Actress Holly Marie Combs creates an enchanting space for her first child

“They like to say I was a year late,” says Charmed co-star Holly Marie Combs of her show’s producer. “I like to say they were a year early.” On the WB series Combs plays a new mom, but this month she get to experience the real thing which has given the 30-yearold actress the change to plan a room for her own son.

The contemporary-looking nursery her character uses on the set wasn’t so much an inspiration as an impetus for change. “I dint’t like it,” says Combs.For her own ranch-style house in California San Fernando Valley, she says, she wanted the nursery to be “traditional and antique, and incorporate aspects of our personalities, because that’s what it’s all about.”

Combs and husband David Donoho picked theme and a mint-green color scheme, then whipped up a little magic. To get the same look (no spells required), read on.

By Jenny Wilson