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Creating a Beautiful and Healthy Nursery
for Your Baby
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Congratulations! It's time to start planning
your baby's nursery. This is a wonderful opportunity to express
your creativity and prepare a healthy room to welcome your new
baby home. Here are some decorating ideas to get you started.
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Decorating the room
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Use paint instead of spending a lot of money on wallpaper. Invite
friends and relatives to come over and dip their hands into a bucket
of paint and then place their handprints on the wall. They can then
sign their names underneath. This way, your baby gets to enjoy a brightly
coloured room covered in the type of highly contrasting pattern that
most appeals to young infants. What an interesting way to introduce
your baby to the numerous significant people in his or her life!
Other ideas for decorating inexpensively include drawing hundreds
of happy faces with coloured markers, purchasing brightly coloured
wallpaper borders, stencilling your own borders, or hanging either
baby quilts or brightly coloured children's placemats on the wall
as decorations. If you are good at handicrafts, you can save yourself
a pretty penny by making padded wallhangings and other decorations.
If you do decide to spend a little more money and wallpaper your
baby's room, try to find something that isn't too babyish. Pastel
ducks may look cute now, but just try to convince your five year
old boy that ducks are where it's at when he has his heart set on
race cars or teenage mutant ninja turtles! Also, make sure that
any wallpaper that you choose is scrubbable. The wallpaper is likely
to be hit with any number of substances from spitups to crayons to things we don't even want to mention.
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Floors and windows
The same goes for flooring. Stain resistant carpet or hardwood
floors are worth every penny when you consider the types of abuse
the floor is likely to encounter during your baby's first few years.
If you've already got wall-to-wall carpet down in the nursery and
you're concerned that it might not weather your child's babyhood
particularly well,an area rug might be a good investment.
Similarly, when you're selecting window coverings for the nursery,
aim for washable fabrics or blinds that can be wiped down easily
with a damp cloth.
Because some babies need to be taught the difference between night
and day, you may find that a room darkening blind of some type may
help save your sanity in months to come. An added bonus is that
these blinds tend to be relatively inexpensive (unless, of course,
you opt for a custom drapery service or select a pricey fabric for
the blinds).
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See the world as your baby sees it
When you are decorating, remember that as the months go on, your
baby is going to spend a lot of time lying on his or her back. Doesn't
it only make sense then to pay attention to the ceiling as well?
Inexpensive ways to jazz up the ceiling include suspending fabric
kites, or allowing fabric to billow through a series of hanging
rings. Some toy stores also sell special nets which allow you to
hang stuffed animals from the ceiling (and if your baby is like
most children, he or she will have a fairly formidable collection
of stuffed animals by the time his or her first birthday rolls around!)
A nursery can be decorated beautifully without costing the earth
if you are willing to be innovative and let your imagination run
wild. Your nursery needn't look like something out of a decorating
magazine; what's important is that it's practical and cheery! After
all, you're likely to spend a lot of time in your baby's room during
those first few months.
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