Where will your baby's nursery be with respect to your bedroom?

UMichGirl

We have four bedrooms...and they're kind of grouped "two and two".  We have a bridge that goes across our upstairs that overlooks the great room, so there are two rooms right when you come up the stairs (with a bathroom there too) and then you turn and walk across the bridge to get to our bedroom and the fourth bedroom.

We *think* we want the nursery to be one of the rooms that's next to the bathroom when you first come up the stairs.  It's the biggest of the extra bedrooms, it has a very cool bay window in it, and I always pictured it a nursery.  But now we're second guessing, wondering if it'd be better to have it in the bedroom that's next to ours and obviously closer.  

So I'm just curious...where is your baby's nursery with respect to your bedroom?  Or...if you had more than one room as a choice, how did you pick the room that would be the nursery?

justlld

We have three bedrooms, with the master closest to the stairs, and the other two down the hall, so we don't really have options.  The babies will be in the bedroom that is right at the end of the hall, so it is the closest (but only by about two feet.)  Depending on genders and how long we stay in the house, they might end up in the separate bedrooms before we move. 

bumpuser6119831

We have two extra room but we also live in a ranch. The baby will be in the room closest to the living room, furthest away from our bedroom (which really is not that far). I picked that one out before we even moved in to be the nursery but it turns out it is the brightest/temperature control room that we have (never to hot/cold).

jennykg1477

We live in a ranch and our master bedroom is in the back of the house and the other two bedrooms are in the front.  This is a huge complaint of mine about the house and when we move (hopefully in a couple of years) I will be looking closely at how the rooms are grouped.  We put our first DD in the smaller of the two bedrooms because it was the closest to ours, even though that is still not much closer to ours than the other room.  When this baby is born, DD will be moving to the other bedroom (it is bigger and she wants to move) and the new baby will be taking over her room. 

By the way, I went to U of M too!

DrRx

We have 3 bedrooms, but we have a split plan (which I love).  I like that the nursery is on the other side of the house so that when we eventually go back to work (we will work on opposite days), at least one of us will be able to sleep.

ELF4321

In our case, we only have three bedrooms all grouped together, so it was really just a question of -- the big room or the little room?  We opted for the bigger room so there would be play space on the floor too, plus it tends to be the warmest room in the house in winter (old house with no insulation).  Decided that the few guests we have stay with us over the course of a year can make do with the little room -- it didn't make sense to save the nicer space for those rare occasions. 

I think in your situation I would want the baby on the same side of the bridge you are -- not so much for right now, but once the baby is up and walking, if you end up with one of those escape artist kids that climbs out of their cribs and wanders out of their room in the middle of the night, I'd want the baby's room closer so I had more of a chance to hear it before it decides to try to climb through the railing on the bridge or venture down the stairs.  But, I'm paranoid like that (and have nieces/nephews that have pulled off escaping their rooms in spite of their parents' best efforts). 

 

mdiblasi10

We are in a small home, one-story, and we have three bedrooms. The nursery will be the bedroom across from ours. Our office is in the other room and it just made sense to use the empty (dog) room for the nursery.

Mr. & Mrs. Woodtick

We have a 4-bedroom house and since the master is on the first floor, the nursery will be on the second floor.

byrne15

Our rooms are grouped 2 and 2 as well....

Our room and ds's room are the 2 on the left with a guest bedroom and an empty bedroom on the right. 

I haven't decided if I will put the baby in the empty room (which is furthest from us), or if I will move baby into ds's room and put him in the further one.  My guess is I will move ds to the other room since it is larger and further away.

We certainly never had trouble hearing ds cry at night.  We actually ended up turning off the monitor when he was 11 months old because I felt like I could hear him perfect fine through the wall.  It was nice just having to go right next door to get ds rather than down the hall.

mswood1977

We have a split bedroom floor plan, with our room and the other 2 rooms on opposite ends of the house. Both of rooms we had to chose from are exactly the same size.  We chose the back room for the baby, DH didn't like the idea of the nursery having a window at the front of the house overlooking the driveway. 

halo_tx

We have 3 bedrooms, and they're all pretty much right next to each other. The bigger of the two spare rooms is the nursery, it happens it be right next to our room instead of across the hall.

