@FlipFlop1025 I was rereading this today and just as a thought, if you want to do a little decorating, you could always try the vinyl wall stickers. I live in an apartment too and my daughter has some up decorating her walls. When we move, they peel right off and are ready for the next wall. They don't remove paint either- DD is now 11 and doesn't know how to leave them alone...she's always moving them around!
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I really like blue and so does dh so we decided to paint the baby room and the guest room navy and then decorate the guest room with pops of pink and my niece is with us for the near future so it works perfect for a girl. When we find out the sex of the baby we will decide if we keep it all navy blue and grey for a boy or if I can use pink for a girl. The bathroom for guests is decorated blue and coral so I wanted to keep the blue theme throughout.
This post gives me anxiety!! You are all already so prepared and have everything thought out and I'm just over here like "wait we have to set up a nursery?"
After having a nursery for both of my girls, and watching it sit and never be used... We aren't doing a nursery for this baby! Haha. He's getting a bassinet and when he's old enough will be sharing a room with the girls! ☺️
We're team green, so staying neutral with gray walls themed with nursery books and an alphabet wall. Using primary colors and then adding pops after baby is born! Picking out our colors today and painting this weekend! This is our first, so all out! This one will also also share a room with the next one, so it needs to stay neutral. Then once they're ready for a big kid room, our second floor addition should be done!
If it's a girl, she will have a hodge podge of themes (sister's room is pink, blue and gray Dumbo themed). They will most likely share. I just want to incorporate more sherbet colors and cover her bumper in hot air balloon fabric. Hopefully we can make it flow a bit more than what it's sounding like.
For a boy, new room/new theme! we like The Incredible Mr Fox/woodland animals. Definitely orange.
@FlipFlop1025 I was rereading this today and just as a thought, if you want to do a little decorating, you could always try the vinyl wall stickers. I live in an apartment too and my daughter has some up decorating her walls. When we move, they peel right off and are ready for the next wall. They don't remove paint either- DD is now 11 and doesn't know how to leave them alone...she's always moving them around!
Great idea! I'll look into those! Thanks!!
We're also going to have to do some mega re-arranging to make space in the tiny apartment. Babies are tiny, but they require lots of equipment!
Husband likes underwater/ocean theme. I like whimsical woodland theme. But yesterday I had the idea of a Coney Island theme. We live in Brooklyn so I thought it might be cute. Any opinions? No matter what we do I'd like to avoid going TOO theme-y. The room is already painted a light aqua blue, and we're sticking with that regardless. And we just found out we're having a girl, but I don't want it to be super girly.
Husband likes underwater/ocean theme. I like whimsical woodland theme. But yesterday I had the idea of a Coney Island theme. We live in Brooklyn so I thought it might be cute. Any opinions? No matter what we do I'd like to avoid going TOO theme-y. The room is already painted a light aqua blue, and we're sticking with that regardless. And we just found out we're having a girl, but I don't want it to be super girly.
Aqua and lavender are gorgeous together. And not too girly.
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@skruhmin I totally have this pinned. We have 2 gallons of a gray-ish light blue (that was supposed to be way more gray so it wasn't used) though so I have a feeling between my propensity to save money and my and DH's lack of agreement on what a nursery would look like it will end up at least half of that color by default. But we already have the chair rail so the rest would be pretty easy...hmmmm
I think if this is a girl, I will probably forego the jungle theme from my boys and go with the aqua/lavender theme. It's such a gorgeous combo and it's NOT pink! Our house is getting painted a light grey already so it would totally work.
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DS3 - 2/21/16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our family of 5 is complete!! Love our boys!
If I were to decorate a nursery I'd do a nature/woodland theme. But as it is, the baby will just get a crib in our room until he/she's old enough to move into big sisters room.
Those are all awesome ideas! We live in a tiny apartment, and will be moving (and buying a house) at the end of the school year. No decorations for us yet
This is me too! I'm envious of everyone's cute ideas. But baby will be in our room for 4 months then we'll buy a house. I imagine I'll be to tired to paint and decorate. I'm looking forward to using my nesting energy towards packing.
DH and I want to do a Mario brothers theme. We're going to paint the walls a sky blue and put up some classic Mario decals on the walls after we get some furniture. We consider it gender neutral because we can get some Princess Peach and Princess Daisy decorations if we have a girl.
Oh gosh some of these themes are soooo cute!!! I love the Aqua & lavender colors! My husband is obsessed with marvel so if we are blessed with a boy we will be doing a baby friendly superhero theme. I'm lurking for baby girl ideas! So far I just like colors; gray and pink.
