to cutesy or babyish. Choosing a pattern as your “theme” is the best solution to this problem. While there seem to be thousands of choices that are cutesy, there are at least as many options that are not. Here are a few really pretty choices that are far from being too cutesy.

Dots are hot and polka dot baby crib sets are available in enough color and design options that you should have not problem finding a set you fall in love with. Bubble Gum by Banana Fish is one of my favorite polka dot sets for a baby girl. Polka dots in shades of deep pink, green are scattered over the yellow background of the main fabric used in this set. It is accented with a coordinating striped fabric. Como by Nojo also features polka dots with coordinating stripes but in softer shades of blue, green, yellow and orange that could be used in a nursery for a boy or a girl.

While you will find lots of sets that combine stripes with polka dots, there are also many selections where the striped fabric takes center stage. Aiden by Cocalo Couture is one such selection. The beautiful striped fabric in shades of blue, brown, tan and brick red is accented with matching solids and checks. This set would make a fabulous addition to any little boy’s nursery.

There are a few selections of solid colored bedding sets that would work well for a non-themed nursery. Most of these are quite plain and you can let your creativity loose when choosing how to accessorize them. Banana Fish offers a selection called Brooklyn in solid colors of green, brown, purple, red and white. These sets however are anything but plain. A combination of texture created through quilting accented with satin trim makes this bedding set very classy looking.

Don’t feel like you have to use themed bedding just because many other moms do. There are so many nursery crib bedding sets that are not based on themes that have a great deal of eye appeal, you just might have to look harder to find them.

To create a beautiful bedroom, you want all elements of your room to work together from the bed itself, to the bedding, flooring and curtains. There must be no element which detracts from the whole scene.

On the other hand, you don’t want everything to be matching otherwise your room will look over-coordinated like those eighties rooms where every item had the same floral design from the wall paper border to the waste paper bin. However, each element should have some kind of link to another. So, as far as lamp shades and bedding are concerned, if you have a beautiful bedding set in oyster colored silk with gold embroidery for example it does no harm to have small candle lamp shades also in oyster colored silk, perhaps with gold colored fringing.

Given that most bedding sets don’t come with matching or coordinating lamp shades you may have to source your own. Whatever fabric your bedding is made from you should be able to get something similar in a plain lampshade. (If your bedding has a number of colors, select the background color).

Once you have your plain lamp shade you can then choose trimming to match. Take a sample from your bedding (such as a pillow sham) and your lamp shade to the haberdashery department of a large department store. There you will finding a plethora of braid, fringing, beading and other trimming sold by the yard. You can choose something in the same color as the main fabric of the shade or in a contrasting color from the bedding or from another item in the room. Attach the trimming using a glue gun to give a neat finish.

A bed looks good with matching bedside tables and lamps either side. The tables can either be small chests of drawers in a wood to match the bed itself (or other furniture in the room) or small tables covered in cloths. Try to keep your small tables clear of clutter so that you get the full effect of your coordinated lamps and bedding.