Nursery- when did you start and what did you do?

Hi, I was just wondering when everyone started to get they're nursery ready?
I've picked and laybyed my cot, change table, car seat and mattress.
So far I've bought a bath and my pram, but my spare room is still a nightmare, I'm trying to move stuff out and I'm finding more stuffs in there than before, not to mention the rooms in need of a paint and I have no ideas on what theme or colour for my feature wall! My daughter has a hot pink feature wall and my son a deep blue feature wall, both are dulux suede effects paint and look great, but I'm stumped for colour it looks like another boy so I was thinking a limeish sort of green but I really have no idea where to start! I was wondering when you started your nursery/ babies room and what theme you chose?
Thanks in advance,
Confused and in need of inspiration,
Snoopea

I'm not even pregnant and I've started!!!

- We are having chocolate (walnut) Boori furiture (crib, chest of drawers, cradle and toy box)
- We have a big, plush mocha coloured recliner
- If we have a girl the theme will be pink and chocolate and if we have a boy it will be blue, green and chocolate (original - I know)
- We will be getting those wooden letters that will hang on the wall above the crib - spelling our baby's name

I don't want to go overboard on a theme - instead I want to have a room that will grow with my baby - I could easily go nuts on the pink for a girl and she may end up being a tomboy!

I think simple with a few bold statements is good. The most important thing is to create a warm haven for you and bubs.

I've gone for a baltic coloured crib (antique?) from babyco and matching change table, I've ordered the change pad in cream to match the existing wall colour also incase we have anymore, you never know!

I went for the fisher price aqurium bath, which is blue, my daughter picked it out and I figured the bath colour isn't going to matter too much!

My prams black and orange, so I'm going for a mix so far, but I don't know.
Originally I had a chocolate cot on layby but changed it to baltic as my sister in law bought chocolate and I want a nursery completely different to hers!

I'm painful I know but with this being bub number 3 and probably my last I just want to get it right!
Snoopea

I love the baltic colour! Very chic.

I'm all about matching and can be a bit anal when it comes to that! If I'm having pink then all the pinks will have the be the shame shade or compliment the main colour.

I have a Denim Bugaboo with the matching Moroccan OiOi Bag and I will probably get a Baba sling in navy to tie it all in. (See - anal) lol

I think it's great you are going to so much effort this time! Are you going to find out the sex?? I don't think I would be able to help myself - I would want to start decorating right away!!

I think the first place to start is the bedding set that you choose and go from there. You might find some inspiring colours from the bedding set to do your feature wall with!

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!

Snoopea

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.

Hi,

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.

We started ours last weekend, had both families down and we cleaned out the second bedrom, which was being used a s storage, we packed up everything as we will be moving from this house in about 7 months time.

We now just have a wardrobe, and set of drawers, and we still have a queen sized be set up as well, as we don't have anywhere else to put it!

We have bought or ordered the following:

Pram: Bugaboo Cameleon, red topper charcoal base, with a breezy, footmuff, uv shade and cup holder, ordered it in February, still hasn't arrived, apparently the middle of this month, but who knows! We plan to use the bassinet of the pram as bubs bed while bubs is small
Nappy Bag: Ooi Ooi Red Messenger
Car Seat: Safe and Sound Meridian, a friend has the Platinum and said to get the Meridian as it is the same except for things like speakers - which they have never used!!
Cot, Tall Boy, with Change Box addition : We hope to order the Mali Euro - I think in Cherry, just trying to find the best price, fionas - you got a ripper bargain!!! Also going to get a good innerspring mattress
Nappies, Nappies, Nappies: We picked up a couple of boxes of H Newborns, when they were out for $29, but we are planning to be mostly using MCN's got 10 Pea Pods, and going to order another 10, got them plus two Night Boosters from the Baby Expo for $160. Also have some "Real Nappies" also got a started pack from the Baby Expo, so think we are set, oh and we have the Tommee Tippee Nappy Wrapper as well.
Wraps: Plenty of muslin wraps, patterned and plain, a few flannelette ones
Clothes: We have one 0000, but mostly 000 and some 00 plus a few bigger things we have picked up on special. Today I washed the 0000 and most of the 000, plus the Pea Pods
No Bath: We arre going to see how we go using the laundry tub!
Play Mat: Fisher Price Rain Forest Mat for tummy time
Rocker: Getting one from my Cousin

