Nursery - Fortnightly Updates?

Charissadeats

Would any ladies be interested in sharing their nursery pics whilst it's still a work in progress up to the end-result?

DH and his friend is clearing ours out today so I am super excited to start and wouldn't mind seeing everyone else's progress!

Maybe we can also ask/give tips/share specials etc.

I was thinking doing a weekly/fortnightly thread to share updates.

Let me know if anyone is keen.

Kurrant

Oh I would love to but we are a bit away from nursery set up. The room is still cluttered, DH really doesn't want to put his books in the cold damp basement but hasn't suggested another place for them yet. I really need to light a fire under his ass about it. In a month or so I would definitely participate in some deco chat if a fortnightly thread was going on. Otherwise I'll just share my ideas till the time for action comes

Charissadeats

I only have an open room now! Hoping something like this will light a fire under me and keep me motivated.

I would personally love hearing ideas. And will need them especially if it's a girl. I have so many boy room ideas and zero for girls.

tripledaggerWed95976

Totally a work in progress but I'll share some pics. We painted the walls light gray, got sheer white curtains from ikea, and got a really pretty white and gray rug

tripledaggerWed95976

Oh also we got the crib bedding. We don't have the crib yet though haha but here's a pic of what the bedding looks like

yogahh

I started a post a while back but don't feel like finding it I'm going white, grey and pops of color

Some of the things I'm buying.
I'm obsessed with the mobile in the third pic and that became my inspiration. Equally obsessed with the "hello" rug!

After the new year we are starting g on cleaning out the spare room and will start buying some things.

Charissadeats

@yogahh did not mean to step in your toes - I know about your post and I was curious how everyone progressed from there - hope you don't mind!

I think grey and white is the colours of the season!

I bought this cot and compactum - will be delivered from Cape Town next week!

yogahh

charissadeats said:

@yogahh did not mean to step in your toes - I know about your post and I was curious how everyone progressed from there - hope you don't mind!

I think grey and white is the colours of the season!

I bought this cot and compactum - will be delivered from Cape Town next week!

Don't mind at all! I love these posts... Gives me more inspiration

eaorear

I love this idea, but have nothing to post yet! We are moving at the end of January. THEN I can start going crazy in the nursery!

artteacher19

We have just begun! Painting is in progress, and once we get our AS on the 21st then I'll order the crib and dresser we picked out. The color thankfully dried more neutral gray. With the slopes ceiling, our challenge will be getting the most out of that closet.

KidShrink

Would love to participate! We bought the crib/dresser/nighttable a few weeks ago (see pictures) and cleared the room. However, the room is this awful shade of pepto bismol pink from the past owners- we knew this was going to eventually become the baby's room, so we never bothered painting it. I'll share a picture of that awful color later. We'll most likely work more on the nursery in the new year- but now that we just found out we're having a boy, I'm fully into nursery planning!

yogahh

artteacher19 said:

We have just begun! Painting is in progress, and once we get our AS on the 21st then I'll order the crib and dresser we picked out. The color thankfully dried more neutral gray. With the slopes ceiling, our challenge will be getting the most out of that closet.

My childhood bedroom had sloped ceilings like this, and yes, the closets are not fun! Especially as a fashion orieneted teenage girl!

mmemartinez

Target released some le petit prince (the little prince) merchandise so we are going with that for a boy or girl. So lots of stars, moons, foxes and sheep. Maybe a rose somewhere as well. The spare room is already pink so we might have to change that. But otherwise we will use the furniture we already have from DS.

amberraysofdawn

(Long post, sorry - I'm reeeeeallly excited about this part! Let me know if I'm overdoing it here.)

We haven't actually started clearing out the room we are using for the nursery yet, but I've got a plan in mind.

The room is already painted a pastel yellow, which we are going to stick with (it glows when the sun shines through the room! So pretty!) My mom says she still has the rocking horse my grandfather made for me when I was born, and my itty bitty toddler-sized rocking chair, so I've decided to use those and go with a vintage theme. There are shelves up by the ceiling, where I'm planning on storing small wooden toys and some old book classics that I've been collecting over the years. If I can find some old blocks (or some really neat ones that just look old), I plan on spelling out the baby's name with them somewhere.

The carpet is an awful shade of pink that we can't afford to replace anytime soon, so I'm hoping to find a somewhat inexpensive rug to put on the floor. My mom gave me the old chair that she rocked me in, which will go with the overall theme.

