to wonder why fashionable IG ready nursery's are so bland?

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Just that really, all grey, all white, monochrome, beige, bamboo, omg the bamboo with whimsical but wierd 'vintage' stuffed toys, it looks like where joy has gone to die?
children like bright colours and cute characters so why purposely do the opposite?

They all change by the time the baby is a year old and inherits the Fisher Price catalogue in its entirety though

Yeah, with the obligatory Grimms Rainbow!

A large body of research suggests that colour provides sensory overload ... an environment where they disengage and get distracted. In early years settings there has been a move away from bright, overstimulating environments to brown/neutral/ natural colours and objects to avoid unsettled children and behaviour issues.

I guess this trend has now entered private homes? I’m assuming you’re talking about nurseries in peoples houses.

People have different tastes? Interior design trends change? They might have colourful toys elsewhere? SO many reasons.

What @BlueSkies2020 said

While @BlueSkies2020 may be right in what the research says (DD's day nursery has gone neutral and natural which I thought was a shame but is supposedly better), I'm pretty sure Mrs Hinch and the rest of the grey velour-loving fashion-conscious are the bigger influence.

DD's room is orange and yellow - don't think it had any more negative effect than the plastic toys and at night it's black 😂.

I found it odd too. We decorated DD2s room in a lovely soft green with brightly coloured animal stickers and it feels lovely and welcoming.

Our day nursery is natural and white and soo much research went into it. Young Children/preschoolers respond better to the blank canvas at nursery age. Newborns like neutral and black and white, whilst older babies respond well to colour.

Definitely sick of seeing if nurseries that all look the same and love it when I see something a bit different

Ultimately nurseries are for the parents as the baby doesn’t care. People put a lot of time and thought into their house why ruin it with a garish nursery! We try to get wooden toys etc for DC not because we are superior dickheads but because we are quite environmentally conscious and they are sturdier and encourage free thinking! I would NEVER judge a friend for a bright nursery or a house full of plastic toys so hope that would go both ways!

My sons bedroom is neutral, mainly because his room was painted cream by the previous owner of our house and I just moved us right in without changing the decor. When he’s a bit older I’ll do it more colourful but at the minute I think it being neutral settles him easier

Totally agree. But then I don't understand the antiseptic nature of most interior decoration. Having said that most people would come out in hives at my lovely cluttery clashy house so each to their own I suppose!

I guess you can’t win. When ds was a baby I did his room green and soft purple and had a large (fake) plant/tree thing in there. When we moved when he was 3 he told me he was glad because he hated the tree and that it scared him 😂.

What is meant by “responds better” ? Responds better than eating cheese? Than a adult? Gets a 2:1 rather than a 3rd 21 years later at Uni.. what are we measuring it against? I think decorate it what you like!

Agree. It’s awful and putting “style” ahead of what makes children happy. Bizarre.

I’m so bored of grey and taupe nurseries - I could find hardly any I liked when I was looking on Instagram and Pinterest for inspiration!

Mine is nearly finished and is absolutely bedecked with every rainbow colour imaginable 😁

I agree. They always look so bland.
Dc2s room has just been decorated as we’ve not long moved in and it’s yellow and we don’t know what we’re having.

What does IG ready mean?

Our youngest DS has a fairly pale green, white and grey colour scheme because I’d read somewhere that more neutral colours are more conducive for sleep, his bedroom
isn’t his play room (and now the previously stylish lounge is full of bright coloured plastic shite!) so it’ll stay that way until he’s a bit older and plays in his bedroom. His older brother has a marvel themed room - polar opposites haha

I've always thought it really strange to have bright, stimulating colours in a babies room, where you want them to be calm, relaxed and sleepy. I don't like it either. I'm not a fan of bright colours, much prefer neutrals. Think a lot of bright colours can look a but tacky and try hard.

I guess a big advantage to keeping things in such a neutral pallet is that it can easily be reused for later children. So if you have one and then the other all that needs replacing is some soft furniture in blue/pink and you easily swapped oy from a boys nursery to a girls one or the other way around

@Serin

What does IG ready mean?

I'm guessing it means Instagram, but I may be wrong!

As has been said, calmer colours are now thought to support the baby and not cause sensory overload.

Also those colour schemes are more fashionable and most people want their homes to be in keeping with the times rather than dated.

Many people are thankfully more environmentally conscious now and so handmade or vintage toys made from natural materials are preferable to bringing in a heap of plastic shit into your home which will just end up in landfill.

Also, many harmful phtathates and BPA can be found in plastic toys.

Also, many people find bright colours tacky or gaudy.

HTH

Sorry IG ready means Instagram Ready!

very styled IG type nurseries that just seem very bland.

As has been said, calmer colours are now thought to support the baby and not cause sensory overload.

This is true. I like bright colours but not in my bedroom, so why should babies be subjected to it where they sleep?

I definitely think Instagram is heavily influencing the trend.

I follow a ton of US Moms who home school and their playrooms are all Montesorri/Waldorf based - the Grimms rainbow, Little Dutch abacus, Wobbel Boards, Pikler triangles, Grapats loose parts come as standard...

I've been trying some of the open ended/sensory stuff out with my two toddlers and some purchases have been huge hits. Definitely helps that they are easy on the eye and IG friendly! I do find I have to be careful not to make purchases based on what I love, it's so easy to be swayed by how beautiful some of the things are and forget the kids actually have to want to use them!