Nursery feels so meh

[Taurean]

Berry Garden but I'm biased, we have that in DD's nursery I just love the hot pink and lime green (It looks awesome with our chocolate nursery furniture), so much so I'll be using those colours in her new 'big girl' room

I didn't buy the whole set though, just the bed cover and the nappy stacker. I already had hot pink sheets (from
Target) and I got a hot pink lamp from Kmart. Her name is on the wall in green wooden letters which my mum hand painted for me - they're gorgeous. We are about to demolish the house we are in now to build so I didn't want to go to nuts on her room but it was ironically lime green when we bought the place so it all matches well anyway.

[LionsandBears]

I think all 3 are pretty in their own way. I think what may harm the effect is the dark wood. This is just my opinion. If you look at all 3, the sugar plum set is with dark wood, the other 2 are with white. The sugar plum set sinks into the dark, the other two seem to stand out. The white furniture helps make the room feel light and bright.

Given you are most likely going to keep the dark wood, I'd use lighter colours/hues more. The Bria would go well. The Berry Garden has lots of white but the berries seem dark. Are you able to buy a small hand towel or pillow case for each and see what they look like in the room? Can you paint the room?

One of my favourite sites to drool over is Posh Tots. Expensive etc, but gives great ideas of themes.
We have honey coloured furniture as I didnt want to buy white. I've now decided white would have been easier to coordinate with but I can't tell DH that

[NaeNae]

Firstly I wanted to thank each and every one of you for your input

Tashy - excellent idea of buying a towel or something to trial the look with the dark timber.

Sopdet - hmmmmm another fairy room ?? I love DD's room, the colours from those stickers are gorgeous. I haven't seen any other "feminine" themes in the linen that I liked. Woodland would be great if I could get it looking girly without going OTT girly ...... particularly with what we're naming the little tummybunny


Without seeing the rest of the house its really hard to imagine but white or lighter coloured furniture doesn't match hence the reason for going with a darker timber in the first place (I tried it). We have really old cupbaords in all the rooms that are stained which (despite their ugliness) show the changes made by each generation (3rd put in the cupboards) that has lived here and I have been told that they are NOT to be painted making it harder again to find furnishings to match.

The room is actually the 2nd darkest room in the entire house as it only has the one window which faces East. Originally it had colour on the wall (light mauve) which seemed to make the room darker still. We won't be using coloured paint on the walls again but rather add colour in the way of wall decorations ..... partly because there is no way in hell I am going up and down a ladder with 11ft ceilings while I am pregnant (dh is far to busy to do any painting) and partly due to the bad light

This is the brightest the room gets in natural light https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...natural-light/

The bed linen will eventually change too depending on what the girls want in their rooms I kept an Ivory/cream theme in both rooms as I didn't know what the girls will like.

Anyhoo I am rambling ........

PLease please keep suggestions and ideas, likes and dslikes etc coming because EVERY opinion offers a different perspective and people have highlighted things I haven't thought about.

Nae x x x

[Taurean]

We have honey coloured furniture as I didnt want to buy white. I've now decided white would have been easier to coordinate with but I can't tell DH that

We have chocolate nursery furniture (which looks awesome with the Berry Garden set I might add ) but I wish I'd got white furniture now. And like you Tash, I can't tell DH that either!! I did casually ask DH if he wanted to repaint all the nursery furniture white for the new baby given we have to sand the cot a bit anyway (due to DD gnawing the sides!) but he basically told me to bugger off, LOL. I've gone for white for DD's big girl furniture though so I'll live the dream through her new room!

[Cassius2]

I the purple one...my next choice would be the last one

[NaeNae]

Wow Taurean thanks for adding the photo...... it looks great against the dark wood really makes the colours pop

hmmmmmm

[DANNIIM]

I actually think the dark wook and Berry Garden would look good together and i also don't think that your bubs room is dark at all. You got light carpet along with light walls to set the dark wood and bed set off nicely together.

[~*Kat*~]

I have to say I love the purple set. I think it would look lovely with the dark timber

[Floweryfields]

I probably wouldn't use the same stickers just because your DD should have her own individual room.

[Cassius2]

i'd check out etsy for any wall stickers...

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I like Berry Garden, i love the colors in it, the green is a beautiful touch.. i'm not really an ALL PINK kind of person
I love anything with Deep Pinks and bright colors.

[Taurean]

Nae, we posted at the same time. I'll get a photo of the Berry Garden bed spread on DD's cot (which is setup as the toddler bed at the moment) so you can see how good it looks And like I said in an earlier post, we bought this house to knock down so although the lime green (walls) actually goes really well with DD's nursery furniture, we didn't pick the colour or paint it. LOL!

ETA: Here you go, hope this works https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...y+accessories/