This pastel gender neutral nursery has a ton of fun little elements perfect for a baby boy or girl!

I am so thrilled to be sharing baby Pierce’s nursery! I am less than 2 weeks out from his due date and he really could arrive at any moment so I am beyond happy that his nursery is all ready. By the way, being over 38 weeks I now realize why pregnant women always are saying they’re ready to be done! I have had an easy pregnancy so far and I cannot really complain. I don’t know if my body is lacking hormones or what but I have had no nausea and almost no complications. I still have had migraines and definitely had a lot of days where I was exhausted but compared to the horror stories I’ve heard from a lot of other mommas I feel so blessed. However, now that I am feeling huge, uncomfortable, have daily aches, and have been in my third trimester the entire summer in humid D.C. I am glad I only have a maximum of a few weeks left. Plus I cannot wait to finally meet him! (But don’t worry mom I don’t want him to arrive early).

Now I am not someone who can wait for the entire pregnancy to find out the gender – kudos to those of you who can! I am the person who opts for the blood test at 10 weeks so I can find out as early as possible and start shopping and planning. When I got the results back at 12 weeks I initially thought it was too early to know. But then one minute later I changed my mind. I did wait 2 days for my amazing friend Dorothy to make a gender reveal cake and do a small family reveal over video chat though. That is the extent of my patience.

Since I knew the gender so early I had planned for a nursery that went with a boy. However, now that it is complete I think it really could work for a girl as well and thus would be perfect for those who want a more gender neutral space or who are waiting to find out their baby’s gender. Like I wrote in my inspiration board post I went back and forth on styles for a few weeks before Machelle gave me the idea of using pastels. I focused on blues and yellows and think that the color combination is perfect for a boy and I love how it all turned out. Greg was just so helpful as well – painting the nursery with me, putting up the crib, etc. I initially thought I would have the nursery all done by the end of my second trimester. Looking back on it this was quite an audacious goal and I still had a lot of buying, organizing, and planning to do in my third trimester. At least everything is all set up before he arrives. I know I won’t be using the nursery for months since he’ll be sleeping in a bassinet in our room but it makes be feel better knowing the space is ready.

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Well now that Stella is 19 months old and we’re about to move again, I’m finally sharing her nursery with you! Over a year ago, I shared this inspiration board for this future room and at that time, I was not envisioning mint green at all, or even all these whimsical elements, but I’m happy with the direction it went and even though it was a short-lived room I’m ready to show it to you today!

But I’m really only ‘ready’ in the sense that I just kind of had to stop, call it done, and photograph it so that I can actually pack it all up and leave it behind. Really, in the ideal sense, this room is not finished. I never quite got it to the point of doneness that I would have liked to. It doesn’t feel perfectly complete and there are even projects seen here that are flat-out half finished and not what I imagined. However, there are so many parts of the room that I do love and I’m also okay with the fact that it’ll never be “done.” Maybe this makes no sense but the fact is that this labor of love was fun, fits this house, this time in our lives, and is almost what I dreamed it would be. But, I feel like my design senses are headed in another direction and so I’m happy to leave the whimsical color of this space behind and see what the next house sets us up for.

I have always thought of this space as glamorous meets whimsical. Lots of metallics and glitter and velvet tufting meets circus animal cookie marquee lights, bubblegum machines and balloons. Perhaps this giant, gilded rubber ducky illustrates that perfectly.

And really, I think that defines my style in everything perfectly. My living room is gray and industrial but there are humorous quotes in the frames. My dress style is mostly neutral and layered but I top it off with a Harry Potter time-turner necklace. So this space is so me in that way and I love that. Of course it’s technically my daughter’s room, but, let’s be real, she’s not old enough to know, nor care, about what ‘her room’ looks like. This space, like her first birthday party, is for me. It’s for young me that just couldn’t wait to have a baby girl for a) the clothes and b) her room. (Don’t worry, before she came I wanted her for many more reasons that just those).

If you want to see more of this fun, mint + pink + black + gold + silver baby girl room then click through for all the details, DIYs and links to sources!

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