Some of us said we would like a nursery thread so I thought I would start one, now that most of us know what we are having! Feel free to drop your plans/ideas below, along with any questions, opinions, etc.
This is my plan. The wallpaper mural is from AneWallDecor on Instagram, that will be the wall I center her crib on. Going to paint the rest of the walls Sherwinn Williams “dreamy white” (FYI it is the most perfect pale pink/white color. Super delicate and pale, it’s currently the color of my kitchen and I love love love it.. it’s the color below the wallpaper but doesn’t do it justice like that!). I’m thinking I’m going to layer those two rugs under her crib. And under the collage is the crib I plan to buy, it converts to a toddler bed and then a full size bed and I think it would be perfect with the girly outdoorsy theme? It’s from Milk Street. Currently there is a ceiling fan but I think I’m going to swap it out for a ceiling light instead. We aren’t really big “fan” people. Not sure what type of ceiling light I’m going to do yet but if you know of anything that would look pretty with this theme, let me know! Just taped off all the walls in our new house yesterday to get started painting, and then will tackle the wallpaper mural next.
@brynn_mamaof4 I love that! What about replacing the fan with some type of woven or wood bead chandy? I think a natural texture/color light fixture would look gorgeous with that theme.
I will have to throw my mood board together later and post! We have a National Parks/mountains theme picked out for the twins.
For my daughter we did a floral flamingo nursery but we did the walls navy and then brought in pink with floral and flamingo prints throughout. A couple of photos in the spoiler minus the rug we added under her crib:
@gusgus14 actually I have a natural beaded chandelier thingie in my 4 year olds room I thought about swapping! My friend bought it for me when she was in Bali and shipped it here, I’ll have to post a picture for opinions. It has a few pink beads at the bottom so it could work well.
I love the flamingos!!! Flamingoes hold a special place in my heart haha. My mom used to get me something flamingo every year for Christmas because growing up (and I still do) I stand like one without thinking if I’m doing things like washing dishes, etc. she passed away several years ago so now they are just dear to me. I love that, very cute!
We are slowly getting started. My fiancé emptied the room last week end. He has to put in new mouldings at the bottom of the walls. I think he'll do that this week end or the next, and then paint. I want this done before the New Year's so he can use his time off to do it. We'll work on the rest on March/April I think. I plan on doing a medium grey with all mouldings in white. I want something pretty minimalist. There is no closet in this room so I'm trying to figure that one out...Here's a few pics from my mood board.
@brynn_mamaof4 that crib is beautiful! @gusgus14 I love the flamingo nursery! We are leaning towards a mountain/outdoorsy theme so would love to see what you have in mind for your national parks/mountain theme @mimser lack of closet space is a bummer but that little wooden clothes rack is adorable!
We officially cancelled our Christmas plans to go home to the East coast to visit my family, so I told my husband I want to spend Christmas getting the nursery together--he looked at me like I was nuts because he thinks it's still so early to be doing that! Lol so I'm glad to see some of you ladies are already working on yours. I wanted to do a woodland theme (mainly foxes), but my sister (also a FTM, due in Feb) picked that as her theme...so now I'm leaning more towards an outdoorsy/mountain theme with some woodland animals sprinkled in here and there (if that makes sense haha). The carpet is a dark gray color--as much as I would love to rip it out and put in hardwood, it will be staying for now. Planning on a light green/sage-ish color for the walls. Our crib just came this week so that's exciting!
We are using the same nursery since my son moved to his new big boy room. Rhe nursery theme is winnie the pooh so very gender neutral with gray walls and basic white furniture. My sons big boy room is themed with advwnture awates with a lovely sage walls with navy accents and gray furniture. I also bought him a canves play tent for his room which he loves.
Very quickly threw this together so it's rough but you get the general idea. Walls are going to be a dark green (same color we have in our dining room and our kitchen cabinets which I'm obsessed with) and we're going to do a wall treatment but I'm undecided on if I want to do trim on one wall mimicking mountains or faux board and batten all the way around the room. I think these photos are going to be huge so I put them in a spoiler: the mountain trim is from someone I follow on instagram and the board and batten is from our dining room.
