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Anyone with a Nursery/Guest Room combo?
Steph1673
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I live in a 2 BR/2.5 Bath Chicago loft and right now our 2nd BR is a guest room with attached bath. Of course we will be morphing this into a nursery in the near future, but I just am not sure I can let go of the "guest bed & bath" being that both of our families live out of town and I'm sure will be visiting during the first few months after birth.
Has anyone else (who is tight on sleeping quarters) managed to pull off a combo nursery/guest room? I'm thinking of adding a west elm day bed to the room, especially if the baby will sleep in our room for those first couple months.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Re: Anyone with a Nursery/Guest Room combo?
We sort of did. We had DH in a bassinet. For his 1st 6 weeks, he spent 99% of his time in the bassinet in the guest room. When we had guests, we pulled him into our room. We didn't have enough space for both his crib and a bed, so we made due while we had a lot of guests. If I were to keep the bed and the crib in there, I'd probably have a pack and play to let him sleep in my room while we had guests.
HTH!
We did a Nursery/Office combo. Baby seriously doesn't need much right away so we got a small crib (with great ratings- IKEA Gulliver- which we love) and a small dresser that we use as a changing table. There's also 2 desks, 2 chairs, 2 computers in the same room and so far it's worked out well for us because she's only in there to sleep.
When we move into our bigger place, I plan on turning her room into a nursery/guest room and instead of the desks and computers, we'll put either a day bed or futon in there- and should we have guests they'll sleep there and we'll have the baby sleep in our room in a Peapod we have for when we go out of town. And if no guests ever stay with us (fine by me), the bed won't go to waste because it's the only other form of seating in her room.
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I have a day bed in the nursery, we have the fisher-price newborn rocker/sleeper for when baby comes home.
I think this combo will work out well, my son has a queen size bed in his room so if we need more sleeping space my son can always crash on the daybed while our guests invade his room.
Thanks for all of the suggestions. It does seem like a combo room is do-able and we are leaning towards the smaller IKEA Gulliver crib, so we might be able to keep a day bed in the nursery, too.
I was looking at the fisher-price newborn rocker/sleeper too, or maybe the Just One Year Wood Bassinet to have in the room for the first month or two.
The left side of the room is crib/dresser (different way round in each photo because DS started refusing to sleep if he could see out the door so we had to wedge the crib in the corner!) and the other side is futon/rocker/bookshelf. It's a bit tight but it works. (Not the best photos either but you get the idea.)
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