When it came time to design the perfect nursery for their twins,Lance Bassand husbandMichael Turchinknew they wanted to keep things calming — without sacrificing their love of color.
That’s why the new dads — whowelcomed daughter Violet Betty and son Alexander Jamesvia surrogate on Oct. 13 — opted for pinks, blues and grays, with plenty of splashes of color in between.
“It’s eclectic, imaginative and peaceful,” Turchin tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “It’s like you’re in this little peaceful wonderland.”
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The *NSYNC alum and Turchin, an artist, also incorporated some more sentimental pieces, too, like a pair of boy and girl monkey portraits that they scooped up from a street artist in New York City.
Lance Bass' nursery.David Tsay
“We were walking in Soho and we saw all these gorgeous animal paintings, and immediately, we thought, ‘This is perfect for the nursery,’ " Bass recalls. “And that’s what we like to do when we’re traveling, we love to find things that are meaningful to us and have a memory behind it. So when we look around, we’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, we got that in New York in 2021 right before the kids came.’ So everything in our house has a story.”
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“We just wanted a fun room for them to grow up in,” says Bass.
“We want lots of books, and we wanted kind of a rainbow color coordination of the books as a subtle nod to them having gay parents,” Turchin says. “But also, it’s just another excuse to add more brightness and color.”
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Bass also sings the praises of theirNursery Works Compass Rocker, which they selected in Ivory Boucle.
“It’s great because it has high arms, and right now I have two torn shoulders, which is really not fun when you have infants,” he says. “But it helps me feed them when I prop my arm up perfectly.”
Jokes Turchin: “Every single person that’s come over to our house has just wanted that rocking chair, even if they don’t have kids.”
As they settle into life as a family of four, the couple say that they’re looking forward to watching Violet and Alexander grow into personalities all their own.
“I think having fun twin things is cute, but one thing that we definitely want to make sure happens is that we treat them as individuals,” says Bass. “We want them to find their own personalities, enjoy the things that they want.”
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source: people.com
