Got kids? Great, you’ll love this. If not, well…think of it as fantasy baseball for the home.

It all starts innocently enough. You see a wallpaper you like and think, geez, that’s really cute. Next thing you know you’re staking out Pottery Barn Kids, elbowing your romantic partner to get on with it already, and fretting over the goings on of your fallopian tubes.

This ain’t fantasy baseball, girls. Tread carefully on this post, because today we’re delving into kid land. We started responsibly by finding some baby-aware, eco-conscious essentials. And then went for the pretty. Don’t freak out. Creating a dream room for the kid you now have or eventually will is fun, like procreation should be. Another thing you need to keep in mind is that just because you have kids, doesn’t mean your home decor has to look any less cool.

New York-based Aimée Wilder is very particular when it comes to her wallpaper. It’s always cool, for a start. Each roll is created with sustainability in mind. Each pattern is hand silk screened on clay-coated paper. Left over inks are salvaged and reused. The paper itself is manufactured with responsibly-sourced chlorine free fiber.

VOC-free paint is a little more expensive, but that’s because it doesn’t come with all the formaldehyde, benzene, and perchloroethylene attached like the other stuff does. Mythic Paint is a trusted brand, which comes in colors like the lavender “Lav it Up” and soothing blue “Come Fly With Me”.

Young immune systems are fragile and they need to be treated accordingly with hypoallergenic clothes, blankets, and toys. Sheepskin rugs keep babies warm and toasty during cold months, and cool in warm months. Plus they don’t attract dust, dirt or other allergens. When the would-be kid’s not using it, snag it yourself for a spot of meditation. It’s the preferred rug of Kundalini yogis.

Now for the rooms we fantasize over just for the heck of it.

All right, so we’ve shown you ours. Now it’s time to tweet us your possibly, maybe, way down the line fantasy kids rooms.

Images: msscott218; Family Living via Aimée Wilder; Mythic Paint; Nature Baby; Mommy Goes Green; Pinterest via Inhabitots; Crafty Cake; Our Wee One via The Marion House Book

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As you grow Forever 21, we are watching you and guess what? Most people aren’t. So let’s do a closer inspection and not only ask why consumers still think it’s fun (and okay) to buy throwaway clothes in your fluorescent jungle, but just why you, Forever 21, have slipped under the radar unlike your sister stores H&M, Target, Kohls and Wal-Mart.

First dear reader, I want you to Google, “Forever 21 + environment,” and see if anything good comes up.

Maybe some new eco-initiatives? A juicy sustainability program? Donations to a green charity? You’ll find nothing but bitching about working there and lawsuits.

Is it just me, or does the environment at Forever 21 mean you can expect large areas for shopping and a candy-coated atmosphere filled with knock offs from hard working designers who actually design for a living?

And it gets worse.

According to the Wall Street Journal, one of the newest Forever 21’s located in Times Square (which opened last Friday), “will be the brand’s biggest location, taking over the space of a former Virgin Megastore. The store spans four floors and the equivalent of 1.5 football fields. The modestly sized street-level entrance gives way to three sprawling subterranean floors, with 151 dressing rooms and 32 cash registers.”

It’s hard to make out what we’re supposed to do with you, America, waiting in lines like cattle to be let in the glossy new Forever 21 doors rife with VOC paints and lead-tainted clothes manufactured in places that aren’t so much gushing oil into the ocean as discharging gallons and gallons of toxic effluent into delicate ecosystems daily with every dyed shirt and distressed denim micro mini.

If you thought about Forever 21’s impact on the environment with distaste like you do for a BP spill, that store would never have opened.

And that’s how dangerous it is. Maybe that’s all the Gulf needs, just a little neon to divert you.

Image courtesy of The Wall Street Journal

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