The Nursery Thread

[benandjerrys]

Have we done this yet? Tell us where your kids will be sleeping, if you've started their room, and share progress pics or pinterest boards here!

[benandjerrys]

We are giving our guest room to the baby. It's a little farther from our room but the HVAC works well in there unlike in DD's room, so I decided I'm more comfortable with the baby in there. Before we get to decorating I need to have the window redone. We are in a historic district so we can't replace the window but instead need to find someone to strip it down (lead paint), rehang the weights and chains, and custom build a wooden storm window. OMG. What a pain. Anyway I think I have someone lined up for that so hopefully the window will be done in September before it starts getting cold.

Since we are team green we are doing an arctic theme with penguins and polar bears I will reuse DD's glider and I picked up a beautiful restoration hardware distressed white crib that I'm super excited to use.

[marygracerich]

We live in a 2 bedroom condo. There is a loft above my bedroom which is where the baby will sleep after 6 weeks or so. Then when baby is a little older, it will share a room with G. Not the best plan but it's not so bad.
The good part about having baby in the loft is that I will be able to hear baby without the monitor so I can keep it in G's room without having to buy a new one.

[watermelonseed]

We found out we are team Pink! So our nursery will remain the same for the new baby 😉

Buttt I may come back and crash the thread with my daughters "big girl room" we will transition her into. The girls will only be 18 months apart.

[aprilz81]

We live in a 4 bedroom house and Faith will be using the largest of the bedrooms (aside from the master).  It is across the landing from the master so close without sharing a wall.  If we have another child (jury is still very much out on that) we will have to lose either the guest room or my home office/craft room.  Neither option is great because our parents both live out of town and they are too old to sleep on a sofa bed and I work from home and need office space.  I guess we'll cross that bridge when/if we come to it.  The nursery is large and has two windows and a double closet.  Perfect for a child's room!

We had the furniture already in the room, we bought it before we found out Ava was sick. The glider was a hand me down from my parents and the book shelf was in my nursery when I was little (also in my dorm room at college). We have DH's nursery toy box that has been refurbished and is in the living room keeping the toys we have on hand for our niece and nephews.

We are doing an ocean them based on the scripture "Greater than the waves of the sea is His love for you." Psalm 93:4 and I will be making a sign with that on it and we bought ocean prints (see pics below) from Etsy. I've collected some wooden fish and starfish during various cruise stops in Jamaica that we will probably hang on the wall. I'm putting a blue and white scroll wallpaper on the wall behind the crib and it kinda looks like ocean waves without being literal waves. The rest of the walls are a bluish gray that we had painted for Ava but goes well with the wallpaper so we aren't going to repaint.

We bought new drawer pulls (brushed gold/brass) to give it a touch of shine, the new lamp and mirror are similar shades. I'm worried that the mirror might be a little big because it is the exact same size as the dresser top and I'm used to them being a bit smaller.

I have a ton of hand me downs (clothes and baby gear) and I bought some plastic tubs at Ikea this weekend and put vinyl decals on them to make it easy to know what sizes are in them as baby grows.

Right now we have everything pulled out of the closet to put in a new organization system and to paint. I only bought a quart of paint and it wasn't enough so I need to go get more... Super annoying but it also give me more paint to give a second coat to some areas. DH picked up a high gloss paint by accident and the bright white really shows streaks and thin areas but at least it will be easy to wipe down scuff marks and the eventual crayon drawings!

After the closet is done we will hang some roman shades (white) and curtains (pink and white horizontal stripes)... The wallpaper is going to have to wait until my Mom can come up because she is the only person I know who actually knows how to do wallpaper!

In the middle of all of this I'm also working on a quilt for Faith and a picture is in the spoilers of the fabric and layout.

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{Spoiler for potential large pictures}

[sarahh]

We are turning our guest room upstairs into the baby's room. We have a bunch of stuff in there but not set up yet. She will be in DD's crib and we have 2 white wicker dressers that were mine when I was little and just bought a pottery barn topper for the changing pad. We are moving the rocker from DD's room into the baby's room. The walls are already grey so we are going to leave them and I'm making a fabric garland to hang above the crib. We actually bought all the fabric when DD was a baby and never did it so I've decided we are definitely doing it for this baby. The colors are grey, mint, coral and gold. We also need to pick out a gold light to replace the ceiling fan. And we are moving the grey shag rug from DD's room into the nursery.

