Creating a light, bright space
White furniture: Fancy convert-ible crib, $599, Land of Nod
Big-room styling on walls: crown molding to hold treasures; painted stripes in Valspar Signature Colors (Paris Mint, Shoreline, and Rose Buff), $25 a gallon, Lowes
Playful details: a mobile you can make with embroidery hoop, pom-poms, and thread. Bear chair is just right for a sibling, $79, Lands' End.
Meet the winners
Katie Cooper, of Hawthorne Woods, Illinois, with Kelsey, husband Dylan, Benjamin, and baby Avery Rose. "I want to give our baby girl a beautiful new room that will make her feel special," Katie wrote us. "This could be the only time she won't be given any hand-me-downs."
