To not understand this nursery trend?

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Since being pregnant and constantly looking at baby stuff on Instagram my entire discover is full of baby related content. All I see is floor to ceiling white/grey nursery's, with all white furniture, big fluffy white rugs.. kids bedrooms all in muted colours, mainly white and grey, very gorgeous to look at.. but AIBU to think surely these aren't what kids want? And surely it's a recipe for disaster having SO much white? I feel like if the little ones had the choice it would be a lot more colourful and a bit more fun. Some examples attached!

I do pop him in his proper cot to watch his mobile while I use the toilet

Oh God for a moment I thought you meant mobile phone! I need to step away from the 21st Century...

If the room is supposed to be calm and restful, and for sleeping in only, I can honestly think of better colours to use than pure brilliant white. Pretty difficult to maintain darkness in there, I shouldn't wonder - unless you brick the windows up that is

Imagine what it is going to be like late in the evenings, or the crack of dawn in midsummer when you want your dc to think it is night time. There's no blackout blind invented that could keep a white-painted room dark when it's broad daylight outside.

There's no blackout blind invented that could keep a white-painted room dark when it's broad daylight outside.

No brilliant white, but white: my kids still have a blackout blind and blackout curtains in their room. It's dark enough - too dark to see a thing on the floor in the morning when you go and wake them up, bloody legos.

For me, the 3rd photo with the giraffe is far too dark, I much prefer a brighter room.

We’ve gone for leaving the original white walls and neutral carpet in toddler DSs ‘big boy’ bedroom but have let him choose the theme (jungle animals) and bought bedding, rugs, a throw and wall stickers. So it’s his choice, bright and colourful and easy to change in a couple of years when he outgrows it. Personally I think it’s a bit bright and stimulating for a bedroom but he loveable it and gets willingly into bed so it’s fine.

@DontCallMeCharlotte haha!! No an old fashioned hanging one 😁

The fluffy white rugs are skipped the first time the come into contact with bodily fluids.

Worst thing about white rooms that even with black out blinds/curtains they get very light easily in the summer!

It's just the current decor trend. Every flat or house decor 'tour' I view is full of dark wood floors, white walls, all white kitchen, pristine white leather sofas & white bed linen. On the plus side it can make a poky flat look airy & spacious.

I don't think it matters to the babies. People should just do what they like.

I prefer white linen/towels/babygros. You can boil wash them with napisan to get the poo/vomit/mystery liquids out.

Babies and children leak.

@TheVanguardSix  It's okay, it's a) cheap and b) patterned!

@burgundyjumper I've never had a problem keeping the nursery dark with a proper blackout blind... it does have one grey wall though so maybe that's the ticket.

Only read the OP.

My babies room and even still my boys rooms now are very plain white and grey. bedrooms are for sleep so a nice calming room for these to rest in.

I find grey more depressing than relaxing, but it's what everyone seems to love everywhere now. Finding it interesting to see all the posts about nurseries, playrooms and toyrooms. My children just had the one room for both sleeping and playing which they shared for many years. We only decorated that the once and that was pre-kids when it was our bedroom (yellow with blue curtains, nice and bright and cheerful). After that we mostly just decorated when we moved houses. The last house we painted over the grey, it's never been a colour either of my children wanted.

My youngest didn't even have a proper cot as a baby (or a room of her own). I don't really think it matters how you decorate a nursery - each to their own, I guess .

My mum gave me the best advice. I was looking at bouncy chairs and about to pick a brown one to match my sofa but she pointed at the primary coloured one with lights and dangly bits and she said, "that looks like fun doesn't it!"

I had a bit of a revelation that what the baby might like might possibly be different to what I might like!

Nothing wrong with a calm colour scheme but I think babies like interesting things to look at, we all do, so I'd mix in some coloured friezes or pictures at least.

Our whole house is calm coloured and ds room is the same. It works better for him because of his autism. His yellow walls were painted cream when we thought they might be over stimulating him.

I think they look cold and clinical! Children love bright colourful things.

I also hate the trend of painting mountains on the walls, they look like jagged spikes or shark teeth!

I think white/cream Scandi only works in a large room with lots of natural light. It looks awful in a poky room with a small window.

I don't object to white (although it's so boring for a kid) but the greys I just don't get. But then I feel the same about 'nursery furniture' and everything having to match and be pristinely presented.

DD's room is orange and yellow with functional, mismatching, inherited furniture and the brown carpet that was originally there -we'll replace it when she is no longer likely to ruin it!

My Nursery is grey and off white, but I have boy/girl twins so wanted neutral for the walls and floor. I’ve added colour with the soft furnishings, which I can change as they get older and develop their own preferences, but until then their room is a nice and calm (pretty to me) room, which is my favourite place in the house!

I don't mean to ne dismissive but this is really more of a home furnishing issue than baby related.

Dd never had a "nursery". She slept with us for the first 10 months. Then she had her own room which she refused to sleep in. And when old enough to have a room with toys that could have been considered needed all toys were dragged into the living room with us (grrr!). She is now 7. Her room ("nursery" if you like) has never really been used other than for attempted sleeping by her, actual sleeping by us and storage.

Just realised the answer: these rooms are so charmingly neutral because they get far more adult than child use.

Our nursery has just been painted grey with white furniture, but that's because I only plan to use it as a nursery until DS2 is sleeping through the night and then he'll be chucked into DS1's room (blue, pirate themed) and this room will be a study again and I don't want to have to redecorate. Nothing else here is grey. I love colours.

I agree with you. Our baby's nursery is painted white like most of our other rooms but the curtains and other fabrics are nice bright colours. She has a bright mobile, pictures on the walls and storage for her brightly coloured toys. I put her in there to nap and on her playmat as well as feeding her there quite a bit (comfy nursing chair!) And she often happily gurgles away and looks all around her. Babies enjoy interesting things to look at.
I do hate the all pink/all blue trend for girls/boys though

My DS only goes into his for baths and nappy/clothing changes but I really felt like I was going against the grain when we decorated it - pale blue walls, white curtains with blue and green dinosaurs, dinosaur wall stickers, bright IKEA rug with a crocodile on it, little disco light for the changing shelf, bright bookends. That said we are converting the spare room into a playroom which has coffee walls and I am not painting that for the sake of a few years!

I agree op. Hate the bland trend. I also hate pink/blue for girls/boys. Dds nursery was buttermilk with woodland decal in mixed colours.

We changed it for her 3rd birthday and now its blue walls with rainbow and clouds decals and coloured accessories. She loves it.

I think they're calm and soothing for Mums (first time ones usually).