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Our girls share a room, but we actually have an exercise ball. My youngest prefers to be bounced rather than rocked, so an armchair might actually work for your second.

We had a rocking chair and a reclining loveseat in my son's room. The loveseat was left over from the room being a man cave and I wasn't happy about leaving it in there but my husband wanted to keep it. I actually ended up spending most of my time with baby sitting there, and rarely rocked. The fact that it was stationary was a nonissue. I think if your armchair is comfortable to sit in that will be the key!

ETA: I rarely reclined the loveseat, so mostly just sat in it the way you would an armchair.

I had an arm chair with DS1 but it did rock. I added an ottoman but it didn't move. I really liked it. I found it so much more comfortable than the glider that I got 2nd hand for DS2's room. To be honest, we still use the arm chair and DS1 is almost 5. We stopped using the glider in DS2's room. I"m going to try to sell it.

Also, when DS1 was born, we lived in a tiny condo and didn't have anything that rocked or any special chair. I sat on the couch and nursed. I used a yoga ball to bounce him and he liked that a lot more than being rocked.

I had an arm chair and I loathed it. I had a tough time getting out of it when my son fell asleep. It would wake him up.

@SweetiePie: my SIL has a nice arm chair and a pouf and it worked fine. I think early days they mostly put my nephew in one of those super small and cheap FP bouncers and bounced him in it because he preferred that motion anyway. She also kept a small stuffed animal and a small throw pillow on the chair so she could wedge them for her shoulder or back as needed. Her thought was it would be more useful long term as a reading chair and what not. I think as long as you can prop your legs up and not hurt your neck, that's most important.

With my first I had a glider (not in the nursery, we kept it in the living room). It was pretty useful, and the gliding would help him sleep. It broke, and we never replaced it.

For my second, I mostly nursed in a couch in the living room, or in a chair and a half in our bedroom. The chair and a half was the perfect size for nursing. My second did not care for motion as much as my first. When he was really little, like the first month or two, I would bounce him on my knee, similar to the motion from the Happiest Baby on the Block video. We have twin bed in my second one's room that I use for bedtime stories, along with the crib he sleeps in.

We also have an old fashioned rocking chair, but it is pretty narrow, and is a climbing hazard, so we don't use it much.

We have a Best chair recliner. They have some fairly small models. I like having something that rocks and is comfy for me.

Not the same but we don't have a glider or armchair in there at all, we have a twin bed in there for guests, and it has been the BEST EVER. We read bedtime stories on there, I can nurse there comfortably whenever, and now we are moving him to that bed in preparation for baby #2 using the crib. It's an IKEA bed with two sliding drawers for storage underneath.

We had a rocker/swivel/recliner easy chair with LO1 and LO3. It's a great chair (perfectly sized for both me -- 5'2"-- and DH) for feeding, sleeping (if necessary), etc.

For LO2, we were renting a furnished house across the country, so I only had a regular easy chair with an ottoman -- no rocking/gliding/swivel or recline. It was fine! But my kids have never NEEDED motion to sleep, and on the random nights they do, we would just walk with them. I think I just absentmindedly rock in our chair often, but it wasn't something I particularly missed!

@periwinklebee: Ours is also really small! In our guest room (the same size) we have a queen bed and side table, and there's hardly room to walk around. I'm even on the fence about a changing table.

@periwinklebee: I'm torn between moving my dresser into the nursery to double as a changing table (it has a flat top) and it being more cramped, or getting a changing table and just using a dresser in one of our guest rooms. There is a closet, so I can do hanging storage too.

Once the baby is in a regular bed, I think they'll move into one of the guest rooms to sleep (we have two currently) and the nursery will be an empty play room.

We have plenty of "rooms" in our house, but the three non-master rooms are all like 10X10 or 12X12 and hardly hold anything other than a bed.

@SweetiePie: no advice but I'll go to ABC with you

We had a Poang chair in our bedroom, a glider in hers. I really preferred nursing in the Poang, or on the couch in the living room. I couldn't get LO into position if I was worried about rhe chair moving too. It was really only that she got to big to bounce (at like a year old) did I start gliding on the glider to soothe her.

I love the idea of a big comfy arm chair for a nursery. Synthetic leather so it can be wiped clean!