Comments on: How to set up a very small nursery

By: EarthBaby: Bay Area compostable diaper delivery service

EarthBaby: Bay Area compostable diaper delivery service — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:03:33 +0000

[...] special can for disposal? Nope. I put a kitchen-garbage-size compostable bag inside my champ in our very small nursery. Once the inside diaper pail is full, we use a metal trash can with a lid or a paper grocery [...]

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[...] Ultra-portable smilie face speaker set would even fit in a tiny nursery like mine. [...]

By: Heather Flett

Heather Flett — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:10:47 +0000

Emily, I will check out your pinterest board, thanks. We are in denial about how long this temporary bedroom will be used so we haven’t even put up the decorative wall decals that I got.

By: Emily (CityBaby Living)

Emily (CityBaby Living) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:08:22 +0000

My blog is all about this type of creativity! I always say, you don’t need a McMansion to raise a happy, healthy baby – you just need different (smaller) stuff and lots of creativity and organization. You look like you have everything you need, and nothing you don’t (well except maybe the trash corner ) I have a bunch of other closet nurseries in my Pinterest board of small kid’s rooms if it makes you feel better about yours. http://pinterest.com/citybabyliving/small-space-kids-rooms/ I know this all sounds like shameless plugging, but really just wanted to share because I love this topic. One thing you could do is a bold color wall – sometimes bold colors actually make the room feel bigger.

By: Heather Flett

Heather Flett — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:15:19 +0000

@Carol, I applaud your creativity.

By: Carol Adams

Carol Adams — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:50:40 +0000

We took out a bathroom in our house to put our 2nd child in and it is now our 3rd child’s nursery. It fits a crib, change table with dresser underneath & bookshelf hutch above and a slanted toy shelf from Ikea. We have bins underneath our full size crib, as well, for holding the hand-me downs waiting for the next growth spurt. Now that our 3rd is out of diapers we no longer need the diaper pail and now there is a tiny bit of floor space open for who knows what but there is no room for a rocking chair of any size.! Since our tiny nursery was a small bathroom it has a window which I like for airing the place out whenever needed. I enjoyed seeing that others are being as creative as we’ve had to be in our 2-bedroom town-home in Vancouver, BC. Thanks!

By: Heather Flett

Heather Flett — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:19:39 +0000

@Summersault, for my first baby’s room, we had curtains on top of blackout shades. It was a very dim room.

By: Summersault

Summersault — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:53:04 +0000

Our house is only a 2 bedroom but with only 1 child baby gets a large room with 2 windows….yet when I read this I thought to myself, gee, our baby’s room has 2 large windows but the blinds rarely get opened anyway. They need to be down for his two naps and the sun sets at 430…and frankly we spend most of the day in the kitchen and living room anyway. The kitchen also has patio doors which he loves since they’re at his level and he can also play peekaboo in the curtains

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:00:32 +0000

We have a DaVinci mini crib and I love it! It turns into a twin bed which is great because, really, how many people convert their full size cribs into double beds for their kids?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:25:07 +0000

As parents we tell ourselves lies all the time. One of mine was probably, “This tin foil on the windows will surely make him sleep later!”

By: Heather Flett

Heather Flett — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:45:46 +0000

@Wendy, I’ve been shocked at how it seems to make no difference in how late he sleeps. But I might be wrong.

@Crystal, Thanks! For a smaller space, I’d make use of a portable crib and small grown-up chair.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:27:30 +0000

I love it. A functioning and comforting space. Great reminder that not every child needs his/her own ginormous bedroom these days.
p.s. Adorable little models you have there!