https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:55:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2408356 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 09:28:16 +0000 Alivoo01 2408356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: Love it! I'm thinking about painting DD's nursery a similar color. Did you paint all 4 walls that color? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2408219 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:52:24 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2408219@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: beautiful! Love it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2408218 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:43:24 +0000 Cherrybee 2408218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone! I'm loving washing all my little baby clothes and putting them away! Nesting rules! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407916 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:15:05 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2407916@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very nice! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407912 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:08:39 +0000 sslm 2407912@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: I love it!!! So cute. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407903 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:53:50 +0000 JennyLayneAZ 2407903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: adorable! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407900 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:49:02 +0000 bloved 2407900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: that looks awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407849 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:30:22 +0000 pregnantbee 2407849@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nicely done! Looks amazing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407847 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:27:57 +0000 Mrs. Pen 2407847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: oh it's so cute!! I love it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407840 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:12:23 +0000 Cherrybee 2407840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for all your advice! We bought our furniture and DH assembled it all today. We took the advice to go for tall furniture to get more storage. We will use a cot top changer. Here is our nursery (its so small its hard to get a picture of it!): </p> [attach=2581/16/o0edon.600x337.WP_20160103_22_08_16_Pro.jpg] [attach=2581/16/o0edoo.337x600.WP_20160103_22_07_59_Pro.jpg] [attach=2581/16/o0edop.600x337.WP_20160103_22_08_35_Pro.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407273 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:45:52 +0000 mismikado 2407273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS's room is 8x12 and will be shared with D2 in August. It's a weird layout with no full walls so there's limited furniture space. We've started rearranging it so on one wall is mini crib and the other side has his toddler bed. We anchored a small IKEA bookcase to the wall and added a curtain rod to our for closet space. Adjacent to it is another bookcase filled with bins for folded clothing/toy storage and the final walk space has a dresser that we placed a changing pad on top of. There's a wire bin storage unit at the foot of the toddler bed for more storage and another cart under the window. The sill is deep so I have a basket there with misc supplies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407236 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:38:28 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2407236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our nursery is 6'x8'.<br /> We have a crib that has five drawers and a changer all in one. A small three drawer chest and a glider. There's nothing more I need in the space.<br /> If you are smart about furniture and find things that can do double duty it'll make things much easier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407233 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:25:43 +0000 Cherrybee 2407233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cupcake: That's teeeeeny but so adorable! Love the colours! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407231 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:24:12 +0000 Cherrybee 2407231@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: That's just over double the size of ours then! I will check it out for ideas, thank you. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407228 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:08:54 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 2407228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: I blogged ours awhile ago! Charlottes bedroom is 9x10! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407107 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:03:12 +0000 Cupcake 2407107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ds1's nursery in our old house was about 5'x6'. We purchased a mini crib, and a changing table dresser combo. We kept the rocking chair in front of the closet door, and only store things like extra diapers and larger sized clothes in there. </p> [attach=2799/16/o0bwdc.600x337.image.jpeg] [attach=2799/16/o0bwdd.600x337.image.jpeg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407091 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:41:08 +0000 Cherrybee 2407091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: No, our bathroom is tiny! Its not big enough for a mirror, hahaha! But we had a cot-top changer for E and it was great. We kept it under the cot when not in use. The cot is the kind you can take the side off so it will last until she is perhaps 2.5. After that, if we want to put a bed in, it wont fit width ways in the room and still have room to get past because the room is only 160cm wide! :happy: I'm thinking we might need to move the attic reno forward! (any excuse!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407068 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 07:44:06 +0000 looch 2407068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is your bathroom big enough to have the changing station (assuming you use one)? </p> <p>I am not a big fan of the IKEA loft beds, they look like they'd snap in half, but I know a lot of people that have used them for multiple kids!</p> <p>Instead, I'd think ahead of the kind of bed to use when you're done with the crib and then design around that. One of my favorite ideas was to center the bed in the center of the longest wall and then use the closet systems to build out floor to ceiling cabinets. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2407006 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 23:30:12 +0000 pastemoo 2407006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Baby 2's nursery is just a wall in my son's room, partly set up (22 weeks to go, give or take)</p> <p>For dresser and toy storage we have two cube shelves from target with 9 cloth drawers in each, one shelf per kid (I will have to rearrange it). My son never missed the big toys that take up tons of floor spaces. Shelves that attach to the wall and don't touch the floor are your friends.</p> <p>No hamper in the room for clothes (we all share one, it is in the bathroom). The green hanging bag on the crib is the dirty diaper bag.