To not understand this nursery trend?

[Habbs]

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!

It's apparently really bad for their eyes. Mine was yellow and purple. Wallpaper covered in cutesy animals.

DD's nursery had bright, intense yellow walls and dark blue curtains and woodwork. It was FAB! Her carpet was one which had a pattern like a big jigsaw with different things on each piece, background was yellow.

My daughters is six. She's picked white everything

I'm looking at those pics and thinking you'll never get Calpol out of those carpets.

In real life op no one does this. Every single of my friends had baby in with them till six months. After that room next to them. Most friends apart from one seem to be doing up house so just having walls is great. Dd had two walls in her room (last walls built later) and got a carpet about three months later after moving in. Pretty rug put in a month later and curtains same time. The one who didnt had jungle stickers on the wall (small sample of 30 approx parents)

Is it not just the fashion now? Like grey everything. Years ago it was ragrolled walls.

My boys room was Noah’s Ark. it was fashionable at the time (well I got it out of next) and I liked it. I don’t honk you can buy stuff like that anymore 🤷‍♀️

Both kids nursery school were multicoloured but I do love the white and grey nursery school I think they look beautiful

I didn't really go mad decorating the baby's room before they were born - it got a coat of bright sunny yellow over the woodchip and some stick on mirror stars and a couple of cheap pretty canvases - but I put off doing a properly "designed" room (and tackling the woodchip) until they were past the baby stage and able to give me some input into what colours they wanted in there.

Now it's a pale lilac and deeper purple room and pretty much young girl/tweenager decorated - there are accessories and wall decals that are still "young" but easily removable and it should see them through a few years yet.

I like it. But I am not a fan of bright colours, and certainly not pinks and blues.

Mine are 20 and 16, but their nurseries were all muted colours - whites and taupe.

I was clearly ahead of the trend

Blimey! There are a few posters taking this very personally. Unless the OP stuck a camera in through window and posted photos of your nursery online, I don’t understand the sensitivity. 🤷‍♀️

It looks beautiful, OP, but completely impractical.

I don’t honk

Glad to hear it, Slazengerbag. 🤣

🤣🤣🙈 think not honk

In real life op no one does this. Every single of my friends had baby in with them till six months.

we clearly don't have the same friends
All mine finished the nursery before the birth, knowing they wouldn't bother once the baby was there. Babies barely stayed with their parents for 3 months anyway.

Someone on my parents FB groups asked how old babies were when they were put in the nursery, and most replies were between 2 and 3 months. That's was my own choice, but I was surprised it was so common.

In 10 years time you will wonder why you ever put so much time and effort in to their rooms because the little darlings dont give a flying fig. Save your money

I suppose the trend to add mustard yellow accessories to grey/white rooms will make the first exploding BF baby nappy stain bang on trend.

@Slazengerbag, ragrolled walls! That takes me back. My mum ragrolled all the walls in our house. We had those wallpaper dado rail strip things (don’t know what they were called) round every room, with contrasting ragrolling above and below - so white-on-red below and red-on-white above. Klassy. Bless her.

I realised that I’ve posted at cross purposes to a certain extent when I said DS’s room is a riot of colour as opposed to neutral. He has cream walls and a darker carpet, and pale blue curtains (not because he’s a boy but because I like blue, we have blue curtains in a couple of rooms). The colour is from the stickers on the walls, cuddly animals, books and toys. So not that different from some other posters with neutral rooms for their children. But really, how we decorate the nursery is all about what we find aesthetically pleasing as parents rather than about whether it’s restful or stimulating for the child, isn’t it?

Didn't have a lot of money, bog standard white paint was the cheapest (I can't put up wallpaper to save my life!) and white furniture was all that was really going second hand at the time. That being said it's held up really well and we've added in accessories as she's grown, if I had another child I'd still go with white. She has very colourful toys which breaks it up a bit. I had a bright purple wall as a preteen-it didn't age well and was awful to paint over!

It's so serene and beautiful (though the 3rd picture is relatively cluttered)

YANBU

But meh it's really about what the parents like anyway, not what baby wants

Over recent years, interior design for baby nurseries seems to have become much more of a thing

Or maybe it's just the Instagram or Pinterest effect

I think you need to get out more.

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Have to say I prefer the ones you've posted compared with a gender specific explosion of pink or blue everything!

Wow that second photo is creepy with the tiny doll babies and the massive dolls house

That's what Mrs Hinch's nursery is going to look like . . . . .

The nursery was done accordingly. My children all had their rooms decorated in an appropriate way when they moved into toddler beds into their own rooms. I’m of with my last baby now and the nursery will be calm and soft tones until it gets turned into their bedroom when they go in their toddler bed. We decorate more than 5 years+