Okay, this is as close as you are going to get to wholesale crib bedding. We have designed, manufactured, and sold our bedding to upscale baby specialty stores for years. Starting about 9 years ago we decided to offer our products directly to the consumer. We’ve really worked hard and leveraged being the manufacturer on a few select collections to bring you the same very high quality craftmanship and fabrics but at much lower prices. We hope you like them!
I know that in the past when I have been looking for a particular product and I am exploring an unfamiliar industry like a lot of other people I’ll check and see what is the most expensive. It’s human nature to associate price with quality–especially when you simply just don’t know much about the particular products for which you are shopping.
With baby bedding you may start out a searching for “high end baby bedding” or “luxury baby bedding”. You may find baby bedding sold at a particular store and sort by price high-to-low just to see what’s “the best” out there. Being in the crib bedding and juvenile products industry for many years I have seen too often that high prices does not necessarily mean “high end”. In fact, sometimes I am shocked to find a particular bedding collection or crib set that is priced so high (sometimes over $1,000) when the quality of fabrics and workmanship is no better than what we offer.
Factors such as the cost of making the bedding, the number or times the bedding must change hands from manufacturer to store to customer, as well as the brand name, will dictate the price–often it’s not the quality!
At Carousel Designs, we use only the finest fabrics coupled with superior quality standards to manufacture our baby bedding and nursery décor. We’ve been doing this for over 21 years and thoroughly inspect every product that we make before it leaves our shop located in Douglasville, Georgia. Everything is made right here in the USA so it is very easy for us to ensure that every step of the process maintains our strict quality standards.
Since we sell direct to the consumer on our website babybedding.com we are able to pass the savings of having no traditional retail markup along to our customers. Back in the 90’s when we only sold our products to the better baby specialty stores it was typical to find our 4-piece crib bedding sets sold as high as $500-$700. Since then, we have actually continued to improve our quality standards while selling our products at much lower prices. Our current 4-piece crib sets are usually between $200-$300 and as sometimes as low as $99! Check out our outlet section to see many first-quality crib sets offered at deeply discounted prices.
In an era where you’ll find the terms “factory direct” or “direct to the consumer” overused and not always accurate know that you are truly buying directly from the factory with us.
If you have the opportunity, please read some of our customer testimonials. You’ll find several messages submitted by actual customers consistently praising the quality of our bedding and many more saying how they were very “surprised” or “shocked” with the quality. These are real examples where people have traditionally associated price with quality. That’s why you simply can’t measure our quality by comparing prices at Carousel Designs to the prices of baby bedding offered by the competition. It’s apples and oranges.
We’ve had some differences of opinion on this collection around the factory, so we’re asking you to decide! Do you think our Green and Brown Damask Crib Bedding set is best suited for a baby boy, a baby girl, or would any baby enjoy this beautiful bedding? Let us know what you think in the poll below or in the comments section.
I just spoke with a customer that was trying to decide on some different fabrics. For her, seeing the fabric made all the difference.
Our website is very helpful and you can many times place your order without seeing the actual fabric/product beforehand. However, so many times being able to see the actual fabric ultimately drives your purchasing decision.
For that reason, we highly recommend you order fabric swatches from us prior to placing your order. You’ll see the area to order fabric swatches on every single product page on our website. So, if it is a page where you can add a bumper, sheet, or some other product to your shopping cart–you can also order the swatches.
Carousel Designs was recently featured in an article by Fortune Small Business Magazine / CNN Money. The article focuses on the company’s ongoing growth efforts led by Allan Sicat and Jonathan Hartley, the company’s President and CEO. Selected as the July/August 2009 Small Business Makeover recipient, Fortune and CNN Money solicited the assistance of 3 external business consultants to provide practical advice on business obstacles the company leaders face.
Specifically, these consultants provided insight and shared their expertise in the areas of brand marketing, finance, and inventory management. Because of the co-owner’s unique connection as West Point classmates and former Army officers, the article humorously and ironically relates their experiences in the baby bedding industry to that of a battle zone.
We field many questions about our crib sheets. It is the bedding item that touches the baby the most–you could argue it is the most “important” part of the bedding ensemble for your new baby.
The most common question is if our crib sheets have elastic all the way around. It is worth mentioning that ALL of our crib sheets all have elastic all the way around. In the past 21 years we’ve made literally thousands of crib sheets–experimented with different cuts, fabrics, and crib mattresses. When we make a crib sheet we are taking into consideration all of those different factors, and we’ve got a wealth of experience to make sure that we get it right.
Here’s what you get from a Carousel Designs fitted crib sheet:
In this video we demonstrate some of the features of babybedding.com that will better help you choose the perfect bedding for your nursery – primarily using the zoom imaging feature and ordering fabric swatches.
