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COPYRIGHT 2003 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: JOAN WHITELY, REVIEW-JOURNAL
Call it infant cocooning. More and more babies come home from the hospital to elaborate, coordinated bedrooms.
One-month-old John Kolesar's home nursery is so integrated it creates a 3-D effect.
Flat wall murals of squirrels and rabbits and other Beatrix Potter-inspired animals are joined by furniture on which more characters have been painted.
A picket fence brushed on one wall is echoed in a picket fence-style lamppost that is a light for the diaper-changing area.
On a pot shelf over baby John's closet sits a stuffed Peter Rabbit toy, surrounded by decorative garden equipment. Faint clouds against blue create a skyscape on the ceiling.
"This is my favorite room in the whole house," says his proud mother, Irais Kolesar of Las Vegas.
When she commissioned Studio 11 Las Vegas -- owned by local artists Erin Bakke and Diane Giusti -- to create a nursery, Kolesar...
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