We live in a 2-bedroom, 980 sq. ft. apartment. It seems we don't have any space for another piece of paper, let alone another human being. We use our 2nd bedroom as our home office and every wall/corner is taken up by either a desk, file cabinet or bookcase.
I can put critter in our room with us, but Mommy and Daddy need privacy to hopefully give critter a critterly sibling.
If only we can figure out a way to hang the crib from the ceiling over the desk and when critter needs to take a nap/sleep, we press a button and it comes down. Critter gets in, press the button and viola! Crib goes up.
Hey don't judge. Look up in your own homes; there's lots of wasted air space.
I'm eying the file cabinet drawer. Measuring it. Mmmmmm, seems like the perfect size for a 20 inch baby.
Only one thing to do: Make room. We got rid of lots of things. Do we really need a Spain Travel Guidebook from2004? Garbage. We were able to eliminate one bookcase and rearranged the room so the office stuff is on one side.
Critter is getting half a room! That's plenty of space for a crib, dresser, changing table, play center, toy storage bins, etc. No?
Actually, Critter will only have a crib, a table and the closet in the room. When I talk into my belly to Critter, I repeat the famous words of the great modern architect Mies van der Rohe, "Less is More"
We decided to creatively partition* the room and critter is gonna have to learn to sleep while listening to us pound on the computer keyboard as we work.We're not doing a 'theme' half-a-nursery. I see a baby room where everything is matchy matchy and every surface is covered in a princess or a steam engine motif and I want to barf! Critter's 'half room' aka 'Nurserice' is going to be a cute mix of eclecticism (translation - stuff we already have or will get at a bargain price).
We painted one wall a baby friendly yellow and the rest of the 'decor' we'll add to once critter arrives to let us know which sexist pink or blue color to accent with.
One thing I WILL NOT DO is a wallpaper border and critter will have to live the rest of its life knowing that its Mommy thinks wallpaper borders are tacky.
* creatively means: we haven't figure out how yet. I did see a curveable curtain rod in last year's Ikea catalog, but it's not in this year's :-(
Are you done cleaning it out? Did you get the crib?
ReplyDeleteYou're depriving your baby of a wallpaper border?
ReplyDeleteTsk, Tsk.
Seriously it doesn't matter what the room looks like or how much space you have, it's the love that you provide that makes the difference.
If you have a long file cabinet it could work. Leave the drawer open when the baby is in there.
ReplyDeleteBaby stuff does take up a lot of space. Be prepared to make more room.
I agree completely about the border and if this critter is going to be a New Yorker, it may as well get used to being squished! Wait, it's already used to being squished!!
ReplyDeleteI don't see wallpaper border on your registry but I'm getting it for you. I found a nice one with monkeys. That's the theme isn't it?
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