A couple transformed their twins' room into a gothic nursery complete with gray walls, ghost pillows, and a bat chandelier

• Content creator E.V. Rogina posted a TikTok video showing the gothic nursery designed for her twins.
• Speaking with Insider, she explained how she and her wife created the space and why they love it.

Gothic decor isn't just for adults — it can be for infants too.

For proof, look no further than the dark, slightly spooky nursery created by lifestyle content creator E.V. Rogina, who goes by E.V. Dreadful online, and her wife Monica Ventura.

The Orlando, Florida, couple recently posted a TikTok to Rogina's page showing the step-by-step process of merging gray walls, black furniture, ghost-shaped pillows, and more to create their ideal nursery for their 11-week-old twins.

Their video, which was posted on Tuesday, has since been viewed more than 41 million times.

Rogina told Insider that she and her wife wanted to mix gothic and modern elements in the nursery to match both of their decor preferences.

"I'm very much into gothic and Victorian design, and of course, my wife is the complete opposite," Rogina said with a laugh. "She loves minimal and modern, so we try to do every home project with the intention of merging those styles."

Color was another big element of the planning process, Rogina said. Their home currently includes a forest-green office, a red library-esque bathroom, and other themed spaces.

"The nursery design started with me researching colors," she said. "Looking at gray, I found that it's considered to be an extremely calming color for babies. When I think of myself growing up, I was always overstimulated. And even as an adult, the world can be so much. So I was like, let's build a little room that they can always come back to and find peace."

Rogina discovered she was pregnant in October 2022, started designing the nursery in January 2023, and worked on it until she was put on bed rest in April and gave birth in May.

While the room is "a little bit incomplete," she said, the heart of the room and symbols of their family are there.

"We have ghosties throughout our whole home, so there are ghost plushies that are more childish and appeal to them," she said. "And I have a whole bunch of bat stuff downstairs, so I was like, 'Let's find cute bat things for them.' It's kind of how they'll get to know us — by showing them these things and who their parents are and the world they're born into."

Another standout piece in the room is a mobile with small bats hanging from it in a swirled shape — creating the illusion that they're flying.

Rogina said she had been "searching, searching, searching" for the perfect mobile for the room, and couldn't find anything that worked. But as luck would have it, a friend of the couple did.

"She said we would get a box in front of our home," Rogina said. "I opened it and was like, 'Finally! The perfect mobile!' And I didn't have to do the work."

While there have been some critics of the unique nursery the couple created, Rogina said she's not too worried. Instead, she's been laughing.

"We're a lesbian couple. I'm a gay mom. Babies are not accidental, they're planned. So everything we did for them was planned," she said. "I know they need color, so there's a corner in the room with a big basket full of colorful toys. Their books are extremely colorful."

"As a creator, you show what you want people to see," she continued. "But we take the babies outside. We go to places like museums and aquariums."

Rogina said she's also been accused of "pushing the gothic agenda" on her babies.

"What about a mom who chooses a pink room, or a blue room, or a safari room?" she said. "I have boy and girl twins who have to share a room, so I don't wanna pick a color for them. They can share it and it'll feel fair to the both of them until they're old enough to have their own rooms. And then they can go haywire, and do whatever they want to their rooms."

Rogina knows that gothic decor might not be for everybody. It might not even be for her children. But in her opinion, that's the beauty of it.

"Right now, it's for us. The nursery is nice, it's beautiful, it's calming," she said. "But one day, the babies are going to have an opinion. And I'm going to go with it and support whatever it is that they want to do. That's what a parent's job is."