Saturday was spent looking at nursery furniture and bedding for the first time. We found a great deal on a whole set that wasn't my favorite and I definitely wasn't ready to commit that day, even though it was tempting. When we got home from a crazy afternoon, I spent quite a bit of time going back through our Baby Bargains book to check out the ratings of the furniture we saw. We narrowed our choices from Decor 4 Kids down to two that we wanted to go back and look at. We also found two choices at Buy Buy Baby online that we wanted to go look at. Kurt priced all four sets out to see what we were working with. I also spent some time looking at different bedding fabrics at a company that Decor 4 Kids sells called New Arrivals. They have THE CUTEST stuff and tons more gender neutral options than anyone else. You can custom order using any of the fabrics which is so nice. We narrowed down those options and planned on ordering some bedding when we went back up to Decor 4 Kids.
On Sunday, we met my mom at Buy Buy Baby to check out the furniture sets we found online and planned to go back to Decor 4 Kids after. After debating, we finally decided to bite the bullet and buy the crib, tall dresser, long dresser, and bed conversion kit from Buy Buy Baby. The bedding from Buy Buy Baby was already quite a bit more inexpensive AND they gave us 20% off each item!! We couldn't pass up the deal on furniture that is just as good quality as the ones from Decor 4 Kids. We knew we're still going to need to spend quite a bit of money on other things for the nursery, especially a glider.
At first, I thought the color of the furniture had too much of a reddish undertone. We found some grey bedding at the store {we'll probably use some shades of grey} to see how the color looked with the furniture. Looked totally fine! What I really like about the crib is that the front swoops down. I've found it difficult to put down/pick up babies from cribs before because I'm so short. I think the front will allow me to reach in easier.
We plan to put the changing pad on top of the long dresser. We like how the drawers pull out easily and don't slam when you close them. We're hoping that there will be plenty of room for baby things {and possibly some extra for our crap!}
I wanted to add some more things to our registry while we were there, but picking out/ordering the furniture took a long time...we were ready to get outta there! However, I did show my mom the two strollers we're debating on. Ugh, such a difficult decision! Why can't the more practical one look as cute as the other one!!!
After eating a much needed late lunch, we decided to go ahead and make the trek up to Decor 4 Kids to try and get the bedding picked out and ordered. They didn't have all of the swatches we wanted to look at, so they are going to order all the swatches and send them to us. We are for sure going to order a bed skirt and I think we'll get a matching sheet. My mom wants to buy us a bumper pad. We're not sure we're going to use one...some people say you should and some say you shouldn't. We're going to wait to see if our baby is a mover and a shaker while sleeping and might need some protection from the crib rails. We can mix and match any of the fabrics, so I know it's going to be a tough decision! They have all sorts of room accessories to match fabrics/bedding sets. We may look into ordering a pillow for the glider once we have that picked out. So many options...stressful!!! Here's what we're thinking about for bed skirts and sheets {all swatches from New Arrivals}.
Bed Skirt? Probably our last choice. Would pair neutral sheets with it until we know the sex and then would buy blue/pink/yellow/etc. colored sheets to make it more gender specific.
I think this is my favorite so far. I like that it's not too modern but not too traditional. We could pair it with tons of colors/patterns of sheets and room accessories.
I do love the chevron, but I'm thinking it's a bit too modern and trendy. My hope is that we'll use this bedding for all of our children and I don't want this to look funny years down the road because it was a fad.
These two sheet options we would consider putting with either of the grey bed skirts. I really like the polka dot with the first grey skirt.
We've pretty much ruled out the blue/green skirt. We went ahead and ordered the swatch in case we had a change of heart, but we love the grey and love how many different colors we could pair with it. Only difficult part is going to be picking out a paint color for the room.
Because we're pretty sure we're going to use grey bedding, we went ahead and bought the changing pad and one cover while at Decor 4 Kids. The pad is a cozy fabric that is a dark charcoal grey. I can't wait to put it on top of the dresser!
Now that we have all of the furniture ordered and the bedding will {hopefully} be ordered in the next month or so, we need to get our butts into gear and get the nursery cleaned out! We set some dates to get things cleaned and get everything moved out of there. We also planned when Kurt will paint the room and the day we're going to pick up the furniture. Hopefully having dates for when things need to get done will help us stay on schedule for getting this room put together! Fingers crossed, the room will be pretty much finished before the holiday season begins {I'm really hoping it'll be done by the end of October}.
So, what are your thoughts?!? What bedding would you choose if you were picking? I'm horrible at making decisions, so any advice would be appreciated! :)
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