We have a vintage style National Parks puzzle that we are going to put together and frame to hang in the room and we also have a poster from our trip to Glacier last year (can't remember if it's this exact one) that we want to hang and we're hoping to get a similar one when we go to Great Smokey in March. I love my daughter's crib (which you can see in the post I did above with photos of her nursery) but it's almost $400 and I do not see the point in dropping that much on another crib. The only reason we paid that much to begin with is because we wanted to get a really great crib that could last throughout all of our babies (lol @ twins meddling in our plans). I found a similar crib for about $200 that's all white and I'm just trying to decide if I want to do that or sell the one we have and get two of these basic IKEA cribs ($100/each) so that they're matching.
I think we have a ceiling fan in there now which we'll replace with a nicer ceiling fan and I'm trying to decide if I want to leave the ceiling white or paint it/add removable wallpaper. I also need to decide on a rug and I think we're going to move the beige glider from my daughter's room over to the nursery but we may decide to try to do a loveseat in there instead. TBD!
I really want to start on it now but our master bathroom has been down to the studs for a while now and we're finally about ready to build it back up so that's our priority right now and really hoping we can get the plumbing done ASAP and be ready for tile by the first of the year. I'd love to at least start the nursery in February! They likely won't be sleeping in there until mid-late summer but we like doing nightly routine stuff in the nursery from the beginning.
@texas_t thanks, it was a quarantine purchase back in the Spring! We never put it together and then a few weeks ago I was just looking at the packaging and thought it would make a great nursery theme!
We are moving my daughter to a big girl room soon and I need to update the nursery, it was never super girly because we didn’t know what we were having, so I’m leaning slightly girlier this time.
I currently have a rattan obsession and I’ve had my eye on these little animals from an Etsy shop, so I’m going to start with these and work from there.
Well, our nursery is still up and going from DS! The theme is Where the Wild Things Are. The only thing I’m planning on doing is getting some girlier sheets, and hanging Mia’s name with Lucas’s. I’ll have to take pictures when it’s not a mess! Lol
Don't have a whole lot pinned yet, but hubby and I both love grey so this will be a grey baby. Will figure out accent colors as we get closer, but thinking navy blue and darker slate would be a nice mood because the room itself (while small) has high ceilings and huge windows that let in a lot of light. I'm not sure that we'll paint or do anything major to the walls since we're renting. Some inspo pics in spoilers.
This is the crib we're getting (in natural as pictured but with diff color accent feet) and prob getting the matching dresser/changing table. It's the Babyletto Gelato, a convertible one that can go up to a big boy bed. I'm actually torn on getting the furniture in natural vs. white - I think white would look so good with grey, but for the long-haul I think white will just show too much wear.
We'll have some cute black/white and grey animals for decor in honor of our little multi-racial baby. I've been obsessed with these two prints forever.
Here's a layout and mood I like, and this chair looks like the glider I'm considering. The white crib looks so good here! But you can tell from the natural accents that the tan color wood will work for the crib/dresser, too.
Oh, another +1 for flamingos! I grew up in Florida (for 1/2 my childhood) and my whole fam still lives there, and my grandma that raised me is obsessed with them. There's def a Jellycat flamingo on our registry, and I may have just registered for it for myself. Haha.
@ckmb_1250 I wish we could paint ... we actually already have cans of gorgeous grey that we were planning to use for a hallway that has lower ceilings so we could actually paint it ourselves with a small ladder. But the rest of the apartment has 12 foot ceilings and we are supposed to repaint everything back to it's original color when we move out, so it is prob too much of a pain.
I just found this photo, I bet we could do something like this. Maybe there's hope!
Our nursery is currently the guest room so we have to wait until the new basement/guestroom furniture arrives to remove any of the other furniture, so it will be a bit yet. We did DS's nursery at our old house as a safari animal theme so we will use the same stuff again, but I would like to add in some pink accents.