Let’s say you are designing a girl’s nursery. Clicking the baby girl bedding link quickly takes you to the section of our website dedicated to the girl’s nursery.
Maybe you like the Pink and chocolate damask collection and you’re interested in the four piece bedding set. To get a closer look at the bedding, simply click on the image and you will see a new zoom window appear. You can click and drag the mouse to view any section you would like to see better.
But because all monitors are different, we encourage you to have a fabric swatch sample sent to you. That way you can actually feel the fabric and make sure that the colors match your design requirements.
We usually mail swatches out within 24 hours so you can make your design decisions quickly.
And if you have any questions, just give us a call toll-free, (800) 600-5190, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
Without a doubt, the cradle becomes a special item when your newborn arrives home. It’s the first place your baby will sleep after coming home. Having it properly prepared is important as the baby makes the transition to their new surroundings.
There are many types and styles of cradles available including the more modern gliding cradles. But whether your cradle is the rocking type or the gliding type, the standard cradle mattress size is 18″ x 36″. It is important to choose bedding specifically made for the cradle so that it does not bunch, gather or leave gaps between the mattress and the rails.
Cradles are designed for use in the initial months when a baby first arrives home. Many parents keep the cradle right beside their own bed, at least for the first couple of weeks. And some parents choose never move the cradle to the nursery at all. When baby is big enough to move into the nursery, they move right into the crib.
Depending on how and where the cradle is used, there are many options for incorporating cradle bedding into your home. With literally dozens of designed cradle bedding sets available, coordinating your baby’s first sleeping quarters with the nursery or the bedroom is easy with the vast selection from Carousel Designs. From designer modern fern to simple, solid white – cradle sheets, bumpers and blankets are available a la carte or as matching bundles to suit every new parent’s needs.
We’re pretty excited about what has been going on over at the outlet store . After a bit of brainstorming, there were several efforts made to “sharpen our pencils”, become more efficient and be better able to offer a wider array of discount baby bedding.
“Our designer collections are composed of specific fabrics that have been detailed by our design team,” added Allan Sicat, President of Carousel Designs. “Sometimes a fabric vendor will unexpectedly discontinue a fabric that we use as a part of a designed baby bedding collection. When that happens, we must find ways to optimize and utilize those specific fabrics. We salvage the situation by creating new, limited, high-quality products at deeply discounted prices.”
And to add to this point:
The multitude of steps involved in designing a new collection can take many iterations of testing before producing the end product that is offered on babybedding.com. “When we design a new collection we might make several versions of a crib skirt, for instance, to see which one best aligns with the overall designed collection,” stated Rose Grove, Carousel Designs’ lead designer. “Even though a particular crib skirt or comforter creation doesn’t make it into a designed collection, it still remains well made, beautifully crafted and unique.”
The bottom line? We just opened the door to greater savings on our website. If you haven’t dropped by the outlet store lately, check it out. We have made it even easier to buy unique, high-quality, American-made baby bedding on a budget.
I was visiting a new parent forum the other day and noticed a mother-to-be discussing how much she should pay for toddler bedding. It was an interesting read because she was strictly concerned with price, at first. And then some other people chimed in with recommendations regarding quality. It made me consider how we use the word “cheap” and how that term relates to “quality.”
Cheap reminds me of the low-cost pots and pans I bought when I first graduated from college and moved into my own apartment. (Ok, we all did that, right?) I didn’t pay much initially, but within several months, the pot handles were falling off and I eventually had to replace all of my cookware. Lesson learned. Not only did cheap not satisfy my needs, I had to make a second purchase of cookware because I did not consider quality during my first purchase.
Quality is the relative measure of excellence – the relationship of cost verses value. The highest quality product is almost never the one that costs the least and it is often not the most expensive either. I am a big fan of research, especially before buying a big ticket item, and I have found that quality can be a mix of objective testing (How well does it hold up in the wash?) and highly subjective factors (How good did it look?).
One thing that has been a persistent focus at Carousel Designs is quality. At the same time, we are also able to offer inexpensive baby bedding because there is no middleman to inflate prices. We design and manufacture everything here in our Douglasville, Georgia facility and that makes us uniquely positioned to offer high quality at lower prices.
I took a look at some of our customer testimonials and thought I would share some of the recent comments. One word that I didn’t see was “cheap”.
There were several references to “great prices”, “reasonably priced” and “fair prices”.
And the word that I found repeated more than any other was “quality”. It was mentioned dozens of times.
“I would have paid the same amount for a much lesser quality in a national retail store…”
“Thank you for the speedy delivery, and the outstanding quality of your product…”
“It is so rare, these days, to find such high quality items made in this country. I will recommend babybedding.com/Carousel Designs to all of my friends. Thanks!”
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