Gender-Neutral Baby Room Themes
Choosing to decorate your baby's room in a gender-neutral theme is important if you don't know if you'll be having a boy or a girl, or if two young siblings of different genders are sharing the room. Gender-neutral designs allow you to decorate a room that is appropriate for either a boy or girl without having to worry if it's too girly or too boyish. You'll find several ways to create a stylish gender-neutral nursery using various themes appropriate for babies. Does this Spark an idea?
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Animals
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Decorate your nursery in a gender-neutral way using an animal theme. Your nursery can be decorated with a jungle, circus or farm animal theme, for example. Paint a mural on the walls with a jungle theme with cartoon-like images of animals like a lion, monkey, snake and elephant. Likewise, a circus theme would have clowns as well as animals, such as a seal balancing a ball on its nose, a lion jumping through a ring of fire or an elephant balancing on one leg. Painting baby farm animals, such as a duck, pig and pony on the walls is another way to use animals as a gender-neutral theme. Pull the look of the nursery together by using the same images for the crib's bedding and decorative accessories, such as a lamp.
Alphabet or Numbers
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Another gender-neutral theme for a nursery is the use of the alphabet or numbers. One way to decorate a nursery in an alphabet or number theme is to paint all of the walls in the nursery in a solid color. Stencil a border of letters or numbers across the nursery's walls around the perimeter of a room. Likewise, you can find wallpaper borders with an alphabet or numbers motif. Other nursery accessories that you can find with an alphabet or numbers theme are rubber floor tiles, posters and blankets.
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Nursery Rhymes
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Use wallpaper with a nursery rhyme in your nursery or paint your own image of a nursery rhyme on the walls. Some ideas for nursery rhymes for your baby's room are "Humpty Dumpty," "Hey Diddle Diddle," "Little Miss Muffet" and "Little Bo Peep." Continue the theme, as with the other gender-neutral themes, for your baby's bedding and accessories.
Solid Colors
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You don't need to use images of animals or nursery rhyme characters to decorate a gender-neutral nursery. Opt to decorate your nursery using gender-neutral colors instead, if you want something a little more simple. Gender-neutral colors include white and beige and pastel shades of yellow and green. For example, you can use white for your furniture and choose to paint your walls in pastel yellow. Likewise, you can paint your walls with yellow and white horizontal or vertical stripes or paint pastel yellow circles on white walls.
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