How to Decorate Baby Room When Not Pregnant Yet?

justcat

Decal! That was the word I was looking for! Thanks shop-to-drop!

Thanks everyone for their ideas. I really appreciate the help!

LilElvis

Use the most kid-proof, washable paint you can get!

95% of our house is white, including our daughter's room, and we (I!) chose a really gender-neutral not too babyish theme which still looks good after 4 years. We didn't use borders or decals, just a few pictures, a clock and bunting so that "redecorating" will just mean new curtains, bedding and hanging stuff. The paintwork still looks great - unlike the living room - as the washable paint really works. Laminate/wood flooring is also much easier to clean.

If you are thinking of having a family soon just keep thinking "is it washable"? Walls, flooring and furniture!

Lunar_Eclipse

I would just leave the room well alone until/if the time came. Very MSE too.

gettingtheresometime

Daxx wrote: »

Easy...just don't decorate it.

You aren't supposed to decorate in new builds for over 6 months anyway so no one would find it strange.

Our spare room is intended to be a nursery but until then its plain magnolia walls with a spare bed. No one will question it!

Another vote for doing nothing

lika_86

Why not designate it the laundry room? Put the ironing board in there along with clothes racks for drying clothes indoors. I'd love a spare room for that sort of stuff.

kingfisherblue

lika_86 wrote: »

Why not designate it the laundry room? Put the ironing board in there along with clothes racks for drying clothes indoors. I'd love a spare room for that sort of stuff.

I'd love a room for laundry and ironing too, but what would the OP do if/when a baby arrives? They would have to find somewhere for the laundry stuff, and would miss their laundry room.

Anatidaephobia

Similar to you, I didn't want to do much with our spare room because I wasn't sure what we would do with it in future. So at the moment, our spare room is sort of a storage / laundry room with a spare bed that cost £20 from Gumtree (and was brand new!). It is undecorated. We will paint the walls at some point; just a neutral colour, magnolia or white.

crazyhairedgirl

I would also probably leave it until you conceive, it would make it more special to decorate it then I think.

paye

i would make the room into a cinema room :beer:
projector, surround sound speakers, sofa, black out blinds etc, kit it out.