When we were pregnant with NIki I started renovating the nursery. Because my MIL didn't want to know what we were having and that she lives behind us and comes up all the time we decided to go neutral.
I painted the ceiling and walls in full strength Fair Bianca which is sort of an ivory creamy kind of white and picked the trim out in Mill Flour which is tripple strength of the first colour.
All the linen I have so far is Ivory toned in the Sweet Dreams brand "Twin Teddies" I also found some teddy wall stickers (removable) and created a teddy boarder.
Once we have this baby then I will get some gender specific linen sets and buy some gender specific pictures to go on the walls, but I like the simplistic type look of neutral for now.
We don't know the sex of our baby either and decided not to find out so we have gone all neutral also. The walls are a cream colour and the roof is white. We too have the walnut colour Boori furniture and we just put brown curtains up to match the furniture. We have the Whinnie the Pooh theme (cot set, blanket, floor mat etc). I think this is neutral, however, once the baby is born I would like to get another set more specific to the babies gender (ie/ butterfly's - Girl or Trains / Boats - Boy).
We have a "Beatrix Potter" theme - with a Peter Rabbit focus (cos we know Blake is a boy) The room is predominently pale lemon and white and the BP cot quilt has green pink and blue in it (my mum is making it for me). I found BP wall stickers (removeable) on Ebay and some lovely BP ripoff curtain fabric in yellow/cream at Spotlight. The next bubba will have to share this room. If its a girl we will go with more Jemima Puddleduck for her "side" of the room.
We are having an animals theme - we aren't finding out bubs sex but pretty much everything we have so far has some sort of animal on it... mostly zoo animals.
We are renting so won't paint and the walls are cream, blinds are cream, carpet is cream - you get the idea lol it is all very rent friendly
we didnt find out what we were having either... we painted the room pale green and chose pastel winnie the pooh for the theme. we have now ought some girly things to go in there, but it means we can use it all again for the next bubs.... plus its one half of our wir and we didnt want to repaint after we were done having babies.
we knew the sex of our DD, but werent really into the gender thang. we were renting so were not able (or rather willing to spend! LOL!) on painting the walls. so researched into vinyl stick ons for the wall. found some really great brightly coloured and BIG stick ons with fishies and submarines and mermaids. all in bright primary colours. it really livened up the room.
the theme we have going for the new house is a woodlands one. this is a little less 'bright' and consists of 5 foot vinyl stick on trees and birds and owls and rabbits that will be placed along all the walls. the main rabbit is totally cute and is about 2 feet tall! love him! they are all in black. so look more like silhouettes.
the window furnishings are basic ATM with just blockout blinds. but with all the wall decals it actually works nicely...
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) The room is predominently pale lemon and white and the BP cot quilt has green pink and blue in it (my mum is making it for me). I found BP wall stickers (removeable) on Ebay and some lovely BP ripoff curtain fabric in yellow/cream at Spotlight. The next bubba will have to share this room. If its a girl we will go with more Jemima Puddleduck for her "side" of the room.
plus its one half of our wir and we didnt want to repaint after we were done having babies.
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