Nursery furniture-is it worth it?? (also in Pregnancy)
Morning ladies!
Hubby and i took the plunge and went nursery furniture shopping yesterday. We had been looking online for a little while already so went to check out some of the stores we liked. We still have some more to visit. However i have two issues that i would like advice from you lovely ladies if possible:
1) White furniture: is this practical?? Hubby seems to like a lot of the white ranges whereas i think that it is a bit impractical...We are hoping to get a cotbed and the matching furniture in the hope that we'll get some good mileage out of them and they will last a good 3ish years until we move house. But i just have visions of finger prints, crayon scribbling etc all over whit furniture-which i will have the job of cleaning no doubt! lol! What do you ladies think? I'm more leaning towards wooden furniture i.e pine/beech...
2)Is "nursery" furniture actually woth the price tag?? I'm begining to think that it may be better for us to get a wardrobe and matching draws from somewhere like ikea in the hope that they will be sturdy enough for baby to grow into...I've had a look oline and with a cotbed we could probably kit out the babys room for about ??350-400 and have a good mileage as opposed to spending ??500+ on cute furniture that baby is likely to grow out of much quicker?? I'm just not sure what to do as i want the room to be really lovely and cute yet not growable-if that makes sense?
What do you ladies think? What did you do for nursery furniture and did you manage to find anything for a reasonable price?? Some of the ranges we've seen are just so expensive. We did see one nursery set that i LOVED and that baby could definitely grow into but it cost ??1,600 (included cotbed, wardrobe, cest of draws and toy chest) and as much as i'd love to i really can't afford to stretch to that at all! Any advice or opinions are greatly appreciated.
KB 18+4 xx
Hubby and i took the plunge and went nursery furniture shopping yesterday. We had been looking online for a little while already so went to check out some of the stores we liked. We still have some more to visit. However i have two issues that i would like advice from you lovely ladies if possible:
1) White furniture: is this practical?? Hubby seems to like a lot of the white ranges whereas i think that it is a bit impractical...We are hoping to get a cotbed and the matching furniture in the hope that we'll get some good mileage out of them and they will last a good 3ish years until we move house. But i just have visions of finger prints, crayon scribbling etc all over whit furniture-which i will have the job of cleaning no doubt! lol! What do you ladies think? I'm more leaning towards wooden furniture i.e pine/beech...
2)Is "nursery" furniture actually woth the price tag?? I'm begining to think that it may be better for us to get a wardrobe and matching draws from somewhere like ikea in the hope that they will be sturdy enough for baby to grow into...I've had a look oline and with a cotbed we could probably kit out the babys room for about ??350-400 and have a good mileage as opposed to spending ??500+ on cute furniture that baby is likely to grow out of much quicker?? I'm just not sure what to do as i want the room to be really lovely and cute yet not growable-if that makes sense?
What do you ladies think? What did you do for nursery furniture and did you manage to find anything for a reasonable price?? Some of the ranges we've seen are just so expensive. We did see one nursery set that i LOVED and that baby could definitely grow into but it cost ??1,600 (included cotbed, wardrobe, cest of draws and toy chest) and as much as i'd love to i really can't afford to stretch to that at all! Any advice or opinions are greatly appreciated.
KB 18+4 xx
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in regards to white furniture, personally that would be a 'no no' for me. we have white furniture in our lounge (pre parenthood decision) and i do regret our decision now. it shows up every bit of dirt & dust (can't even read the newspaper on our table without it leaving marks and fingerprints everywhere) so i dread to think what state it will be in when ds is more mobile. :roll: xx
I would have loved to spend a fortune on gorgeous nursery furniture but baby also needed clothes, a pram, carseat...lol
It looks fine, we bought our change table from Ikea too and like Alcott, we've gone all out on furnishings instead!
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I have to say we have gone for white!!
My niece (5) has got white in her room and it still looks as fresh as it did when she was a baby.
We loved the clean-ness of the white and it makes our little girl's room look really fresh and airy.
On the normal/nursery furniture, we went for normal. We found that a lot of the 'nursery' wardrobes didn;'t have very long hanging space - obviously intended for little clothes and we wanted longer use out of them.
We bought a white Mamas and Papas cot, a wardrobe, chest of drawers and cabin guest bed from Julian Bowen and a white bookcase from Ikea and they all go perfectly together!
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For my little boy we bought a cot and changing unit form M&P's (in the sale ??170 for both!) and then matched it up with a wardrobe, bookcase and chest of drawers from Ikea, the total came to about the same as his big sister.
Personally I think the proper nursery furniture is a little bit of a waste of money, unless you are going to have a big enough gap between children to be able to reuse it. They grow up so quickly that you'd soon be replacing it with something more grown up which seems like a bit of a waste to me.
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Hope this helps,
Dx
what we did was got thing in sale, our cotbed was from babies r us we got a free matteress and all the bedding included and out dresser was fromm mamas and papas with 25% off
defo worth shopping round as you have a while to go x
I'd contemplated baby furniture but when I found their little wardrobes cost ??250+ I couldnt justify it - think of all the things you could buy with that when LO is here. x