<br /> No glider. </p> <p>[attach=741/16/o0b5uc.600x450.image.jpeg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406878 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:10:34 +0000 Ms maths 2406878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO2 is in a room that is roughly 7x9 ft. She has a crib (Ikea gulliver), a chifferobe (her great-grandparents' wedding gift!) with a small hanging section and seven drawers, three small wall-mounted shelves that hold books, and an area rug. We have a glider for nursing in our room, toys are in common spaces, and the changing table is in the hallway by the bathroom. (We have two kids in diapers and use cloth, so this is the best location for it anyway.)</p> <p>I used to think the room was small, but now I think it's perfect. I hope to keep her in there as long as she sleeps in a crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406741 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:52:45 +0000 Cherrybee 2406741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: Thank you for your brilliant, detailed reply. I love Ikea for storage solutions. I bet the nook looked really sweet! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406720 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:33:06 +0000 Foodnerd81 2406720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: no, no nook. Just the rock and play at the foot of our bed, and a changing station set up on my dresser. She has a few drawers for pjs and a couple of outfits that fit, plus blankets and burp cloths and such. The idea is they will eventually share a room but there's a good chance we will move before then anyway. </p> <p>Most of her clothes and extra blankets and stuff are in C's room, but I definitely keep more than enough for late night blowouts and stuff in our room. It's a work in progress (and will be until we move). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406700 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:07:24 +0000 Applesandbananas 2406700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: haha that's precisely the debate DH and I are having! He thinks LO will jump! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406692 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 16:53:33 +0000 catomd00 2406692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: thanks! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406657 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 16:08:03 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2406657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That is pretty small but should be fine for a baby! (Code for a bedroom where I live is 10x12.) I would split the closet too. #1 and #2 are sharing but so far #2 (almost 3 months) sleeps with us but we just keep a couple spare blankets and onesies or sleepers and that's been enough. I'd also do one of those cribs with a drawer or some other storage. I'd skip the glider unless you're really wanting to feed there. I guess what I'm saying is I would buy minimal stuff (focus on a place to sleep and store clothes) and buy what becomes necessary as you get into a routine. We thought we might want to utilize our loft as a third bedroom but most likely we are going to keep the kids together and make one room a play room instead. It can be tough to say ahead of time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406650 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:53:29 +0000 gingerbebe 2406650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had DS in a nook in our master bedroom before we bought a house that was about the size of your nursery. </p> <p>We had his crib and a dresser up against the main wall with a changing pad and a basket of diapering goods on top of the dresser. We put a tall skinny floor lamp with a lamp dimmer switch next to the dresser to turn on at night for changing.</p> <p>Once he got a little older, we swapped out the dresser with an Ikea cube storage unit with the coordinating fabric drawers.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60275812/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60275812/</a></p> <p>They actually hold a lot of books and toys and we keep DS' humidifier and white noise machine on top of the unit. </p> <p>In terms of clothing and other storage, we put hanging storage systems with coordinating drawers in the closet. They are perfect for baby clothes.</p> <p><a href="http://www.landofnod.com/i-think-i-canvas-hanging-closet-organizers/f16701" rel="nofollow">http://www.landofnod.com/i-think-i-canvas-hanging-closet-organizers/f16701</a></p> <p>On the floor of the closet we keep a small laundry hamper and a spare plastic drawer set on wheels we had around the house for additional storage like this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/8282897?wmlspartner=wmtlabs&#038;adid=22222222222001195779&#038;veh=sem" rel="nofollow">http://www.walmart.com/ip/8282897?wmlspartner=wmtlabs&#038;adid=22222222222001195779&#038;veh=sem</a></p> <p>We had a small 4x6 rug on the floor to delineate his space from our master bedroom and hung simple prints and vinyl decals over the dresser and crib area to dress it up.</p> <p>The thing that helped the space situation was we kept our chair in a different place. Trying to put a big comfy glider or something would have been too tight in that space, although something slim like an Ikea Poang chair might work. So for us, I'd change DS and then walk over to the chair and feed him over there. </p> <p>Even now that DS has his own room, we kept the same furniture set up to maximize the floor space in his room. He's still sleeping in his crib, but I imagine you can get a really cheap Ikea toddler bed that will last until your LO moves into the attic conversion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406630 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:18:59 +0000 Cherrybee 2406630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: Its a turquoise colour. I'm so pleased with it! </p> <p>@catomd00: Ahh yes, I can see that now! You've made that room seem really spacious, given its compact size. Amazing job! </p> <p>@PinkElephant: Id prefer not to keep all of #2's clothes in #1's room because E is a really light sleeper so I wont be able to creep in at night in the event of a blowout. But its a great idea for coats, dresses etc, and some toys. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406618 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:09:10 +0000 avivoca 2406618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catomd00: That is adorable!</p> <p>So, that does sound teeny. I would just try to get the furniture scale right for the crib/changer and store things vertically. What color did you paint it? I'm excited to see what you end up doing in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406616 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:08:23 +0000 catomd00 2406616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: the closet is to the left of the crib. It's a good size with accordion doors. The door to the room is to the right of the dresser (you can kind of see it in the last pic). The first pic was taken from the doorway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teeny-tiny-nurseries-please-share#post-2406613 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:03:52 +0000 PinkElephant 2406613@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does LO1 have space for a large IKEA-esque wardrobe? LO2 stayed in an alcove off our bedroom for awhile with nothing but a crib and two under the crib baskets for diapers/middle of the night needs (like one change of clothes) and a few hooks. Her clothes and toys were in LO1's (huge) room. We moved her in with LO1 around 1 year.<br /> ETA: the girls shared the hanging pirtion of the wardrobe, lo2 had drawers on the bottom half, and the other side was toy/diaper/outgrown clothes storage. </p>