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NURSERIES!!!..
a PP had stated this board was weight obsessed and there ARE so many other things we can be talkinga bout soo....let me be the guinea pig...and there better not be 3 replies to this with 24 replies to the wednesday countdown LOL(WE KNOW HOW MANY DAYS WE HAVE LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!)

i am 24 wks and just started getting things ready...cribs were ordered and will be in sometime next week....we picked out paint color....hung up some wall hanging from the bedding set....so heres my question.....

anyone else feel like they DON"T want to make the nursery a cheesy,gymboree looking place....i mean the bedding has monkey...giraffe..but its more like pop modern art...so its our style....but i cannot stomach the winnnie thepooh growth charts...the elmo everything......i obviously registerd for the "kiddie" items and bought pooh and tigger bathrobes for the twins but i just want there nursery to look like another room in our house rather then sttick out like a sore thumb.....POST YOUR BEDDING...and decor pics......i have the boys stuff in our albums....

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Great post ( ).

See, I'm a traditional mama-to-be, so I went with a traditional nursery like set. I'm not into the modern nursery styles. I like pastels, I like a baby's room to look and feel like a baby's room.

So far, our nursery is done. YIPPY! I will take pics after DH puts away all the Christmas boxes in the middle of the room.

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I don't know what I am having yet, but if it's a girl I fell in love with this bedding....

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We're in a one bdrm apt so no nursery. For this reason I wanted the crib bedding to match our bedroom decor. I'm also not into the nursery characters and real "baby" decor to begin with, but with our bedroom being a mix of different browns, the crib bedding we chose is brown, tan, navy and a brick red color.

I'm already not happy with it though I decided, because although it's not too babyish (it's a sports theme) I'd rather it still be more plain. Like just some stripes or piping, something along those lines, in dark brown, white/cream, maybe some green or navy. I don't like pastels so although there's lots of brown bedding out there most of it is too light and it's with baby blue. I don't like baby blue. So now my shower invites go out next week and I still am not happy with my bedding choice.

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I am getting b/c I don't like anything cheesy and 'babyish' - it's just not my style - I don't care what anyone else does in their home for their baby, but this one is MINE !!! And I think I should get to do it MY way w/o the annoying opinions about what other people think I 'should' do

i don't like themes, I don't like animals, or characters or trucks or cars or whatever - The room is already a great color blue, so I am thinking of doing 2 walls in a stripe (Just add a thick white stripe and thinner navy stripe) I was throwing around the idea of yellow, but it would have to be a bright nautical yellow, not a babyish yellow ....

I am going to have old photographs of Baby K's Great Grandpas put on canvas and hung on the walls (the solid blue walls........) And I saw very plain striped bedding I liked in Pottery Barn . - Have to now pick out furniture - Prob a very dark ir not black wood -

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For my , the walls will be sage my furniture is expresso brown. Here are my cribs and bedding. I'm not into bright colors or themes....

My crib:


My bedding:

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Great topic!!! I guess we went a bit traditional. We did blue walls (baby blue) and cherry wood furniture.

The baby's bedding looks like this: (when we have a girl, obviously this will all change!)

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Posted by leighdvm

For my , the walls will be sage my furniture is expresso brown. Here are my cribs and bedding. I'm not into bright colors or themes....

My crib:
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My bedding:
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We went kinda in the middle. I don't love the super babyish stuff like Pooh, but I also don't love when the baby's room looks like a regular room adults would be lounging around in. So this is our bedding:



As far as stuff we have done...We're a bit behind what our schedule was, but we're still ok. The office still isn't emptied in order to BECOME the nursery. But we're almost there. Next week an electrician is putting in an overhead light and fan. Then DH will paint at some point in December. Our furniture has arrived and is being held until the beginning of January. Then my shower is the end of January, at which point I'll start setting up the room and decorating more.

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We actually finished our nursery this past weekend, I'll take pics today and post them. Its a temporary nursery because we could only fit one crib in this room, so the babies will share for a few months while we get the "real' nursery ready. The room is not very babyish, and when we do the other room we will decorate the same way.

I personally do not like a lot of characters, but everyone has different tastes.

