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Baby Nursery Design Can Be a Daunting Prospect, Especially if You Are a First Time Mom. Relax and Take it Easy with This Simple Step-By-Step Guide to Planning Your Baby Room Design...
A good nursery design begins with planning a few essentials before you even pick up a paint brush. Here are a few things you need to think about before you begin your nursery decorating project:
Infant Safety
Your top priority in designing any little person's space should be safety. If this is your first baby, you are used to thinking about the world from the perspective of someone much bigger - you!

Things that are quite harmless for adults can be a minefield of danger for someone who, at birth, will quite comfortably nestle in a space the size of your hands.
Without being paranoid, you really do need to start looking for danger around every corner, and
bear your baby's safety in mind through every step of the baby nursery design process. Think small and fragile.
Check out my complete nursery safety checklist to find out
everything you need to know about how to protect your baby in the nursery.
- Choosing Your Nursery Design
There are so many nursery designs to choose from, how do you know where to start? Find out:
- How to choose a nursery decorating style.
- How to choose a nursery theme.
- How to choose a color scheme.
- Step by Step Nursery Design eCourse
If you're having trouble choosing your baby nursery design, don't miss my FREE Step by Step Nursery Design eCourse. One at a time I'll take you through all the decisions you need to make in order to arrive at the best baby room design for you.
- Practical Baby Room Design
Before you start with buying nursery furniture and decorating your baby's space, follow the tips on this page to make sure that your baby nursery design is practical and easy to use when it's finished.
We've all seen photos of those picture perfect designer nurseries, and they look great, I admit. But many of them just aren't practical. My baby would pull many of these places apart in five seconds flat!
- Structural Baby Nursery Design Factors
Essential structural issues that you need to nail down before you start decorating or adding baby furniture and gear.
- Choosing The Best Baby Room Furniture
Filling your nursery with baby room furniture is usually very exciting. There's something about the delivery of your baby crib that makes everything seem so real all of a sudden...
Wow - there's actually a baby on the way!
However, in amongst all the excitement you may be feeling a mild - or not so mild - panic setting in.
What if you buy the wrong crib? What if the furniture you buy won't fit in the room? What if it's too dark, too crowded, too small?
If these are your concerns, follow the steps on this page to make sure you get the right baby room furniture for you.
- Furniture Placement Tips
Make sure you create harmony in your baby nursery design by following these nursery interior design tips for furniture placement.
- How To Draw Nursery Floor Plans
Learning how to draw floor plans is much less tiring, not to mention time-consuming, than moving heavy furniture around from one side of the room to the other...
It's the best way to find the optimum furniture arrangement for your baby nursery design.
- Unique Nursery Furniture Space Saving Ideas
I know what it's like to have a small baby nursery to work with - my first one didn't even have a closet!
I wandered through the baby shops looking at all the wonderful baby products, and the only thing going through my head was:
"Where on earth am I going to put all this stuff?"
Check out the ideas on this page to help you save loads of space.
- Nursery Storage
Find out how to make the most of the storage space in your baby nursery. Make sure you have enough space for all those little baby goodies before you finalize your baby nursery design.
Finally, if you need more detailed help with designing your baby nursery you can download
Nursery Design Step-by-Step here.
Nursery Design Step-by-Step is a 105 page nursery design guide with over 100 nursery pictures to help you with planning your baby room, choosing a baby room design and implementing your nursery decorating project.
Now that all the practical stuff is out of the way, it's time to move on to the fun part of baby nursery design - decorating!
If your nursery budget is tight you can get some great dollar saving tips here...
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