PIP-Tiny Budget DIY Nursery (for a boy, but gender neutral)

funkymonkeyohyeahhh · April 2012

(All iPhone photos, sorry!)

Our crib (Ikea Gulliver) and mattress were a gift from my parents, and the glider was something we scored for free and recovered. We already had the book shelf. Aside from the dresser and side table we bought (Ikea Malm dresser and Ikea Hemnes side table), everything was done for less than $250.

View from the door:

Other wall from the door:

Name letters above crib:

We chose fonts on the computer, printed them out and blew them up, then cut it from ply wood and spray painted.

Dresser/changing table:

Most of the art work is free printables from the internet. The "Keep Calm and Love Bulldogs" print is the only thing we purchased (from Etsy). My husband painted a bulldog, and we stamped our bulldog's prints on some canvas with paint. (I plan to frame these two canvases but didn't get around to it yet.) The clothespin is from Pottery Barn Outlet and we just spray painted it. The changing pad is the BabySmart Cooshee in lime.

Bookshelf (small wall next to door, opposite window):

The two framed prints on top are from my husband's nursery when he was a baby. A lot of the decor type stuff on the shelf is from us as children, as are the books and most of the blankets. We live in a tiny place so the closet in the room is used as storage and not for LO, so we have a lot of stuff crammed in the canvas bins on the bottom shelf (and in the dresser).

We have Chinese paper lanterns in green, blue and gray that we started to hang above the crib but we are moving in 6 weeks so we decided to box them up rather than use them for such a short period of time and chance messing them up before the move.