My 2 year old son has no theme to his bedroom, and no one cares! I am not about to spend hundreds of dollars on a nursery theme, we are very minimalistic and gwt by just fine with the basics. The baby will be sleeping in our room for a while and then will move in with his brother. Keeping it simple and saving lots of money! Not saying that these ideas aren't fun and adorable, I just don't see the point.
Meh like with most things baby, the point is that the parents (in this case myself included) want to decorate, so they do. I am personally really excited to decide on some theme and decorate accordingly. Obviously the baby won't care; it'll purely be for me. If you have the hundreds of dollars (or whatever) to spare, why not? Our whole house is decorated in some fashion though so it would be odd for us just to have a crib in a room with no color scheme or something similar.
We will try and keep our nursery gender neutral though as we'd ideally like to have a second close in age. Obviously only time will tell if that actually happens, but one can dream.
I think we'll do either a nautical theme or an explorer/adventurer theme. The room that will be the nursery currently has a patterned rug and some framed maps on the wall that we can incorporate into either theme and then we'll add some more color (either gender-specific or gender-neutral, haven't decided yet) with some accents. We're renting so we can't paint the walls, but I think white walls work best for either theme.
If we go with the explorer theme, we'll probably get some of those colorful retro travel ads based on states or cities we've visited and arrange a few of them on the wall (kind of like picture below, but black frames/different posters). Then when the room is no longer a nursery we can hang them elsewhere in the house.
I'm with the PP. Vintage Disneyland. Not these all of these colors, but I like the idea of doing a gender neutral nursery. Also I figure I'll be spending a lot of time in there so I might as well make it my happy place. The theme can also grow with the kid for a few years so if we do need to do a shared room it will still work. My "problem" right now is not going overboard on the theme.
I get it, it's just not for our family. We don't have hundreds of extra dollars lying around to throw at frivolous things, and we are totally okay with that. It is fun to see what you all have planned out though, can't wait to see finished nurseries.
We are doing a Cow Jumped Over the Moon theme Just mainly piecing items together. We don't want to go all out just because the nursery will be shared with my H's office.
I get it, it's just not for our family. We don't have hundreds of extra dollars lying around to throw at frivolous things, and we are totally okay with that. It is fun to see what you all have planned out though, can't wait to see finished nurseries.
I did a while nursery theme for under £50 including paint, curtains and artwork... The furniture will be under £100
You can decorate without being "frivolous"
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We are going to try to be team green so the room is going to be painted in a warm gray color. The baby will be in our room at first so after he/she is here, I plan on doing their room. For a boy, an adventurer theme. For a girl, a grown up mermaid theme (displayed through ocean items and subtle mermaids, not cartoonish ones). I don't want to do anything super babyish, mostly because I don't want to have to redo the room when they get a little bit older.
We are team green again...did gray and aqua last time then accented with gender specific colors later when we needed to buy new stuff (like an extra sheet, a new piece of artwork based on her likes, etc). We also stenciled a wall so it was a cheap way to add interest.
This time i am thinking gray and mint, then accent again with girl or boy based on what the baby is. We found by buying things after you save money but still get a girly or boyish room...since they arent using it the first few months anyway you have thr time.
Cant wait to see more pics from everyone, this is always one of my fav threads! I love the themes above....who knows maybe ill switch themes based on your amazing rooms!
No theme for us either. Team Green, and baby will room in with us at first, so no sense in thinking about it. I'll probably pick out two crib sets (sheets, mobile, ruffle, blanket, bumpers) in February-ish. I'll have a girly one, and a boy one. After baby is here, we'll order it and set it aside. When we start to outgrow the bassinet, we'll set up the crib and the sheets.
My big kids have themed rooms. My eldest is just "green". (He's a minimalist.) DD1 is all decked out in zebra stripes. DS2 is all Spider-Man. DD 2 is still a baby, so she just has her purple butterfly-themed crib set. I think we'll keep it for her big-girl bed and find a nice pink or lavender comforter to match it.
Won't have a baby room until next year when the baby is closer to 6 months but I am planning on ELEPHANTS!! We obviously don't know what we are having yet but I went through Targets website to look so ideas lol Elephants for days!
