Where to put the nursery?? Advice needed!

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DH and I expecting our first, due end of November. I know baby will be in our room for at least 6 months but I feel more comfortable getting organised and having everything decorated well before the arrival.

Right now my office is in our third bedroom (first being our master and second being guest bed) and we'd always planned for baby to go in box room. However, I've just marked out with tape the average size of a cot and a dresser (to double as changing table) and it's taking up all the space!! Ideally I'd wanted room for rocking chair and wall shelves but there's no way chair would fit and I'm wary of putting shelves above crib. I'm worried the space is much smaller than I imagined (reading some other posts on MN leads me to believe our box room is much smaller than most!!)

In a nutshell - dilemma now is whether to switch my office with baby room. My desk will fit in there comfortably and I don't mind having the smaller space. Just a few drawbacks to this (none of these the end of the world at all, just trying to give context!)

1. Box room is on the street side of house, we'd have no neighbors hearing crying through the wall. Walls in other room are very thin (though I believe it's a bathroom and not a bedroom but not 100% sure)
2. We paid for that desk to be custom fit to that exact wall insert in bedroom and now seems a waste.
3. Similarly the couch/pull out is not in the right colour scheme for what I was envisioning for nursery which also seems a waste to either sell for less money or reupholster.

I know baby would be just fine in the smaller room but we will probably be in house for at least 3 more years and I want a space they can grow into, we can have bedtime stories, etc. I also don't want to wait to switch because I only want to decorate once (and my office isn't fully done yet either despite points above). My gut says to switch, but DH says box room. Please help!!

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With your green futon and dark wood desk, you could do a jungle theme if you don't want to change it that much.