I am just curious as to what them you had/have for your nursery?
If you decided to not find out the sex of the baby, how did you decorate?
Has anyone done a different or unusual theme?
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I am just curious as to what them you had/have for your nursery?
If you decided to not find out the sex of the baby, how did you decorate?
Has anyone done a different or unusual theme?
We don't know what we're having so our theme is neutral.
The nursery was one of our spare bedroms so we have left the walls and curtains as they were (soft brown walls and brown, striped modern curtains - we're in a brand new home). We did this for two reasons: resale (as we plan on moving in the next few years) and I'm not really into pink/blue nurseries. I'd prefer to accessorise.
The nursery furniture is all Boori in a chocolate brown (as is our bedroom furniture and spare room bedroom suite).
The machester is 'Zoofari' by Lambs & Ivy - very cute and funky. They have lots of goodies to go with it such as lamps, mobile (which we bought also), growth charts, arm chairs and stuffed toys (we got the giraffe - so cute!) The machester is quite green so I'll accessorise with greens. The cover for the change table mat is a gorgeous, soft green KidsLine cover. Looks great with all the brown.
Have fun!
we have done a stars theme - not particularly unusual but we did it so we can put up stars to honor our angel babies as well as our earth baby (when she gets here!)
When pregnant we chose to not know the sex of the bub ... so, i did the nursery room in * Nursery Rhymes themes * ... I found a pkt of removable wall transfers in the Baby Bunting shop that had all sorts of old fashioned nursery rhymes that i grew up with like Hickory D**kory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, Hey diddle diddle, ... :D
I found a lot of things on eBay when i just typed in Nursery Rhymes ;)
After birth & then knowing we had a girl i then added a splash of Pink things here & there in her nursery room :dance:
DD is now 3 and she still has the wall transfers & her nursery rhyme lamp :D
good ideas so far girls! I like animal and farm themes but would like to do something a bit different. Seems there are a few people who decide to have a surprise baby too...
I have brown ish walls too and will keep it like that, mainly because I hate painting and the thought of painting make me cringe!
I have found a few things on ebay but the things I am after are so expensvie... guess I will keep looking.
My friend has stars and moon theme. It looks great.
With Darcy, we didn't find out her sex, so her walls were mint green with a levender argyle pattern that I marked out and painted on one wall.
We had the kidline Monterey Set which was unisex colours with diamonds and stars and all white furniture.
Nate inherited the set and the furniture sadly, but it actually looks better in his latte coloured room :rolleyes:
Our nursery which was set up in our old house was a Noahs ark theme, it all stemmed from a beautiful noahs ark cot panel in Spotlight plus I liked that it was gender neutral, I bought some of the co-ordinating fabric to decorate cushions, lamp etc. I found ebay really helpful too buying book ends and mobile and friends bought a gorgeous print.
At the moment we are renting while we build so our daughter has a fairly neautral room but I will decorate her a real little girls room in lilac and will re-use all our noahs ark stuff for our little bubba
We didn't know the gender of our baby so decided on doing a brighter green colour and stars with white furniture, It all looked really nice with softer stuffed teddies etc of different colours.. If you have a look at walkk stickers etc as a few above have mentioned- you can find SO many different ones on Ebay aswell, really nice polka dots and cars and farm animals etc..
we didn't find out the sex of bub either and decided on a jungle theme. fortunately we own our house so i painted a massive baby jungle animals mural (in soft pastel colours) on half of a wall in the nursery. i drew it from a pic, but you could easily trace a pic. it cost me bout $60 in paint to do this but worth every cent and it turned out fantastic. i put a plain blue border up, and then just decorated it with the babies furniture. the rest of the room is white and i found the mural all i needed to brighten up the room.
We knew Zander was a boy before we decorated & did a Rugrats theme. We painted the top 3/4 of the room blue (sky) and the bottom 1/4 green (grass). With Juliette we knew she was a girl & painted in Huggies newborn green (took the box to Bunnings LOL) and decorated with fairies & butterflies.
SARAH H-
I had to have a giggle @ you taking the Huggies box into Bunnings to match the colour- For my sons room, it is now bright brgith green...and i took a box of tampons in because i wanted the green of the box for his room!!!! (was just the most perfect green for his room i felt massivly ridiculous for taking in the little box!!)
We did find out the sex but i still wanted something gender neutral as you never know what future kids are going to be, so we went for jungle animals. If DD has a youngerbrother or sister she will get a new room with more girly things.
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.
I have the room set up now except all the linen is still in its packaging in draws. I think I have some pics in the gallery if you wanted to check it out. https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...hp?photo=12514
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.
Nae x
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 didn't know the sex of Harrison and we decorated everything white and stars... it was beautiful.
We don't know Bumpty's sex and we're doing a dragonfly theme with mint green & lemon.
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....:D 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...
some good inspiration in here!
We've gone mocha coloured furniture, but I was so surprised though to see just how expensive cot sheet/quilt sets are! We know that we're having a girl, but we decided to go with the Katie Little "Savannah" set which is a gorgeous pastel green and cream with giraffes so that we can use it for future bubs regardless of gender. So I found some cute bookends in the same green on ebay, and will accent the room with some pastel pink, cream and green toys and cushions etc.
I'm also a huge Beatrix Potter fan and have found the cutest stuffed Peter rabbit, Mrs Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck toys. We are due to move into our new house though about 3 weeks before bub is due so i wont have too long to set it all up!
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hi mitzy
We dont know the sex of our bub either, and thus went for a nutrel colour to decorate the nursery in.
We were fortunate enough to buy a full nursery set from a friend for only 100 dollars. which included an almost new cot, and a green safari themed nursery set. came with a lamp, floor mat, sheet set, blanket, mobile, bumper, linen basket etc.
I think its a good idea to stick with green or yellow. I was thinking of going with purple, but my partner said it was too girlie, however i find purple to be in between pink and blue.
anyway, hope all is well for you.
Silly me went overboard buying blue outfits, and before too long i realised the cupboard was starting to suit only a boy, i have had to resist the urge to buy more clothes until after bub is born :)
Its so hard buying nutrel clothes! so ive had to stick to plain pants, tops and jumpsuits :)
We went with a Sesame Street theme, which we picked before we knew that DS was a boy.
We would have just painted the walls a different colour if we'd had a girl (pink and green instead of blue and green which we did for DS)
when our time comes we are doing ours in BEES
sarahxxxx