Nursery paint color?

illinigal

We have 2 spare bedrooms- one will be the nursery and one will be a guest bedroom.  We are contemplating have the twins continue to share a room once they reach the toddler stage or older if they are the same gender.  However, if we have one boy and one girl, we will separate them in several years.  

I want to paint (at least) one of the rooms now and I was thinking about waiting to paint the other room once we have the anatomy scan.  Currently, both rooms are beige which is boring per my DH.  I'm thinking about painting the guest room light yellow and actually contemplated going ahead and painting the nursery light yellow as well since I think that would work for girls or boys.  However, I read that yellow causes babies to be fussier.  Any one have a yellow nursery?  Any truth to that?  If not, what color is your nursery? and do you have girls/boys/or both?

Thanks so much.

https://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html

https://www.baby-room-decorating-idea.com/baby-room-paint-colors.html

missfire

Yellow can be hard to get the right shade, but I don't think you'll notice much effect in terms of fussiness. I personally would wait and choose a wall color based on your nursery bedding. I painted DS1's room a bluish purple color that I loved, but then had a horrible time finding bedding to match. Beige might be boring, but it's definitely safe. You could always paint one wall a nice bright color. My twins' room is part beige and part orange.

2shihtzus

Our boys room is sort of an ocean blue, I want to say that it was called tropical lagoon or something similar. We did their room in a surfing theme so it went well with that. I agree with the PP that you may want to wait until you pick out bedding though.

nikinikinine

the color is Rainwashed by Sherwin Williams. It is a blue, but can look grey or greenish (like seaglass) depending on the light.

https://nikinikinine.blogspot.com/2010/12/twins-nursery.html

ETA: my twins are b/g (but I think you knew that  )

illinigal

Thanks ladies! Niki- your nursery is gorgeous. I love the paint shade for boys or girls. I was trying to decide if the cribs should be next to each other like you have it or opposite sides of the room. I thought if one woke up, they might wake the other up. Is this a problem?

I think I'll paint the guest room pale yellow and hold off on the nursery until after the gender scan and bedding selection... Now I just gotta decide which room should be which.

MrsLnt

My nursery is a very pale yellow.  The color is "Paper Lantern" by Sherwin-Williams.  I love it.  Gender neutral but not an in-your-face yellow.  

kelfeen

I was in a similar situation...  We painted our guest  a cool greyish color (like the color of an elephant) and the nursery "water sprout" from Behr paint.  It is a nice light green color.  For my DD1 we accented it with that light green, light pink and magenta throughout the room/bedding.  Now that we are having twin boys we are going to just move her into another bedroom or the guest room -(I think the light pink and magenta will look awesome with the grey.)

Then for the boys I am going to use light blue and navy blue to accent it.  It i was going to have B/G twins I was just going to use pinks + blues to accent near each one's crib   

nikinikinine

illinigal:

Niki- your nursery is gorgeous. I love the paint shade for boys or girls. I was trying to decide if the cribs should be next to each other like you have it or opposite sides of the room. I thought if one woke up, they might wake the other up. Is this a problem?

thanks mama.

We've never had a problem with them waking each other until this week when we were doing a little sleep training that involved CIO. Then we moved DD into our room and left DS in the nursery. For naps this lasted one day and for bedtime two nights. 

They cry in the cribs without waking each other, but I didn't want to deal with the consequences of extended crying. I like having the cribs near each other because I can check on both easily and do so without them seeing me

MuseumMaven

We rent the house we currently live in, so we didn't get a choice in paint colors.  But I really like what was already in the room - it's a pale sage green, and we found it really easy to find bedding that would work in that color, gender specific and neutral. 

Mrs.NGM

We still don't know what we're having, but we just went with a paint color we knew we liked.  We had Behr's Restful color matched to SW paint.  It's a light sage green color.