It’s an unusual side effect of pregnancy – sudden creativity relating to nursery interior design! Even those Mommas who have never had a creative bone in their bodies become excited about miniature furniture pieces, sheet sets, throw rugs, and wall prints.
But how do you make your nursery extra special?
We’ve come up with 10 best items that you can add to ensure your little one has a unique room, plentiful with items that mean a lot to you, and hopefully to them as they grow.
1. Artwork from family or friends
My favorite piece in my little boy’s room has to be a drawing created by a friend. She drew a little fox holding a collection of strings – leaving room for us to make the balloons at the end of each string with fingerprints from each guest at my baby shower. Do you have a friend or family member that could create a piece of art for your nursery? Having someone close to you make something for the room has the potential to add a little more love to the room!
2. Hand me downs
Some of the most special items are used. Things that family (older siblings, parents, grandparents, godparents) used when they were growing up. It could be a furniture piece, like a cot, that has been handed down throughout the years. Or an item like a comforter that a sibling used when they were a baby.
3. Flowers
It’s inevitable that you’ll receive an abundance of flowers: When you find out you’re pregnant, at your baby shower, at your gender reveal, at the hospital when bub is born.
What if I told you you could incorporate these flowers into your nursery? How lovely would it be to dry out a selection of flowers and have them either hanging from the wall, enclosed in a photo frame or created into potpourri.
4. Photos of your growing family
Whether this is you while you were pregnant, you and your partner while you were pregnant, your “we are pregnant” announcement photo, a photo of the moment you met bub, a photo from a shoot you had with Bub when he was finally earthside, or possibly a collection of all of the above.
5. A letter to your little one
Written either while you’re pregnant or when they arrive. A short letter to your little one in a frame or printed on to a canvas will not just be something special for you to read while you’re in and out of the nursery in the early days. It can also be a keepsake for your child.
6. Baby Handprint or footprint
Having your little one’s handprints or footprints turned into a piece of art is a really special piece for a nursery. This is something you can do yourself with DIY kits available. As they grow it can be hard to remember them ever bring so small. Certain to have you “awwwww”ing for years to come.
7. A nursing chair
You may be thinking a piece of furniture is hardly special. But the moments you have with your little one, feeding or reading, in the chair will be memories that you won’t forget.
8. A custom teddy bear
There are several different ways to customize a teddy. My favorite would have to be adding a personalized recording, so that each time your little one hugs the bear they can hear your words of love. A really beautiful addition to bedtime.
9. Blanket
If you’ve got a knitting family member or friend why not ask them to contribute to the nursery by creating a blanket for your little one? Or do you have a love for quilting? You can ask family members or friends to contribute material to use for you to put together a gorgeous quilt. You will make good use of this throughout the colder months, while feeding your little one during the night and it is ultimately something they can use on their bed when they get older.
10. A name sign
A beautiful gift that we were given after the birth of our baby was a gorgeous sign with his name, date of birth, time of birth, and weight written on it. The sign itself was a leaf, made to the length of our baby when he was born (51cm). It was a really unique gift and obviously, something specifically made for him.
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