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when did you start painting your nursery?

I've been reading up on a lot of different things and I read somewhere the sooner you paint the better. That way, when the baby comes home, the chance on inhaling any fumes will be pretty much gone.?

When did you start choosing paint colors and start painting??

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Re: when did you start painting your nursery?

  • We are painting ours in the next two weeks.

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  • Olympic makes a low fume paint.  We painted this past weekend, and I didnt have any problems with fumes.  In fact, the day after we were done painting, the room didn't smell like we had painted at all!
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    Olympic makes a low fume paint.  We painted this past weekend, and I didnt have any problems with fumes.  In fact, the day after we were done painting, the room didn't smell like we had painted at all!

    I asked about painting yesterday on 1st Tri.  Is it safe for pregnant women to paint?  tanya8 - sounds like you did with no problems.  We have several rooms in our apartment that need to be painted and I was thinking what better time than now.  I did get one rec to buy low or no VOC paint - whatever that means?

  • My husband is going to start this weekend with the ceiling paint and primer.
  • We painted ours last week. If you make sure to have lots of ventilation, windows open, fans running, then the fumes aren't bad. We did use a low VOC paint but there were really no problems and I am doing a few more small painting jobs around the house this week as well.
  • I think that we started around 20 weeks.
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  • I was about 7 weeks when we painted.  But the only reason we did it that early was because we had a painter coming to do the livingroom, so we just had him do the nursery while he was there.

  • I picked the colors after I picked the bedding.  Will be going to buy the supplies and paint today and hopefully have it painted by next weekend.
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  • we will probably paint in about a month, we are trying to get the rest of the house remolded first.
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  • I started painting ours as soon as I figured out what color I wanted to paint the walls & got all the supplies together.  I think it was around the end of my first trimester.
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  • I just finished (see my post below).  YOu only really need a couple of weeks to air out to get rid of the fumes, and using a low VOC paint you may need less. 
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  • We have the colors picked out, and are just waiting for our contractor to finish the woodwork in the room. We will probably be painting in the next week or two.
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  • I painted the room before I was pregnant a couple months before TTC! I went for a creamy pistachio color that could be accented with colors for a boy or girl. When we found out that we were having a boy I lucked out since it goes perfect with the Migi Splash bedding I wanted. Hubby helped me add a blue and white stripe around the room when I was 20 weeks. We painted with all the windows open, fans on and the second I started to smell any fumes I left the room. For some reason the light blue paint smelled stronger than the white so hubby did the blue all on his own. We let the room air out for the rest of the day and it was fine.
  • We painted ours about 3-4 weeks ago.  We used Zero VOC paint though (volatile organic compound)...that basically means that it does not "off gas" or give off noxious fumes/chemicals.  Regular paint not only smells while wet, but it also will "off gas" chemicals after it is dry into the air that can harm the environment.  Zero VOC (and even low VOC) paint either eliminates (or lowers in the case of low VOC) those compounds so it doesn't smell bad and it also doesn't harm the environment.  I work in the design/construction field and we are finding that people and owners are leaning in that direction more often now.  The Zero VOC paint we bought (a Ben Moore product) was only $4 more a gallon than the regular standard latex so we thought it was worth it.

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    DH is painting in 2 weeks. I'll be 27 weeks. 
  • We will be painting in the next three weeks and will use either a Benjamin Moore or Sherwin Williams No VOC paint. If we were using anything else, DH would be doing all the painting.
  • DH painted ours at 26 weeks.
  • Olympic is only about $20 at Lowe's. It has no VOCs and goes on great! I know that Behr has Freshaire but it was like $40 a gallon and only came in 20 colors.Sad

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  • We're going with a neutral paint, before TTC. We hope to have the room painted by this time next year.
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  • My husband did all the painting around 30 weeks. No paint smell left.
  • We painted in 2007 in gender nutral colors so we would be ready when ever a baby finally came.
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  • We just painted this weekend. We have left the fan on in the room and window open. It is not very fume-y in there anymore. I'm sure it will be cleared out by the time the baby is here.
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