Team Green Nursery Ideas - Please Help!

MrsYoung9311 · November 2015

Hey Guys,

I've never done any introductions or anything on the boards, so real quick. I'm Erikka, 36, in Maryland, married for 4 years, LO is my baby #1, but my 15YO son from my husband's previous relationship lives with us and he's mine no matter what his mom says.

Okay I'm having a tiny freak out - dang pregnancy hormones - about the nursery. I'm team green like 99%, except when I think about the nursery. I don't want anything that's too girlie if we have a son, or too masculine if we have a daughter.

I'm kind of obsessed with grey walls, but that's all I've got.

Please help?

Thank you. *tiny curtsey*

Bluejay3030 · November 2015

Hi there, and welcome! I went with a safari themed nursery with my DD. Tan walls, one giant giraffe, a tan/brown subtle giraffe print rug, some animal pictures on the wall. It sounds kind of bland as I describe it, but it actually came out really nice, soothing, and not overdone. I used pink accents in the curtains and crib to add some color.

I love grey colored walls! It's so calming. You could do a nautical theme with that? And just wait to put colored accents in until after baby is born.

AEG84 · November 2015

*lurking from April*

We know we are having a girl, but she will be sharing a room with my youngest stepson for the foreseeable future. His room has plain tan walls and I painted the furniture mostly white with blue-to-green ombre on the dresser drawers and on the bunk bed headboard slats, as well as hardware on the armoire (no closet in the room, ugh). I've got some elephant prints to frame and hang over the crib, and above the dresser I'm painting wooden cutout ABCs and hanging up a slightly girlier mirror.

I've seen a lot of people do nautical themes (anchors, whales, etc) or jungle themes like PP mentioned.

Pinterest is great if you haven't already checked it out - just search gender neutral nursery ideas!

khochanadel · November 2015

We know what we're having but are doing a gender neutral nursery anyway. Mint green and poppy red colors with a robot theme. Because you know what, I have female genitals and I can still like robots!

cortney626 · November 2015

I don't do themes per se but color schemes. What about just doing grey and white then after baby is here add a touch of color depending on the sex. I'm having a girl so I'm doing grey, white, mint and peach. If we were having a boy, we would have done grey, white and navy blue.

sjecc09 · November 2015

@MrsYoung9311 I'm also team green and struggling with the same issue! A friend told me her little one slept in their room for the first few months, so I plan on painting the walls a neutral (probably gray). I plan on picking a few accent colors that can lend themselves to more stereotypical masculine and feminine color palettes (teal, yellow, white, gray). I'll do a few decor items those colors and then add bedding once LO arrives. I'm trying to pick a set of bedding for both a boy room and a girl room that works with the accent colors and I'll just order once we know!

Jparke2 · November 2015

I have no nursery suggestions, just wanted to say yay for Maryland! I have yet to find anybody else from MD other than myself on this board

doozer1345 · November 2015

You could do a book themed nursery. Frame book pages or do a canvas of book pages from kids books (Dr Seuss, Goodnight Moon, I Love You This Much, etc), make a reading nook with a rocking chair and shelves with baby books, wall stencils with your favorite book passages...

Winnie the Pooh theme, animal theme, just a neutral and soothing color theme...

kbrands7 · November 2015

We did gray walls with accents of turquoise, smd a bit of green and red in DS's room. We hung castle/fairytale sorts of gender neutral art.
I tend to find a picture I love, or a fabric I love and pull colors from that to decorate.https://warehousefabricsinc.com/ZOMHAY.html This was the fabric base for the room we did-- it looks a bit brighter in the picture though than it is in person.
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GemLei · November 2015

I'm pretty simple due to pure laziness but I like to change accessories a lot. I'm thinking of a tree/bird thing with a mix of blue/green/yellow.

MrsYoung9311 · November 2015

You guys are awesome! Thank you so much for your feedback. @doozer1345 my grandmother and aunt call me Pooh Bear to this day, so that might be kind of perfect. @jparke2 YAY MARYLAND! @GemLei I love those pics thank you so much!

Vivian0809 · November 2015

I was Team Green with my first, so we did neutral walls (we had a chair rail, so an off white on the bottom and a pale butter on the top) I had dark espresso furniture, and then I had the PBK sheep bedding. I just waited until baby was born (it ended up being a BOY) and then I added more masculine type decor.

