How to decorate the nursery?

When our first child was born, we decided to decorate the nursery in a neutral theme so that each one of our children could use it. We chose a safari animal theme and it has seen us through all of our children thus far. My sister, on the other hand, chose to do her nursery in a gender specific theme and chose dinosaurs for her little boy. How did you decorate your nursery? Did you chose a gender neutral theme or did you decorate it specifically for your little one? Share your decorating ideas!

 

 

Our first daughter, we did not find out until she was born what her gender was. So we registered for two sets of bedding with a common color, which was blue. We saw red, white and blue for a boy, and pink and blue for a girl. So we painted the room navy blue and white, and accented with the third color. It worked great and we were very happy.

We have 4 boys and found out this one is a girl.    So we went out and bought princess bedding and will be using a lot of pinks.  I used a neutral pooh bedding since we didn't know what our first was going to be which was blues and yellows.  I am excited to have girlie stuff so we're doing all new nursery decs. this time.  We will be using the same furniture though as it's a good solid wood set we paid a lot for with our first.

We are having twins, a boy and a girl.  We are putting them in the same room for now, until they are a little older.  We decided to paint a neutral color, green.  Then we picked out different bedding for each, that has green in it.  The boys will be sea animals: turles, fish, and it is blue and green.  The girls is land animals: giraffe, monkey, and is pink and green.  We love both of them and they work together also!

We found out our baby was a boy and decided to do something in blue and chocolate brown. However, if you are like us, we couldn't paint because we were renting a house. That doesn't mean you have to sacrifice in design! We found cute crib bedding and had matching curtains. We also threw down a rug in front of his crib. Around his walls we put up puppy/puppy paw print wall clings that I found on E-bay. They came with a matching set of prints that we framed and hung. Pretty cute -we were happy with it. :-)