What color was your baby's nursery?

[coliebird]

When I moved into the house (my husband already owned it), the walls in the one bedroom were lavendar. So I just left them, then when I got pregnant I didn't want to find out what I was having so I got neutral crib bedding, etc. (I did the My Baby Snoopy). It matched the walls. I had a girl. Now that she is almost 2 and almost ready for a bed, I am keeping the walls lavendar and I got bedding to match. I want to make her a girly room, but I don't want to paint.

 

[frannn]

I don't like the color pink or blue, so I decided to go with a neutral beige. We would've done a light puple, but that would not have matched the Pooh crib stuff I bought. I have the whole Pooh crib set, curtains, wastebasket, hamper, wall hangings, which has all neutral colors in it. This way, it will be easier to "upgrade" the room to whatever DD wants as she grows. My DD15 and DD11 want to paint their rooms black or some weird combo-eeeccchhhh- no way!

 

[scarlett873]

we aren't pregnant (yet), but i am always planning what the nursery will look like!

i have recently discovered the show "make room for baby" on the discovery health channel. i am obsessed with it! it's kind of like "while you were out" only the parents know what's going on at home. they just don't know what theme, etc...once mom goes into labor, this team comes into the house and decorates the nursery or a play room or whatever for them. they usually recruit a friend or family member to help...and then the big reveal is when mom and baby come home. it's a neat show! check it out if you need ideas!!! so far, my favorite is the rageddy ann and andy theme!

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

With Remy, we wanted a PALE green, but it turned out so bright a neon green that when you had the light on it reflected into the hallway. So..we went with a pale blue and turned it into Blues Clues nursery.

With Holly, the girls have to share a room so it is a pink Disney Princess wonderland. We found a Princess crib set to match the one Remy has and it looks adorable.

 

[poochie]

When I was pregnant with DD my first. I did the room in a bright sunflower yellow. The bedding and drapes and rug were all white. Along with some nursery pictures on the wall and a Bambi lamp with the dark wood furniture it was quite charming. My favorite thing to do was sit in the rocking chair with her and just sing to her and rock her to sleep. That was 22 yrs ago. I get all mushy just remembering. Where did the time go.

 

[skuttle]

we found out what we were having, so we picked boy colors. We rent our house and can't paint so the walls are just neutral. I didn't want a character nursery set and I didn't want pastels. I picked a set from Target that was patchwork with blues, greens, and white. The curtains are navy with the matching valance from the nursery set on top. I wanted the nursery to be disney but without having to get pooh or the baby disney stuff, so we hung lithographs from our pre-ordered movies in the room along with a Disney ABC poster and other disney touches. I love the way it came out.

 

[leslielaws]

Hello! This will be random and a long shot, but do you still have any of your Yippee Coyote set? I have part of the set (lamp, wall hangings) but would love to acquire sheets, comforter, mobile, whatever else I can find.

If you still have it and would be willing to sell some items, let me know.

Thanks,
Leslie Laws

 

[hulagirl87]

We are painting our nursery a very light yellow. We will eventually be finding out the sex of the baby, but I can't wait that long to paint. I need to see some progress in the room! we tore off wallpaper, pulled up carpet, are getting new windows.... then it will be paint time.

 

[mtemm]

we picked light yellow, which ended up working out perfectly. our first was a boy and we had picked gorgeous pbk bedding...blue with white and yellow stars/moons. it was gorgeous. the second time we got pregnant we ended up with b/g twins so again the yellow worked (they shared a room). they yellow went perfectly with both my sons's moon/stars bedding (inherited from his olding brother) as well as my daughter's pink/green/yellow butterfly bedding.

 

[laughinplace199]

DD's room was (and still is) pink. The paint color is called "Bunny Slippers".

DS's room was white with a border. Now it's plain white until we decide how we want to decorate it. This is kind of tricky since our 2 boys share a room and they're 5 yrs apart. They don't exactly have the same interests. The little guy would love Lightning McQueen or Buzz & Woody, but his big brother wouldn't go for that.

 

[mfd25wife]

My husband and I don't have children yet, but were discussing this topic the other day.

I like gender specific colors, yes even for a nursery. My husband wants to paint the nursery yellow if we have a girl. I find yellow to be too netural. (Yellow could be for either sex, but I guess it depends on the shade.) For me it's, blue, green, etc. for boy, and pink, purple for girl. (We've also talked about leaving the walls white and display some type of nursey themed decals.)

What color did you decide on, and why did you pick it?

Thanks,
Michelle

Disney Babies in primary colors. We even took an older chest and painted it white. Each drawer was a different primary color. We put the painted knobs and put them on other colored drawers e.g. blue on red drawers.

 

[Piecey]

I had a "Help me pick a color for my nursery" thread on here and people led me to.... taupe.

Something I had never considered before but it works very well.

I didn't want "gender specific colors" and his nursery is a bit interesting...

 

[HunnyPots]

Now mind you, this was 22 and 18 years ago, but my daughter's room was bright yellow with the Care Bears on everything. We did not know the sex before she was born. My son's room was pink and blue with big pink bunnies all over, because at the first ultrsound I was told it looked like another girl! I went home and went crazy with the pink bunnies, only to find out a couple of months later, that HE most definitely was NOT a girl!

 

[IDoDis]

We kept it neutral with a greenish-blue color. We put a wood molding across the wall at window sill height and painted above that line the blue-green color. Then we painted clouds over that. The comforter set & window coverings had bears with paint cans so a friend made a set of hanging paint cans with paint coming out of the sides and bears holding onto the edges of each can which we hung from a hook on the ceiling. it was so cute!

When we sold the house I thought someone who had a young child or was planning on having kids would fall in love with the nursery. However, the buyer ended up being a single female police officer who requested that we paint the walls back to a very neutral color. That was a bummer!

 

[golfgal]

Way back when our kids's rooms were white walls on the top and wallpaper on the bottom with a border around the middle. The wallpaper was done in primary colors, red, blue, yellow as well as some green.

 

[vetrik]

We didn't find out the sex, so we kept it neutral.

The nursery is painted 2 shades of light blue, with clouds. The furniture is espresso brown, and the accessories are light blue & white.

We ended up having a girl, so we're planning to add in some butterfly items too add some colors. If it was a boy, we probably would have done airplanes or kites.

 

[Liberty Belle]

My oldest's were white, but we were in an apartment and couldn't paint the walls. When he was a little older (2), we painted his walls a greyish blue. My youngest's walls were a kind of dusty medium green (with pale yellow bees stenciled on them).

 

[boltfans]

Yellow with my daughter (and we knew she was a girl, it was just the color I liked) and sort of a clay-green with my son. I actually picked the colors from their bedding sets. My daughter had a dark blue bedding with yellow moons (and pink and green accents too, but primarily the moons) so we picked yellow. My son had a mostly beige set with bunnies and sheep and the accents were dusty blue and dusty green.

This time around, the baby will be going into the same room my son was in as a baby, so I won't be changing the wall color, just looking for a bedding set that matches.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Good to see some of these old, long gone DIS'ers on this thread from so many years ago.

I think we had, (over 30 years ago) a very light blue and some wallpaper with blues and yellows. I think it remained the same for both kids.

 

[KitKat_Tink]

at our old house, my mom made the nursery a rainbow color. I belive the base was blue and then it had sponged purple and pink and yellow on it. We had a bunny wall paper and big fabric ballons on the walls.