Nursery Ideas!

I didn't even start thinking about the nursery until yesterday because in all honesty, the thought of it overwhelmed me!!  What I am struggling with is - how do I go about picking something that I know I will like to look at every day, while trying to make it something different than what everyone else has - and not to mention, a room that doesn't cost an arm and a leg!

I'm still trying to figure out that last part, but I think we actually have ideas that may cover the first two problems!  Of course, we don't know if we are going to be decorating this room for a boy or girl yet - but I am really excited about what we've come up with!  And, I've actually been thinking a lot more about a little boy's room - is that foreshadowing for what we'll be finding out a week from now!? :)

I know one thing that makes me very lucky - I have a husband who cares about decorating AND actually has really good ideas.  We will most likely design a crib bumper and skirt on babybedding.com (very cute website if you haven't seen it yet!).  Ben came up with the idea that we should pick a gender neutral bumper and skirt so that we can reuse it for baby #2 (and #3?)!  At first - my initial reaction was - "Umm, no, I want it to be specific to boy or girl."  But, then I started thinking that it really does make sense - saves us money in the end!

Most likely we will do some sort of grey/white combo for the skirt and bumper.  Then if we have a boy - do a navy blue, grey, white room and if we have a little girl - do a pink, grey, and white room.  And of course, picking a theme based on either boy or girl!

That got my wheels turning - what theme for a little boy (which is about how far I got since like I said, I was feeling the little boy planning for some reason!)!?  As much as I would LOVE to do a Packers themed room - it is kind of hard to make that look like "classy" (I'm sure many of you are thinking...well, of course, Packers are never classy :)).  So one option we came up with would be to do a football themed room with Packer accents - maybe a little nick nack here and there to show our Packer pride!  But option #2 - I'm really excited about - an airplane themed room!!!  This was inspired by my favorite pilot - my dad :)  I think that would be super cute.  So we'll see...obviously we need to know boy or girl first then we can really start planning! :)

DIY airplane lamp!

I think no matter what if it's a boy, I'll be getting this blanket :)  So snuggly!

Now here is a question for people - what do you think of white baby furniture vs. dark wood (like espresso) furniture?  Could white be used for a boy?  If we go with espresso furniture, can we do a white and grey rocker/glider?  We found one we really like....any thoughts are appreciated :) :)