A lot of the stuff we will be using are things that I either already own or have been passed down through the family, so I'm hoping that'll save us a lot money-wise. I also like that some of the items in there will have a history to them. All I've gotta do is figure out what to do with the stuff that is currently sitting in that room. :P

(Edited because I initially was going to attach a picture but it didn't work and now it won't let me at all, so I changed the wording around to make a bit more sense.)

Charissadeats

@MrsKtobe09 not overdoing it - Your idea sounds amazing! I love the idea of using stuff that's been kept since your childhood, super special

avalentine81

Basically just paint and a rug at the moment but the rug is the inspiration

08severson

I am super excited to start decorating the nursery! My husband and I just recently cleared out the room and cleaned the carpets, so we can start decorating for our first little bundle.

08severson

I am super excited to start decorating the nursery! My husband and I just recently cleared out the room and cleaned the carpets, so we can start decorating for our first little bundle.

CheerfulJ

The baby's room is currently our guest room. We have guest staying in the near future so I can't start on the bedroom yet. We need to paint the walls and add new flooring. I know I want white furniture and gold accents. I haven't decided on colors yet... I was originally going with a grey blue theme when I thought I was having a boy. I will officially know the sex on the 28th. I attached some nursey ideas I liked below. I would like the room to be a bit gender neutral so we can reuse items on future kids.

lta5516

I love everyone's ideas! The grays are super cute. Knottie -- I love that the crib you picked out has storage underneath.. We haven't made any progress on the room yet -- it's been our overflow room because we figured it would be the nursery eventually. Here are some of the things I liked.

caterin

I love to see what everyone is coming up with! DIY projects, making use of hand me downs or buying everything brand new!

Our "nursery" was a mess! This room was my season decor storage, so from sceletons for Halloween, pumpkins for thanksgiving and 12ft and 9ft christmas tree - Everything was in there! We started decluttering by each and every holiday so since our Christmas stuff is finally up, the room is a blank canvas!!! We already have a crib ( my husband already has teenage sons so it's kind of sentimental to me having all kids sleeping in the same crib) bought a dresser from ikea and some storage bins from home goods. That's it for now. Everything will be white/taupe. Can't wait to start our wainscoting project and if it's a girl, add a little chandelier! The attached pic is what I have in mind with taupe painted walls on top.

bookelf221

Love this idea. I'll post pictures later in the week when I get more done than I had for the TTT post :-) 

alexandrac86

Great idea! I would love to see everyone's ideas and progress. DS will be sharing a room with DD( she'll be 1 yr on Christmas Eve). Of course he'll be spending a few months in our bedroom using a cradle. I definitely want to get started on the room asap though. I feel like it will be a challenge making a room for both a boy and girl. Good thing we just moved into our new house in July and haven't had a chance to paint. The room is large and has two tall/ wide windows in the center, it will be a great way to separate the room at bit.

KidShrink

Some progress happened here over the weekend since we found out we're having a boy. If it'll allow me to, You should see 1)the current state of our pepto bismol room (we absolutely hate the color! But the glider in the picture was bought for baby) 2) the crib we bought 3) the stickers we'll be putting on the wall behind the crib and 4) the bedding we'll be purchasing.

cgg0707

Since my two kids will be sharing a room and it is a boy and girl, I am doing a super hero theme. Spider-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, etc!

I will be painting second week of January and will post pictures.

Charissadeats

@cgg0707 I kept some old school superhero posters that I thought I could frame for a boy to go with my grey and white - to break the colour! So cool you are doing it for a co-ed room!

khall0

So far we haven't made much progress in the nursery front except for buying the crib. It's a beautiful Scandinavian designed one, I've been lusting after it for years

emma+karen

We've got a lot of rearranging to do, as our son is still in the crib.  We need to basically switch out the twin bed in the guest room with his baby furniture.  The guest room will become the nursery, and big brother gets his "big boy" room!  Hoping to recruit my BIL and SIL to help with furniture moving when they're here over Christmas--of course, that means I'm not sure where everyone will sleep, since FIL is usually in the guest room at Christmas.  We do have a pull-out in the living room, so someone will probably just have to sleep there.

