As Rumer Willis awaited the arrival of her first little one with boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas, she knew her residing area wanted to alter along with her household. 

The actress and singer tells PEOPLE that one in all her parenting selections made a design change within the main bed room much more important.

“As a result of I co-sleep with my daughter, I used to be considering, ‘Wow, for the primary month and even perhaps a pair years of her life, she’s going to be within the bed room with me,’” the 34-year-old tells PEOPLE of Louetta Isley Thomas Willis — whom she calls Lou — born on April 18.

She requested herself, “How do I make this area an grownup area that is cozy for me but in addition one thing that is useful for her? And one thing within the context of getting her right here with me?”

Willis — the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, additionally recognized for Dancing with the Stars and Quentin Tarantino’s As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood — knew she wished to offer an intimate sanctuary for her child, however admits she was overwhelmed with executing her imaginative and prescient.

“I really feel like generally the way in which that my mind works, I’ve so many concepts and I am very particular with what I like. I are typically very element oriented and a few would say perhaps a little bit of a perfectionist,” she explains. “Prior to now, it has been difficult for me to translate.”

So this time round, she requested the professionals for some assist.

Willis teamed up with Crate & Barrel to create a relaxing environment in her dwelling — together with a main bed room refresh.

“That they had this stunning bassinet and this cozy chair. And I feel as soon as I noticed that, all of those concepts began popping into my head,” she says. “After I was chatting with The Design Desk, I really feel like they have been in a position to utterly perceive the place I used to be coming from and what I used to be making an attempt to create, even when I didn’t at all times have the language for a particular concept or design aesthetic.”

Talking with PEOPLE on a Zoom name final week, Willis swung her digicam round to point out glimpses of her room. The window overlooks a balcony with timber on the opposite aspect, the drawn curtain permitting vivid daylight to stream in. Framed images are mounted on the white wall behind the mattress —one in all Willis posing throughout her being pregnant, a pair of sonogram photographs, a creative handprint, and one other of Lou sleeping peacefully.

“I had a temper board that Crate & Barrel began placing collectively,” she says, noting “I used to be in a position to actually see the image, see the element — the curtain rods, the bedside desk lamps. I like having little bowls or vessels and completely different sorts of baskets and little fine details. Even on her altering desk, all the things is organized on this stunning little tray.”

One function specifically wanted some main warming up, she says. Regardless of residing in her Los Angeles dwelling for about 13 years, “Sadly, I’ve by no means liked the ground that I picked out initially,” she says with amusing. “It is fairly chilly and it is laborious; it appears to be like like concrete.”

She wished to cowl up as a lot ground area as potential to make the room protected as effectively for when Lou begins crawling: “Fortunately now we have zero falls but,” she says with amusing. “However we tried to layer the rugs in a approach that may sort of take up essentially the most area.” The mix contains textural seagrass and sheepskin types.

An important piece for mother had at all times been lacking from the area, too.

“I actually did not have a mattress body for fairly a very long time as a result of I might by no means discover one which I appreciated that did not really feel both too girly or too masculine or too excessive,” she says, wanting behind her shoulder at a stunning unfold of velvet and light-colored wooden.

The one she selected is the Caldwell Upholstered Storage Mattress, a part of Crate & Barrel’s collaboration with movie star designer Jake Arnold, who simply adorned John Legend and Chrissy Teigen’s dwelling.

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“There’s actually stunning, heat, impartial tones in right here. And on the similar time, it would not look sterile,” she says. “It was precisely what I used to be searching for.”

She provides, “I like coming in right here. I spend more often than not with my daughter right here as a result of it is simply pretty. There’s a lot mild and it is simply stunning.”

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