Well I've got 4 to 5 weeks to goand we haven't really started on ours. We aren't painting as I don't believe in new carpet or paint in a new bubs room (paranoid about the chemicals). Our house is only a couple of years old though so we don't need to do either anyway.
We aren't going with a theme. We have a white cradle, white change table with drawers and the cot is still to be bought but I'm thinking we might stick with white so it matches what we have. We were given the change table.
At the moment everything is in our spare room in an absolute mess but I'm hoping that we get it sorted this weekend in case I go early. I do have his clothes washed and hung/stacked in the wardrobe so we've kind of made a start I guess.
We painted our spare room which became DD's room a cream colour and put a wallpaper border around the middle. I do have pics in my gallery I think. Our cot and changetable are baltic colours. We painted at about 5 months pregnant I think.
on the aquarium bath. I have one and dont really like it. It is small and DD grew out of it quickly. I didnt like the hammock because she would get cold whilst being bathed but it is ok for a new born.
I have very little done either!! Spare room that will be a nursery is still so full of stuff that we need to move but we dont have storage space for!!!! And also DH has not been enthused to move stuff!!
We have all the big stuff on lay bye Boori sleight cot in walnut and a chest of drawers with change thing on top in walnut, phil and ted dash pram and safe and sound meridian nevada car seat.
Will have pooh bear as a theme (as I love it and have heaps myself so dh got no choice!!) But will not paint or re carpet as paint is in good condition and is a peach colour so will get those stick on things and see no point in new carpet as bubs will wee and poo and chuck and chances are will hit carpet a few times!!
Havent bought a bath yet.
Have clothes and blankets all over the place in bags still in packets waiting to be washed and put away for baby!!
We have a white cot and have moved DS,s wardrobe and chest of drwers into the nursery and are building DS a built in robe.
We have gone for a green feature wall, with the remaining walls painted yellow. The colours are quite bright and cheery, we can add frogs and ducks for now then when he gets older we can go with crocodilies etc or an Aussie theme.
I love the room its just so fresh and relaxing, even with the bright colours.
amysarah85, so far looks like a boy but I've got a scan next thursday the 5th in which they'll confirm the sex as bub had legs shut and opened for only a few seconds sonographer thought she saw a willy between the legs so we're thinking boy at the present moment if we can't tell on thursday i'm having a 3d scan on the 5th of July so hopefully we'll know by then.
I'm going to be very anal this time, I wasn't with the first two as we didn't have the funds to be! I'm working full time from home with a daycare and my hubbies finally got a better job with better pay, which will help us out this time. Mind you he wasn't very impressed when the cot price jumped up $300 so that it was different to his sisters, mind you it's alot better quality cot too. I went to babyco this time, my last cot was a hand-me-down in excellent condition but we wern't expecting kids so soon(another story). Last time our pram was a bertini and we purchused a safe n sound royale retractor both new from myer. This time I've gone the safe n sound royale car seat again but not the retractor as ours played up last time.
Our house is only 3 years old built from new and the carpet is in new condition so I don't need to worry about that, but the paint. Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh it's builders paint and if you try to clean off a mark the paint washes off too, so I've given up..... I can just imagine the room after my two monkeys get in there with bubs it'll be black marks are us and I won't be able to clean it off! I'm a clean freak although I seem to be letting things go a bit more lately.
So so far I've got:
Pram: Bemma Q by swallow with bassinet insert..... 3 wheeler going to give it a try if I crack a nut I've still got my 4wd 4wheel bertini.
Carseat: Safe n sound royale
Cot: antique(Baltic) Gembrook by regent solid pine from babyco and is closed in one end open other.
Cot Mattress: Innerspring made by childcare (dunlop branded from baby target)
Changetable: matches the gembrook cot assume it's a gembrook change table made by regent with a cream change mat.
