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2nd Trimester
When to start on the nursery...
When are you planning on starting on the nursery? If you have already, how far along were you?
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Re: When to start on the nursery...
We painted it this week, at 18 weeks because DH was on vacation & otherwise who knows when it will get done!
I have also bought a few decor things, I hope to do as much of it as possible during 2nd tri as I hear 3rd tri is exhausting.
Any day now
I started 2 weeks ago, when the glider came in... though I haven't done much more (the room is empty, curtains are on) because I am waiting on the furniture that won't be delivered in another 3-4 weeks.
Oh yeah, we won't paint because we are renting... so I guess I have less work to do.?
We are planning on starting ours sometime in May when the weather is nicer. The nursery is currently my storage room, so we need to clean out the garage so I can move my crap out there. (It's mostly holiday decorations and stuff like that).
By the way, love your pic! Your bump is so cute....can't wait to get one of my own.
We've been doing things here and there for a couple of weeks. We've had our crib for over a month since my mom bought it when it was a really low price and we've had our dresser/changer for a little less than that (thanks to the hutch portion being on back order, even though we should have it this week which is a month earlier than we were told!). DH has also put up chair rail but that was a stress reliever for him when he was grieving over his grandmothers death....
Anyways, now that we know what the baby is, we'll be working more so on it. We ordered the bedding and we'll probably paint in the next 2-3 weeks. We're trying to get everything done before May since our schedules are going to be packed with family events and obligations.
Matthew Kevin
7/31/83-7/20/11
Met 1/8/00
Engaged 4/21/06
Married 9/29/07
Two beautiful legacies: Noah Matthew (2 yrs) and Chloe Marcella (8 mos)
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We close on our house April 30 and will spend the following 2-3 weeks painting, cleaning, etc. Once the nursery is painted, and we move in (May 23ish) we will start really getting into decorating the nursery. (While we decorate the rest of the house too!)
I have already picked out the paint color, the furniture, the bedding and all the decor. It's all on a PB Kids registry which I am using just as a personal shopping list for myself. Once we move in - I just have to buy, buy, buy!
I can't wait!
There really isn't a whole lot to do in our nursery. We are renting so we are not painting.
I have a dresser and a matching rocking chair (that I already had) in there. I also have some teddy bears & books, and decorative storage baskets that I made.
Now we're just need the crib in there and for me to make some curtains and bedding.
pretty much as soon as we found out the sex of the baby....we started 17th week....the painting is almost complete, then we assemble the crib....woohoo..
luckily the room is already painted the color I wanted and we've started to collect decor.
We are doing something rather unconventional and buying *ourselves* new furniture and giving the baby our hand-me-downs, so as soon as the new stuff comes, we'll switch things out and get started.
I'm not overly stressed about it because the baby will be in our room for at least the first three months (our room is on a different floor of the house from the nursery).
We kind of have a lot to do -- DH is going to repaint the walls, and also add a chair rail and paneling underneath the chair rail. And right now he's thinking he wants to build the paneling himself (he's into woodworking). He's just now getting started on this project. It'll probably take a month at least. Then we'll need to paint, etc. But we won't have any of the bedding and stuff until after my shower in June, so I'm assuming we'll wait for most of the nursery setting up until the month or so before my due date.
We need to probably go ahead and order the crib and the glider. But the crib is only going to take 2 weeks to come in, and I really don't want it just sitting around the house until we have somewhere to put it!
we started looking at furniture and bought our bedding around 18/19 weeks. due to some scheduling conflicts, we just had the nursery painted yesterday. we already have the furniture and stuff which we'll put together this week, and then start decorating. my plan is to have it done by the end of april. we're having a light/ceiling fan installed too.
do whatever works for you guys- there's no right/wrong time to start.
we'll be ordering our furniture soon since it will take 12-14 weeks to come in
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i don't see a problem with starting early.?
DH was laid off earlier this month so he was able to paint and assemble all the furniture right after we had our big u/s. (Early March)
I just order some wall decal items yesterday, and we are starting to get everything around and "in it's place". We do have a TON of work to do in the closet of that room though, it runs under our staircase and needs a good cleaning and some drywall. DH will do that....eventually!
Our nursery is painted, which we did when we moved in. We have all the furniture and most is still in boxes because DH needs to clean his crap out of our nursery before we can set up anything. We also have to evict the dog crate to the living room.
In all honesty, we should have really started by now.