Throughout the pregnancy stages, you may have noticed that your ideas for your baby’s nursery change from day to day. This is completely natural, as it’s difficult to know exactly what you want and how you want to display everything. Start by making yourself a mood board to gather all of your favourite ideas, from colours and materials, to essential décor features and furniture pieces. Once you know what you want for your little one’s nursery, you can get onto designing the perfect space to welcome them home to.
Plan the Layout
The first thing you should do before you decorate the room is figure out exactly what you’re going to have in the room and where it’s going to go. Doing this before you decorate the room will prevent any markings from the tape measure and other items from damaging the freshly painted walls. You may also find that once you’ve introduce your furniture pieces, there is the perfect space for a feature wall, which you may decide to decorate with a bold wallpaper or a different colour to add a little contrast to the room.
Paint and Colours
For those who don’t know the sex of the baby, this stage can actually be much easier than for those decorating specifically for a boy or girl. Choosing neutral colours are perfect for providing your baby with a calm and relaxing nursery that will allow them to settle and sleep well. Bright colours can often cause distractions and be a disturbance to a new born, so you want to stick to a calm, pastel toned colour scheme. When decorating the room, it’s important to use the right equipment pieces, including high quality brushes and rollers, a strong and sturdy platform ladder and child-friendly paint that won’t leave strong fumes behind for days after the paintwork has dried.
Position with Caution
Changing nappies can become a challenging process if your bin is at the other end of the room to the changing table, so it’s important to position certain items in appropriate places. You want to have your baby’s cot positioned central, as this will make it easy for you to put your baby into the cot and take them out again. You then have items like your rocking chair, which would be ideal next to the window for a lovely spot to sit and enjoy the beautiful view with your little one in your arms. These simple positioning choices will help you to utilise the space properly and make sure your child’s nursery is practical and easy for you to use.
Child-Friendly Touches
Once you have designed a practical and safe nursery space for your little one, you can then focus on introducing child-friendly touches that are going to make the space warm and welcoming. There are some really precious design features that can really transform a simply baby’s nursery into a cosy space for them to grow. One of the most popular additions to a baby’s nursey is a delicate mobile positioned above their cot. This will not only help your little one drift off into the land of nod, but it will also add character to the room and make it look lovely. Other lovely touches for your little one’s nursey include a monogrammed toybox to keep all of their favourite items in, some photo frames ready to put gorgeous photos of your new-born into, lots of good books for bedtime stories and last but not least, a special teddy for them to cherish and help them sleep well. These features can all be switched around and changed slightly for each individual person, but these are the most popular nursery features that help to make the space really cosy and homely.