@spartan4life our nursery is still our guest room! Part of my reasoning was that if I wanted to lie down with the baby and feed or cosleep, the bed would be right there. It worked out really well. I slept in there with DS once in a while, or maybe a couple of weeks at a time when he was teething. We just got matching sheets for the full sized bed, and now that is where 4yr DS sleeps. If we have guests, DS sleeps in our room or hopefully sister’s room soon! Though I don’t see us having any guests anytime soon.
He will probably get forced into sister’s room for a year or two until Mia sleeps through the night. We are maxed out on rooms, we have 4 bedrooms and they’re all taken right now. Once Mia is about 2, we will move her into her sister’s room, 9yrDD. She has a bunk bed ready to go, and has the largest kids room. It’s also the play room.
@yellingbanana we thought about doing that but, the room isn't quite large enough for a bed and a crib plus changing table/dresser. My family all lives out of state around the country so during non-COVID times we have guests several times a year, and when my mom comes she usually comes for a few weeks at a time. Because of that, we decided to make our basement the guest area so we got a nice pullout couch with other furniture. There is a bathroom and wet bar down there too so guests will have their own space. It should be here in early January so then we will get started on the nursery!
Love all these ideas and discussion 😊 I'm thinking a pale rose pink and sage green color palette for my nursery space, mixed with a nature theme. I really like the tree wall decals, so would like to do something with those. I don't have a ton of pins yet, but here are my inspiration pieces so far!
im loving ALL these ideas and living vicariously through you all---we are pending construction in our house and the room wont be done til like April...(i know we are crazy)
only things i am thinking so far are baby animals, i particularly love elephant print (also because i intend to use a lot of grays)
You got me thinking @ec1212 as our baby will be multi racial as well (1/2 greek, 1/4 African and 1/4 French Canadian) . I'm sure there's something simple and cute I could do to represent this.
@asf0613 Don't worry, if you have all you need it will be fine. We moved less than two weeks before my first was born and everything was ready in time, even though he came a little early.
This time round we have to wait until March to see what schools are doing, because my husband has his office in the toddler's real room so we might have to have both in our room because I dont trust my toddler to sleep in the office. So probably the playpen beside our bed and the toddler bed by the wall. No decorating. I envy the decorating you are all doing. It looks so pretty.
Hubby said he’s putting all his stuff in the office (future nursery) into storage next weekend so I’m flipping out with excitement! I ordered organizing stuff to pack up and rearrange my own stuff that’s in there (and have already started putting stuff I don’t need in storage).
I’ll prob order the larger furniture items next week. In the meantime I’m drawing out a storage plan for baby’s closet & the layout of the room.
Q: for a chair in the nursery how do we feel about glider/rockers vs. recliners? I have to have my feet up when sitting, so I’d have to get an ottoman if we got a rocker whereas I could skip it and have more floor space for baby if we get a recliner. But I’m afraid a recliner will encourage me to fall asleep while nursing, which I also want to avoid.
Also sharing this little caddy I found on Pinterest - I got it for our bedroom while baby’s in his bassinet. I figured I can carry it into the living room for lazy changing times when we don’t want to go into the nursery.
@ec1212 I feel like I prefer the look of a glider/rocker combination but have no experience of it in a nursery!
We (my fiancé) got the painting done during the Holidays. We also got some furniture that was stored at my mom's: my childhood dresser and the family rocking chair. They will both be sanded down. The dresser will be re-painted in white. I think we'll use chalk paint? As for the chair, it will need a new seat cover, I'll probably go with a nice light color fabric. At first I was thinking to leave the natural wood color, but the last couple of days I started wondering if I'd rather paint it white as well (not fully covering the wood, making it look like aged paint?). Not sure. These will be projects for my fiancé in early March.
My mom got us some shelves for baby books. They both say Once upon a time, but one in French and the other in English since this baby will be bilingual as I speak Frencg and my fiancé speaks English!