Family is busy making clothes, cots sheets, gro bags, large playmats, wool blankets, Cot Quilt, and probably more I don't know about!!

We aren't painting, but at the moment we don't have carpet in there, but I think we will get it done... depends on $$

OMG eej - that artwork is gorgeous, I have just looked at the website, I will be getting some at some stage, if not for the nursery, but maybe the playroom (actually a bedroom for when we have more kids!!) in the new house! The colours are just amazing - Exactly what I love!! Might have to add it to my "wish list" on my blog!!

I didn't think that I needed to have to room cleaned out, but now that it has been done I found that I need it!!

Good Luck Snoopea, it is a great time!

Thought I would share the items that we will be buying too (thanks for the idea Victoria). I find it interesting to see what people prefer as it has helped me choose as well! Even though I'm not UTD yet - my reasoning is "If you build it, they will come".

Pram: Bugaboo Cameleon in Denim, cup holder and alternate covers (Off White and Red)
Nappy Bag: Oi Oi Morroccan Print in Midnight
Car Seat: Safe and Sound Meridian in Oxford
Furniture (Cot, Change Table, Toy Box, Cradle): Boori in Walnut (very dark Chocolate Brown)
Recliner: Carnaby Recliner in Raisen
Clothes: At the moment we have an equal amount of 0000 and 000 but from now on we will only buy 000. My feeling is that we will have quite small babies though (I was 5lb6oz at 38wks and DH was 6lb1oz at 39wks)! Plus my Mum is a mad shopper so there is no point in me buying too much stuff!
Play Mat: Fisher Price Rain Forest Mat ($79 down from $99 at Myer)
Rocker: Maclaren Vibrating Rocker
Swing: Fisher Price Baby Papasan Swing
Carrier: Baba Sling in Navy
Bedding: Caden Lane Bedding in Taylor (for a girl) or Hudson (for a boy) - these are from the US

Just need a little bubba of my own to put it all to good use now!

LOL oh boy do I feel unorganised now! Feature walls and colour cordination!
Here I was thinking my nursery was complete because it has a (brown) cot, (blue animal themed) change table and (white) rocking chair LOL! Oh and a few baby-fairy jigsaw puzzles mounted in frames on the walls, a a $2 butterfly mobile from the reject shop!
But then I felt silly even organising a nursery when we will be co-sleeping for at least 6 months, so I'm pretty surprised I've got this much done! Oh and a carrier and pram and nappy bag and car seat etc. Hasn't even cost us $1000 to set up the nursery! Although I'm betting I've forgotten something important LOL!

Thanks everyone, you've given me some idea's, thinking about green paint too!
Hope you all enjoy planning your nurserys, I'm picking up my cot ect on friday so I think it's going to be a busy weekend. Ohhh I'm so looking forward to the fight over what goes where with my hubby.:cryinglaugh:

Ours won't be completely co-ordinated, but it doesn't worry me.

We have DD's cot still, so that will be getting used, and a chest of drawers. DH is planning on doing a built in wardrobe hopefully around christmas time.

We have a change table with the built in bath, mainly to help me out with not having to bend over after my c/s. It has slide out drawers, so we will be stuffing it full of creams, nappies, singlets, towels etc when it is eventually set up. We haven't even seen it yet as it is still in the box!

