To want a white cot when the wardrobe and set of drawers is beech?

[MrsEddChina]

Basically I want a Stokke sleepi cot. No way could we afford one new. I have just seen one on eBay second hand, good condition but it is white. The rest of the furniture we have allocated to the baby's room is beech. (on a budget )

I really really want a Stokke. Would I be unreasonable to get it even though it won't match the rest of the furniture? Would it look really stupid?

I still use my sausage wrapper! I love it.

The window trick is a good idea though, I've only just moved into a house from a flat and that could work for me!

I couldn't bring myself to sausage a pooey nappy so only wet ones went in there.

The number of useless accessories and matching gubbins has increased exponentially since my two were born.

Your child will love a hand-painted mural and accessorised crap items at age 3-5 but do you seriously want to be co-ordinating a child's room slavishly for the next 23 18 years?

No? Thought not

I (seriously!) read a bit in one of the endless Bringing Up Baby style pamphlets we were dished out back in the day and it quoted an old-timer who said "all you need to is a drawer (i.e. old big drawer from a chest-of-drawers) for baby to sleep in, nappies, baby soap and towels". It was obviously from pre-FF days, naturally!.

Disclaimer: this was included as a tongue-in-cheek view into the "old days" but TBH, babies don't give a rat's ass about matching furniture!

We have white furniture and bright green cots. Everyone says they look cool. We have white and green penguin wallpaper too.

The baby bedroom fashion police won't call,

Don't sweat it.

If you love the cot, I would! White goes with everything anyway.

We had a white cot with wooden furniture. It's fine!

You are getting a new mattress though aren't you?

Will definatly be getting a new mattress Angel. Its the only thing im bothered about having brand new for the baby TBH!

Thank you wisdom of Mumsnet. I have bidded on my cot and am just waiting to see what happens. Keep fingers crossed for me everyone!

White and beech go fine.

When's the baby due Edd?

March. I'm getting things early I know but I like to be prepared!

Ooooh no. I remember the feeling well even though I sound like a cynical old whatsit now. We were super organised then DS1 came 2 weeks early and we had to quickly get the cellophane off the moses basket.

I remember someone telling me about someone who had two sets of twins (so four kids under two) and the council put in a sort of nappy chute thing for them. I wonder if that was an urban myth or not?

Just to update everyone as I know you've all had sleepless nights wondering if I got my cot! I did get it, it's lovely and I think the whitewashed wood will go well with my beech furniture.

[hgrin]

Yay! You just need a baby to go in it now.

The cot is goooorgeous ! A friend of mine had one years ago and i was so jealous as i didn't know they existed when we bought our ' ordinary' cot

I agree with OP when mis - matching can look really good, so go for it !

We have the other way around -beech Sleepi and white (mismatched) furniture, all second hand. When did matched sets become the norm anyway?

We were given the full Sleepi kit - from crib up to child's bed (so all the parts you see), we even got given all the sheets and blankets and sleeping bags, all we had to buy was the mattress for the cot, the crib size had not been used so we got that too. So it could have been neon green we'd still have taken it.

Our back patio is covered in bagged up dirty nappies as I speak... some of which have been there a couple of days now

When the snow was really bad in 2010, i found about 40 frozen when the snow began to thaw ....

I've got a Stokke sleepi too. Check out eBay and esty for handmade sheets. You can get them very cheap and the proper sheets are very expensive.

I wanted the ikea version when ds was little - nice cot!