For our first, we did ducky theme. I have story as to why, but we painted the top half of the room bright blue, the bottom half bright orange and used a yellow vinal roll thing to separate the two. It was actually cuter than it . Then we got stick on clouds for the sky, stick on ducks along one wall. We had stuffed duckies and toy ducks placed strategically in the room. A friend made us a gorgeous ducky quilt that really tied it together (we put it across the back of the rocking chair we had). This time, babies will be a couple months old when we move out so no theme till we move into a new (read bigger) place
We're doing a Woodland theme. Painting the walls a very light blue or mint green. Accents of light orange & gray. The colors are all centered around the useless quilt I'll be making Planning to make a couple wall decorations using some log cutouts, sticks...I promise my Pinterest board is much classier than it sounds! I'm looking to spend as little as possible since baby will outgrow it in 2 years or so. I won't be buying a bedding collection for this one, just a few sheets and a crib skirt in the colors I want.
Not doing a nursery theme, since this kiddo will share a room with the other one... just buying sheets to match the existing colors. Second kid, getting cheated early?
Update: Since we now know second kiddo is a boy... he will be getting some steampunk accents with gears, airships, and gentlemanly octopi. This will hopefully coordinate with the 4 yo's rustic glam theme. Still not buying a nursery set, just some wall art. We will buy new bedding and a changing pad cover.
We're going neutral as well. As of now, I want a Forrest/woodland theme. Soft greens, Browns, grey, and either blue or pink accents after our baby is born and we know the gender
We are going with old cars. I ordered this bedding with a few changes. Added a rail cover, plain skirt, and valance with the cars and navy trim. I ordered personalized wall art that goes along with it. All of it from etsy. I can't wait to see it since it is made it takes forever. The bedding is 8-10 weeks and the art 1-2 weeks. Then my very close momma friend for me the matching Tula!
We are renters, so I don't want to go full out and do a huge remodeling, but I want to do a vintage airplane theme. I love this picture I found on Pinterest and will probably do something similar considering there isn't much to purchase of paint
Re: Have you picked a nursery theme yet?!?
@FlipFlop1025 I was rereading this today and just as a thought, if you want to do a little decorating, you could always try the vinyl wall stickers. I live in an apartment too and my daughter has some up decorating her walls. When we move, they peel right off and are ready for the next wall. They don't remove paint either- DD is now 11 and doesn't know how to leave them alone...she's always moving them around!
You guys all have some super cute ideas!!
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This post gives me anxiety!! You are all already so prepared and have everything thought out and I'm just over here like "wait we have to set up a nursery?"
Me: 29 DH: 31
Married 10/13/12
TTC Since 8/2016
For a boy, new room/new theme! we like The Incredible Mr Fox/woodland animals. Definitely orange.
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Our family of 5 is complete!! Love our boys!
Me: 29 DH: 31
Married 10/13/12
TTC Since 8/2016
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Our family of 5 is complete!! Love our boys!
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Our family of 5 is complete!! Love our boys!
My husband is obsessed with marvel so if we are blessed with a boy we will be doing a baby friendly superhero theme. I'm lurking for baby girl ideas! So far I just like colors; gray and pink.
I want light blue and coral...for my owls. Its neutral without being blah.
Meh like with most things baby, the point is that the parents (in this case myself included) want to decorate, so they do. I am personally really excited to decide on some theme and decorate accordingly. Obviously the baby won't care; it'll purely be for me. If you have the hundreds of dollars (or whatever) to spare, why not? Our whole house is decorated in some fashion though so it would be odd for us just to have a crib in a room with no color scheme or something similar.
We will try and keep our nursery gender neutral though as we'd ideally like to have a second close in age. Obviously only time will tell if that actually happens, but one can dream.
Me: 29 DH: 31
Married 10/13/12
TTC Since 8/2016
If we go with the explorer theme, we'll probably get some of those colorful retro travel ads based on states or cities we've visited and arrange a few of them on the wall (kind of like picture below, but black frames/different posters). Then when the room is no longer a nursery we can hang them elsewhere in the house.
You can decorate without being "frivolous"
This time i am thinking gray and mint, then accent again with girl or boy based on what the baby is. We found by buying things after you save money but still get a girly or boyish room...since they arent using it the first few months anyway you have thr time.
Cant wait to see more pics from everyone, this is always one of my fav threads! I love the themes above....who knows maybe ill switch themes based on your amazing rooms!
My big kids have themed rooms. My eldest is just "green". (He's a minimalist.) DD1 is all decked out in zebra stripes. DS2 is all Spider-Man. DD 2 is still a baby, so she just has her purple butterfly-themed crib set. I think we'll keep it for her big-girl bed and find a nice pink or lavender comforter to match it.
This time, babies will be a couple months old when we move out so no theme till we move into a new (read bigger) place