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Ideas for decorating the nursery for your newborn baby
Ideas for decorating the nursery for your newborn baby is always a fun and exciting experience for parents. But there are lots of do's and dont's. The Bright Ideas Baby team recently surfed the net in search for the most useful ideas for decorating a nursery. Here is one article we found on a popular home decore website called Home Decoration Ideas.
Comfort and safety of the baby are the topmost and foremost priorities while decorating a nursery. Early morning sunrays may disturb a little one's morning sleep while streetlight and traffic flow may disturb its sleep and make the baby cranky. A particular tree outside the nursery's window may cast shadows that may terrify a little child and window that sends in cold drafts may keep the child cold in winters. A crib too close to the window may cause a child to climb on the window and fall out! Here is some very practical advice for your nursery decor:
- Babies cannot differentiate much between a plastic laundry basket lined with a soft blanket, expensive Victorian antique cradles and latest high-tech cribs.
- You may use a deep waist-high bookshelf to substitute changing table and chest of drawers. Use common sense and functionality for cheaper options of the traditional furniture pieces.
- The furniture essential for nursery includes bassinet or cradle, crib, changing table, chest of drawers, rocking chair and glider.
- Cribs with slats or posts too far apart may cause the newborn baby to slip through it.
- Corner posts should be in level with railings of the crib so the baby's clothes do not get caught in them.
- Mattress should fit the crib exactly to avoid the baby's limbs getting caught in them.
- Never used lead-based paints for anything in the nursery as they are poisonous and babies tend to chew on everything they can find.
- Changing tables, potty seats and other furniture pieces for the baby should have straps to avoid them from falling.
- Don't use floor lamps and put all electricity switches, plugs and sockets high on the walls so that children cannot reach them or have child safety devices fitted on them.
- Don't use any accessories that are small enough to be swallowed by the baby and get choked or having sharp edges.
- Nontoxic paints and wallpaper patterns suitable for the nursery are available in the market for you to choose from.
- Do not spend too much on nursery decor as children soon outgrow them and then you will need to refurnish it, probably with children's choice.
- Solid color walls and inexpensive area rugs are a good idea that can be given the funky look by adding borders and other accessories, lamps, mobiles and framed pictures.
- Children tend to grab at floor-length curtains or drapes and may even get suffocated by them.
- Similarly, blinds with long pull-cords, especially the looped ones are NOT for the nursery.
 
Bright Idea Baby suggests taking advantage of the fact that Mary Meyer Baby offers themes of their toys (if you need some accessories for frogs, stars or ladybugs then Bright Ideas Baby is the perfect one stop shopping!
If you have ideas for decorating the nursery for your newborn baby that you would like to share with us, we'd welcome your suggestions and may even post your pictures of how you made your ideas for decorating the nursery for your newborn baby become a reality!
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