Nursery Thread

RainyDays86

Hi ladies,

It may be too early for this, but I've been inspired by looking at some other BMB's nursery threads and thought we could start our own.  I am guessing many of us haven't done much on our nurseries yet (but if you have, post your pictures and shame the rest of us slackers!) but it could be fun to share ideas and add to this as we get more done.

If you have nursery pictures (either real or Pinterest inspiration) post them here!

NotAPlaya-JustCrushAlot

Great idea! Please post your pics so I can steal some of your ideas.  I'm seriously lacking inspiration. #secondkidproblems

RainyDays86

Our nursery is currently a guest room and will be for a while.  We can't move the guest room stuff out until DH and I move out of the guest room, which we can't do until the renovation is done on our master bedroom (the renovation which hasn't started yet...).  But, we know we're keeping the same color scheme and we know we're team green so I have started the planning process a bit.  The room is actually the only room in the entire house we didn't paint when we moved in because we thought it was a cute nursery color.  It currently looks like this:



My inspiration is coming from this:



so lots of whites and woods with pops of color. We're doing a vintage travel/transportation theme so I've found some good art on Etsy.  Still looking for the perfect bedding as well as a glider that goes with the wall color and isn't white (we have black dogs so white is a no-go).

nda_roxybabe

Yesssss! As some of you know, we're doing a Wes Anderson theme. I have idea pictures to post

Our color scheme will be reddish orange, orange, mustard, and green

Kipperoo

Ooh! FUN! I love this thread, even though I have very little to contribute. I'll be working on the nursery over the Christmas-New Years stretch. My parents will be in town and I'm making them do most of the grunt work (they are THRILLED to do it). I do have a crib, though! And a vague idea of the direction of the decor...(pics below):

Here's the crib:



Theme inspiration:


With WAYYYY less pink:

Kipperoo

@RainyDays86, love the vintage travel theme!! I went that direction with my DS's nursery and loved it. Also loved that it was easy to morph/update as he got a little older. Can't wait to see it all together!

inomniaparatus2

We are having the upstairs bedrooms re-carpeted this month and then already have a painter scheduled for January to paint the nursery after we find out the gender. For a girl will do grey walls and blush, light pink dark pink accents and flowers.  For a boy doing a moose theme with mint, grey and navy. Grey walls and then navy and grey for furniture and then mint here and there. Found a really cute weathered grey fan that would look great in the room. Now I have to wait to see what we get to do  

CClark2014

@RainyDays86 love your inspiration pic.  That is a perfect fit for your current stripes!

We are going with all white furniture and this fabric for colors.  I was so surprised that DH was agreeable to painting the walls a dark navy, I really thought he would fight that a little more.   Now I just need to work on emptying the room, its been a craft/catch-all room for a few years.  

RainyDays86

I love everyone's ideas so far!  @SWE2 my cousin did a woodland/forest theme for her son with similar bold colors to what you're thinking if yours is a boy and hers turned out really well.

bubsalicious

I don't have any pictures, and won't until way after baby is born, but my theme is pretty much colors and a touch of nature. I like lots of color, and pretty much just go "do I like this?" and then I get it. I've never been able to do theme's very well, but this plan has always worked for me in the past.

RainyDays86

@absbubbs we didn't do a theme for DS's nursery, just a color scheme I liked and it looked great!  I am a firm believer that you don't need a theme for a nursery, wedding, etc. to make it beautiful and cohesive.

chocolatelemons

The room we are using was covered in wall paper so my husband has already gotten started. He removed the wallpaper and we painted it a very pale green. He also did wainscoting and a chairrail. My plan is to do sort of a jungle theme. I plan to have very neutral relaxing colors but possibly a pop of pink or navy depending on the gender. We find out next week. Either way, I don't want it really girly or masculine.

bubsalicious

RainyDays86 said:

@absbubbs we didn't do a theme for DS's nursery, just a color scheme I liked and it looked great!  I am a firm believer that you don't need a theme for a nursery, wedding, etc. to make it beautiful and cohesive.

