Any one else not able to redo a room to become a nursery

mrsrp2sw · July 2011

So DH and I are renting a 3 bedroom house and currently our 3rd room is out "guest room". This is our 2nd child and his 3rd and with our DD we couldnt make a nursery either b/c we lived in a 2bedroom apartment. Now I am stuck since we cant paint which is fine...since they sell all kinds of new stick on wallpaper etc that will remove with no issue. The room isn't that big but I have contemplated taking the doors off the closet that takes up one wall this will not only make the room bigger but also allow us to use fabric to make one wall "pop" in color or theme. DH says he has a plan to fit the crib, full size bed, and everything else but I am just worried it wont be the babies room. We don't get many guests but when we do I don't want them to feel they are sleeping in a babies room. Then again the guests would be Grammie or Mema (MIL or my mom) so they should care right?

I dunno I am having that issue of feeling really bad that I can't create a whole nursery just for my lil "turtle" aka baby just seeing if any of you are in the same boat. THANKS

jenifairies · July 2011

For us, a baby's room would trump a guest room. Your kids live there 24/7 and guests do not.

That being said, I'm mourning my sewing room. We have a 3 BR house. DD is in one room and the other is my craft room. I love my room, and I really don't want to give it up!! I'm going to wait until much closer to my EDD to get it ready for the LO (we may move to a bigger home by then anyway).

icajesica82 · July 2011

I can understand. I"m probably going to be living at my parents house until the baby is about 10 months and they will be in my room so they don't get a nursery either. I think you shouldn't worry about the guests so much. You said you don't get too many guests anyway so why worry about those few. And I don't think mom and MIL can be too picky if they are staying with you when you are in town. But thats just my 2 cents.

JeremysMegan · July 2011

We're in a similar situation because we are moving DS from his room to the guest room because his room is more isolated from noise and better suited for a nursery. He is three, so I hate the thought of him sleeping in a queen size bed, but we're just going to have to make it work. DH's parents stay with us at least once a month, so we can't just do away with the whole guest room. Also, we are using the nursery furniture for #2 to save money because even though it converts, we don't really want to have two complete baby sets in the end. It is hard, I know... I don't want DS to feel cheated, but it's the best we can do with 3 bedrooms.

karleegirl · July 2011

The new baby will have to share a room with my 4 yr old. It is a dinosaur room. I'm not real big on spending a lot of money on a room that will have to be changed in a few years. But I'm not a big decorator either. I'm more of a clean and comfortable kind of girl. For your room I would go with what works for your baby, the visitors can deal.

pb&fluff · July 2011

We are losing our guest room to have a nursery. We live in a 3 bedroom townhouse and one is of course the master, one is a "mancave" and the other is our guest room. We're choosing to keep the man cave, since our families live in town and we really have no need for a guest room, it was just there because we had the extra furniture.

nickelpickelpink · July 2011

I don't really understand why you have to have a guest room. I would just make it exactly how I wanted it for the baby and the guests can sleep in there if they want or sleep on the couch...but I guess we don't get overnight guests that often.

busterbeagle · July 2011

Would it be in your budget to get a futon or pull-out sofa and ditch the full-size bed? That would help make the room feel more like it belongs to LO and would also be nice for feedings as an alternative to a chair or rocker. If you really only have one guest at a time, you could get away with a small-ish one, too.

I live in a small house and find it's more important to focus on what works for the 350 days a year we don't have guests than the few days here and there when we do.

keyourtnee · July 2011

We also rent a 3 bedroom house and have one child with one extra room. We plan on staying for a few more years and our landlord has no problem with us painting, so we will turn the extra room into the nursery. We dont have a need for a guest room, as most of our family lives nearby.

fritz77 · July 2011

We're about to start a major reno on our house, which will hopefully be completed by this time next year (baby is due in february) so we won't have a nursery at all until this is done. Once the building is finished we'll move either DS or DD into what used to be our laundry but will now be a bedroom and the baby will move into the bedroom closest to ours. In the meantime we'll just have him/her in our room (and probably have to have the change table in the living room and drawers in DS's room)

mrsrp2sw · July 2011

nickelpickelpink:
I don't really understand why you have to have a guest room. I would just make it exactly how I wanted it for the baby and the guests can sleep in there if they want or sleep on the couch...but I guess we don't get overnight guests that often.

We have the guest room b/c we are in Cali and the family is all on the east coast so it is best to have a room for when they visit. My mom has a lot of business out here with work and will be here more and Im not about to make her or my MIL sleep on the couch since they both have major back issues

mrsrp2sw · July 2011

busterbeagle:
Would it be in your budget to get a futon or pull-out sofa and ditch the full-size bed? That would help make the room feel more like it belongs to LO and would also be nice for feedings as an alternative to a chair or rocker. If you really only have one guest at a time, you could get away with a small-ish one, too.
I live in a small house and find it's more important to focus on what works for the 350 days a year we don't have guests than the few days here and there when we do.

I like the idea of a futon...wish they can make one that I can put my full size bed with lol...but the bed is brand new so We might put the mattress in one of the protecting bags and store it under our bed and the boxspring can go in the garage...

mrsrp2sw · July 2011

ChoicesMom:
We have three bedrooms in the upstairs of our house so our guest room will be turning into the baby room. We don't get guests very often and honestly the ones we get that insist on staying with us instead of a hotel I don't particularly enjoy having stay with us. I will be glad to have an excuse to make them stay at a hotel, especially when baby first comes. That being said, for the first couple of months the baby will be sleeping in our room in a bassinette so if we really wanted to save the guest room for a while we could.
If this is your DH's third child then does that mean you would have three kids in one room at certain times? I would definitely get rid of the guest room if this is the case, especially if the kids are different sexes.

I wish we had 3 kids at once but the evil exwife wont let my step son come out here to visit and since DH has been deployed a whole year since we moved here there has been no need to fight it until he returns which we will but by the time the fight is over we will most likely be moving Aug of 2012

Lena122 · July 2011

I gotta say... I think it's kind of ridiculous that you wouldn't just dedicate a whole bedroom to your own child. You even said that you don't have many overnight guests so why is it even an issue? IF your mom or MIL do want to stay the night then can't they sleep on the couch, or a blow up mattress, or something? Your baby is going to be living there 24/7 whereas you'll have guests how often? Now decorating ideas and limitations are another thing but dedicating the whole room to the baby seems like a no brainer to me.

mrsrp2sw · July 2011

OK After talking to my wonderful MIL she had me realize that we will only (well i should say hoepfully) be here for 6months after baby is born and then (again hopefully) we will be buying our first house and DH will be out of the military (or at least in a place where we can purchase our own house in FL). Since MIL will be here for the first month of the baby's birth keeping the bed in there will be fine...since baby will be in our room in the bassenette....but she came up with some great decor ideas and said to make the room more a babies room but keep the bed that way when we move (and we will make sure we have 5bedrooms at that time) we can use it in one of those bunk bed things with the twin on top and full on bottom for my step son/guest room again.

Thanks for the wonderful ideas...I might throw them past DH and see if maybe we take down the bed store the boxspring in the garage and the mattress under our bed...

GeekMom · July 2011

We live in a 2 bdrm apt and the baby will be with us in our bedroom until we buy a house! Baby's coming Jan 31, our lease doesn't end til the end of April, so I can't really redo the 2nd bedroom (aka office) when the baby won't really be in it and we have to repaint before we leave (ick!). So I'll just have to deal and wait until we buy a house!

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