It’s not that I’m anti-pink per se… I guess I just don’t want O to grow up thinking it’s her only option.
& besides, we already have a lot of pink. Everyone buys pink when you have a baby girl, & though I’d always planned to dress her in white & grey & brown & blue, the pink stuff is nice too so we ended up getting a little waylaid.
& the toys! as Orla’s first birthday approaches I can already hear Barbie & the Disney princess baying at our door. They’re brandishing torches of candyfloss and chanting ‘Pink to make the boys wink!’.
The truth is, my tiny newborn is already nearly a whole year old & the outside world, in all of its wonderfulness and all of its awfulness will soon be making its mark; sinking it’s boots into her pristine, perfect snow.
I don’t know how a not-pink nursery helps with this. Probably it doesn’t. But it’s somewhere nice to hide away together; it’s bright even on the darkest of days and it’s a good place to concentrate on the important work of playing.
Hat, suitcase & rose blanket are vintage – the blanket is from the 40s and the wool has turned so soft & snuggly.
Wallpaper is by Galerie.
Not pink, & not a nursery either really. We just use it as a playroom, as an Orla-clothes-storage-room & for occasional daytime snuggles & naps. Maybe that is a nursery, I’m not really sure. There’s time enough for big girl bedrooms in the future, anyway – in whatever colour she wants them to be.
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Lili
March 19, 2014
Gorgeous little space. I know how you feel about the outside world intruding. 2 and almost a half years on I still want to stay in our little cosy bubble and have developed a horror of the news.
Sara
January 12, 2014
Great. I’ll cook my red pasta to celebrate. Won’t cook it until then, just to keep it special… x
Hannah
January 12, 2014
I can start on Marchtember Oneteenth, ok?x
Sara
January 12, 2014
YESSS. I was hoping you’d say that as I have just opened a bow-tie factory in my kitchen and so far the quality isn’t great. When can you start?
Hannah
January 12, 2014
Deal! As I’m feeling generous I’ll throw in any bow-tying favours you might have too x
Sara
January 12, 2014
The rent will be doing my hair every morning before work. Payable a month in advance please. X
Hannah
January 12, 2014
The perfect room! I would like to move in please x
Sara
January 12, 2014
It would, you’re right! Right next to paper dollhouse on a shelf of things she will never get to touch 😉
Thank you, you are right – we worked very hard to paint everything white! x
Sara
January 12, 2014
All different colours is the best! Rainbow babies 😀
I suspect you are right & they all do have to go through a phase. But then, we didn’t, did we? Where did this pink princess thing come from?! x
Sara
January 12, 2014
Thanks! I want it too, but R refuses to let me swap! 😀
Sheona
January 11, 2014
The pink Nigella measuring jug would go really well in her room though!
Her room is beautiful, you’ve worked so hard on it! I’m very impressed.
xxx
Nicola
January 11, 2014
It’s a gorgeous room. I like pink but I like lots of other colours too so Xanthe’s clothes are all different colours, and her room is coffee coloured. I really hope she doesn’t turn into a Disney princess girl too (although I’m sure they all have a phase of it).
Xandra
January 11, 2014
This is adorable. I want Orla’s room.