I could care less about decorating the nursery... Anyone else with me?

failuretofly

I am getting SO annoyed with people asking "Have you started decorating yet?" "What colour are you painting it?" "Have you picked out your theme?"

I literally have absolutely no interest in making the nursery all 'pretty' and magazine like. Babies can't even see 2 feet in front of their face when they're born! It will be warm, and comfortable, and have all the necessities, but I don't see why everyone keeps pestering me to stress about and spend money on making it pretty! And when I say I don't care about dressing up the nursery they look at me like I don't care about the baby! It's SO frustrating!

ammnam14

Lurking..

I'm excited about the thought of a nursery but not excited to get started or get it together. My mom has been bugging me about the theme a lot lately, I told her I only want a few specific colors. It's literally driving me insane!

juliei12812

I've been very frugal with what I've gotten for the nursery and I prefer to not have a theme...basically if it's something I like, and it's in my budget, I get it...I've done garage sales, clearance specials and such. Overall the nursery is just about finished with only spending about $400 I totally agree with you, baby definitely doesn't need a designer nursery.

willashbaby

I'm not a "theme" girl either. The room will coordinate and be thoughtfully functional but it will not scream of a particular character or theme. NMS.

enkb

I'm with you too, the whole thing just feels stressful and not fun at all!  We are having a little construction done on the nursery before baby gets here and its not done quite yet, so I couldn't decorate even if I wanted to, but I definitely don't want to yet. 

All the pressure feels a lot like the Christmas shopping pressure to me, it takes away the whole point of the thing and makes it all about money and guilt for not spending enough of it.  I'm opting out of as much of that as I can, of course I will love my child, I don't have to prove it to anyone else by spending lots of money on stuff for them.

Ebiejay

I got away with this one because baby won't have his own room until we move at some point. I just stuck some jungle decals on the wall and made a quick jungle themes soft toy hanger for the corner the crib is in!

62406

I'm not a theme person either. I see some people doing all these fancy rooms (especially for girls) with chandeliers and jewels, I don't understand that. I'm reusing all the same decor we had from DD1 for DD2. I'm not even painting the room, it's not a priority for me. I did go to Michaels today and got everything I'll need for the name letters for her wall. That's as far as I'll go. Maybe that makes me lazy, but the baby really won't notice or care.

Sahara26

I'm the same way! We painted our spare rooms a nice brown about a year ago (sounds awful but it looks really good). So, we decided not to paint again just to match a theme or stereotypical gender color. Literally the day after we found out we are having a girl, a woman at work asked me what our theme will be for the nursery. When I said I had no idea, she looked at me like I was crazy!

DH and I are just more simplistic. As long as the room is functional, that's what really matters to us.

samara267

We're co-sleeping for at least the first year (or until night-weaning, whichever comes second) so there's really no point in decorating a nursery that the baby won't sleep in. Once she's old enough to need her own room, we'll decorate it. 

CaraBoonie

Ditto with PPs in that she'll be in our room for at least the first few months (2nd bedroom is downstairs, no way am I stumbling down a flight for feedings in the middle of the night!) and we may move before she moves to her own room, so we're just going to stick the crib in a nook in our room and MAYBE put a decal or some pictures on the wall above the crib, but nothing permanent since it's not a permanent situation. Whenever she DOES have her own room, we'll likely paint the walls (I do enjoy painting walls to match my decor...usually just an accent wall though...we have a cobalt blue wall behind our bed and a tiffany wall in our kitchen with beige walls for all else), but that's about it.

starree444

I didn't really care to paint but DH wants to so he will. The furniture isn't going to match and there won't be a theme. I'm going for function over fashion.

sunnydlight

I personally can't wait to get started but... It will only look like a nursery because it will have a crib, rocker, changing table and a baby sleeping in it.
Going with a neat purple rose color and I have artsy friends who will help me paint realistic butterflies and wildflowers on the wall with the window. After she's moved into the big loft bedroom it'll probably stay purple rose because it's a color I actually like and will be converted back to my office/sewing room. So basicly I'm using her as an excuse to paint and decorate a room the way I want with NO arguments from hubby. Haha. If we where having a boy I'd leave it the light steam gray it has been since we bought the house last year.