A world map will also be part of our decor as we had it and then I found this exact one on a minimalist nursery decor found on Pinterest!
Some pics of the room and these furniture, and guess who apparently likes to be rocked?
@ec1212 I’ve found that I like recliners better than the rocker w/ottoman. Maybe it’s my abnormally short legs. But I found a rocking recliner at Costco when I was pregnant with DS! It’s so comfortable. Still my favorite chair in the whole house! It’s still in his room, which is the baby/guest room as well.
Okay you guys are all showing me up. For my daughter we painted the room sky blue around the top with green beadboard around the bottom. We never put up the decals we got for her walls. Baby boy doesn't even have a room. He'll sleep in the pack-n-play in our room (unless he ends up in our bed like our girl did). Of our four bedrooms, one is my husband's office and one is designed to be an office but we use it for storage (hubs doesn't like it because he feels all the built-in cabinets and shelves prevent him from arranging it to his satisfaction). He'll either suck it up and move into the study, or remodel the garage. Eventually. My daughter barely uses her own room, though, so I don't feel too bad.
@ec1212 I used/use a glider that has a recline function and I love it. I didn’t actually use it much for nursing because I mostly did side lying but we use it for reading and my husband used it A LOT during the 3 month stretch early on when DD stopped sleeping through the night. We’ll probably move that into the new nursery.
@ec1212 we had a recliner but never used it, and added an ottoman instead. My husband used that chair a lot but I always found it hard to get up & out of if baby fell asleep in my arms, and I honestly sat on an exercise ball instead because I could get up really smoothly. Kinda ruined the aesthetic of the room though 😂
We have a recliner in my husband's office and a glider with ottoman downstairs. The recliner is a lot harder to get out of.
We don't have a room but I did buy this mobile. I don't have a theme, though--apparently I'm attracted to both outer space and dinosaurs, so I'm considering this theme "science." (For reference, my daughter's theme was Super Mario, but we never put her decals up.)
@ec1212 when my daughter was under a year I almost exclusively nurses her in a recliner. We eventually moved it to the living room when she stopped nursing. I did get a smaller recliner that’s easier to get out of that some. My mom has giant recliners and they are hard to get out of all the time. However a glider or rocker would probably be easier to get out of. With doing a football hold I found the recliners soft arms to be nice if her legs rested on it, but since I used a full regular sized pillow that took a while.
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Re: Nursery Ideas
I will have to throw my mood board together later and post! We have a National Parks/mountains theme picked out for the twins.
For my daughter we did a floral flamingo nursery but we did the walls navy and then brought in pink with floral and flamingo prints throughout. A couple of photos in the spoiler minus the rug we added under her crib:
@gusgus14 I love the flamingo nursery! We are leaning towards a mountain/outdoorsy theme so would love to see what you have in mind for your national parks/mountain theme
@mimser lack of closet space is a bummer but that little wooden clothes rack is adorable!
We officially cancelled our Christmas plans to go home to the East coast to visit my family, so I told my husband I want to spend Christmas getting the nursery together--he looked at me like I was nuts because he thinks it's still so early to be doing that! Lol so I'm glad to see some of you ladies are already working on yours.
I wanted to do a woodland theme (mainly foxes), but my sister (also a FTM, due in Feb) picked that as her theme...so now I'm leaning more towards an outdoorsy/mountain theme with some woodland animals sprinkled in here and there (if that makes sense haha). The carpet is a dark gray color--as much as I would love to rip it out and put in hardwood, it will be staying for now. Planning on a light green/sage-ish color for the walls. Our crib just came this week so that's exciting!
This is the nursery for our second.
I'd like to repaint the room a more sage green and head toward a foresty theme. We love hiking and would like to have Eli's nursery reflect that.
