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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
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Will you redecorate LO's room into a toddler room?
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I have been thinking about this and I can't really think of anything I want to do differently. I mean, obviously, we'll eventually move out the crib and move in a toddler bed or twin or something. But other than that, I can't see re-doing her whole room. Not until she's old enough to tell me what she likes anyway.
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Re: Will you redecorate LO's room into a toddler room?
I posted in the thread below, but I don't think its necessarily about redecorating as it is about making it more toddler friendly (and toddler proof!!) lol
Here's a related UO - I can't stand when those surprise redecoration shows go all out on kid's rooms building all kinds of crazy furniture and decor in the room to suit the kid's current obsession. While building gigantic trees to recreate the 100 Acre Wood is neat, they won't be a baby forever. Have fun cleaning that crap up when they are 3 and want it to be princesses or cars.
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We've talked about turning the guest room into a toddler room when we get KU and leaving his current room as a nursery. If LO#2 is a girl then we'll have to get new decor.
My dilemma is that his crib is a convertible crib but I think the toddler beds are so adorable. Idk if I want to let him keep his bed or pass it down to the next kid and get him a toddler bed when he's ready
LOL. I totally agree! Or when they do it for a 10 year old that will be humiliated by his totally awesome firetruck bed in about 2 years.
I can totally see if you originally decorated the nursery to be gender neutral because you're team green. We were team "couldn't find out fast enough". lol
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No. But mainly because we didn't decorate his room "babyish" to begin with.
Ditto! His room is already toddler friendly. We will only have to move out the crib and put a single bed in its place. Transitioning from infant to toddler shouldn't be so cost consuming. I made that mistake with my older child when his room theme went from cutsie teddy bears to cars. Thankfully, my mother helped out with the decorations as birthday/Christmas gifts for him and someone was getting rid of a single bed so we got that free. When my toddler gets even older, then we may have to change out the wall clings, but that's about it.
LOVE. And your siggy is absolutely adorable.
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Charlie DX Specific Antibody Deficiency & ASD
Oh no. I spent too much time painting and prepping her room. It's going to stay like it is for a loooong time.
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We kept the nursery exactly the same and then gave DS a new "toddler room" before DD came along. He has a huge rocket mural on one wall that my sister painted. It's pretty awesome.
Our nursery was never baby-ish, some all I really need to do is remove the changing pad and crib and add a twin bed, bed rails and a little table and chair for him to color and play on.
And i couldn't agree more with PP about the hyper themed rooms they feature in Exteme Makeover. They seriously make cringe because they are soooo ugly, not to mention not practical at all for a family in financial hardship, or anybody, really.
I'm not repainting or anything, but I'm making some changes. I replaced a changing table with a dresser, for example, and I'm adding a couple more colors in to her color scheme (it was white, pink, and green; it will now also include aqua and yellow).
Her room will look totally different mainly because there will be a bright pink bed where once there was a white crib. The whole room in general will be more "fun kid" and less "peaceful baby."
And for the sake of oversharing, this is the olioboard of my kid's room. That's pretty much how it is now, some details, like different artwork, hamper and out not using the canopy/mosquito net anymore. Also, we went for a different lamp and toy bin and that rug ended up being too expensive.
The rest is the same, with blue walls.
That is really adorable!
we purposely didn't make the nursery babyish so that once the kids personalities developed we could decorate their big kid rooms.
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No. Her crib will be removed eventually and the changing table converts to a bookcase. We'll also take out the rocking chair once she's in a bed as we just use it to read to her before she goes to sleep and we can do that in a bed later on.
If in the future she expresses an interest in having the tree/monkey decal removed, I'll do that, but not until she asks.
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Redecorate-No, Repaint-Yes
When we painted her room, we had just bought the house and didnt know how the light would come in so we painted it a very pretty blue. It is nice, but in the winter it stays really dim in there, so we are going to repaint to a nice light yellow with a blue ceiling.
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Do you live in my house? B's room is smaller and mint green. Our larger guest room is robin's egg blue. If we ever have another we'll move B into the guest room and I hope she loves the color because it's my favorite room in the house!
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I'm not a fan of cartoon characters or bunnies/teddies/duckies as nursery decor so my kids nurseries were some-what sophisticated looking for babies, which worked out well because I didn't have to redecorate them when they became toddlers.
We are planning to move in about another 2 or 3 years, so I will redecorate their rooms then. DS will be about 7 or 8 and DD will be about 4 or 5.
Uh, what?
This is our plan exactly. I am definitely looking forward to decorating LO's big boy room. I also do not plan to redecorate for the theoretical second baby.
Yes, sort of. I never really got around to decorating the nursery, so I am slowly working on transitioning to a more toddler friendly room. We also never got bedding beyond crib sheets, so when she shows can she sleep in one spot all night without rolling in 900 directions I'll buy toddler bedding as well.
yes, but that is because we moved him right into the nursery of the little girl who used to live in this house. It's very babyish and kind of girly, IMO. LOL. But I'm not doing anything crazy, I will do new curtains, versatile paint, and a big boy bed.
The other room is yellow, and I will likely leave it as is with the same intentions when #2 comes along.
The nursery is staying a nursery, because it is smaller than our 3rd bedroom and the furniture works better that way.
DS has moved into the 3rd bedroom, into the queen size bed that was already in it. Neither room is painted a special color (our whole house was newly & professionally painted beige when we moved in & I don't have a strong enough desire to change any room in particular yet). I moved his orange curtains into his new room & the pictures of basketballs that were over the crib for him. That's the only "theme" he really had. No bedding set - he just had plain crib sheets before & has plain gray jersey knit sheets now.
We're having a girl now, so I got pink curtains and put green & ivory accents on the bookshelf in the nursery and her initials over the crib.
I'm very frugal, so I'm all about multi-purpose & long-lasting decorations, only enough to give the room a little character & keep the walls from being bare, etc.