Olivia Culpo Gives First Look at Baby Girl Colette's 'Serene' Nursery and Teases How It Will 'Grow' with Their Family (Exclusive)

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After announcing the presence of her babe girl, Colette Annalise, pinch hubby San Francisco 49ers subordinate Christian McCaffrey successful July 2025, nan erstwhile Miss Universe has collaborated pinch Crate & Kids to creation her babe girl's space. Speaking exclusively pinch PEOPLE, Culpo shares nan behind-the-scenes creation process that went into creating nan idyllic abstraction for her newborn.

"I knew I wanted a really serene abstraction for nan baby," Culpo says of nan baby's quarters. "And past location were immoderate things that I knew I perfectly needed successful bid to beryllium comfortable. And past aesthetically, I conscionable knew I wanted a neutral palette truthful that it would consciousness for illustration a really calming oasis."

The nursery is conscionable that — featuring a calming operation of neutral woods and furniture, arsenic good arsenic forest-themed wallpaper and artwork accents.

While nan creation of nan nursery itself is surely calming, Culpo knew she wanted it to beryllium functional arsenic well, listing disconnected a fewer of her apical priorities arsenic she created nan space.

"Number 1 is nan rocking chair," Culpo says adamantly. "I consciousness for illustration that is wherever I walk a batch of my time, conscionable either nursing aliases getting her to autumn dormant aliases soothing her."

Perhaps nan point that Culpo uses most, however, is nan room's changing station.

"The logic why I emotion nan 1 that I person successful nan nursery pinch Crate & Kids is because it has tons of retention space," she says, a characteristic which she believes contributes to nan room's serene nature.

Colette, Culpo gushes, is besides a instrumentality of nan changing table. "It's beneath a reflector truthful she tin look up astatine nan mirror. She knows that she's astir to spell down. She knows that she's astir to get comfortable, possibly get into pajamas, possibly conscionable person her diaper changed."

Culpo says she took nan lead connected astir of nan nursery's design, but made judge to travel up pinch Christian connected astir of her picks.

"I consciousness for illustration I usually narrowed down each my selections to 2 options and past 2 aliases three," Culpo describes nan creation process. "And past from location I'll inquire his sentiment conscionable because I'll inquire a bunch of people's opinions, but honestly, he is colorblind, truthful a batch of nan clip he's like, ohio no, this one's reliable for me."

Her mom, who has appeared connected Culpo's societal media accounts helping retired pinch newborn Colette, besides weighed in.

"I asked her sentiment and she formed her vote," Culpo says. "I asked everybody their sentiment because I was going backmost and distant betwixt keeping it color, and of course, I ended up going backmost to my neutral, safe place. But I'm happy that I did that because it's easier to build disconnected of. And since we didn't cognize nan gender."

The nursery besides leaves room for nan couple's family to grow, Culpo notes. The crib, which she says is her "favorite portion of nan nursery" pinch its "beautiful upholstered ends" and "lived-in woodwork," is "also transitional," she says.

"So it will past a agelong clip and turn pinch our family."

While location were immoderate contiguous yeses for Culpo's nursery decor, location were different things she knew she could do without.

"I consciousness for illustration pinch babies successful general, swings tin beryllium really difficult to pinpoint what's going to work," she explains. "Every babe has a different preference. So successful general, arsenic acold arsenic babe supplies goes, I would opportunity you ne'er cognize what benignant of a plaything your baby's going to gravitate toward. One babe mightiness for illustration a definite type of swing, different babe that you person mightiness for illustration thing wholly different."

In general, though, for Culpo it's "the much nan merrier arsenic acold arsenic gadgets go."

Elsewhere successful nan interview, Culpo besides opened up astir her first fewer months of motherhood, and nan "new discoveries" she and Christian proceed to make pinch nan baby.

"Just moreover seeing nan world done her eyes is truthful rewarding," she says.

As pinch nan nursery, Culpo is balancing proposal and opinions from her family and friends regarding motherhood, arsenic she and Christian proceed to effort and "slow down and beryllium present" pinch their firstborn.

"I consciousness for illustration I'm fortunate because I person truthful galore nieces and nephews astatine this point, and I person a batch of friends pinch kids, and you conscionable person to cognize that not each babe is nan same," she says. "And you tin publication each book and perceive to each portion of proposal and return it each in, but you really do person to fig retired what's going to activity for you and your baby. No babe is alike."