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We have a vintage style National Parks puzzle that we are going to put together and frame to hang in the room and we also have a poster from our trip to Glacier last year (can't remember if it's this exact one) that we want to hang and we're hoping to get a similar one when we go to Great Smokey in March. I love my daughter's crib (which you can see in the post I did above with photos of her nursery) but it's almost $400 and I do not see the point in dropping that much on another crib. The only reason we paid that much to begin with is because we wanted to get a really great crib that could last throughout all of our babies (lol @ twins meddling in our plans). I found a similar crib for about $200 that's all white and I'm just trying to decide if I want to do that or sell the one we have and get two of these basic IKEA cribs ($100/each) so that they're matching.
I think we have a ceiling fan in there now which we'll replace with a nicer ceiling fan and I'm trying to decide if I want to leave the ceiling white or paint it/add removable wallpaper. I also need to decide on a rug and I think we're going to move the beige glider from my daughter's room over to the nursery but we may decide to try to do a loveseat in there instead. TBD!
I really want to start on it now but our master bathroom has been down to the studs for a while now and we're finally about ready to build it back up so that's our priority right now and really hoping we can get the plumbing done ASAP and be ready for tile by the first of the year. I'd love to at least start the nursery in February! They likely won't be sleeping in there until mid-late summer but we like doing nightly routine stuff in the nursery from the beginning.
*Rainbow 8/2015*
*Expected Rainbows 12/2018*
*Loss of Twin 5/2018*
This is the crib we're getting (in natural as pictured but with diff color accent feet) and prob getting the matching dresser/changing table. It's the Babyletto Gelato, a convertible one that can go up to a big boy bed. I'm actually torn on getting the furniture in natural vs. white - I think white would look so good with grey, but for the long-haul I think white will just show too much wear.
We'll have some cute black/white and grey animals for decor in honor of our little multi-racial baby. I've been obsessed with these two prints forever.
Here's a layout and mood I like, and this chair looks like the glider I'm considering. The white crib looks so good here! But you can tell from the natural accents that the tan color wood will work for the crib/dresser, too.
I just found this photo, I bet we could do something like this. Maybe there's hope!
Our nursery is currently the guest room so we have to wait until the new basement/guestroom furniture arrives to remove any of the other furniture, so it will be a bit yet. We did DS's nursery at our old house as a safari animal theme so we will use the same stuff again, but I would like to add in some pink accents.
Color palette:
Tree idea:
only things i am thinking so far are baby animals, i particularly love elephant print (also because i intend to use a lot of grays)
This time round we have to wait until March to see what schools are doing, because my husband has his office in the toddler's real room so we might have to have both in our room because I dont trust my toddler to sleep in the office. So probably the playpen beside our bed and the toddler bed by the wall. No decorating. I envy the decorating you are all doing. It looks so pretty.
We (my fiancé) got the painting done during the Holidays. We also got some furniture that was stored at my mom's: my childhood dresser and the family rocking chair. They will both be sanded down. The dresser will be re-painted in white. I think we'll use chalk paint? As for the chair, it will need a new seat cover, I'll probably go with a nice light color fabric. At first I was thinking to leave the natural wood color, but the last couple of days I started wondering if I'd rather paint it white as well (not fully covering the wood, making it look like aged paint?). Not sure. These will be projects for my fiancé in early March.
My mom got us some shelves for baby books. They both say Once upon a time, but one in French and the other in English since this baby will be bilingual as I speak Frencg and my fiancé speaks English!
A world map will also be part of our decor as we had it and then I found this exact one on a minimalist nursery decor found on Pinterest!
Some pics of the room and these furniture, and guess who apparently likes to be rocked?
*Rainbow 8/2015*
*Expected Rainbows 12/2018*
*Loss of Twin 5/2018*
We don't have a room but I did buy this mobile. I don't have a theme, though--apparently I'm attracted to both outer space and dinosaurs, so I'm considering this theme "science." (For reference, my daughter's theme was Super Mario, but we never put her decals up.)
*Rainbow 8/2015*
*Expected Rainbows 12/2018*
*Loss of Twin 5/2018*
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