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Less than $500. We bought the crib for $175, mattress for $115, a couple $10 sheets, a used changing table ($10), DH made a bookcase for $50. Toybox was $15, hamper was $20, I DIYed all the art so I purchased frames from a thrift store for less than $10 total and made/printed/drew the art myself.

The crib was definitely most expensive.

Oh, I should note we bought an upholstered chair but it's not in the nursery. It's in the living room, so I didn't count that. It was $400.

Originally, we just bought the crib/mattress (well, were gifted them) and added a changing pad on top of a dresser because baby was sharing our room. We moved when she was 9 months and set up a room for her for about $600. The biggest splurge was a big wool rug from Land of Nod for $400. We bought an LoN dresser for $100 on craigslist and an Ikea Expedit for toys. I had a rocking chair from my own childhood that's in there too. The art is mostly pieces we had already, though we did have a couple of pieces reframed to better suit the space.

I think we spent around $300. We were gifted a crib and beyond that didn't get much for the nursery aside from curtains, crib sheets and a change pad to put on a dresser we already owned. We just reused furniture from elsewhere in the house. I didn't want to spend a ton of money before potentially doing an international move.

Once we're settled somewhere I plan on spending some money on A's big girl room, which I'm happier to invest a bit more in anyway as she'll be old enough to enjoy it all.

Okay, the two who spent $10,000+, fess up!! How, pictures, etc!!

@LindsayInNY: Maybe they thought it was $1000? Or they're Mariah Carey!

I would say we were about $1600 (cost) including paint and painting. But we used gifts and GC, so our total was closer to $1300. I don't think we did too bad because I Craigslisted and DIY'd a lot of stuff myself.

I just wrote this all out for @locavore_mama: 's other thread, so I'll repost it here. We spent right around $500, maybe a little more.

We bought:
$70 IKEA crib
$80 Sealy mattress
$40 mattress pad
$60 two sheets (one nice Giggle one, one cheap Target one)
$20 new throw blanket for when I'm nursing from IKEA
$20 IKEA rug
$20 IKEA wall storage
$30 wall art cannibalized from a Rifle Paper Co. calendar
$10 wall art from IKEA
$50 hanging globe from PBK (this was our splurge)
$90 frames for the art and mobile supplies from Michael's
$10 bins to organize cloth diapers on clearance at Target

Some things came from other places in our house:
One lamp for the side table
Wire rack for diapering supplies (used to hold detergent)
DH's grandma's glider
Side table from my aunt

The rest were hand-me-downs:
Dresser from a cousin's nursery
Lamp from my parents
Curtains from my sister's college apartment

dude, so someone's kid is sleeping in a nursery that cost more than my car? holy cow!!

Crib was a gift, but was around $300?

I got her dresser for $50.
Mattress for $90.
Glider was the splurge at $400.
Organizer thing was $30.

@littlek: in an ideal world (i.e., one where I have no budget ) there are a few things I would have done differently (definitely a new glider, probably different dresser, maybe a different crib), and then I probably could have spent $2000 or so. But it wasn't in the budget, alas.

We would have spent a bit more had we needed to buy the lamp, dresser, and curtains, but as it happened, my aunt, mom, and sister were all trying to get rid of perfectly nice pieces at the time when we needed them. So, we were able to do it for less. Actually, had we had to buy those pieces, we probably wouldn't have spent as much on the decor side, so it still likely would have been $500 or so.

We're still working on ours but so far we have:
Crib ($400 gifted)
Crib mattress ($110 gifted)
Glider ($450 gifted)
Mattress Pad ($35 gifted)
Crib sheet ($18 gifted)
Sound machine (borrowed)
Paint ($50 bought with gift cards to Home Depot)
Are getting an Ikea dresser gifted ($300)
Need to replace blinds -- estimating $100
Decor -- estimating about $200
Some things we'll register for -- changing pad, nightlight, etc.

I'm estimating it will come in a little less than $2,000 total, a majority of which was gifted. So hoping like $300-$500 out of pocket.

@PermaStudent: haha ditto!

Adding everything up, I would say everything cost about $2,000 but we received many gifts so total out of pocket for us was around $1,000.

We probably spent just under $1000, we bought a second hand Oeuf crib, a mattress, a small rocker, dresser, some wall art and sheets.

Furniture was $1200 - that included a convertible crib with railings, mattress, dresser, night stand. This will be their furniture until they move out of the house - so well worth the $$!

Bedding/ Curtains - $300

So $1500

Maybe a thousand? Crib and furniture was about $300 total from Ikea, curtains were $100, I had painted the room 5 years ago in a color I liked.....artwork, fabric boxes, and decor was probably another $400. Dresser was $60, but I bought that 5 years ago at an antique store!

~$650 and that includes the crib and dresser the ILs gifted us. We also bought a glider and ottoman from Walmart which was ~$100. A rug for about $50. We just used a diaper changing pad. And a vertical bookcase from Ikea. ETA: Crib mattress is from SIL's sister. She had no decorations up in her room till after her first birthday and then they were repurposed DIY from her party.

The crib and glider are being reused for #2. ILs are gifting us a dresser for new baby. And our BFFs gave us his childhood solid wood twin frame which we are refinishing for LO #1's big girl bed.

This one is hard for me to answer because our "nursery" is also our guest room. Our crib was a gift (0$),we bought an ikea dresser ($200), a changing pad and cover (no clue--$40?), and a few crib sheets ($40). So.....less than $300 for stuff that is actually in our nursery.

BUT. I posted on here several times before about our glider chair debacle. We spent a fair amount on a glider chair I really wanted that I thought would also look good in our living room in the future (it doesn't look like baby nursery furniture at all). And because of a ridiculous series of events from the baby store we purchased it, we didn't even get it until LO was 5 months old and it went right into the living room.

So....if I don't count the chair, $300. If I do count that stupid chair, we're in the $1000-$2000 category. Stupid glider.

Oh wait--edit. Since we waited so long to get our chair, we got it for free. SO...jk. our nursery total is still $300. And mental anguish for having to call a baby store 1000 times in a 6 month period.

When we announced we were KU, my MIL brought over the RH baby catalouge and had a whole nursery picked out that she thought was just "perfect." It was a safari theme and so extremely over the top... DH and I had a good laugh and then started adding up everything in the photo... it was well over $20,000. Seriously, people???

I think just the furniture was more than $500.
Two cribs at $130 each,
two mattresses at $100 each.
One dresser was $200
One shelf was $250
A storage cube shelf was $40.

Oops, just did the math and that's nearly $1,000.

We also bought a recliner for the family room in lieu of a rocker or glider. I needed a chair that I could rock two babies in! That was roughly $400 (It was BOGO for two, we sold the second one on Craigslist for $300).

That doesn't include paint for the walls or bedding, maybe another $100?

BUT if you divide that into two, it's around $750 per baby, so that's okay, right? Haha!