Imissedthis

I can't really do a nursery neither since I'm kind of unsure where we will be living. BD wants us to get an apartment together so baby bray have his room there

kmo8986

DS has a grey room with navy and bright green accents, but mostly just a room with a crib, night stands and dresser. I just finished painting him a new room (the big one downstairs) a grey blue, which he will move into in the next week with all his same decor. DD will go in his grey nursery with a new crib, night stands and a free armour that someone gave us and I am going to paint. No theme just colors, and we aren't even getting a bedding set this time, just random sheets and a mesh bumper.

ambercakes92

I'm going with a very loose nursery theme, but that's largely because the baby will be sharing my bedroom for a while. Plus, I'm on a budget and that really limits how much I can splurge on decor. Before I was pregnant I always thought about the awesome nursery I would design, and I'm surprised to say I'm not that disappointed that I'm just keeping things simple. My baby will have everything she needs, and that is my focus. Plus there's plenty of time for themes as she grows and wants to choose things for herself.

MamaHolland

It's fun to me. I look at it as a second room for myself where I will be spending a lot of time with her reading, breastfeeding, playing, interacting & a place a can keep her things organized so they don't totally overtake the whole house. I bought a comfie recliner for her room.

MeghaJake

We painted a room before my daughter was born in 2010 and bought curtains, a crib, recliner, rug, and a couple things for the walls. We moved an old dresser we had into the room. No theme though - just complimentary colors. For my son, we got a new rug and recliner and a couple new wall decals because we had moved some stuff to our daughter's new room. For this baby, we will probably not change a thing. Not everybody is into that stuff!

rbourassa99

Amen, sister! Babies are expensive enough without spending more on unnecessary frills. We know we'll be moving in the next couple years, so I've used that excuse as to why I'm not having a "traditional" nursery. But I shouldn't have to feel guilty (or like a bad mother!) for not wanting to put the money/time into making it look like a Buy Buy Baby showroom. We got a bunch of baby stuff on Craigslist and hand-me-downs from friends, so none of it's going to match anyways. And, she will be her mother's daughter, I rarely match either, so she probably won't mind

JoJoMama730

Wait, what? I'm supposed to decorate too?!? LOL. I'm with PPs, very frugal, and don't really care about decorating my house let alone creating a cutesy room for baby. Plus spare time is a huge commodity around here, between working full time and parenting my other child.

N1col3

We painted both spare rooms gray before I got pregnant and I saw no reason to change that. We have nursery furniture in there. And I want to get a few pictures to hang on the wall. Maybe a rug. That's it. I don't think a bedding set is necessary.

jeanbug12

This is my third baby, my first two didn't get a fancy nursery and this baby won't have one either. With my first, we had an office with some sports stuff hanging on the wall from DHs bachelor pad, my son moved in there. We just put a crib in the room, it worked out great! When DD was born she moved in with her big brother. This baby will be in our room for a while, I am not even getting the crib down from the attic until he is a few months old. No fancy rooms around here! Seems like a waste of time and money to me, even now that my kids are a bit older they don't care what their room looks like!

l4rk

I'm usually frugal too but I really enjoyed picking paint colours and putting decals on the wall. None of the furniture will match and I won't be buying anymore decor but I think the theme is clear...

Mommyduclos

We are doing a major home addition over here so I am drowning in decorating decisions, paint color choices, new furniture choices, blah blah blah. My oldest will be getting a big boy room now that he's 3. We're doing an outer space room for him. My daughter has been in our room but is getting her own- I think I have everything I need for her room from when I did her nursery in our previous home. This new little guy will be in our room. I have a good idea of what I want and will probably reuse a lot of stuff from my son's nursery stuff. I have some vintage pooh photos so I'm going to frame a couple of those for above the crib (my son's) I want to get a rocking chair, maybe a pillow or a little basket, and we'll see if I can squeeze in a small dresser or something but I'm not too hopeful for that. So that's all for now- then when he's 1.5 or so he'll move in with big brother.

Hrc724

To each his own. I love decorating and so I'm looking forward to doing the nursery, though I won't have a theme. But if that's not your thing I wouldn't stress out doing it.

essentialpeace

I just want mine organized and functional. We don't have a theme, but we are painting the room gray.