BlueJuice · November 2015

With my last I wasn't Team Green, but I wanted a gender-neutral nursery anyway because I anticipated having more children in future and I can't afford to totally redo a nursery every time I have a baby. We're very into Vikings around here, so I did a fun Viking-themed nursery and bought a crib in dark wood (to vaguely approximate a longship), made a red-and-white striped 'sail' to hang on the wall above it, and painted all the walls to look as if you were in the middle of the ocean, with waves and a horizon and sky. The far wall has a painted island on the horizon as well, near the window. Other than that, our decor was pretty minimal, but we also had a few Playmobil longship toys that we used on the shelves for additional pops of theming. It's really cute! And should be just as cute this time around if we end up with a boy.

LondonToSavannah · November 2015

We were team green for our first, and again for this one!

I did soft grey walls, and accented with grey, white and teal. I didn't have a theme, instead made a colorful alphabet for above the crib, super easy! Here are some pics...for some reason I don't have one of the whole, tidy, nursery, lol...but at least you can see the color scheme!

Pascal86 · November 2015

I have consulted nobody on this idea, but pretty sure I'm going to do a monster-themed nursery (think Ugly Dolls, not scary monsters). Also going to be pretty conservative with how far the theme goes, probably just a few silly pictures here and there and I want to make some of my own Ugly Doll toys. And probably grey walls - we found some grey paint that looks slightly purple-ish in certain lights, so not as neutral as some greys I've seen.

I'm not team green, but just don't know the gender yet. But I do feel pretty confident that it will be a little monster (husband's baby name was Bam-Bam, and my parents describes baby-me as having the strength of a full-grown man and stubbornness of a mule, so planning on this thing being somewhat of a little terror), so this feels appropriate.

lionstigersbears · November 2015

khochanadel said:

We know what we're having but are doing a gender neutral nursery anyway. Mint green and poppy red colors with a robot theme. Because you know what, I have female genitals and I can still like robots!

We did this! Mint Condition was the paint color I believe. I love it, but sometimes think I would have been okay with one shade lighter on the swatch too. I didn't intend to pair it with red but did and love it so much!

saraleigh2 · November 2015

Look at the gender neutral stuff on the pottery barn website!!!!! OMG it's adorable (expensive so I'm just copying the ideas and buying 1-2 must haves). I'm not team green but I like the gender neutral nurseries so much that's what I've decided to go with anyway!!!

jenashawn · November 2015

khochanadel said:

We know what we're having but are doing a gender neutral nursery anyway. Mint green and poppy red colors with a robot theme. Because you know what, I have female genitals and I can still like robots!

I so want to do a robot themed nursery, but am having one hell of a time finding what I'm picturing in my head. Any suggestions?

obryana6219 · November 2015

We were team green with our last, and again with this pregnancy. We painted the nursery a bright blue and accented it with orange. We felt that blue is a color for everyone while pink tends to be more for girls (not always). Plus we wanted to nursery to be able to used over and over again without painting inbetween each pregnancy. We decorated it with characters from our favorite children's books like "Where the Wild Things Are", "Peter Rabbit", "Where's Waldo?", "The Lorax", and my all time favorite "The Giving Tree".

rlworzalla · November 2015

We aren't Team Green and this is our first LO, and I was nervous about planning for nursery too. We decided on a grey base color for the room and then will accent from there, so you could find animal themes, nautical themes, etc to go with it. Chevron patterns are popular and gender neutral. Have you tried Pinterest?

khochanadel · November 2015

jenbkc said:

khochanadel said:

We know what we're having but are doing a gender neutral nursery anyway. Mint green and poppy red colors with a robot theme. Because you know what, I have female genitals and I can still like robots!

I so want to do a robot themed nursery, but am having one hell of a time finding what I'm picturing in my head. Any suggestions?

Most of my inspiration came from robot fabric swatches on spoonflower.com. just search for robots. Hope this helps!

ashlitas · November 2015

@jenbkc, if you google "robot illustrations", a bunch of kiddo friendly ideas come up.

We are likely going to do a nature/tree theme with the nursery after we move, but the robots are tempting!

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