Oh my goodness, we didn't have a theme for the wedding and people did NOT like that. I hate that if I really like something I can't use it because "it doesn't go with the theme".

psherman42wwsa

Our new house was supposed to be complete in May now its not going to be done until maybe August. It's going to drive me nuts that this baby wont have his nursery ready for him once he is born.. not that he would use it away... I wont be able to put his room together until we move, but I do plan on getting a fun colorful crib. I have my eye on this blue one. Can't paint the walls since it will be a new house so I plan to dress it up with a couple colorful accessories. I'm going to try not to not make it so baby'ish this time around.. learned my lesson with DS.

Back when I thought this baby might be a girl I thought about making some of these paper flowers. You can buy them premade on etsy or the templates to make yourself.  

BeachMommy2B

Ours is also still a guest room until after the holidays too. We are planning on doing a Monster's Inc Nursery. The 1st picture is what I'm thinking, The second is the bedding and a few accessories I purchased from Babies r Us on Black Friday for 25% off!!! 

pshaortao

Gah I'm so excited about this thread. I love lurking on the nursery thread on earlier BMB just because it's fun to look at, and eventually to get inspiration. We will find out the sex in 2.5 weeks but can't do anything about the nursery just yet regardless since our house doesn't close until the end of January. We had boring tan walls in our last apartment DD and I did brown and pink accents with white furniture. It was super simple and cute but very muted at the same time. Overtime we have added more colors and I am realizing how much we like the more colorful stuff in her room. With that said, I think regardless of sex, I will make the room much lighter/brighter, with white furniture again, and use more colorful accents. 


This image is from pinterest and while it's not necessarily a nursery, this kind of setup just makes me feel happy.

slowmo

@pshaortao - I totally have this exact picture on my secret nursery Pinterest board! Love it.

nda_roxybabe

@RainyDays86 I saved my Rifle Paper Co Travel calendar for all the cute prints in case we did a travel theme! 

nda_roxybabe

SWE2 said:

We are having the upstairs bedrooms re-carpeted this month and then already have a painter scheduled for January to paint the nursery after we find out the gender. For a girl will do grey walls and blush, light pink dark pink accents and flowers.  For a boy doing a moose theme with mint, grey and navy. Grey walls and then navy and grey for furniture and then mint here and there. Found a really cute weathered grey fan that would look great in the room. Now I have to wait to see what we get to do  

Love! Totally my style

MrsFox2008

Love all these ideas! DDs nursery was a woodland theme. For this baby we haven't even thought of nursery ideas. Maybe after we find out Wednesday we'll start to make plans for this LOs nursery! 

CherylE418

I haven't bought or done anything yet, but theme will be Harry Potter! I looooove all of these ideas and have a Pinterest board full of so many more 

JCWhitey

Our Nursery is the foot of our bed.  It's not too thrilling and we won't redecorate for it.  I don't like having my babies in another room to sleep until they're at least 1.  Once they're older and STTN this kid will share a room with whatever sibling they are the same sex as.

vrj0522

This is what DD's nursery currently looks like. Walls and furniture will remain the same for this baby but we'll update bedding and I have a few decor pieces to put up that I bought when I was pregnant with DS that we never used. Colors will be brown and green. 

chickyclg

This is the current nursery.  We need to remove a crib (and a lot of storage junk) and I want to redo the glider in the playroom and put it in there.  We find out in 2 weeks if this is a boy or girl and then I really need to go through baby junk.

hp_momma

No matter what, the baby will use the same crib/dresser/glider as my previous two. But other than that I haven't really planned anything yet until we find out the sex!

If it's a girl I'm more than likely going to use the same mobile/bedding/accessories that I used with DD1 and DD2. It's Potterybarn Kids so it wasn't cheap and it's held up really well. Third kid problem but there's no reason to not use it! It's mostly light pinks and whites. 

If it's a boy, DH is adamant on a sports theme. He thinks more hanging his favorite sports team posters on the wall and I have to remind him this is a nursery and not a teenagers room lol. I can compromise with some vintage sports stuff I guess. 

