Nursery ideas

Back in February, John and I painted our second bedroom which is currently my office. We knew this would become the nursery some day, and wanted to pick a color that would work for a boy or girl. I fell in love with a color called Foam, a really nice blue-green that is also the color on my business cards. I figured if we had a boy, it'd be perfect! If it's a girl, I think we could totally make it work. I never really wanted to have a pink and purple girl room anyway. So here are a couple of pics from my other blog of my office:

The color looks more gray here, but it's actually nice & bright.

So what are some gender-neutral accent colors? I've always been drawn to grays and yellows, so when I saw this scrapbook paper at Paper Zone, I almost had a heart attack:

Nice, huh?! It's great inspiration for the color palette I have in mind. Then I found this fabric online by designer Daisy Janie and thought it could possibly work as curtains, crib bedding or perhaps just accent pillows... Not really sure yet.

I ordered a sample and will have to hold it up to the wall and see. It might look great, or totally clash. Another thought is to add some red or orange... If it's a girl, maybe greens or lighter shades of purple. Or stick with aqua, white and chocolate and go with something like this:


We'll see! Our next ultrasound is July 9th and they should be able to tell the sex, so I'll be able to make decisions at that point. For now, I'm just having a great time looking at furniture, bedding, wall decals and other fun things for our little one. There are so many options out there so I'm sure it will be hard to decide!