Decorating and furnishing your nursery while expecting you precious baby to be born is probably one of the most stirring moments of your life. In spite of this exciting period don't go haywire buying every baby item on your way even if you have got money to burn. Efficient organization of your shopping is of paramount importance to your baby's development. Nowadays market presents a lot of nice baby furniture and it is flooded with great number of baby items of different kinds. So, if don't want the baby room to be crammed with lots of lovely but superfluous baby furniture and other baby accessories, you should not consider furnishing as an easy and effortless task, you have to take it most seriously.

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First the future nursery should be light and spacious to provide the baby with enough free space to play. It is vital for the baby room to be easily ventilated because close air is very harmful to health. If you have such a room it will be quite possible to create a lovely and functional nursery for your little one.

In case the baby's sex is still unknown for some reason or other this secret is not a hindrance at all. Or if you know the sex of the baby but don't want to take any chances in case it might be wrong you can choose a neutral theme to decorate the baby room. For example an animal theme can be perfect for both sexes.

While selecting baby furniture remember one simple yet important rule – a baby crib is an indispensable and the most essential article of baby furniture and that is self-evident, however all the rest items of nursery furnishing are optional. The existence of such pieces as chairs, dressers or wardrobes in the nursery is open to question. Thus you have to thrash the matter out and see all the pros and cons of it. For example some parent find it easy to change their little ones on the dressers thus buying a changing table for them, as you can see, is very, very optional. In this case this piece of baby furniture serves them for changing and storing. However there are parents who think that a changing table is the second significant item of furniture to place in the nursery. To break this deadlock you can examine closely all properties of every article of baby furniture and juxtapose them with your personal abilities and the nursery capacity.

Hand-me-down baby furniture

If you are a supporter of the idea that getting secondhand baby furniture will effect a saving of your family budget you will have to be especially exacting while buying things which are not new and don't have manufacture's guarantee. It is vital to examine every detail of the secondhand furniture you are going to buy, in particular the baby crib. If you find something that is shady do not venture, for the simple reason that safety is above economy.