Colours.... we have figured that we will wait until bub is a little older and can pick out colours etc. So for now we are using one of the colours ( a nice light silver) that we have used throughout the house and will paint one wall in a pale blue as the feature wall. On this wall we are planning on putting a sticker from the walls of the wild australia website (the baby orangutuan hanging from a tree branch, if anyone googles for them) and will paint a cloud or two on the wall as well. hopefully we can put the change table beside the sticker, so bub has something visual during bum changes.

Curtains are pooh bear, which I had made years ago for DD at a small fortune, so will definately be using them again. They have blue through them, so should hopefully match with the silver walls they will be against, plus they are thermal lined.

We also have a pooh bear table that DD use to sit at and draw and do arty crafty stuff at, which we will try to squeeze in the room as well. If it fits, we plan on getting some nice boxes to sit on top, and will fill with any spare creams, wipes etc..

Might have to get one of those hanging toy nets to store toys in for now? Haven't given that one much thought?

I have to finish cleaning out the room - still has some of DD's stuff in it. once we do that DH has to take the cupboard downstairs (he is pulling it apart and using the timber for woodwork) move the drawers out of the room, plus the spare bed and pooh bear table and then he can start painting! He is so excited about finally being at this stage with only a few weeks to go!

Nic

Hi everyone!
:dance:I'm happy to announce that our Nursery is done! YAY!!!!!!:dance:

We went for a dark green feature wall in suedue effect paint, the other walls are cream, we've put up two beach colour floating shelves, my rocking chair and change table(Baltic colour) are assembled and our Basinette is in storage in the room till bub arrives. Hopefully my cot(Baltic colour) will be in in the next week or so, once it's up We'll be off sheet and mobile shopping thinking of going a wild animal theme as there's alot around at the moment.

Thanks for all the advice and help without it i'm sure we'd still be lost!

Best of luck to all those planning your nurserys!!!
Snoopea

I am sooooo jealous of all you ladies that can have a proper nusery!

We are renting so paining a wall is out of the question!

I already have a cot, changetable, car seat, pram, clothes for a boy & cloth nappies!

have so much I want/need to get but can't as funds are tight atm!

I just wanna cry!

Mellie, we didn't have much cash with the last two monkeys and I'm determined to do it this time, if I don't I'll never have a nursery, alot of my friends have been picking up some good bargains on ebay so'll be having a look later! We were renting when I had my son as we we're building at the time so he never got a nursery and his room is still a nightmare, gotta find a toy solution for him! Thanks for your imput!
Snoopea

We were renting when DD was born, we had just moved in when I was 8 months PG so thats when I set up the nursery, the room was off white with peach coloured curtains so it was really pretty.
We bought our house when she was 4 months old & still haven't got around to painting it :( We've recently bought the paint, she will have off white walls with a pink feature wall.

Our new babys room, boy oh boy, haven't started yet. We still have to build a wall deviding it into an office & bedroom, then put a window in each room as currently theres a sliding door. Then we will be getting off white carpet (very neutral). We also need to build a second wall for extra insulation to block out noise from running water in the room next door LOL. Once the walls are built we will be painting off white & a blue feature wall.
The cot is the same one we used for DD (it was the one DH used & his brothers before him, 47 yrs old!) It's white steel.
We'll be using DD's set of white drawers with character handles (mickey mouse etc) with a change mat on the top.
We have an off white bassinette (bedroom probably wont be finished by the time bubs arrives so he'll need to be portable LOL)
We have the fisher price papasan swing
Bedding is the kidsline "silver lining" which is a Noahs Ark theme so we have the bedding, floor mat, cot mobile, clothes hamper, wall hangings & a few other things I think LOL (something DD never had but I wanted to get so this time round I grabbed it when it was on special haha)
Haven't got a bath yet as we used a change table/baby bath for DD & I decided not to use that this time as takes up too much room in my opinion.
Car seat we have the capsule for first months then he'll prob get DD's safe n sound meridian which is fantastic I might add LOL because by that time DD will move over to her booster seat, saves us buying another car seat!

