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My original plan was to not have much of a theme and just stick with a color theme, but somehow it has morphed into a slight theme of birds, so we'll see how that turns out.

Before X was born, when I was little and dreamed of having a baby and a nursery, I dreamed of some Beatrix Potter type soft and sweet nursery for a boy. Then, we lived in a 1 bedroom apartment when X was born, so we didn't really decorate at all-- just tried to pick things that already went with our bedroom to kind of neutralize/disguise the baby stuff. But before he was born, I pictured something subtly nautical-- seashells, navy walls, pops of soft greens & tans. Husband wanted spaceships. THEN, we had X, who is a wild little ball of energy--- cheerful, wild, and opinionated. So when we moved and he got his own room, we went with the most obnoxious, wild, bright electric green. With dinosaurs. The color is HORRIBLE and BOLD. But I can't imagine my boy with some soft and sweet anything-- the electric green is just soooooo him. It's just so very X. I'm glad in that sense that we didn't set up a nursery before he was born. We got to do something that actually fits his personality.

Obviously, when we list our house in a few years, we'll repaint it some neutral tan color. The green would turn off any potential buyer I'm sure.

When I found out I was pregnant I wanted to bright colors. My boy theme was bright teal, blue and green. It seemed only natural to do an underwater theme, not to mention my husband and I love the ocean and diving. Before our son was born, we painted an underwater scene. we did it on 3 canvases since we are currently renting and didn't want to have to paint over it when we move.

@aprk: love the cow and chicken over the crib! So cute.

We're going with a rustic woodland theme for our son's nursery. We live in a rural area of northern Michigan, so it fits for us. For colors, we're going with grey walls with aqua and orange accents to modernize it a little. He's due in August and all we have done is paint on the walls and half of the barnwood wainscoting, so we've got to get cracking!

@yerpie110: I LOVE your tree piggies!