Comments on: Top 10 basic tips for designing a nursery

By: Tod

Tod — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:03:10 +0000

Hi!

Where can I get that dresser from item 10 in this article?! I’ve been looking for that for MONTHS!

Thanks

By: jacqui

jacqui — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:15:09 +0000

Yes there are children who have nothing, not even parents, and they grow up fine too, but that does not mean that we shouldn’t try to be the best parents we can be. For those of you who have had no trouble getting pregnant and having as large family, please understand that there are some of us who waited years for a child, never thought we would have a baby far less a nursery to put it in, and every experience, even choosing changing pads is something to be cherished. I had no idea what furniture was even necessary before this. Great site and great ideas.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:22:40 +0000

Just had to say that pictures hung over cots are a really big risk if they are framed. All it takes is for the hook to fail or the baby to fling their bear at the picture and suddenly that picture and all it’s weight/glass are down in the cot. Fabric hangings or paper are fine but worth staying away from anything else…don’t mean to be a black rain cloud but safety comes first chez nous )

By: Waya

Waya — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:46:55 +0000

Nice site you have here, glad I found it! I also used other resources when decorating for my 3 children. I’d like to share some of my own tips with you as well, if I could.

Pls click on the link below to read further. Thanks!

http://www.beforebaby.com/waya/2006/03/07/kids-rooms-makeoverby-mommy/
and
http://www.beforebaby.com/waya/2006/04/05/do-it-yourself-artwork/

By: Hsien Lei

Hsien Lei — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:46:29 +0000

Take care with chemicals in the new baby nursery too. I wrote a post about this a while ago at Play Library.

By: arc

arc — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:13:49 +0000

fun fun fun…thank you!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:14:43 +0000

After hitting ‘post’ and rereading everying, I think I was perhaps reading more into what Joan was saying than was there. I’m sorry if anyone took offense. Still there were some good points all around.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:04:10 +0000

“… and yet, there are so many, many children who never have the privelege of a designer nursery, and they grow up just fine. As the mother of four, I say, keep things simple, natural and tidy, and your child will learn that beautiful doesn’t have to mean trendy or magazine-worthy.

Joan”

Making this nice for a child is an outward expression of love and is something that I believe most parents try to do for their children in one way or another. For some parents that means simply “making things tidy,” as you say, for others it means painting walls and scrounging for secondhand furniture. And certainly there are those for who a trendy or magazine-worthy nursery is the goal but I don’t thing that’s what’s being discussed here.

Yes, there most definitely is excess in this world and there are many children (and adults for that matter) who go without even the basic necessities of food, water, and shelter. But creating a beautiful space for a child to sleep and play in and being mindful of the existence of poor and underprivileged people are not mutually exclusive.

You do bring up a good point though. It’s important not to raise our children in a vacuum. Perhaps topics such as teaching children to be charitable, teaching them not to be wasteful, and teaching them about the worth of things are subjects that can be written about here on Kiddley in the future.

By: kate

kate — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:46:40 +0000

Some great thoughts here.

One idea we have used is to build a wall of cupboards (with 4 plain doors across a standard victorian house room) with the middle 2 doors hinged for opening flat against the others. The shelving in the mid section is designed as a table/desk with light and power outlet built in. It can be change table with mat, in between a place for folding clothes etc and later a desk for youngsters. The inside of doors can be painted with blackboard paint for messages, notes!, diary facts re bub for later and eventually a drawing space for toddler/kiddlet. We currentl have “things” hanging off them including Ikea buckets for rubbish/ calendar etc.

And we used paint left over from other rooms/sample pots to paint back walls of cupboards which really helps challenged other-half to locate things (ie “it is in the blue section”).

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:15:27 +0000

great pointers… My six month old is still in her make-shift room. Paint is there, energy is not… Our long weekend is dedicated to working on that… I hope your’s brings a baby to put in your freshly decorated nursery