So I suppose my theme is Noahs Ark, thanks to the kidsline I chose. Furniture is white.

Good to hear you've got yours sorted, I wish I could say the same for us!!! (Just having the walls built & carpet put down I'd be so very happy with!!!)

:hug:Danielle, Sounds like you've got a big job ahead of you, best of luck with the renovations!
Snoopea

LOL Thanks, yes it's a very big job & I'm the only one who seems to think 11 weeks isn't quite long enough to get it done in... DH keeps assuring me it will be done in time... yeah right!!

snoopea, YAY for finshing bubs room. A dark green suede feature wall sounds lovely. Have fun shopping for the mobile and sheets :)

DH started sanding bubs room yesterday....and we have about 18 days to go till his arrival! Sunday he will be painting, not sure how much will actually get done though? I think we will be painting the clouds on after we get home from the hospital and then we will also put up the sticker on the wall at the same time. Hopefully next weekend we will put the cot and change table together and stack if full of stuff :)

Nic

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Thought I would share the items that we will be buying too (thanks for the idea Victoria). I find it interesting to see what people prefer as it has helped me choose as well! Even though I'm not UTD yet - my reasoning is "If you build it, they will come".

Pram: Bugaboo Cameleon in Denim, cup holder and alternate covers (Off White and Red)
Nappy Bag: Oi Oi Morroccan Print in Midnight
Car Seat: Safe and Sound Meridian in Oxford
Furniture (Cot, Change Table, Toy Box, Cradle): Boori in Walnut (very dark Chocolate Brown)
Recliner: Carnaby Recliner in Raisen
Clothes: At the moment we have an equal amount of 0000 and 000 but from now on we will only buy 000. My feeling is that we will have quite small babies though (I was 5lb6oz at 38wks and DH was 6lb1oz at 39wks)! Plus my Mum is a mad shopper so there is no point in me buying too much stuff!
Play Mat: Fisher Price Rain Forest Mat ($79 down from $99 at Myer)
Rocker: Maclaren Vibrating Rocker
Swing: Fisher Price Baby Papasan Swing
Carrier: Baba Sling in Navy
Bedding: Caden Lane Bedding in Taylor (for a girl) or Hudson (for a boy) - these are from the US

Just need a little bubba of my own to put it all to good use now!

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Hey there! I thought I was organised but you have outdone me by a long way!! I am going to be trying to conceive hopefully before May next year and I have already got a few things like some clothes (they are all neutral colours so I figure it isn't that bad), a car seat (which I use because I'm a nanny), a pram (for the same reason), a nappy bag and a couple of sheet sets, but that's about it really! You are definately very organised and I think your baby is really going to have everything it needs! Good on you :D

Hey kitty_kat - all of the clothes we have bought are neutral as well - which is why I have stopped buying!! I figure that as soon as we have the baby they will be kitted out in either pink or blue and I will barely use the neutral stuff!! I did, however, buy one of those bonds easysuits in pink for luck as we both want a baby girl when the time comes!!

I figure that if I can't have the baby right now - at least I can shop for him/her - it gives me oh so much pleasure!! :lol:

Hey Amysarah - haha, what are you going to do if you have a boy then?!

Yeah I guess you are right about them being kitted out in either pink or blue, but still not everything has to be those colours once they are born, I'm sure you will still make good use of at least some of the things you have already bought! I have bought quite a lot of clothes, cuz they are just so cute and I can't resist them, but then everyone says how much stuff you always get given at baby showers and when the baby is born and everything so I'm sure I am going to end up with moutains of clothing! But that's ok!

Yeah tell me about it, I loveeeeeeeee going baby shopping! It's one of my all time favourite things now I think! I have been trying to stop myself though because I feel a bit stupid for doing it when I'm not even pregnant yet, but since you are so far ahead of me I might just have to do some catching up! hehe!