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Posted by MarisaK

I am getting b/c I don't like anything cheesy and 'babyish' - it's just not my style - I don't care what anyone else does in their home for their baby, but this one is MINE !!! And I think I should get to do it MY way w/o the annoying opinions about what other people think I 'should' do

i don't like themes, I don't like animals, or characters or trucks or cars or whatever - The room is already a great color blue, so I am thinking of doing 2 walls in a stripe (Just add a thick white stripe and thinner navy stripe) I was throwing around the idea of yellow, but it would have to be a bright nautical yellow, not a babyish yellow ....

I am going to have old photographs of Baby K's Great Grandpas put on canvas and hung on the walls (the solid blue walls........) And I saw very plain striped bedding I liked in Pottery Barn . - Have to now pick out furniture - Prob a very dark ir not black wood -

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another question....our nursery isn't a really big room but our bedroom is....and tey are literally 10 feet away from each other....im thinking about putting changing table in our room and just cribs in theirs.....this way the room isnt taken over by furniture....and they will be sleeping with us i am sure for the first few months...weeks at least so having changiing station near will be helpful...anyone else putting a changing table int heir room??

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I also wanted a nursery that blended in with my house. I didn't want a cutesy themed character room. I used neutral beiges and browns. I love it!!

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Posted by MarisaK

I am getting b/c I don't like anything cheesy and 'babyish' - it's just not my style - I don't care what anyone else does in their home for their baby, but this one is MINE !!! And I think I should get to do it MY way w/o the annoying opinions about what other people think I 'should' do

i don't like themes, I don't like animals, or characters or trucks or cars or whatever - The room is already a great color blue, so I am thinking of doing 2 walls in a stripe (Just add a thick white stripe and thinner navy stripe) I was throwing around the idea of yellow, but it would have to be a bright nautical yellow, not a babyish yellow ....

I am going to have old photographs of Baby K's Great Grandpas put on canvas and hung on the walls (the solid blue walls........) And I saw very plain striped bedding I liked in Pottery Barn . - Have to now pick out furniture - Prob a very dark ir not black wood -

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This is the bedding I like -
W/o the monogram -

The inside of the bumper is blue, bu the outside (seeing it from the crib) is white w/ the stirped piping. -
And the skirt is white w/ the striped piping -

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Posted by Hofstra26

I also wanted a nursery that blended in with my house. I didn't want a cutesy themed character room. I used neutral beiges and browns. I love it!!

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Even though I am having a , I decided to go with something gender neutral for the nursery.





I will have dark espresso furniture with it.

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I agree with you, I"m sooo anti characters and animals and things, I think it's easier for girls to shy away from that, with boys thats mainly what I see...I think pbkids has some cute things..see my album, i have a very girly girly girly room with some quirky elements...

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This is what we did for my DD's nursery, this was when we had no idea if she was a girl or boy. I LOVED it and kept all the bedding and accessories for #2. We're in a new house, but I painted her room the same colors, so we'll just end up moving DD to a new room, giving her all new decor, and doing this again for the new baby.

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This is DS' nursery now. While pregnant with him, we didn't find out the sex.
We won't be finding out this time either.
Baby will be going in this nursery and DS will move into a "Big Boy Room".

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my dc will be sharing a room, probable when this baby is about 5m old.. depending on how my dd is then. As of now leaving nursery as is.. its pink with kidlines bedding and curtains. The curtains have butterflys on them and so does the bedskirt, the rug matches a bit of color in those. Im not big on the character theme rooms, so we went more for a pretty baby girl theme I guess.

If this baby is a girl we will leave nursery the same.. if boy we will paint half the room probable i nice shade of blue to match the rug and then just change the curtains.. this way he will have his side of room and dd will have her side.. until we get a house.

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I am having a boy and was having a hard time deciding between a sports theme or animals. I decided to go with the more babyish look and save the sports for when the room becomes a toddler room.

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I don't want any characters in our nursery as well. My mom is actually making out bedding because we wanted something neutral and we didn't love anything we found in the stores. We did find two fabrics that we love. I do not have any pictures yet but the nursery will be a mix of light blue, brown, cream and tan.