DD got a new rug from the pottery barn outlet that we are going to put down and we are working on a craft corner to go where the rocker was. We got 2 side tables from IKEA and are going to put a lego mat on one and a roll of craft paper attached to the other one. We also got some rails to hang buckets for her crayons and markers and a wire thing to hang higher with her artwork. We probably won't really start putting all that together until closer to Christmas so it's kind of new when the baby comes. So pretty much I won't have pictures to show anyone until December.

[rebeccabunch]

Fun thread idea!

One of the problems of being sneaky team green is you really can't do up the nursery and keep up the secret.

We are using my current office as the baby's room. Eventually we will have the boys share but I'm not sure when. We have 4 bedrooms upstairs but if they don't share, I'll lose my office. We plan on an addition in a couple years and part of it will be a main floor office. I miss tat from my old house but anyway, I'm off track!

I think we are going to do a kitten theme. Land of Nod has these adorable Golden Books inspired kitten pattern that leans girl maybe but is blue heavy. The walls are a really pretty light blue/gray which we will keep.

Fun fact that I don't think I've shared because it's very identifying so PDQ but we live in the house I grew up in from birth until 8th grade when we moved just 2 blocks away. There were two owners in between my parents and us that really improved the house with a 2 story addition, reworking of the outside etc so it's my old house but also better. We got super lucky because we were moving anyway last spring and got a word this house was going on the market and we swooped it up.

The baby will be in my old room! 💗

[hiimjamie]

I'm so ready to know what we're having. One more week. These are some ideas for boy and girl rooms. Baby will be getting our guest room but we'll be leaving the guest bed in there. Once the new baby is sleeping well (so like 2 years? 😂) we'll move DS in the room with him if it's a boy and move the guest bed into what is DS room. The guest room is bigger. If it's a girl, they'll keep separate rooms.

[pinkcat]

That is soooo cool rebeccabunch! How awesome this baby will get to sleep there!!

[pinkcat]

Everyone has such cute ideas! For our nursery I'm thinking safari themed, in mostly gray and white. Here are some of my inspiration pictures.

[pippiann]

We plan to room in with the babe until he's not waking up every 5 secs or until we kick him out! Lol we only have 3 rooms sooo hopefully this babe will sleep better and share with M! We can't give up our guest room bc ils come for 2-3 months 2x a year since they live in Italy. Maybe a rental house will come on the market for the same price we are paying and we'll scoop it up since the winter is off season prices are slightly lower. Anyway this was M's room which will be the same for this babe. There is a desk taking up the other part of the room that we'll have to get rid of it bc sadly no where else to put it. Not my pic but this is the bassinet that our crib turns into
M's nursery
This is the big boy bed I plan to get for M and I will probably get the matching dresser and use as changing table.

ETA: Cropped a pic

[tiffrobot]

We haven't done anything yet, other than we have the crib in storage in the basement from the other two.

We have a ton of rooms we are moving around so I'd like to try to do that in oct/nov at the latest. DS will be moving to the basement, DD will be moving to his old room, then our nursery will be open again since it became her current big girl room.

We're team green, so with the last two we did light green with white furniture and a light zoo animal theme. I randomly came across some cute black and white nurseries which would be nice with the couple of light green accents we can put back in the room, and easy to update with the little bit we need to do to the room to make it fit a baby again!

[maddisonrose]

I don't know why, but I'm still very hesitant to start buying/doing things yet just incase I jinx it. I promised myself we would start after 20 weeks though.

She will be taking over Declan's nursery so the crib will stay the same but I want to do a rose and swan theme. These are the ideas I've got so far



Also Declan had a lot of the faux fur collection from restoration hardware in the wolf colour and she will now have the same items but her colour is going to be white. Can't wait to see it when it's all put together!