Hi!
Im new to this forum and thi is my first post!! :)
I couldnt wait to start our nursery, we started buying our baby gear almost straight away!
We are currently renting so we were a little limited in how much decorating we could do.... the room we planned to use as our nursery was already painted a light blue with a darker blue skirting boards and cornice but luckily we are having a boy so that worked out well!!
We decided not to stick to a particular theme but wanted to keep the room bright and comfy... We decided on white nursery furniture which looks great in the blue room. I found the cutest curious george wall sticker on ebay for the wall above the change table, its the first thing you see as you walk in and it really makes the room look bright and cheery :) Removable wall stickers are great if your renting and you can get matching borders as well.
The cot set we chose has little planes on it and i painted a set of 3 small canvases with little planes to match... it was a fun project and they look great when i hung them up :D

Hi Kris, sounds great, going to have a look at the re-movable wall stickers they'll brighten up the room. Thanks for the input!
Hope your enjoying bellybelly!
Snoopea

Aww I can't wait to set up our nursery. We've just moved into a horrible flat out the back of hubby's grandfather's house. It's old and gross with an outdoor toilet but it's rent free!! We're currently building our first home and I can't wait to start with the nursery. I don't think we'll be in the new home by November when bubs is due, but we can't stay in the flat (not big enuff for baby and besides too yuk and old) so we'll have to move again - but I'm keeping that dreamy nursery in sight!! I'll get there one day :D

Mellys, Sounds like you've got some big plans for that new house! We we're building our second house when bubs number 2 came along, it's not easy but well worth it in the end!
Best of luck!
Snoopea

Snoopea - thanks!! I'm not looking forward to the building part, but the moving in part will be great!! I've been harping on at poor hubby to do the impossible and have enough of it built by end of Nov, but even that means I'll either be moving with a massive bubby belly, or with a newborn - either way it's not an appealing thought *sigh*
the things we do...guess we'll look back and laugh...maybe (hee hee)
:D

If anyone is thinking of going the green unisex colour theme for the nursery and is looking for some fun manchester etc for boy or girl; Kidsline do a farmyard theme based around green as the back colour. Our baby shower present from the P-I-Ls as they were going overseas, was to buy the cot etc and the decor set and deck out the baby's room for us.

The Kidsline themed stuff doesn't finish with just the manchester though, there are dirty clothes hampers, wallpaper edgings, mats, lamps, book ends etc all in the matching prints.

I had a huge thing for cows as a teenager and so did a friend of mine. You can imagine how hard I laughed when I walked into her little newborn daughter's room and realised we had matching decor! *L*

I've only just finished ours today. I've still got 3 1/2 weeks to go but I've been off of work for a week so i got stuck into it. I just had my baby shower and can't believe how much i got, i was so suprised and grateful. I've pretty much got everything other then clothes for when it's older, only because we don't know what we are having, and a play mat/gym to lay on.
So far i have - cot and change table, Australiana brand in an oak colour. Had a mattress included.
Bassinet from Babyco.
Already had a chest of drawers that matched the cot and change table, so that was good.
Framed pictures of Pooh Bear up on the walls.
Tommee Tippee bin.
Car seat is a Mother's Choice.
Pram from Mountain Buggy.
Nappy Bag a Kappoochi from Target.
Jolly jumper.
Bouncer.
Soft baby carrier Valco from target.
Portable cot steelcraft from target.
Baby Monitor Tommee Tippee ulatimate reassurance monitor from Target.
All the essentials like creams, nappies, wipes, cloth nappies for spew rags.
sS i've been very lucky now i just want to use it all....i cant wait..:)

Our nursery is still not properly set up and our bubs is 3 weeks old!!!!