I want to go with a woodland theme.  We didn't decorate our son's nursery right away, because we moved when he was 4 months old.  Now his room is the nicest one in the house, LOL!  But I'm looking forward to this little one having a nice space from the get-go.

bookelf221

We have the Harry Potter door for the Geek Nursery mostly done. We'll be adding at least 2 stickers of the Hogwarts Crest and possibly a Dumbledore's Army decal as well. Next up: TARDIS door. :-) 

countrygrl5533

I don't think we are doing anything this time. Last time we did one purple wall and I made curtains out of purple fabric that had butterflies on it. That was about a themed we got. Personal opinion, I'm not a huge fan of themed nurseries as they out grow them so fast. But since we are hoping to be moving, we aren't doing anything really. The house we are hoping to get needs a lot of work so making a nursery look cute is not high priority.

I do have a suggestion of if you do a theme, don't go over board with it. Use it for the accents, not the main stuff. It makes it so much easier to make the room grow with the child.

emma+karen

countrygrl5533 said:

I do have a suggestion of if you do a theme, don't go over board with it. Use it for the accents, not the main stuff. It makes it so much easier to make the room grow with the child.

Agreed.  Our son's room is dinosaur themed, technically, but it's pretty much limited to wall decals and a rug.  Some of his sheets are from a dino sheet set, others aren't.  And now his bed is filled with all his "friends" i.e. the stuffed animals he insists on having in there at night.  So yeah, dinosaurs, but also a more general theme of "toddler" lol! 

bookelf221

I do have a suggestion of if you do a theme, don't go over board with it. Use it for the accents, not the main stuff. It makes it so much easier to make the room grow with the child.

We're painting the doors in a fun way- but the rest will be stuff that is easily removed. Mostly because the doors are super easy to repaint :-)

ayeshaohara

@bookelf221 I LOVE THIS!!!!! I totally want to do Star Wars theme if we have a boy. DH and I are big nerds too Harry Potter theme is amazing though. There's definitely going to be a HP themed birthday party at some stage for our little one!

bookelf221

ayeshaohara said:

@bookelf221 I LOVE THIS!!!!! I totally want to do Star Wars theme if we have a boy. DH and I are big nerds too Harry Potter theme is amazing though. There's definitely going to be a HP themed birthday party at some stage for our little one!

ayeshaohara we're just doing Geek because we couldn't settle on one "theme". so the other door is going to be painted like the TARDIS, we have a Star Wars rug, I'm crocheting a baby mobile and so far have Yoda, R2D2, The TARDIS, Serenity and a Snitch- all will be suspended from a flying Smaug. My family thinks we're crazy 

RR57

We decided on a zoo animal theme with some UofM worked in since we are both huge sports fans. I have all the furniture but some of the pieces need to be sanded and refinished and we need to put the crib together, which we will do right after the holiday. I guess we are ahead of the game but I'm too anxious to wait longer. I'll post pics in a few weeks when it's all done

Charissadeats

So many nerds I love it!

caterin

No new update, but just ordered these prints. Those little things excites me so much!

okcountrygirl

Well we found out yesterday we are having a boy!! His room is already painted a nice gray, I'll post a pic later, I want yalls opinion on if it's too dark... It's been a nice color for a spare bedroom, but room only has one window so it's a little dark at times. The other colors we want to add are green and blue with a mild star wars theme. :-)

swflJD

We are having a boy, and, even though I think it is somewhat cliche, we are going with a nautical theme for our nursery. It makes sense for us, though, because DH and I are both sailors, and we're hoping this LO takes on our passion for it, too! Also, it isn't too juvenile of a theme that he will outgrow it right away. I want to go with classic navy and white with pops of color, maybe nautical flags spelling out his name (when we pick one). I just don't want to go overboard (pun intended!) with the sailboats, etc. Just a few here and there.

We haven't actually started yet, but we are hoping to clean out our home office and start on it after the first of the year.  I'll post more pics when we get started, but this is kind of what we're going for:



Edited (twice!) because I'm still trying to figure out this new Bump system.

Charissadeats

Our furniture arrived today! So the room will start to take shape after DH and his friend have assembled it! It weights about 100kg so I can't help.

DH decided, since it's a boy, to do vintage car prints - so I will change our idea slightly to incorporate this new one as well.

Should we keep this thread active or do one each month with new pics? Opinions please

kami09

One suggestion for everyone: blackout curtains