Baby Blues - Baby Nursery Inspiration!

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I don't know if I've ever spoke about this here before but if any of you know me personally you will know that I never need an excuse to talk about babies. I'm that 22 year old girl that has had her names picked out since she was sixteen and is known for crying if a baby is even in the same room.

When I worked in House of Fraser my counter was right by the lifts so mothers would always be walking by with their prams and I swear - I spent my days doing my friends heads in talking about how cute and adorable the six hundredth baby of the day passing was. Now I do have an excuse to be excited about babies though because (no, I'm not pregnant don't worry I'd be screaming it from the roof tops if I was) someone who I love like a sister is pregnant! At 22 I'm yet to have many people in my life (other than like aunt's) who have had babies so this is a pretty big deal for me! Sometimes I worry that I'm a bit too excited, I was in Dublin the other day with one of my best friends to pick up said baby a gift and I swear if the Disney store would of let me sell my organs in exchange for every item of clothing in the store with a Thumper logo on it, I would of. Even before this baby was a part of the picture I was always baby crazy, yet I find it hard to find baby central things on line other than 'THIS IS WHAT I BOUGHT MY BABY' - and that's not what I wanted. I was thinking nursery ideas, baby shower gifts, names. So I decided to be really strange and random and do a few posts myself. You think I've lost the plot right?

Well although we now know the sex of little baby, up until now I've spent the past month and a bit hating how 'gender neutral' seems to be something that people don't really seem to be into anymore. It's a pink room, a shirt with princess. Gender reveals with blue glitter and footballs. I even noticed when I was searching through nursery designs that very little things are just baby anymore it seems to be baby boy or baby girl. Obviously there are going to be exceptions and some stores are amazing for those white cotton baby grows with rows of little ducklings faded into the material but I don't think its something that's done enough.

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Sometimes I think that parents forget there are colours in the world other than blue and pink. I'm one of those people who likes other colours, like white and grey. That baby is going to have it's whole life ahead of it to experience having gender stereotypes thrust upon it, why start from day one? It's ironic really, we think 'I am having a baby girl so I'm going to give her a princess room and fill the wardrobe with frill and lace'. Babies aren't old enough to tell us what they want yet, they don't know if they want to play with barbies or cars. So why do we tell them what the world thinks is right based on their sex? I understand why people do it, if I was pregnant with a baby girl I'd be already planning the unicorn birthday cakes but there are extremes and variant levels to those extremes. So I spent my morning on Polyvore (my current life obsession) and I made two boards. How I would currently decorate a room for a baby boy and a baby girl - without using gender heavy decoration.

*LINK =http://www.polyvore.com/baby_girl/set?id=121075053

*Link = http://www.polyvore.com/baby_blues/set?id=121074192

After creating this set I got torn between whether I wanted it to be a boys room or a girls room because although it had a hint of 'bachelor pad' to it - I knew with a few feminine touches (as you can see above of softer furnishing etc) it could so easily be a girls room too. For this though I loved the simplicity. Dark wood, white cushions, simple art. Enough to stimulate the baby, without having a funder land-theme park effect. I know that babies will grow out of their baby room before they even have time to think and you'll find yourself transferring into the bigger bed and putting locks on the lower drawers so why fill the room with bright pink bear pattern wall paper? Safe yourself the time, save yourself the money and create a space that's livable, lovable and something that won't have to be changed in two to three years. Remember - if a room isn't too heavily themed all you ever need to do is change elements. A Peppa Pig room needs to be re-designed if your child grows to hate the (in my opinion) rather cheeky pig. If a room is simple and classic, as they grow you can change the soft toys to classic wooden educational toys and swap out the folded box compartments for railings to hang real life little human clothing from.




So I hope in some weird way that this even got some of you thinking! I also hope that none of you think I'm crazy for starting a baby series, I will of course be back with more! Remember if you ever have any questions or want me to blog about anything in particular I'm always here to listen! You can find me at :