The cot is still on layby but we will probably pick it up this weekend. He's sleeping in his bassinette by our bed so it's not like it's urgent. We still have our old computer desk in his room (got to get rid of it) and all his gifts and clothes we've been given that don't fit yet are scattered all over his room. Trying to get it all under control by this weekend. The only corner of the room that is organised is the change table. Let's face it, that's got to be organised.

hehe, yeah well my plans didn't go to plan, I thought I had plenty of time to get organised, but little miss decided to arrive more than 6 weeks early throwing all of our plans into dasarray!!

We got the car seat fitted a week after her birth, she didn't come home until day 11, we picked up our Bugaboo - finally, 2 days before she came home as we are using the basinet for her to sleep in.

We have ordered the cot, chest of drawers/change box on top, Mali Euro, they should be here is about 6 weeks, but no huge rush.

We have presents everywhere, as she came 2 days after her baby shower and then we got reshowered with gifts in hospital. House looks like a bomb has hit it but am hoping to get some sorting out done today!!

We also didn't have any clothes to fit her - 1 x 0000, everything else was bigger, so the family had to go out and get a heap of 00000 and 0000, she will be in the 00000 for a while.

I have paintings to hang, I have packed all the bigger clothes into boxes for the meantime until the new drawers arrive, as we wont be needing them!!

Hmmm anyone free to come and help me :p

Beema, she's beautiful congrats and sounds like your bundle of joy is going to be one lucky girl!

Mellys, Yeppie and it'll all be worth it, once your in!

Satya, sounds like your getting there, it's amazing how much you've gotta move to clear out as room!

Lozza, wow your organised, I've slowly been buying some clothes and still got the breast pump to go! But everything else is pretty covered.

Beckibee, thanks for the advice, I'm also going kidsline I want the Zanbiar set tho, fell in love with it about 6 weeks ago in toys r us.

Wow it seems everyones organised, so glad I posted this thread it's been great to see what everyones bought and the advice has been so helpful. Wishing you all the best on your nursery plans.

Snoopea

Hello.

I started buying baby clothes and wraps etc (everything is white) about a year ago, when I was TTC, but I haven't bought any furniture yet.

Next week I have my 19 week scan, and I want to know what we are having so we (I) can start to plan the decorating theme for the nursery.

Like almost everyone, the nursery has been a junk room/ office/ sewing room until recently, and we have had to through out so much stuff! We both also pruned our book collections (his science/ fantasy, mine crime novels and literature) so we could make some room for the baby. We have a spare room set up with a queen bed and that's full of my stuff for sewing, so now I have no-where to actually sew....I make such as mess when I'm sewing!

Anyway, I have wanted to the Boori Sleigh for about 12 months, and my husband has been resisting it- he doesn't like the solid ends. If it's a girl, I'm going to insist, but if it's a boy I might be happy with the classic. I'll get the matching change table but will try to get on ebay. The nursery has a BIR and also a jarrah-stained cabinet that I can hang baby clothes in the top and drawers below. Also, I might get the Matilda cradle, as baby's room is upstairs, and ourr is downstairs, and I don't want to have to traipse up and down stairs 6 times a night!

I'm keen to go with a mostly white a splashes of red theme- something suitable for a modern house. I definitely don't want any Pooh or other licensed characters, but imagine I will get some as presents so will do my best to be gracious. Sorry, but I just don't like the Pooh!

Am building a list of what I want so I can bargain best price and buy it all at once and get it delivered. i don't like to pay full price for anything!

Hi Everyone,

I decided to go to Baby Bunting and just check out some stuff but I accidentally stayed there for 5 hours and picked out everything.

I went for the Boori Country Sleight cot, with draws and change table. Fell in love with is straight away. I bought the pram, car seat, bath, sheets, theme for the nursery, towels, lamp, monitor....pretty much "everything' I was really happy with my purchases. I completed a registry as I'm having a baby shower but I want to purchase the bigger items myself.

Now it's just a matter of paying this lay-by off and have the baby shower and I'll be set.......we've been cleaning every weekend because the spare room has so much crap in it. We need to clean the other rooms to make more room for the other things. Slowly we're getting there........ :clap: