Baby's Nursery

[Guhlia]

Ok, so we have a pink room (my first daughter's room) and a blue room which will have to be the nursery. We really don't want to recarpet because we're not planning on staying in this house for too much longer. I need ideas... The carpet is blue, the walls are white.

I was thinking maybe something along these lines: Open Original Shared Link

Do you think that's too much blue in a girl's room? I think it's pretty, but I'm not sure I really like it. Plus, what would I do with the walls. I don't have a lot of time to put into the nursery, so I can't do stencil work or anything. I need something simple and elegant. My other girl's room is all pink, so I'd like to stay away from too much pink if at all possible.

[Michi8]

Incorporating blue into a girl's room shouldn't be too hard. All of our bedrooms have blue carpeting with white walls and it works just fine in my daughter's bedroom along with her fondness for pink things.

I found this bedding from Pottery Barn Kids that has all sorts of colours including blue: Open Original Shared Link

Michelle

[Guest j_mommy]

I would do a bedding/crib set that has alot of colors....that will even out the blue carpet. One very simple way to spice up a nursery is to paint teh ceiling sky blue and use a sponge to make clouds. It's super easy!!! I did this for my son's room and for a bunch of friends who had babies the same time as myself!!!

[blueeyedmanda]

You could do a Noah's Ark theme or Aquarium/Fish theme and those would match great with the blue. My favorite color is blue.

[Phyllis28]

You could do a circus theme with bright colors. Blue, Yellow, Green, and Red.

[Jo.R]

That nursery set was cute. My girls nursery was barn red and blue. Since I didn't use the comforter in the crib, I used it as a wall hanging. I also got wooden hearts (if I had a boy I would have used something else), and wooden letters to spell their names and painted them to match the nursery. It was cheep, easy and cute. Add flowers or hearts and the blue room will be as girly as the pink.

[Guhlia]

Okay, so I decided to go with that nursery set from Target, ordered the whole set today. It doesn't come with any wall hangings or anything so I figure I'll hang the comforter. I was also planning on scanning in the floral patterns and making sillouhette (sp?) framed pictures using the different patterns.

Does anyone have any other cute ideas for decorating the room? There was no matching wallpaper border or anything. I really don't want to invest a whole lot of time into it, but I want to do something else cute. I'm not a painter, but I'm pretty handy with the computer. I have photoshop and I also have a vinyl cutter (does not have printing capabilities). Any cute ideas that are relatively simple and inexpensive to pull off?

I was thinking of maybe doing a mirror with faux etching that matched the floral pattern... I'm not sure how difficult that will be to do though. I've never tried to turn a graphic into an outline before and I'm not sure my software will like the idea.

[TinkerbellSwt]

I really like the set from Target. I think its pretty. The etching on a mirror sounds wonderful. I know I dont have the talent to do something like that, my sons walls are plain white (well we rent too) with a pink carpet (sooo bad). So we hung a Mickey Mouse picture on the wall, one made and drawn at Disney.. and that is about it.. we have the letters to hang his name up, just never got to it..

but I love that set.. very nice!!

[2Boys4Me]

Gee, now I feel inadequate because I didn't decorate my kid's rooms.

When my older son was born, we put up a wallpaper border (Royal Dalton Bunnykins or something like that) that was gender neutral. We didn't find out the baby's gender either time. I bought a gender neutral bedding set with animals on it: lions, giraffes, etc., and we got some hand-me-downs from my sisters-in-law. When we had my younger son we had moved to a different city, he got the hand-me-down crib and bedding from his older brother and no wallpaper border. He didn't spend much time there unless he was sleeping. Now his room has two royal blue walls (a PITA to paint) and two turquoise walls (looks like a million bucks), numerous pictures, posters, etc.

For each grandchild my MIL made a cross stitch picture for the wall, and had an artist friend make a pastel drawing of the childs initial with an animal. Walker has a purple W with two giraffes looped around it, and Ty has a T (as well as the name Tyler...he's the only kid with his full name in the picture) with a tiger growling around it.