Bath: Fisher and price Aquarium bath blue in colour comes with some sort of mat and toys, not to sure about it but my daughter fell in love with it and I figure baby baths aren't to expensive to replace if it's not very good. Last time I had a all in one change table and bath where top lifted up, but thought I'd try a seperate bath this time.
Nappy wrapper: Tommee Tippee (never had one thought I'd try one)
(I'm going Avent for steriliser and bottles/brest pump as I had them last time)
Anyway that's where I'm at so far, I've got most of the big stuff covered, but when it comes to the theme I'm just stumped I don't want to go wild animals as that's what my girlfriend just did with a pale blue feature wall, my son's got disney cars theme and my daughters got a pink feature wall with lady bugs on it(her nickname is bettle) and disney princess quilt covers/ mink blanket. My sister in law has gone chocolate furniture and has cream walls but no theme so far.
Feed, looks like you've got a job ahead of you, I can remember washing the clothes for my other two and putting them all way, so far I've bought one jumpsuit bonds brand and left it at that, waiting for confirmation of sex before I go clothes crazy!
Jenjams, I'll have a look in gallery tomorrow!(Thanks)
Thanks for your input so far as i said i'm in need of inspiration, hubby is demanding attention, so I better be off!
Kelly, I have no idea when or what be bought, but our nursery was mint green with an argyle patterned feature wall. I measured out huge diamonds on the wall and they were a jacaranda colour and then I hot glue gunned ribbon in a musk shade to the wall for the thin crosses. It looked excellent!! (cos you are allowed to go a bit silly in a baby's room). We had mainly white furniture and DH painted a tallboy the same coulour as the diamonds (little does he know he's about to update it's colour lol)
We didn't go for a theme in our DD's room as we didn't knwo she was going to be a girl but I also didn't want to "make up our child's mind for them". I figured when they are odler they can choose colours and themes. Anyway we painted the room a beautiful green and all the furniture is a dark wood. A few simple wall hangings and I made her name in pink.
With your colours (which sound awesome!) I would stick to simple things like teddies - nothing too over the top.
We still have 15 weeks to go but our nursery is just about done. We have the Mali Euro cot in Cherry...love it. We live in a defence house so can't paint so we bought some amazing under the sea themed prints on canvas' from an artist called ROOCCI (google to find her website) at the baby expo a few weeks ago. We are having a girl so choose pinky purple green artwork and the cot is made up with a mint and pink theme.
Well if anyone's feeling a bit behind the eight ball on nursery preparation, I'm here to make you feel better!
My DD is nine months old and still doesn't have a nursery. The wall in what will be her room developed really bad cracking while I was pregnant and we've had a multitude of different people (plasterers, engineers and builders) look at it. Anyhow, needs to be knocked down and rebuilt and we'll have to move out for a couple of months.
So ... in the meantime, DD is in our room which actually I prefer anyway while she's little.
But when it is finally done, she'll have a chocolate brown carpet and pale green walls and a bit of a Japanese doll theme going on. I found some fabric on eBay so have covered a lampshade with that and also got some Japanese origami paper which I'll use either as a feature on the end of her bed or cover a little stool with or to cover those letter things. I've also got a tree decal that you stick to the wall and I want to put in small photos of all her rellies so it's a family tree.
Cot is a Mali Euro in white (got it for $250 from Grays Online so major discount which I'm still patting myself on the back about), chest of drawers is from IKEA, didn't worry about a change table - just got a change pad for the top of the drawers and I also got a white single IKEA bed. Was tempted to buy a kiddie wardrobe but I don't think I'll bother. We may end up getting built-in robes in that room but I want some specially made with an upholstered fabric middle so need to choose some fabric for that. I'm a mad keen Florence Broadhurst fan but she doesn't have that much stuff for a kiddies room though there is a butterfly design that could be the go.
I have gone through stages where I'm really peed off that I haven't been able to start let alone finish her room but on the upside, when I do it, it will be for her IYKWIM.
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