When it came to child #6 (yes we have six beautiful children), developing a “nursery” space wasn’t even on my radar honestly. We have three children’s rooms in our home, and it was a given that the long-term goal would be to move him into one of the shared rooms (most likely with his other two brothers).
We’ve moved infants into shared rooms four other times, one might say we are quite versed in the doing; so it never crossed our minds that we would have different thoughts. But when he turned 9 months old and was still in our room because we hesitated to move him into a room with two other siblings who had lived several years without a baby in their room, we knew we needed a new plan.
We are ready to be able to turn our lights on in the morning and not have to worry about waking a sleeping baby when we go to bed at night. We just aren’t baby-in-the-bed people (no shade if you are). So we turned to the obvious solution — a neglected landing in the upstairs of our home that served as a makeshift office and supplemental TV area (that we have used maybe once HA).
We have already talked about plans of walling in that area in the future as an actual office space for my husband, so using it for another purpose in the meantime felt like an easy call. We didn’t want to invest the time or money into putting up an actual wall at this point, but floor-to-ceiling curtains can do wonders.
I zhuzhed up the bookshelves that we will use later and didn’t want to move out, added some baskets for baby items, took out the desk, and put in a crib. Then I bought several panels of blackout drapes and two rods to hang over the windows and to create a wall-doorway combo.
I’m so pleased with the result. And the only money I had to spend at this point was on the drapes and rods. Shout out for “shopping your house” because often we already have what we need for a space. It feels like such an easy win for us in this season. Now to move that sweet baby into his space … and not miss him too badly being two feet from my head.
LINKS (this post contains Amazon Affiliate links):
- Blackout Drapes, $48 set of 2
- Blackout Curtain Rod, $17
- Crib, $279
- Bicycle Poster (I bought mine local, but this one is similar), $14
- Area Rug (we’ve had this one for years, but I linked a similar one), $140 for 6×9
- Bookshelves, $250
- Floor lamp, $70
- Bookshelf lamps, $11
- Storage Baskets, (I bought mine at Magnolia years ago, but found some similar) $23