Anyone want to daydream a nursery with me?
Husband and I are trying to conceive our first. The room we would use a nursery is actually the unfinished room over our garage. Before anyone gets alarmed, we have already insulated the heck out of the space between the garage and the room, we do not actually park our cars in the garage anyway so no risk of car fumes, and while we have an automatic opener, it is a brand new very quiet model that you cannot hear in the unfinished room (we have tested repeatedly!).
So, all that being said, while going through the TTC process (a long and frustrating one...), it has been fun to try to think about how we would design the nursery, but honestly it's sort of a tricky room to me! We have knee walls that I see being perfect for building in storage (and the seller of our house already started on this by starting to build in some shelves). Parents: is this a practical thing to do? Would you consider shelves built into knee walls useful or a safety hazard (particularly thinking about when a baby is able to pull himself/herself up and potentially climb a shelf?)
Another question: we have a skylight in here. When we finish the room, would parents recommend covering it with drywall to help create a darker sleeping space? Are there ways to leave the skylight but put a curtain or something over it?
Basically, I guess my questions are: if you had a total unfinished blank slate to turn into a nursery, what would you do when you've got the walls open and you can really go nuts with building stuff in,
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View from the window (door on the left is an actual door going to the master bedroom; door on the right is a spare door that came with our house)
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5 years agoFinal photo, ceiling. We think there's room for a main light fixture and a couple of can lights?
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5 years agoWe don't think storage is a bad thing in a nursery, so we say is is most likely okay to do the knee wall shelves. Below we have included a few of our nursery designs for you to look at and perhaps get ideas from.
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5 years agoOh, after the walls go up I would definitely go with a neutral color. Neutrals are so much easier to transition as your child grows up. I plan on using a taupe/beige color. Works for boys or girls and so many accent colors!
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5 years agoThanks @elesia_st!
So I actually have an update on this room! Your thread revival was well timed. We finished insulating the room and we had drywall installed!
We ended up having to demo the shelf because the seller of our house had left live wires behind it. Moron. But we fixed that by putting in an outlet and sheetrocking the shelf area. So now I can design shelves in there how I want which is nice
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5 years agoLots of progress has happened in such a short amount of time! Here are some photos
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5 years agoYour accent wall reminded me of this inspiration pic I had saved for my son’s room :)
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