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Do a nursery or bedroom?
We are listing our house in the spring. I'm due in April so we're not sure if we'll list it before or after. We have 3 bedrooms. One is the master, the 2nd is DS' nursery, and the 3rd is nothing now. I was going to turn it into another nursery for fetus #2, but am not sure if I should if we're selling. I would do a soft gray wall and have a neutral gray/yellow theme with no decals/murals/etc. If it isn't a nursery we will still have to paint and turn it into a bedroom. From a buyer's perspective, is it a mistake to have a nursery as opposed to a regular bedroom? Or would it be worse if it were bright and over the top nurseryish?
I'd hate to get a nursery ready only to sell it, but really the only thing that I'd be screwing myself on would be painting, and like I said I have to paint it regardless. All the curtains, pictures, furniture, etc. would come with us and be the same in the new house anyway. Our house is harder to sell (acreage in the country) so it could be a while before we sell. I'd hate to do a bedroom instead of a nursery just to sell it and then end up not selling for a year! Then again... I'd hate to do anything to hurt our chances of selling.
Re: Do a nursery or bedroom?
A baby doesn't care what their room looks like. I'd make it a bedroom. That will appeal more to buyers than 2 nurseries that they'll have to paint. As neutral as you try to make it, most "nurseries" really are clearly exactly that.
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It sounds like you're overthinking it. A nursery is a baby's bedroom, no?
Regardless of what you call it, it'll be the baby's room, and it'll have his/her crib, etc. in there, right? So the decision is just whether to paint it a color that you think of as "nursery" or something you think of as "bedroom," and decorating accordingly? As long as it's not the color of pink or blue cotton candy, I don't think it'll matter much, since you'll be using the space the same way until the house sells no matter what. The furniture will dictate how buyers see the room to large extent, but I think most buyers pay a lot less attention to non-master bedrooms than pretty much any other room in the house.
I think as long as you do a classy nursery its going to be fine. I would keep all of the decorating/accessories simple (no mural on the wall that a buyer is going to have to paint over, no crazy pink stripe that only looks good in a girls nursery, etc.)
Having furniture in the room is the main thing, buyers want to see space being utilized.
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Ditto this. We actually listed our house 10 days after I had DS2. It was a super fun time period, let me tell you. I knew that he would be in our room the first few months anyway so it wasn't worth setting up a nursery just to dismantle it. I bought a cute bassinet so that it was small and easy to move around for showings. I left the room a bedroom and it worked great! I really think that it looked a lot better this way than if we had two nurseries.
As a potential buyer who doesn't have children and doesn't want them anytime soon, two nurseries would turn me off. Not a complete deal breaker because it's a somewhat easy change, but enough for us to keep looking around for other homes. I would keep it as neutral as possible. We saw one house that had a "playroom" with awful flooring. It was interlocking letter blocks with all the colors of the rainbow. We said no. But we live in a market with so many homes to choose from.