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We decorated the nursery for ourselves.  I'll admit it.  The baby doesn't care if her furniture has clean modern lines, but we do, so we bought stuff we like.  Unfortunately the stuff we like IS ridiculously expensive, though.  Why is that?  It's not gold-plated or anything, just, as you say, free of jungles, princesses, and bears in hot air balloons.

Hmmmmm....modern lines???  I'm not a lover of modern lines.  

I do however love the colors in the Lambs and Ivy Noah's ark bedding set.  And I loved this set from the moment I wanted to get pregnant until I bought a ton of it during my first pregnancy.  

$15000 vs $300 (for ALL bedding for baby)....  Considering they will only sleep on it and use the stuff for about a year and a half....I'll go Babies R Us and save the rest for oh, college or something.   Or I'll buy a Bugaboo.

And Babies R Us does carry separates in checks or solids that can be coordinated.

I don't understand, buying something like an expensive stroller or a diaper bag is taboo, but $15000 for a nursery is ok????

We painted a cartoon jungle mural on the wall and used baby-friendly colors because hey the nursery is for our baby not us.  After all, we have the rest of the house to decorate to our taste.  Also, we spent little $$ on the endeavor and used a hand-me-down crib and the dresser from my first apartment since we assumed our son will just slobber on everything and/or destroy it anyways.

The nursery is definitely decorated with my taste. It was a computer room before we became pregnant and the 1930's metal desk we own  has to stay in that room due to space limitations in our condo. We used shades of brown and green that work well with the other colors in our home. The crib has clean lines and a dark brown stain, but we bought it for $160, not $1600. We purchased solid-colored crib bedding sets (on Clearance!) for less than $100. The total room remodel cost us about $2500, which is about the same cost as every other room we have remade in our home. Sexy and sleek modern furnishings would have been nice, but we chose to sink our money into laminate hardwood flooring, shelving, and a custom blind--things that will remain a permanent part of the room when the child is old enough to express his/her taste and demand purple carpet and a space mural on the wall.

Sheri --

Well sure, if it were a choice between saving for college and decorating the nursery, then that would be different.  Our baby has her college fund all set, though.  We budget some fun money every month, and since I got pregnant, the monthly funds went to nursery stuff.  Home decor is our hobby; we enjoy it; and we don't spend tons of money on other things such as designer clothing or fancy vacations or expensive cars... if we can afford it and we enjoy it, what's the problem??