[tiffbabey]

We have already moved DS to his big boy room ( got rid of the guest room). So the nursery is empty. We are keeping all of his furniture in there, painting the walls pink, and maybe doing an owl theme. We just found out it was a girl two days ago, so I'm not positive yet, but I'm a little obsessed with owls so will probably go with that.

[easternshoregirl]

The baby room is sooo filled with junk right now. It used to be our "office/yoga room" but now we've combined the guest room and office spaces and I just do yoga in our bedroom or downstairs.  We did an "under the sea' theme for E (we were team green) and I think I'd like to do a tropical rainforest theme for this baby. I picked out a green for the walls when I was pregnant earlier this year and I think we'll stick with that. We'll use E's crib b/c he's getting a big boy bed as soon as I get my stuff together and buy him a mattress. We have a dresser already that my great uncle made but I also want to get a shelf for the closet to help with organizing stuff like we currently have in E's closet. We'll move the glider in there and I'm not sure what we'll do about a changing table. The dresser is about 5 feet tall, so not suitable for changing on, so maybe we'll just see if we can borrow one from someone for a few months until E is potty trained (I expect that at least by the end of next summer!).

I have a mola type piece of fabric I plan to frame which has a tropical bird on it and I would like to make some paintings for the room too. I may try to print some of our photos too from Costa Rica or Peru and frame those. We have a big shaggy green rug in the attic (that sounds horrible from the description but it is soft and fuzzy and welcoming) that I think would look nice in there so maybe we'll use that.

[tiffrobot]

Well thanks to this thread I need to start looking up some decor now. Lol! It was something that totally slipped my mind. I need to buy a set of curtains too since DD will be swiping the ones in there for her next room.

[dragonflyinn]

Woohoo! I love nursery talk!! It's been on our mind a lot lately since we're trying to decide whether or not to switch the "kid" room and the guest room...the guest room is currently in the front of our house & DDs room is on the side with nothing but a busy side street & hers is the only window on that side. We feel weird about that so thinking of switching the guest room/my sewing room with her room.

Our plan after baby #2 is to have him/her in our room in PNP until we're over that (with DD we only lasted 2 months haha). Then moving the PNP into the guest room until baby is sleeping decently. Then the plan is to move baby into DDs room (they will share). I'm selfish & cant completely give up my sewing space & all our family lives out of town so we need that guest area.

We find out on Monday what we're having. If it's a girl I'm just sticking with DDs color scheme bc I have everything already & her big girl bedding coordinates well (pics below). I'll paint their room light pink. If it's a boy I'm just going to paint a teal accent wall to tie the room together & decorate "his side" with teal & a few other boyish colors.

DDs room & color scheme:


I made this wall art for above her crib! These are her colors/theme:

Our guest room that may become the kids room (DDs big bed with her bedding is in there right now as our guest bed). It's a teeeny bit smaller than the other room but the shape of it might actually work better for a crib & big bed.

[dragonflyinn]

Also OMG my DDs room is a mess! Hahaha

[ajetter]

Nursery/decor talk is my favorite! I've mentioned it before but we're basically switching everything around. DD2 and her bunk beds are moving in with DD1 in her room. DD3 is going to get DD2's room, and baby gets DD3's room. We have to move all the big girls first, so it will be a while before I get to the nursery, but I don't plan to do much in there.




This is the room currently. I want to keep something that goes with the dresser because my husband would kill me before he repainted it. I'm debating doing the peel and stick wall paper in a floral over the navy wall. Something like one of these?





But I'm worried it'll be a bit much. A bit much going on, and I don't know if I can stomach the cost. We'll see.

[jessijean]

You guys are making me feel extremely behind. We haven't even decided where this kid will sleep. Right now our only other bedroom is our office/storage/toy room. We considered converting that to the nursery but we aren't sold on being on a different level than the baby (other two bedrooms are upstairs). Our bedroom is pretty small so the crib would be a tight fit for him to room with us but we don't want a newborn sharing a room with DS until he's sleeping through the night.

We should probably decide soon.

[rebeccabunch]

ajetter I love that wallpaper. You and maddisonrose are making me rethink my kitten plans and consider flowers.

