celebrity nursery

J.R. Martinez's road to victory on Dancing With the Stars was an emotional one. So it's no surprise that when the Iraq War vet and his partner, Diana Gonzales-Jones, learned they were expecting a lil girl, he envisioned a sentimental nursery that was both comfortable and meaningful.

Like his fellow Dancing contestant Laila Ali, J.R. turned to LA's Little Crown Interiors to design the room of his dreams. Naomi Alon and Gerri Panebianco worked with the couple to completely redesign the nursery space to make it suitable for baby Lauryn Anabelle Martinez. Take a closer look at the carefully curated room — which is featured in this week's Life & Style — that is filled with a mix of modern and whimsical details.

With unlimited budgets and designers at their fingertips, celebs have the opportunity to create nurseries of dreams. We're taking a look inside the bedrooms of Tinseltown's most stylish tots. While some opt for opulence, others choose simplicity when designing their lil ones' rooms. See how some celeb mamas — and dads — chose to dote on their tots.

Melanie Brown's pop star days are a thing of the past, and the nursery she just created for her lil one proves it. Prior to the birth of baby Madison earlier this month, the former Spice Girl (aka Scary Spice) and her husband Stephen Belafonte turned to LA's Little Crown Interiors — the same firm Laila Ali worked with — to design a quiet sanctuary from the chaos of daily life with Mel B's two older children, Phoenix Chi, 12, and Angel, 4.

The suite of antique silver furniture, plum crushed velvet, and ivory damask work together to create a calm oasis in the midst of that storm. Take a detailed look at the room and tell us how you think it stacks up to other celebrity nurseries we've seen!

Laila Ali has styled her daughter a beautiful respite from the chaos of daily life. The former boxer and Dancing With the Stars participant gave birth to her first daughter, Sydney J. Conway, two months ago, and we're getting a sneak peek into the lil one's cool and calm lair.

Before giving birth, Laila turned to the experts at LA's Little Crown Interiors to create the perfect room for her tot. Naomi Alon and Gerri Panebianco quickly assessed the space for safety issues and went to work. The result? A "whimsical traditional" room filled with feminine pieces to make lil Sydney feel at home. Take a detailed look at the room and tell us how you think it stacks up to other celebrity nurseries we've seen!

When Mariah Carey welcomes her twins this month, they'll be coming home to lavish nurseries in both Bel-Air and NYC. The songstress gave an exclusive interview and tour of the babies-to-be's rooms to Life & Style this week, revealing that the nurseries for her son and daughter match but aren't identical so they can "celebrate the twins as separate entities."

Forgoing a pink and blue color scheme, the classically decorated nursery is primarily outfitted in green, with pink accents (and butterflies, of course) scattered throughout. The highlight – a night-sky painted ceiling that the mama-to-be finds herself staring at as she awaits her babies' arrival, "To me, it symbolizes wanting my children to dream as big as possible and to let their imaginations be unbridled." Keep reading for a sneak peek at the nursery, and see more when the issue hits newsstands on Friday.

Source: Lisa Rose for Life & Style