Im 25 weeks now and starting to feel very disorganised! I have purchased a change table (which is on the porch still waiting for me to sand it back and re strain it!), and when my hubby and I go on holiday next week, to spend a few weeks with the family, we will pick up a lot of hand me downs from my sister and purchase most of our big ticket items that we still need. My family live near the city, whereas if we wanted to buy anything for baby -high chair, baby seat etc- we would need to travel 600kms to the nearest city. Im starting to think of my nursery colour scheme (if I am even that organised!) and how I want to decorate it. Im thinking Id love to incorporate some Christian/scripture somewhere (artwork, or maybe something noahs ark like a music box?) and also tossing up something country, being from a farming background. Would love a cattle hide on the floor, but that sounds way to impractical and expensive! I would like something though to cover up most of the old, crusty orange carpet in the babies room (dont own the house we're living in!). I was wondering for those of you who have finished, or even done some of your nursery, would like to share some ohotos of it for a bit of inspiration? I would love to see some real nurserys, rather than the expensive, impractical ones in magazines!
22 weeks. We haven't done much but paint and lay out where our furniture will go. But we did a fun accent wall where the changing table is going. We are doing a Peter Rabbit theme. We don't know the gender of the baby.
@ByeByeSpotts I have been planning to do a Peter Rabbit theme for years. Unfortunately I do not have a room for my baby so I can't set it up. I painted this for my son 2 years ago. Excited to set up a room for him one day.
A Noah's Ark item would be cute for a Christian aspect too, I know you can get wooden toys and things in this theme.
We don't have a room for baby so until we move we just moved furniture around to make space so he would have his own nursery corner. We picked the Jungle theme before we knew it was a boy. There are a couple things on the registry we'll add if we get them (rug, mobile) and I'm sewing a cross-stitch announcement in a Jungle theme we'll put up but otherwise it's going to stay pretty simple. Just need to buy a dresser, and put the changing mat on top.
For all the ladies talking about the Peter Rabbit theme, I thought it was so funny because, although I'm not doing that theme, my grandma did order me this adorable Peter Rabbit bassinet!
-sighs dreamily- I wish I could get started!! I've picked a nautical theme for my boy with anchors, whales, and sailboats. I can't wait to see it all set up!! The baby room however is still full of SO's crap, closet still has his clothes.. I tried lighting a fire under his rear end to get him started cleaning it... That didn't work. There's like three months until baby day.. And I haven't bought a single baby room item
Wow some of you ladies are so organised. I'm 22+5 so that's almost exactly 4 months before our little one is due. But I have bought a wardrobe for little one to share with 2 of his older siblings, a cot bed and mattress and loads of cute clothes, Muslins etc but that's about as far as I've got - although I did allow myself to buy some big ticket items this month so feeling slightly less stressed by it all (cot bed, double seat to convert our single pushchair to a double & crib bedding) we are also going nautical theme with our little ones for bed area - boats and mainly whales - too cute! I've ordered all the bedding just waiting for it to arrive. Hubby set up cot bed yesterday too but only because I demanded it & he was feeling kind not because it needs to be up lol. So much fun
I did get this cute lamp on Etsy. I think my mom is planning a shower for me (she's keeping it a secret and I hate secrets). So Im anxious to buy my furniture before it sells out or we run out of time. I'm giving my mom a deadline of thanksgiving to tell me if she is buying furniture because I want to have the room set up before Christmas. I feel like waiting for furniture to be delivered in January is cutting it close. Thoughts?
I'm still missing all the furniture, but here's what we have so far... the two walls you can't see are also white, so the colour isn't quite as overwhelming when you walk in as what you see in the pics (the door is beside the sea horses).
We do not have a set theme, more just sticking with our color pallet. It'll be navy, aqua, grey, and lime green. Here are a few decor peices that are going to hang above his changing table. The picture of the screw is of one of the knobs we got for his top dresser drawer.
@ByeByeSpotts furniture can take a really long time to come in...we ordered a dresser at the beginning of August and they told us it would be 10-16 weeks before it arrives. Personally I would not wait until thanksgiving to find out.
I'm so not creative. You go mamas who have the time and energy to design a nursery. With DD I made her bedding set then I put this vinyl sticker up. Lo #2 is a surprise I'm thinking woodland animals for the bedding, dinosaurs would be cool too. DD will be using the crib for another six months to a year after LO is born so LO with be sleeping the pack in play for a while.
Ooh I love seeing everyone's nurseries so far!! All we've done is move out some of my office furniture and put in a crib, but we liked the colors we already had so we're going to keep it. I'm still working on de-cluttering and I'm waiting til my baby shower to get most of the other stuff for the room.
@Vamason89 - lol your cat! I bet my kitties are going to want to lay on the changing table and crib.
@MssyMmmy - what a beautiful painting! You are so talented!
It's so funny because we just finished our nursery today! And I haven't been on here in weeks and just saw this thread...it's perfect bc I feel like sharing today we just haven't bought the mattress yet...
It's a work in progress... I don't have an updated picture but I did finish the painting last night and the carpet goes in next Friday!!! Then I can start on furniture!
@Vamason89 Where did you get the alphabet? Did you make it or buy it? It's super cute!!!
@l4rk are those decals or did you paint all that? It looks awesome!
@missperky I would have never thought to put the crib on an angle in a corner! Looks cool like that!
Everyone's looks great so far! DH just painted the walls and trim and has to paint the ceiling this weekend, then we'll start to put up the crib. We kept the wall color the same, but it needed touch ups, so we just did one coat. It's a cream color. We are doing a fish and sea creature theme. I'll post pics once we get further along!
We haven't started setting up the nursery yet, but I have so many ideas in my head! We are for sure painting the walls a medium gray color. We are having a girl and I really want to do coral as our other main color. However, I'm having a lot of trouble finding much in coral for nurseries. I've seen TONS of stuff in pink and gray, but hardly anything in coral. Anyone have thoughts on good places to look?
We haven't started setting up the nursery yet, but I have so many ideas in my head! We are for sure painting the walls a medium gray color. We are having a girl and I really want to do coral as our other main color. However, I'm having a lot of trouble finding much in coral for nurseries. I've seen TONS of stuff in pink and gray, but hardly anything in coral. Anyone have thoughts on good places to look?
Hobby lobby has tons of adorable stuff in coral for a nursery!!! I'm having a boy, but if it was a girl, coral would be my color too! Good luck!!
Oh you ladies are so lucky to have a whole room for baby. Our little one will have to share with brother and sister but will have his own tiny area in the room - here's what I've done so far.
So far all i've done is paint my son's old furniture white it used to be espresso and change the knobs. I ordered a few things so I will start decorating this week.
Here is what we have done so far...we are team green! Still waiting on the dresser to be delivered and need to put up the mobile and pictures once I get them framed.
Re: Anyone want to share nursery photos?
I've picked a nautical theme for my boy with anchors, whales, and sailboats. I can't wait to see it all set up!!
The baby room however is still full of SO's crap, closet still has his clothes.. I tried lighting a fire under his rear end to get him started cleaning it... That didn't work.
There's like three months until baby day.. And I haven't bought a single baby room item
@l4rk are those decals or did you paint all that? It looks awesome!
@missperky I would have never thought to put the crib on an angle in a corner! Looks cool like that!
Everyone's looks great so far! DH just painted the walls and trim and has to paint the ceiling this weekend, then we'll start to put up the crib. We kept the wall color the same, but it needed touch ups, so we just did one coat. It's a cream color. We are doing a fish and sea creature theme. I'll post pics once we get further along!