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Please help, getting stressed sorting out a nursery!

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FessaEst · 02/07/2010 19:38

Hope someone can help. I lack the ability to see how things can fit together nicely!

DD is now 7 months, still in our room but in need of a move to her own. We did no more than paint walls white and move some furniture around in her room when I was pregnant, as I felt being all ready was tempting fate. Now wish I had done it when I had time to think and get straight! Her room is really tricky. It is 3.4m x 2.5m with a radiator on one short wall and 2 windows (no idea why) on the other short wall, making it very hard to know where to put anything. The door is at the end of one of the long walls. I hate the feeling that everything is lined up on the 2 longs walls but the room is not really wide enough to have the cot coming into the middle

I really like the Hensvik range from Ikea but just cannot see how it will "work". Am thinking of disconnecting the radiator as it is mostly off anyway.

Any thoughts?

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thisisyesterday · 02/07/2010 20:13

hmm i think i'd put the cot along one of the long walls, maybe the one opposite the door? right in the middle, with a changing table/chest of drawers at one and and then maybe the wardrobe on the other long wall?

FessaEst · 02/07/2010 20:31

Thank you TIY. Hadn't thought of putting the chest of drawers alongside the cot, that might run nicely. At the moment the drawers and wardrobe are on the same (door) wall and it all feels a bit cramped. Maybe having the wardrobe on it's own will feel better.

The windows are a real pain, they are different sizes (1 big, 1 small) and the gap between them is not big enough for shelves or anything, so a whole wall taken up!

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thisisyesterday · 02/07/2010 20:36

could you make some shelves that would fit around the windows somehow?

FessaEst · 02/07/2010 22:13

Unfortunately, I don't think so, as they start right at the sides iyswim? I have just been to measure and the gap between them is just over 50 cm, so am thinking I could perhaps put a set of shelves there, enclosed ones, for little bits and bobs. Maybe something like this but cheaper!

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FessaEst · 02/07/2010 22:14

Or rather, the gap is 70+cm but the usable bit (after curtains etc) is 50+cm!

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thisisyesterday · 02/07/2010 22:19

yeah you might be able to fit something useable in there.

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