Tips for Decorating Your Baby's Room

While you wait for your baby to be born, you will be preparing everything you need for its arrival, which is known as “preparing the nest”. Painting and decorating the baby's room is one of the most beautiful things you can or can do during the months before birth. In this article, we bring you some tips to make it easy for you and the result is perfect.

The ideal thing when we decorate the baby's room is to take into account that this will be, in most cases, the room where he will continue to sleep when he grows up. Many of the furniture and decoration can be adapted depending on the age of your child, as well as to cover all their needs and yours in their first months of life.

Tips to keep in mind for decorating your baby's room

👉 Choose a decorative style: colors and design

This is the time to think about the colors that will decorate the walls of the baby's room. We recommend that you do not opt ​​for the classic pink and blue depending on the gender of your child. The trend is lilac, green or orange. They are neutral colors and very combinable with others.

White will never go out of style and you can always choose it to paint the walls of your room in full or combining it with another color.

Wallpaper is also a trend and there are many different designs with children's and decorative motifs perfect for your baby's room.

👉  The practical and evolving crib and/or bed

If your intention is that the baby sleeps in that room when he grows up, it is convenient to take into account the space to place the necessary furniture.

Some parents choose to install the baby's crib in their room to keep it close while they sleep, others choose to install the crib already in the baby's room. The most common is to install a crib in the parents' room so that the baby sleeps with them from birth until their size allows it, which is usually up to approximately 4 months. Later, the parents will decide if the child begins to sleep in their own room or if they transfer a larger crib to their room.

As for the size of the baby's crib, the standard size is 60 x 120 cm, with the option of being incorporated into convertible furniture together with the drawers, the changing table, and the future bed to take advantage of the space.

There is also the possibility of choosing a larger crib if there is space for it, specifically in the market we can find 70 x 140 cm cribs. After the first years, the barriers of the crib will be removed, and it will become a mini-bed where the child can sleep until they are 4 or 5 years old, and in this way lengthen the transition to the youth bed.

In any case, when installing the crib in the room, we can take into account that later it will be replaced by a bed, and therefore choose the decoration and combination of the rest of the furniture thinking about it.

Therefore, when choosing a bed for when the baby grows up, it is important that it be a bed for all ages, without ornate or children's decorative elements.

Mobile toys with sounds high up in the baby's crib are recommended toys, as they will stimulate his cognitive development and relax him to sleep.

👉 Storage solutions for baby's room

We recommend a neutral and plain color, all the furniture of the same color. White or wood, once again, will never go out of style, and there are very dynamic and modern designs for dressers and cabinets to store baby's clothes, which can be reused when they grow up.

The dresser can use a changing table, there are models on the market that come prepared with the perfect width. The changing table can be fixed or use as a changing mat for this purpose.

In addition to a closet and a dresser, we can also install a shelf to place decorative items, a night light, stuffed animals, and toys that you already have for the baby, as well as photo frames that you will surely get as gifts.

👉 Toys and other Accessories

Before the baby is born we will start to have some toys, possibly as gifts from family and friends. We can add these elements as decoration of the baby's room.

When your child grows up, he will want to play. You can leave an area of ​​the room free to install in a few months a rug on which the baby will crawl and play in a controlled environment and that can easily be kept clean.

A play area is important to consider when planning your baby's room decor. There are some decorative elements that will be perfect in a children's room, such as teepees.

A teepee can become a child's favorite playground within a few months. You can give the last touch of decoration with some led lights placed on the shelves or on the wall. In addition to the main lighting in the room, a dim light is important to create a sleep routine since the baby is born.

An alternative to the teepee is the classic canopy, both for the play area and for the bed. There are a variety of fabric canopies in soft colors for children's rooms that can be perfect in your baby's room.

If you want to give a final childish touch to the room, you can use pictures with illustrations, textile accessories, such as garlands or wallpaper in some areas of the room.

You can place other decorative elements or visual stimuli for the baby, both on the ceiling (which is the first place he will see as soon as he wakes up) and on the walls.

Also Read: Babies and Their Baby Things

Should You Decor Your Baby’s Room According To The Gender?

It is very common that when it comes to a baby’s room, this is decor according to the baby’s gender. “If it is a girl then you’ll see a lot of pink, princesses, and ballerinas, and if it is a boy then you’ll see a lot of blue, cars or something related to sports”.

Even though most of these rooms are actually adorable, experts now recommend trying using more neutral colors or some other themes different to the usual.

It can be a little bit overwhelming to enter a room a find out everything in there is pink, this is why decorators and psychologists now think this doesn’t make a lot of sense these days, and that is actually a bit old fashioned.

The tendencies right now indicate that it is better to give a contemporary look to the baby’s room, by using neutral colors such as light yellow, cream or a light purple. Also, they recommend choosing one neutral color that can be the principal color in the bedroom, and one or a few secondary colors to combine it. You can also choose colors such as turquoise, orange or green because all of these colors can be used both for girls and for boys.

Neutral doesn’t have to be boring. You can choose a light color for the walls and furniture, such as cream, beige or a not so dark brown, and then use colorful accessories such as blankets, toys, and bedding accessories. This way you can give a touch of color to your baby’s room, without being too overwhelming, is all about finding balance.

Psychologists also think,

it is better not to decor the baby’s bedroom with objects that are specifically related or associated to a gender

But to seek for objects and toys suitable for both boys and girls, so we can allow them to have free of mind, and they can choose exactly what is that they like. Kids tend to develop step by step their sexual identity between the ages of 4 and 6, so is important for them not being

Kids tend to develop their sexual identity step by step between the ages of 4 and 6, so is important for them not to be condition to a social stereotype.

Baby Room Themes and Colors

Besides, nowadays there are so many different themes to decorate a baby’s room, that won’t even have the chance to think about the typical princess’ room or sports player room.

For example – you can choose themes like animals, suitable for boys and girls, a crayola theme which you’ll find lots of ideas on the internet for DIY decors, music, airplanes or aerostatic balloons, or you can even make the walls look like if they sleep in heaving, by painting the walls with really light blue and even drawing clouds.

So yes, there are many themes and ideas for you to décor your baby’s room that do not include the typical pink and blue, and that will make a really comfy space for them to rest and play, explore and even learn a bunch of stuff. But, if you truly like princesses and cars, no problem at all, choose whatever makes you happy and what you think it will make your baby happy.