ETA I like the first paper I think it was bloom baby B

[sarahh]

Aug 23, 2017 16:58:45 GMT -6 rebeccabunch said:

ajetter I love that wallpaper. You and maddisonrose are making me rethink my kitten plans and consider flowers.

ETA I like the first paper I think it was bloom baby B

+1 I like the first one too. Now I want to do a wallpaper wall! DH is going to kill me

[hedwig]

ajetter Love the wallpaper. We are thinking of doing something similar if we have a girl. H is not sold though. He thinks wallpaper is 'old lady'. He just doesn't get it.

[rebeccabunch]

Aug 23, 2017 17:48:54 GMT -6 sarahh said:

Aug 23, 2017 16:58:45 GMT -6 rebeccabunch said:

ajetter I love that wallpaper. You and maddisonrose are making me rethink my kitten plans and consider flowers.

ETA I like the first paper I think it was bloom baby B

+1 I like the first one too. Now I want to do a wallpaper wall! DH is going to kill me

I'm thinking the same thing!

[helloerrbody]

Aug 23, 2017 16:10:26 GMT -6 ajetter said:

Nursery/decor talk is my favorite! I've mentioned it before but we're basically switching everything around. DD2 and her bunk beds are moving in with DD1 in her room. DD3 is going to get DD2's room, and baby gets DD3's room. We have to move all the big girls first, so it will be a while before I get to the nursery, but I don't plan to do much in there.




This is the room currently. I want to keep something that goes with the dresser because my husband would kill me before he repainted it. I'm debating doing the peel and stick wall paper in a floral over the navy wall. Something like one of these?





But I'm worried it'll be a bit much. A bit much going on, and I don't know if I can stomach the cost. We'll see.

No no no that will NOT be too much. That will be amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! Please please please do this. So gorgeous.

[helloerrbody]

Aug 23, 2017 16:58:45 GMT -6 rebeccabunch said:

ajetter I love that wallpaper. You and maddisonrose are making me rethink my kitten plans and consider flowers.

ETA I like the first paper I think it was bloom baby B

If this baby was a girl, there would be florals galore in her room.

[teraiin]

I'm loving all of these!!

Our nursery is the current guest room. 😶

I've been a little too anxious to buy or plan anything too much. I have two cribs I like...

I'm trying to convince my husband we need to paint but he says the paint is "good enough". It's not our color (it was here when we moved in) and it's just... blah...

I'll come back with some pics!

[rebeccabunch]

Aug 23, 2017 18:25:35 GMT -6 helloerrbody said:

Aug 23, 2017 16:58:45 GMT -6 rebeccabunch said:

ajetter I love that wallpaper. You and maddisonrose are making me rethink my kitten plans and consider flowers.

ETA I like the first paper I think it was bloom baby B

If this baby was a girl, there would be florals galore in her room.

I think I need to do it but now I'm thinking I need to do a pale pink or a cool cream wall instead of my mild gray/blue. Decisions.

[ajetter]

Aug 23, 2017 17:48:54 GMT -6 sarahh said:

Aug 23, 2017 16:58:45 GMT -6 rebeccabunch said:

ajetter I love that wallpaper. You and maddisonrose are making me rethink my kitten plans and consider flowers.

ETA I like the first paper I think it was bloom baby B

+1 I like the first one too. Now I want to do a wallpaper wall! DH is going to kill me

for the record, I think this particular wallpaper would run me $400 for the wall. 😳 We don't need to buy ANYTHING for this girl, so it's not as bad, but at the same time... yikes.

[ajetter]

Aug 23, 2017 18:54:36 GMT -6 rebeccabunch said:

Aug 23, 2017 18:25:35 GMT -6 helloerrbody said:

If this baby was a girl, there would be florals galore in her room.

I think I need to do it but now I'm thinking I need to do a pale pink or a cool cream wall instead of my mild gray/blue. Decisions.

This designer has several options, Indy Bloom Designs on Spoonflower. I've also browsed walls need love and shopbdarling too. I'm kind of obsessed.