Can you give me some direction on nursery furniture?

[rbp]

We went crib shopping today and left completely overwhelmed. We were at a good store that Baby Bargains says is one of the best in the country. The main furniture brands I saw were Romina, Munire, and Baby's Dream. The latter is manufactured in Georgia, so it might just be available around here. 

I had no idea what I wanted going in, but I fell in love with a gray crib. It comes in this color and a darker gray:  



I kept gravitating back toward this damn crib. H, on the other hand, thinks my fixation on gray is really weird and prefers a wood tone. He likes this one, except in a medium stain: 



I don't really mind it, and TBH our nursery is going to be nothing to write home about regardless because I just don't care enough to paint stencils on the wall or sew a crib skirt. But at the same time, all these cribs that convert to full beds look funny to me, and the gray one is so damn cute. 

H said he was ok with the gray crib as long as we don't buy all gray furniture for the room. Do people mix and match wood colors? Like a gray crib with an oak-stained dresser? IDK how that would look. Then we thought, "we don't need to buy the dresser from a baby store at all." But the thought of spending multiple more weekends nursery shopping stresses me out. UGH, I'm tempted to put this baby to sleep in a damn cardboard box. 

I am feeling overwhelmed because we have literally NO direction for the nursery. It's still set up with all of H's office furniture, and we have no idea where we're going to put everything when we move it out. All we know is that we want pale blue walls. 

I don't think I can deal with Pinterest, so can y'all tell me what to do? Pretty please??

[andthentherewere10]

I went with a grey crib and I painted some furniture I already had grey to match. They aren't matchy-matchy but it works, I think. I have an oak rocker in there and don't mind that it isn't the same. In general, though, I'm casual and low maintenance about this sort of stuff.  I barely spent any money on the nursery because I basically repurposed most everything I had around the house (furniture/art).

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I like the grey crib for a little boy.  White seems too girly and the dark cribs out there seem too dramatic for a nursery.

[andthentherewere10]

The crib looks darker in these pictures than it actually is now that I look at it. This is more true: www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80248573/

[speckledfrog]

We picked the prettiest crib. I think mixing is very common nowadays and can look pretty cute.

[chickadee77]

Our only stipulation was that the crib not be made in China. We're repurposing other furniture for the room (changing pad on the dresser rather than a dedicated changing table, recliner from another part of the house, etc.), so I tried to find a not-Chinese-made crib in cherry that wouldn't break the bank (sounds easier than it was, lol). I have yet to arrange everything, yet, though, so we'll see.

[Myrrhine]

I also have a gray crib. The rest of the furniture will be white. I liked gray and white better than gray and wood color myself.

I think if you have no plans but there is one piece you love (that cute crib for example), you may as well start from there!

[ringstrue]

Just get the crib .

You can order any old dresser you want and have it shipped to your house. TBH, we didn't really use our dresser save for blankets until DD was past toddler stage. We had a closet organizer and used the changing table storage areas.

[ngdgtco]

I love the gray crib and think it would make a nice focal point for the room. I think you could do a white dresser with it. I had decided on a white crib because it's easy, but what helped with direction was just picking out some colors. I think once you get one big thing picked out it's easier to work everything else in around it.

[Blue Moon]

That gray crib is adorable, you should definitely get it. We already have a set of white wicker dressers in our guest room now. It's not necessarily what I would have picked but we're going to work around it since they're in good condition. We're getting a white wood crib and gray and white upholstered glider, and accenting with yellow walls and gray bedding etc. Not everything has to be matchy-matchy. In fact, I prefer it that way!

[hillarywhitney]

I love the gray crib!

I like the look of mixing colors in rooms. I'd probably go with white furniture if you get the gray crib.

[linz]

Apr 13, 2014 9:27:48 GMT -5 @charky said:

I love that gray crib, rbp. Do it!

I'd just go with a standard dresser in a dark stain, something like this one from PB Kids:



I have a white Jenny Lind crib and a gray washed dresser from RH. I actually prefer the mix-and-match look.

I was gonna suggest this too. Our headboard is white and we have wood dressers and I love it. I think with gray doing a darker wood would look great!

[forthelove959]

Baby's Dream crib in gray was my favorite too! I say find one thing that you absolutely love, and everything else will fall in place around it. For me, it was the striped accent wall.

And I love, love, love gray mixed with dark woods!

[bowies]

Get the damn crib. The heart wants what it wants LOL.

Our furniture came from different places - the crib from Amazon (on sale), the dresser from a local unfinished furniture place (on sale), the glider from a local baby store (full price unfortunately, but I priced it out), and the bookshelf came with the house when we bought it. Everything goes together but doesn't match. If you want some continuity in the room, you can do that in other ways - put some gray knobs on the dresser or pick a common color for linens/curtains.

And you can absolutely have a cute nursery without stenciling a wall or making a crib skirt. We have neither. And for decor I'm absolutely repurposing some stuff from other areas of the house, shopping sales (online and local), and doing some DIY projects. The baby will never know.

[demelza]

That crib is so pretty! You have to get it!

[MrsDarcy]

I like the idea of a gray crib with white furniture. We didn't know what we were having with our son, but he ended up with white nursery furniture, and I thought it was just fine. Fwiw, he has wood colored furniture now, and the baby will get the white.

[perkyderky]

I just got my crib and dresser(s) this weekend, actually. I'm also doing a grey crib and 1 grey dresser, with a second, taller, white dresser. The pulls on the changing table/dresser are white. Since we don't know if we're having a girl or a boy, but do have a yellow painted room, I liked this combination. And yes, the pretty grey crib is what sold me on it too. While there's a practical side of me, when I saw this crib and it's changing table/dresser in the showroom there was very much a "Halo" moment, where everything else I looked at didn't compare to that one. FWIW, all my pieces are made in America (someone above stated that was important to them, and it was important to me too) and Stanley is ceasing production of their youth line, so all of my pieces were more or less 1/2 price. Mine are all Young America. While I don't love grey combined with more natural wood finishes, I found that I liked grey with just about every other color of painted wood. And as many others mentioned, I liked all of these pieces, less the crib, enough, where if toddler or little boy/girl doesn't like something, we'll use it in another part of the house.

[SJ]

I like that crib!

We are planning on a white crib, white dresser with yellow drawers, and a gray glider. So I don't think it all needs to be super matchy-matchy.