Since we found out we were having a baby, we weren’t 100% sure we wanted to know the gender right away—but after some consideration, we decided to wait for the surprise. That meant creating a gender neutral nursery from the start, and everything else fell into place from there.
I mean, yes, it’s not the 1950s and we have all the tools to find out the gender—but isn’t waiting exciting? Everything in our life since we found out has revolved around this tiny human. He/she is in control, so holding on to the gender reveal was the one thing I felt we could hold on to. Now let’s talk nursery! This project has been so exciting for us, and since day one, Mark dove right into it (you’ll see more in the video below).
Working on a gender neutral nursery is not that hard, yes, probably a tiny bit more challenging than when knowing the gender, but in part that’s why is more fun, you have to push harder and think bigger. We’re lucky we’re living in a time when it’s so easy to find so many things that are gender neutral. I honestly still find funny how people got shocked by our decision and followed their reaction by saying things like “but how are you going to dress the baby the first weeks? I guess you’re getting just white clothes?” and I mean, there’s a whole spectrum of colours out there, not everything is strictly pink or blue…
And I guess that’s where we started, I really liked the idea of some pale green, something very natural and relaxing, yellow and gray were also a consideration, but before buying the paint we started deciding on the wallpaper for the accent wall (something we knew we wanted since the baby was still hypothetical), so we knew what we were playing with.
Yes, I can proudly say that I love to use my label maker (I use this one), can’t deny that it makes me feel like things are really put together, even if they’re not.
Furniture and Meaningful Pieces
One essential piece we knew we wanted was a rocking chair—but not just any chair. It had to be perfect and not too bulky (our nursery isn’t huge, and we wanted space around the furniture). Luckily, my brother-in-law still had the same rocking chair he used for both of his kids. Even more special? It’s the same chair my mother-in-law used to rock her babies over 30 years ago. How amazing is that? We refurbished it and gave it a well-deserved update.
