Alternative Ideas for Your Baby’s Bedroom That Aren’t Blue or Pink
/It is the dream of many people to be able to design and redecorate a room in their house from scratch, with new furniture, new colours on the wall and new soft furnishings - the whole lot. A great time to do this is just before you have your first baby. When I was expecting my baby, many midwives, parents, friends and even random people on the street asked me if I had been ‘nesting’. Initially, I thought this just sounded a bit strange and I didn’t really understand what they meant but I soon realised that it really is a mum’s opportunity to release her inner interior designer and create a beautiful bedroom for the new arrival.
At some point in the last century we have become less creative when it comes to the interior design of a baby’s bedroom and we have stuck to society’s norm: blue is for boys and pink is for girls. This, however, wasn’t always the case. Back in Victorian times, they would dress boys in a paler version of the colours men would wear, such as red, hence why boys often wore pink. During the 20th century, however, there was a turn and today pink is synonymous with girls.
So let’s be creative and break today’s stereotype! Let me give you a few ideas to make sure your baby’s bedroom isn’t a cliché and is, instead, unique, stylish and beautiful.
Image From: Project Nursery
1. Alternative Colours
If you want to paint your baby’s bedroom in a brighter colour, green is a great gender-neutral colour to use. Its association with nature and the outdoors will make your baby’s room feel restful and calm. Other gender neutral colours you could use are red, orange or yellow, however, these colours are quite vibrant and not particularly relaxing, so would be better as an accent colour, in things like the curtains or blankets, but not to use to paint the walls.
Neutral colours such as white, grey or a light shade of beige are great shades to use for a fresh bedroom feel. I would advise not to go for a ‘bright white’ colour as it will make the bedroom feel like it hasn’t been thoughtfully designed and it will make the room feel quite cold and bare. By choosing a shade of white, such as Farrow and Ball’s Strong White, the room will feel much cosier. For a shade of beige, Farrow and Ball’s Lime White is a really interesting light shade which makes a room feel much warmer and homely.
Image From: Halfway Wholeistic
If you were to go for neutral coloured walls, but still wanted to add a bit of colour to your baby’s room you could do this through the furniture and accessories. You can paint your changing table or chest of drawers or use brightly coloured bedding in your cot. The nursery in the image below has a rainbow-coloured theme to it, meaning that anything bright and colourful fits into the colour scheme and looks great when displayed.
Image From: Studio DIY
2. Wallpaper
At around 3 months a baby can see patterns, so why not encourage this development with a bit of wallpaper in the room? Instead of choosing a colour as the main theme to a room you could have an amazing wallpaper instead. There are some incredible animal wallpapers or nature wallpapers or even geometric patterns. The wallpaper doesn’t just have to go onto the walls, babies spend a lot of time on their back looking at the ceiling so why not wallpaper the ceiling?
Image From: House Lust
3. Decals
Another easy and cheaper way to make the walls of your nursery more interesting, instead of wallpapering them, is to use wall decals. Wall decals are stickers that you can stick to the wall, but they have been made so that they can be easily removed without damaging the paint (so great if you are renting your home). There is a massive variety of decals that are available designed with large groups of leaves and trees to individual stars and circles which you could arrange into patterns for your baby to enjoy.
Image From: Just Kidding Store
I hope these ideas have provided you with some alternative ideas to think about when designing a nursery, if you decide not to decorate using blue or pink. Enjoy, as this is your opportunity to create a beautiful bedroom for your baby.