10 ideas on how to prepare an apartment for a baby

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

A baby is about to appear in your family, but there is no time left for a major overhaul and a complete redesign of the interior? Use these ten ideas to make your apartment comfortable and cozy both for yourself and for your baby.

1. First of all, take care of safety. Advice, as old as last year's snow, and as banal as Captain Obvious? So why not use it? You can leave faded wallpaper on the walls and old curtains on the windows, but you simply have to protect the furniture. Fasten special overlays on the sharp corners of tables and nightstands, install stoppers on doors and drawers of dressers, and clamps on windows. When the baby begins to crawl and then walk, all these simple devices will save him from bruises, and you from worries.

Decor for a children's room

2. Get rid of unnecessary items. To make the cleaning process as easy as possible, remove excess furniture. Think about which items you really need, and which are just "for beauty" and by and large clutter up the space.

Take out unnecessary poufs, magazine stands and coffee tables to your dacha or give it to your friends for temporary use. It will become easier for you to wipe the dust and floors, and you will not stumble over an extra bedside table, moving around the house in a half-asleep state so characteristic of new-born parents. In addition, when the baby grows up, then he will have enough space to learn to crawl and walk.

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3. Choose the right place for your baby cot. In the first year of your baby's life, the crib will become the center of your home. Therefore, it is important to install it in the right place. If you are not interested in the rules of Feng Shui, then proceed from the laws of safety: the bed should not stand in a draft, near a battery, in direct sunlight or another source of direct light, near sockets and wires and directly by the window (especially if you live in an earthquake-prone area). Ideally, it is best placed next to the parents' bed.

Decor for a children's room

4. Hang thick dark curtains on the windows of your child's room. Newborns usually confuse day with night, so in order for them to sleep peacefully during the daytime, the windows need to be properly darkened. This will also be useful for the mother, since she will be able to sleep with the baby.

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5. Apply washable wallpaper to the walls. If you still have time to make a small cosmetic repair and re-glue the wallpaper, then choose washable copies.

Making a few movements with a sponge and washing off children's "masterpieces" painted on the wall with fruit puree or something else is much easier than telling a six-month-old toddler that this should not be done.

6. Cover the floor with soft surfaces. Carpets, rugs and elastic rugs will make your steps noiseless, and you will less disturb the sleep of your baby. And when the child begins to learn to walk, then falling (and in this case without falling in any way) on soft surfaces will be much less painful than on parquet or bare laminate.

7. Get a deep, soft chair or rocking chair. Yes, these pieces of furniture can be bulky and expensive. However, in the first months of life, the baby will every now and then ask to be in your arms, and it is possible that you will have to rock him for hours. And, of course, it is more convenient to do this while sitting in a comfortable chair with a high back than on a chair or pacing the room. And if possible, set up a small table next to the chair where you can store a feeding bottle, wet wipes, or other items that you need close at hand.

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eight. Install a floor lamp, table lamp or night light in the nursery. If you need to get up in the middle of the night or the baby suddenly cries in his sleep, you do not have to light the chandelier and thereby wake the baby up. It is enough to turn on the lamp and see what is bothering the child.

9. Get a portable changing board. This is ideal if you live in a small apartment. The board takes up much less space than a special table or chest of drawers for changing, and besides, it costs several times cheaper. Plus, it can be installed on any flat and wide surface. For example, if you already have a regular adult chest of drawers at home, then you can put a changing board on it, and store diapers, cream and other baby accessories in drawers.

10. Choose for the nursery light or pastel colors, but do not give preference to any theme. A recent study by the international platform for construction and interior design Houzz showed that Russian parents prefer to paint children's walls white (57% of respondents), beige (42%), green (31%), blue (26%) and gray (26 %) colors. So why not learn from this experience and follow the example of the seasoned?

Have you decided to glue the nursery wallpaper with Disney princesses for a girl or "Cars" for a boy? Do not hurry! When your child grows up, it may turn out that he has other heroes and preferences: for example, your daughter wants wallpaper and textiles with animals, and your son - with superheroes.

Therefore, choose a monochromatic decor for a newborn: over time, the curtains can be moved into the adult's room, and the wallpaper can be painted or pasted over with figures of those characters that your child will like. By the way, according to the same Houzz study, more than half of the parents surveyed allow their children to take part in the renovation process. Those who prefer to choose the theme of children's decor, relying on their own taste, prefer, first of all, a natural theme. Other popular options include geometric shapes, animals, nautical themes, transportation, princesses, and sports.

Accessories for the nursery