BUT this baby might not even have a nursery set up until after it's born depending on our house. We put our name on a housing list to move to a different neighborhood (we live on a military post) that has an extra room that can be used as a playroom and a fenced yard. The waitlist is anywhere from 3-12 months so I don't want to set up a nursery here to take it down and move! Baby sleeps in our room for the first 3-4 months anyways. 

nda_roxybabe

I posted this in another thread at some point, but here's our crib. Keeping wall color the grey 

mamatowildones

Wow I have to say I am admiring these sweet girl nurseries. After 2 boys I dreamed of doing a girls room but boys are our destiny haha. I love DS nursery wall that my hubby did. Other than that we keep it very simple. Our crib was chewed up by baby number 1 and is still being used by baby 2. I secretly want a new one for baby 3 but I don't think that will happen   

nda_roxybabe

Forgot I did these too because I'm clearly crazy. That's a vinyl record player on the dresser to play along the lines of the one from Moonrise Kingdom. The crib sheets are the same print as a wallpaper from The Royal Tenenbaums. The reddish orange of the dresser reminds me of The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

kns1988

We're doing a travel/adventure theme because we wanted maps and hot air balloons. DH bought these for the nursery last week - just need to get them hung. I love that he picked out and bought the first item! At the moment, the nursery is shared with the guest room and the colors are yellow and gray. 

Squirtgun

I love looking at everyone's nursery ideas! We've never done a theme for our nursery.  I have just slowly added watercolor sketches to their room as the girls' interests develop! 

ShadeofGreen816

This is so fun! I'm waiting to do any serious planning but the obsession of the week for either sex is a moon/stars theme. I'd like to do 3 grey walls and a navy wall with yellow stars etc. I would just make it a little more masculine for a boy and maybe more sparkly/glam for a girl. Here are my inspiration pics. Now once we find out the sex, I may find a whole new rabbit hole to go down. 


ETA: MH told me last week if it's a boy he wants a sports themed nursery which I would be semi-okay with if it's tasteful and not too in your face. Then he said he wanted to get fatheads of his favorite athletes and I was like uhh. No. We can decorate that way once it's a kiddo. But I reserve veto rights when it's a sweet babe. We only have so long before it has an opinion. 

achays11

DD and this babe will share a room so colors need to remain the same-ish. Her bedding is gray, white, and pink so we will be sticking with gray and white until D-day. Once the baby is here and find out which team we're on then we'll incorporate different elements. If it's a boy I will not be allowed to do anything but sports, which I am totally ok with. If it's a girl we will just keep things pretty much the same. 

Louise_Belcher

Loving all the ideas and themes. This LO will be using the nursery we already have set up and we will be redoing our office for our toddler. So I have been getting excited about toddler room ideas. I do feel a bit bad that DS will have gotten two new rooms and the new baby will get the same room. I do love our nursery though. 

hp_momma

@ShadeofGreen816 what is with guys and the sports theme?! I've had to talk my DH down from the over the top theme as well! 

erinh2005

@mamatowildones I need this lamp! Where is it from?

mamatowildones

@erinh2005 lowes! I think IKEA has some too!

heath313

I have a nautical nursery from DS2...I'll likely just plop the baby girl in that room and have DS2 bunk with DS1.

nda_roxybabe

@ShadeofGreen816 LOVE those ideas!

mdlorenz

We lived in a wee apartment with DD and just shared our bedroom with the bub until she finally tolerated sleeping the first 3 hours each night in her crib. So we decked out a little corner with her changing table and mobile. Our current guest room (now that we have a house) will likely become the babies' room, but I haven't figured out what that will look like. Sharing DD's old crib? Full size mattress on the floor + crib they may or may not sleep in + changing table / dresser with changing pad on top? No idea. Pinterest is such a black hole for me...

Mobile::


Baby niche in our bedroom::

mrsrep123

JCWhitey said:

Our Nursery is the foot of our bed.  It's not too thrilling and we won't redecorate for it.  I don't like having my babies in another room to sleep until they're at least 1.  Once they're older and STTN this kid will share a room with whatever sibling they are the same sex as.

@JCWhitey our son is still in our room and he is 16 months. We were going to transition him into his own room at this point, but being that we'll be moving into a new home soon'ish, we figured we'd wait. So we have his mattress next to ours.

We didn't have a theme when we created his nursery at the house we just sold, just white furniture with gray and navy blue accents. My baby shower theme was a book theme, so we ended up with a ton of books (score!) and after displaying them in white shelves, it brought so much color in. Since he slept in his crib in our room, we would do story/play time in there.

This time around, we will set the crib back up in our room and we'll be one big happy family! Once we move into the new house... we shall see... but most likely baby boy #2 will still be in our room. 

@mdlorenz Pinterest is a big black hole for me as well, lol!

mrsrep123

These were some of my inspiration pics...