Nursery corner in our bedroom

[Anonymous]

We are staying in our place for at least a year with baby girl. Our bedroom is big enough for now and we have enough room for a glider and her snoo, eventually a mini crib. Potentially a little short toy shelf and small drink table/slim nightstand or rolling cart.

Our initial idea was to wallpaper "her wall" it's the big wall opposite of our bed. And get a nice rug for under her crib. Wall bookshelves that will towards the bedroom door so with the door open the books would be behind the door.

We can also get an organizer for behind the door.

We have a nice dresser/entertainment center from PB that we are using as her changing table and clothing storage. We also have some space for hanging things in our bedroom closet.

Any tips on maximizing a little corner? Or must have organizers for sharing the bedroom? Any ideas on decor or making it cozy.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know about decorating. But we did this and my best advice is to make her “corner” as far away as possible after about 4 months. Our room is huge so it was fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about decorating. But we did this and my best advice is to make her “corner” as far away as possible after about 4 months. Our room is huge so it was fine.

Haha we will. We are limited as to how far she can be in our room but we plan to get a mini crib with wheels and we have a remi playyard if needed that we can set up in the living room or just wheel her out. Plus slumber pod. And all the sound machines. Hopefully it works.

[Anonymous]

We had our DD in our room for the first year. Mini crib about 2 feet from the foot of our bed. A single decoration on the wall above her crib. She literally couldn’t have cared less.

[Anonymous]

I would not wallpaper. That is over the top and will not be great for resale value.

This worked for us but some babies won't settle if they can see you. So the plan for another room, or even a screen will work.

She won't care about decorations. Don't overbuy now. You may not need a lot of the stuff you described. Will she be in daycare? if yes, fewer toys are needed.

[Anonymous]

Decorating the nursery is for the parents, but that’s important! If it’s important to you.

Honestly though I know there’s some official recommendation for room sharing for a year but I would have died. Babies are really loud sleepers. I need to be able to use my room. Six months? Sure. A year? Not if you can avoid it. Consider all of your options.

[Anonymous]

How about in the Living Room: a standing screen around the crib. A comfortable chair to rock. Babies can be changed anywhere. Get some sleep. Keep your bedroom your bedroom.

[Anonymous]

Same room is fine. Some people even prefer it for convenience. Your plan for decorating sounds fine too, OP.

I'd use a bookshelf for toys instead of a rolling cart, though. Eventually the baby is going to start pulling up onto all the furniture, and a rolling cart may not be ideal.

[Anonymous]

Just get what you need as you need it - I see no need for a toy shelf in the bedroom under a year but if you do you'll get that then

[Anonymous]

Don’t wallpaper

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had our DD in our room for the first year. Mini crib about 2 feet from the foot of our bed. A single decoration on the wall above her crib. She literally couldn’t have cared less.

That's great to hear! We would love to do the first year and see how it's working! When did she outgrow the mini crib? Which one did you guys end up getting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not wallpaper. That is over the top and will not be great for resale value.

This worked for us but some babies won't settle if they can see you. So the plan for another room, or even a screen will work.

She won't care about decorations. Don't overbuy now. You may not need a lot of the stuff you described. Will she be in daycare? if yes, fewer toys are needed.

The peel and stick- nothing permanent or semi. Definitely getting the slumber pod so she can't see us.

No day care as of right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Decorating the nursery is for the parents, but that’s important! If it’s important to you.

Honestly though I know there’s some official recommendation for room sharing for a year but I would have died. Babies are really loud sleepers. I need to be able to use my room. Six months? Sure. A year? Not if you can avoid it. Consider all of your options.

Totally understand she won't give two hoots what her corner looks like. It's for us. We've waited a long time for her and haven't had an easy journey. I keep going back and forth between not buying anything until she's actually here and wanting a sweet little spot all ready

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about in the Living Room: a standing screen around the crib. A comfortable chair to rock. Babies can be changed anywhere. Get some sleep. Keep your bedroom your bedroom.

We would really like to make room sharing work if we can all get some sleep. There some dead open space in our apartment - think very large foyer off the kitchen, sort of. We plan to put a pack and play with bassinet there. Mainly for a safe play space off the floor for when we need to do stuff as we have a very large hairy dog. Thinking that could also double as a sleep spot and the slumber pod would fit over it if we needed to adjust

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same room is fine. Some people even prefer it for convenience. Your plan for decorating sounds fine too, OP.

I'd use a bookshelf for toys instead of a rolling cart, though. Eventually the baby is going to start pulling up onto all the furniture, and a rolling cart may not be ideal.

Good call on the rolling cart.