hey all didnt know exactly where to put his since it is about aiden and the soon to be lil one. well we had offered on a house in georgia a week ago and we got the house i am so excited!!!!!!!! now here's my dilema i need some creative ideas to design a room for aiden and this new baby not sure if its a girl or boy. so if any one has some good ideas for a unisex nursery/toddler room i would appreciate it alot especially the colors im not sure what may or may not work. thanks a bunch
i'm leaning towards doing a light yellow/sage green theme with bumble bees and classic winnie the pooh stuff. It's super cute, and is great for either a boy or a girl. if i were having a girl i would've used alot of lavender as well. i love how all the colors look together. but congrats on your new house! and good luck with the room... just have fun decorating. i'm sure it will turn out great
i was kind of thinking about maybe a garden type theme?????????? with the grass and flowers with maybe pooh bear and his friends gardening or something?????? OR kind of seperate the room in two and have one side be boyish then when i do find out th sex of this baby i could paint it to kind of GO with the other side if its a girl........
Lots of oranges and greens. An outdoor theme is a great idea b/c what kid doesn't love bein outside? Also dragonflies would work with the outside theme b/c they're close enough to butterflies to be girly but they work for boys too.
keep it simple. Ask Aiden what he wants, because if you do it all up, he will decide he wants something different next year. I'd go for one bright solid color on the walls, maybe a simple stencil that you can paint over when kids decide they don't like it anymore. Definitely nothing too babyish. My kids spend so little time in the "nursery" mostly it's just toy storage, and who cares how you decorate a closet? FWIW, ours is painted a lovely royal blue with white stars stamped on the wall with sponges, and bright white trim and doors. I painted it the night before my water broke with Jenny, two days before she was born. I guess that was my "nesting" LOL We have one of those foam ABC puzzle floor mats, and lots of shelves/storage. the furniture is all pine.
Gardens work well - you could take a "garden" room and turn it into a "camping" room pretty quick as he gets older too. If the room is big enough, one of those teeny tiny tents full of pillows makes a wonderful hiding place & reading nook. My son has had one of those for years... he's 11 now and he STILL doesn't want it taken down. We did my son's room in an outdoor camping theme - his walls have are done with denim at the bottom, and off-white above that. I figured it would go with anything he could want his room to look like. My daughter's room is a "secret garden" room, and since her favorite color is (gag!) pink, all of the fabric decorations are pink... but the walls themselves are just sky blue with clouds painted in. It helps to offset all that pinkness. I even took a garden arch ($5 at a craft store) and covered it in a pink window scarf & several silk flower garlands to use as a "headboard" for her bed. She LOVES it You could do something similar with leaf garland & maybe a sunflower or two for a gender-neutral room. love, mom
Yellow or sage is what I was going to suggest also. I bought a lot of yellow stuff for Alexis while pregnant. I bought a Precious Moments crib set (even though we don't use the crib), it looks like it'd be nice for a boy or girl.
My childhood nursery had cream walls with peach trim. It was lovely, even though I later found out it was only that way because my Dad bought the paint in a mistake bin for cheap!
my son spent a grand total of six hours in his "nursery" from birth to age 4. By then, I'd conceeded the one bedroom in our (new) apartment to him. If I had it to do again, I'd design a hang out and play area that just might have a spot for a nap. (even if it was my nap!) redoing a room over and over is expensive and wasteful of resources, and aren't we supposed to be some kind of different? make an into school age plan, what colors can stay (per hsmama) ? What furniture will have second lives? Can a desk for later be rigged as a changing table now, even if you have to staple a waterproof table cloth on it for now? Think how useful those drawers would be as a chest of drawers, too. maybe stapling fabric to the walls for color rather than toxic paints? but no matter what: shelves. Lots of shelves.
yeah definetly lots of shelving and drawers. and well you do make a rather good point with how little time he will be in there. but then again it will also be his play room and the new baby will stay in our room for the first year or two. but i just want to repaint the room cuz it looks so dingy and just icky. plus they have non toxic safe paint out there si it will be safe for aiden and the baby. but the fabric idea is great i might just do that. thanx for idea.