Reilly626

We have a 4 bedroom home. The master where we sleep is downstairs. The other 3 are Upstairs. They will go upstairs. I plan on buying the video monitor. In the beginning I will sleep in the guest room upstairs I bet.

tarajayne

We had 2 choices but opted for the closer room to us even though it is smaller.  I'm not sure why, it just seemed more logical, plus we don't plan on being in this house more than 2 more years.  If for some horrible reason we end up staying, the boys can each have their own room later on.  Plus the other room we have always kept closed off and not heated in the winter, so we just figured it would make sense to continue to do that.  Also there is wallpaper in there... bigger pain to remodel!

CluckyEV

We picked the smallest extra room.  The other room is a guest bedroom.  All of our rooms are off the same short hallway, it is at the other end.

 Friends of mine have a similar set up to yours, but the master is on it's own at one end of the bridged hallway.  The ended up getting a Summer Infant Video Monitor to watch him when he was napping and at night.  He was not moved out of their room until he was a few months old, he slept in the PNP at the foot of their bed.  

koyn

These all sound like a dream as I live in a one bedroom apartment.....So we will be sharing a room....cozilly....One plus.....not far to travel....

amandaleigh1

koyn:

These all sound like a dream as I live in a one bedroom apartment.....So we will be sharing a room....cozilly....One plus.....not far to travel....

I feel you on apartment living! It is hard to imagine getting to choose between extra rooms . I have only slightly more opulent digs as I live in a tiny 2 bedroom apartment. We are now in the process of figuring out where all the stuff in the second bedroom is going to be stored to make room for a baby. In any case noone will ever be more than several steps away from each other.

leolyns

We're in a 3 bedroom house and baby's room will be in the room across from ours, it's the second biggest room so there will be plenty of room for the baby's furniture and toys (aside from our room) and it has a huge closet. I feel bad that my husband has to move the L-shaped desk from there into the smaller room but we'll manage.

DeputiesWife

we have 3 bedrooms -- they're all next to each other in the small upstairs hall -- the nursery will be across from ours and DD will move into the bigger room next to ours. 

kthappy76

Our house has five bedrooms, including our loft office, which is upstairs next to our master BR. Downstairs on the first floor, we have two "kids" rooms and another ensuite master, which is the guest room, though I lived there while on bed rest and we slept there the first month. Now that my MIL is here, we're back upstairs, but we have a queen bed in the 2nd kid room, as they are sharing for now, so we can crash there too. I don't think having the nursery across your 2nd floor would be a big deal.

Toni79

We also have 4 bedrooms.  All are on the seocnd level.  The master is to the left of the stairs and the other 3 are to the right of the stairs (with a hall bathroom just at the top of the stairs).

I've always joked that I wanted the nursery to be one of the two rooms at the end of the hall (they are across from each other), furtest from the master, so that if DH was on feeding duty I could still sleep.  We've been in the house for about 6 years and have a ton of office furniture in the room closest to ours.  Now that I am finally pregnant, DH said he'd move the office furniture if I wanted.  But I still do like the idea of the nursery NOT being right next to me!  LOL!  Plus the office is the smallest room in the house.

Of the two rooms at the end of the hallway, they are about the same size.  One is a little bigger with a bigger closet.  They have both stayed pretty empty, so not much to move around.  I decided to put the nursery in the smaller of these two rooms.  We plan to do a gender neutral nursery, and hope hope hope to have a second within 2-3 years of this one.  So when/if that happens, we'll move this "baby" into the bigger room and decorate it as a "big girl/boy" room, and give the second baby the nursery.

Like previous posters mentioned, my only concern would be the bridge itself.  I wouldn't be too concerned about the baby being down the hall.  But depending on the type of railing on the bridge I'd be converned the if as they get older and "get out" that they might stick legs and such through the railing of the bridge.  But you can always put up those bumper things on the rails, if that became an issue.